DANCE
WITH DEATH
Author: Barbara Nadel
ISBN: 0-7553-21308
Price: $24.95
Fiction
An unholy crime. An undiscovered body. An unrepentant killer …
When a woman's body is discovered in the remote region of Cappadocia, Turkey, Inspector Cetin Ikmen is summoned from Istanbul to investigate. Having met a violent end, her corpse has lain undisturbed for two decades and the Inspector fears that she may be the same woman who once captured his heart. One thing is certain – someone local knows who murdered her and why.
But decades of folklore, feuding and gossip surrounds this community. And it is clear that some locals have no regard for the truth and are leading Ikmen on a far from merry dance.
DANCING WITH DEMONS
Author: Peter Tremayne
ISBN: 9780755328383
Price: $37.95
Fiction / Mystery
When Sechnussach, High King of Ireland, is found dead in his bedchamber with his throat cut, all clues seem to suggest an all-too-obvious prime suspect. Dubh Duin, the chieftain of the clan Cinél Cairpre, was found with the murder weapon in his hand when the High King's guards entered the royal chamber, before taking his own life. The Chief Brehon of Ireland asks Sister Fidelma to investigate and find out what possible motives could have driven Dubh Duin to assassinate the High King. Her investigations reveals an intricate web of conspiracy and deception that threatens to unbalance the five kingdoms and send them spiralling into a violent and bloody civil war and religious conflict.
DEAD
AND BURIED
Author: Quintin Jardine
ISBN: 0-7553-0411X
Price: $24.95
Fiction
In his most riveting novel yet, Quintin Jardine twists the screws on his famous detective, DCC Bob Skinner, in a series of crimes and crises that only the very best would emerge from unscathed. Skinner has a failed marriage on his hands, and a death on his conscience, but little time to deal with either as he faces the biggest challenge of his career. As the hunt develops. he goes to the very top – the Prime Minister – lest he himself becomes collateral damage …
DEAD
COLD
Author: Louise Penny
ISBN: 0-7553-21308
Price: $24.95
Fiction
By author of Still LIfe, winner of Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel (Canada), Crime Writers Association; CWA New Blood Dagger (UK)
The falling snow brings a hush to Three Pines - until a scream pierces the air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally electrocuted. Heading the investigation, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache unravels the dead woman's past and discovers a history of secrets and enemies. But Gamache has enemies of his own. As a bitter wind blows into the village, something even more chilling is sneaking up behind him ...
DEATH BY LEISURE
Author: Chris Ayres
ISBN: 9780719560156
Price: $24.95
Fiction / Humour
After a brief and undignified stint as a war correspondent, Chris Ayres is exiled by his newspaper to Hollywood, where he lives in a building called The Leisureplex and sends celebrity tittle-tattle back home. Seduced by the apparently infinite wealth of LA, Ayres embarks on an ill-advised odyssey of self-gratification (in the name of research) and breaks first rule of foreign reporting: he ‘goes native’. Before long, he is an SUV-driving narcissist with a flat-screen TV in every room, eight pairs of designer flip-flops, a seven-digit overdraft, and a wife he met on the internet.
As always, however, disaster looms. After a fire the size of Luxembourg, a Biblical flood, and the apocalypse of Katrina, Ayres realises he is living on a precipice. Like a gonzo Great Gatsby, Death by Leisure is a savage and hilarious takedown of our times, and a wake-up call to aspiring Leisuretocrats everywhere.
DEATH
OF A WRITER
Author: Michael Collins
ISBN: 9781552786376
Price: $16.95
Fiction
Previously published as The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton, this is the latest novel from Booker-shortlisted novelist Michael Collins.
It’s been over a decade since Robert Pendleton published his brilliant short story debut, and his hopes for a dazzling literary career now lie in tatters. Hanging onto his tenure in literature at Bannockburn College by the slimmest of threads, Pendleton's simmering despair boils over with the arrival on campus of his one-time friend, now nemesis, the bestsellng auhor and king of the coffee-table books, David Horowitz. For Pendleton, death seems to be the only remaining option, but his attempt to kill himself is wrecked by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition. Whilst Pendleton recovers from his suicide attempt, Adi discovers a novel hidden in his basement: a brilliant bitter story with a gruesome murder at its core. The publication causes a storm of publicity, a whirlwind into which Adi and Horowitz are thrust — along with the sister of a young girl whose real-life, unsolved murder bears an uncanny resemblance to the crime in Pendleton's novel and a burnt-out cop with secrets of his own who is determined to prove that in this case fact and fiction are one and the same.
DEATH'S DOOR
Author: Quintin Jardine
ISBN: 9780755329090 / 9780755329106
Price: $37.95 / $24.95
Fiction / Mystery
When two young female artists are murdered in what looks like ritualistic killings, the pressure is on to find a highly professional murderer. What is the link with the art world? Is the killer a disgruntled art critic? A twice-jilted lover? The arrival of the father of one of the victims, millionaire businessman Davor Boras, brings in the big guns of the Home Office, MI5 and the CIA. It's not long before Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner gets called back to the frontline. With an estranged son, a dubious assistant and connections in very high places, what is more important to Boras: business or family? There’s too much at stake - there’s going to be bloodshed - and Skinner's men are at risk of getting caught in the crossfire.
DENYS
ARCAND - A Life in Film
Author: Réal Larochelle
ISBN: 1-55278-537-8
Price: $24.95
Non Fiction
Denys Arcand came to international attention when he won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2004 for Barbarian Invasions. This is the first ever biography of Arcand, the intelligent and sensitive filmmaker from Quebec who has produced a significant body of work since the early sixties; over fifty films including made-for-tv movies. features, documentaries and advertisements.
In this critically acclaimed biography, which appeared first in French, Réal Larochelle traces the portrait of an artist-intellectual, revealing the passion of a creator for his craft, as well as the setbacks Arcand encountered. In the background is the history of Quebec, the birthplace of Arcand's filmic oeuvre, and of course Montreal, the city where all his films have been shot. The biography is accompanied by a collection of selected critical and circumstantial texts written by Denys Arcand.
DETOXING CHILDHOOD
Author: Sue Palmer
ISBN: 9780752890104
Price: $24.95
Non Fiction
The must-have guide to raising healthy children in today’s toxic world Following up on the issues raised in her groundbreaking TOXIC CHILDHOOD, Sue Palmer answers all our concerns about raising heallthy, happy children in our toxic society. With practical, easy-to-follow advice, this is one-stop solution to the problems that are affecting our children and their families throughout the developed world.
