This month three readers have a chance to win four of the latest crime titles from Bookhugger publishers. Each winner will receive:

• One copy of Blind Fury, by Lynda La Plante – courtesy of Simon and Schuster
• One Advanced Reading Copy of The Baker Street Phantom, by Fabrice Bourland – courtesy of Gallic Books
• One copy of Snowblind, by Robert Sabbag – with thanks to Canongate
• One copy of Two for Sorrow, by Nicola Upson – with thanks to Faber and Faber

Find out some more about these titles below, then enter the competition for your chance to win.

Blind Fury, by Lynda La Plante

Close to a motorway service station, the body of a young woman is discovered. She appears to have no family, no friends, no one to identify her. DI Anna Travis is brought onto the team of investigators by DCS James Langton, who already suspects that this recent case could be linked to two unsolved murders. As more evidence is discovered the team realise that they are contending with a triple murder investigation — and no suspect.

Anna’s blood runs cold when she receives a letter from a murderer she helped to arrest. He makes contact from prison insisting that he can track down their killer, but will only talk to Anna herself. Does he really have an insight into another killer’s mind, or is he merely intent on getting into hers?

The Baker Street Phantom, by Fabrice Bourland

In the spring of 1932, with Londoners terrorised by a series of brutal murders, the private detective agency of Messrs. Singleton and Trelawney quietly opens its doors in Bloomsbury.

The first person to call on their services is a worried Lady Arthur Conan Doyle. She tells of mysterious events at 221 Baker Street – and a premonition that the London murders signal terrible danger for mankind.

Their investigation will take our intrepid heroes into a world of séances and spirits. Aided by the most famous detective of all time, they must draw on their knowledge of the imaginary to find the perpetrators of some very real and bloody crimes before they strike again…

Snowblind, by Robert Sabbag

When it was first published in the mid-seventies, Snowblind established itself as an essential piece of true crime writing. The story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who followed, Sabbag’s riveting account is a compulsive insight into an underworld populated by crazy characters and riven by paranoia. The result is an illuminating and wild book that influenced a generation of writers and smugglers.

Two for Sorrow, by Nicola Upson

London, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. More than thirty years later, their crimes resurface with shocking consequences… When Josephine Tey sets out to write a novel about Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious Finchley baby farmers, she can have little idea that the research for her book will be needed to help solve a modern-day killing – the sadistic murder of a young seamstress, found dead in the Motley sisters’ studio, amid preparations for a star-studded charity gala. The girl’s death seems to be the result of a long-standing domestic feud, but Josephine’s friend, Inspector Archie Penrose, is unconvinced; and when a second young woman is involved in an horrific accident soon afterwards, the search begins for a vicious killer who will stop at nothing to keep the past where it belongs. Moving between the decadence and glamour of a private women’s club, the bleak surroundings of Holloway prison, and the deprivation of London’s slums, Two for Sorrow is a dark and unsettling exploration of the way in which the crimes of the past destroy those left behind – long after justice is done.

The questions

To be in with a chance to win, answer the following questions correctly:

• Question 1: How many women are hanged in Holloway Prison in 1903 in Nicola Upson’s new novel?
• Question 2: In what year are the events in the Baker Street Phantom set?

Terms and conditions

1. Closing date for entries: 2nd July 2010.
2. Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
3. Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
4. The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
5. Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Bookdagger. Our decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
6. The winner’s name(s) may be published on the Bookdagger website after the closing date of the competition.
7. The competition is not open to Bookdagger employees and their families, or to employees of Bookdagger publishers and their families.

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1. Joan Hill Says:
   June 26th, 2010 at 2:30 pm

   I wonder how many answers will tell you snow is white? It’s an interesting question because snow does actually appear to be white! When you build a snowman it certainly doesn’t look to be colourless!

2. Jean Jeavons Says:
   July 2nd, 2010 at 7:45 pm

   Never eat yellow snow !!!

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