New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Chronicle Bks, US 2003 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Chronicle Bks, US JULY-SEPT 2003

James Calder About Face Pbk published August 2003 by Chronicle Bks, US at £8.99 ISBN: 0811836800

Glamour is a spell cast over the unwary observer. No one knows this better than the principals of Silicon Glamour Associates, a very selective escort service - with a hidden agenda - whose clients are awkward, busy, and shy Silicon Valley executives. Filmmaker Bill Damen is in the process of completing an "image piece" for Rod Glaser, a classic old-style Silicon Valley engineer whose company seems poised to hit the big time. But when Rod's girlfriend Alissa fails to show up for the shoot, Bill's got a problem. Rod's got an even bigger one: He has to admit that Alissa is really a Silicon Glamour girl, and now the service is blaming him for her disappearance. Rod hires Bill to find her. Bill thinks he succeeds, only to find that Alissa's mother is trying to take her place. Thus begins a journey through the twin worlds of glamour, with all its masks, and cosmetic gene therapy, with all its risks. When Rod is murdered, Bill's quest turns personal, and deadly serious - especially when some heavies from Vegas, show up. Now Bill is forced to question his every perception and unmask every false face in order to nail Rod's killer and reveal the mystery of Alissa. In About Face, Bill delves into an all-new and fascinating world of image and reality, to uncover motives, means, and characters that could only come together in state-of-the-art Silicon Valley.


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Nadia Gordon Death by the Glass Pbk published August 2003 by Chronicle Bks, US at £8.99 ISBN: 0811836789


When the owner of Vinifera, a posh Napa Valley eatery, contacts detective-chef Sunny McCoskey, it sounds like an ordinary consulting job helping a restaurant transition from one chef to another. In fact, the only thing unusual about Vinifera is the inordinate charm of its new chef, Sante Dominguez. In an uncharacteristic display of romantic carpe diem - largely inspired by her friend Rivka - Sunny plunges into a steamy affair unlike anything she has experienced before. But it's soon clear that all is not what it seems at Vinifera, or with Sante. Before long, Sunny is onto a trail of wine fraud and corruption stretching back twenty years and involving some of the valley's key players, not to mention a collection of wine some people would kill for... and did. Death by the Glass continues the adventures of Sunny McCoskey, her assistant Rivka Chavez, wine merchant Monty Lenstrom, and the rest of gang from Sharpshooter with a tale of dark secrets, big cabs, and a cook with an appetite for murder.

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