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CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
ROBINSON, PETER
A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near
his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been
living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly
at the college where he used to teach, but Banks, much to the chagrin of Detective Chief Superintendent
Gervaise, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim
going back to the early '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks
suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling him the whole truth and pushes his inquiries a bit too far, he is
brought on the carpet and warned to lay off. He must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously,
under the radar, with the help of new DC Geraldine Masterson, while DI Annie Cabbot and DS Winsome
Jackman continue to rattle skeletons at Eastvale College. When the breakthroughs come, they are not
the ones that Banks and his team expected, and everything turns in a different direction, and moves into
higher gear.
MYSTERY
1ST PRINTING 20,000 IN CANADA
MCCLELLAND & STEWART
416 PAGES
9780771076305 SERIES: INSPECTOR BANKS
$29.95 HC
SEPTEMBER 2013
CHILLED TO THE BONE
BATES, QUENTIN
When Sergeant Gunnhildur Gísladóttir is called in to investigate the death of a man found tied to a bed in
one of Reykjavík's nicest hotels, she finds no sign of criminal activity but suspects there may be more to
the case than meets the eye. Could the death of the shipowner be related to a local gangster’s recent
return to Iceland after many years abroad? What begins as a straightforward case soon explodes into a
dangerous investigation, involving a bondage society that ruthless men will go to extremes to keep secret.
MYSTERY
SOHO PRESS
9781616953300
$26.95 HC
DECEMBER 2013
320 PAGES
THE CHINESE BEVERLY HILLS
SHANNON, JOHN
Jack Liffey’s former mistress reappears to plead for the P.I.’s help finding her missing niece. The hunt
leads Liffey to Monterey Park, where he dives into an undercurrent of racial tension that puts the peace of
the suburb in jeopardy. Meanwhile, a fire burns in the hills above Los Angeles, offering a reminder that
few events in life are coincidental. But Liffey’s sudden troubles with racist gangs, teenage revolutionaries,
and South African nutjobs are dwarfed by the threat his old mistress poses to his relationships with his
new girlfriend and his recently reconciled lesbian daughter. What’s a hard-boiled dick to do?
MYSTERY
MP PUBLISHING
288 PAGES
9780802121677 SERIES: JACK LIPPEY
$26.50 HC
DECEMBER 2013