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 | Martin Walker - Caves Of Perigord (April)
A piece of prehistoric stone art from the same period as the famous Lascaux cave paintings - 17,000 years ago - is brought to a London auction house by the son of a British hero of WWII, whose father left it to him. A storm of publicity ensues, only increased by the disappearance of the painting.
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Jess Walter - Over Tumbled Graves (February)
Spokane, Washington. A young woman's body is found buried in a park by the riverbank - then a second, than a third. Before the week is out Detective Caroline Marby is on the hunt for a serial killer.
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| | Joseph Wambaugh - Choirboys (April)
Reissued as part of the Crime Masterworks series.
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Rob Watson - Frail Flesh (December)
An armed robbery; an arms policy; an elderly millionaire beaten to death in his home; a child kidnapped by a sadistic gang of dead pop icons. But is the criminal underworld really to blame for Grace's abduction, or are more nefarious forces at work in Whitehall?
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| | Christopher West - Third Messiah (April)
Anzhuang Wang, a detective in the Beijing police department, starts investigating a cult - the New Church of the Heavenly Kingdom - when his sister-in-law gets involved with the group & is told to that she should not be contacted by her family.
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Gillian White - Night Visitor (March)
Rose's early life was full of tragedy, no wonder she depends on her husband. All she asks of him is complete fidelity. When she has cause to doubt him she devises a terrible revenge.
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| | Kevin Wignall - People Die (March)
At 29, JJ has reached the peak of his career. He works out of a small consultancy in Zurich & money is no object, he's a contract killer. He has built a reputation as a discreet, professional "cleaner".
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Mark Williams - Corned - Beef Sandwich (March)
You work behind the counter of a bookies, someone sticks a gun in your face, you shove the day's takings into a bag & hand it over. Not your problem. But when the gunman realises that instead of the cash, you've given him a strawberry lip bap & a corned-beef sandwich then life can start to get interesting.
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| | Jim Williams - Strange Death Of A Romantic (February)
It is 1945: the war in Europe has just ended & army surgeon Guy Parrot is ordered to set up a temporary military hospital in a villa outside La Spezia. The same villa where he spent the summer of 1930 with a house-party of literary figures, society beauties & upper-class criminals.
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Robert Wilson - Company Of Strangers (February)
Lisbon 1944. As the streets of the capital seethe with spies & informers, the endgame of the Intelligence war is being silently fought. Mathematician & spy Andrea Aspinall meets Karl Voss, military attaché at the German legation on a mission to save Germany from annihilation.
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| | James Wilson - Dark Clue (May)
An imaginative recreation of the Victorian sensation novel as the characters from Wilkie Collin's 'Woman in White' - Walter Hartright & Marion Halcombe - are involved in another dangerous conspiracy, this time emanating from the heart of respectable London society.
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Paul Wilson - Someone To Watch Over Me (April)
Brendan Moon is a fraud specialist, paid to disprove miracles. After an assault by a gunman on a primary school in a small Lancashire town, ancient parchments are witnessed falling from the sky.
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| | David Wishart - Last Rites (February)
A baffling mystery for Roman detective Marcus Corvinus involves the murder of a young woman after the all-female nocturnal rite of the good Goddess. Marcus must look beyond the obvious & untangle a complex web of treachery & deceit.
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Elizabeth Woodcraft - Good Bad Woman (January)
Frankie Richmond is a London barrister long on attitude & short on lucrative work. Her chaotic private life interrupts her professional one but never so dangerously as when she defends an old friend.
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| | Mary Woronov - Snake (April)
Trapped in a bad marriage in the L.A. punk scene, Sandra dreams of killing her husband. The dream comes true when she thinks she witnesses his murder by Luke, a young hitman on his first job. When he' unable to kill Sandra also, Luke is forced to take her with him into his world.
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