New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Kensington Books
2003 July-Sept
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Kensington Books
JULY-SEPT 2003
Barbara Colley
Maid for Murder (Charlotte LaRue Mystery)
Pbk published August 2003 by Kensington Books at £5.99
ISBN: 1575668742
In New Orleans' historic Garden District, life is all about attending the right parties, impressing the right people, and making the right amount of money (a lot!). It's an attitude fifty-nine-year-old Charlotte LaRue has never really understood. She leads a quiet, simple, practical life. Business is booming at her housecleaning service Maid-for-a-Day. Everything's perfect. Well, almost everything...
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Barbara Colley
Death Tidies Up
Published September 2003 by Kensington Books at £16.99
ISBN: 1575668750
Between running her maid service and fretting about her upcoming birthday (the dreaded 6-0), Charlotte LaRue doesn't have much time for gossip. She's trying her best to forget all the rumours she's heard - she has more important things to worry about these days. Like vacuuming, window-washing... and her new job at the old Devilier house. The gorgeous historic home is being transformed into luxury apartments, and maid-for-a-day is in charge of the cleanup. Should be easy enough, Charlotte thinks-until she finds a barely cold corpse in one of the closets. The police are sure the dead man is Brew Bergeron. Funny, considering Drew supposedly died years ago - and Charlotte distinctly remembers attending his funeral. Suddenly all that gossip about the Herberts and Bergerons seems incredibly timely-and Charlotte wishes she'd listened just a little but closer... With old rivalries flaring - and past secrets suddenly back in the present - Charlotte has a feeling this job will involve some real dirty work. Good thing she has a knack for cleaning up crimes.
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James Fielder
Slow Death
Pbk published August 2003 by Kensington Books at £5.99
ISBN: 0786011998
Beside New Mexico's Elephant Butte Lake stood a windowless trailer which owner David Parker Ray, 59, and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy, 39, called The Toybox. A USD 100,000 homemade torture chamber, it was equipped with whips, chains, pulleys, straps, clamps, leg spreader bars, and surgical blades and saws. A camcorder stood next to the leather-padded torture table - set up for making "snuff" videos-while a ceiling-mounted video monitor allowed female victims to see every excruciating detail of the agonies inflicted on them by their captors.
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Joanne Fluke
Blueberry Muffin Murder
Pbk published September 2003 by Kensington Books at £6.99
ISBN: 1575667223
Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota's annual Winter Carnival - and Hannah Swenson is set to bake up a storm at her popular shop, The Cookie Jar. Too bad the honour of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle maven Connie Mac - a half-baked idea, in Hannah's opinion. She suspects Connie Mac is a lot like the confections she whips up on her cable TV cooking show - sweet, light and scrumptious-looking, but likely to leave a bitter taste in your mouth. Hannah's suspicions are confirmed when Connie Mac's limo rolls into town. It turns out America's "Cooking Sweetheart" is bossy, bad-tempered, and downright domineering. Things finally boil over when Hannah arrives at The Cookie Jar to find the Winter Carnival cake burnt to a crisp - and Connie Mac lying dead in her pantry, struck down while eating of Hannah's famous blueberry muffins.
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S K McClafferty
Don't Tell a Soul
Pbk published August 2003 by Kensington Books at £5.99
ISBN: 0821772996
An attorney finds danger and desire when she returns home to the shadowy Bayou des Cannes in Louisiana to seek justice for a crime she knows her father didn't commit.
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G.A Mckevett
Death by Chocolate
Published August 2003 by Kensington Books at £16.99
ISBN: 1575667126
Business has been a little slow at the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency, but full-figured P. I. Savannah Reid doesn't have time to drown her sorrows in a box of double-chocolate truffles. She's too busy watching the Gourmet Network - and drooling over the sinfully scrumptious confections that Lady Eleanor ("The Queen of Chocolate") whips up on-air. But someone isn't sweet on the Queen's charming chatter - and wants her to hang up her oh-so-quaint apron - for good....
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Morris M & Janczewski
Fatal Error
Pbk published September 2003 by Kensington Books at £5.99
ISBN: 0786015241
Twice divorced Flint, Michigan housewife and mother Sharee Miller, 27, met ex-cop Jerry Cassaday in an Internet chat room. A face-to-face meeting quickly ripened into sexual intimacy. Miller went home, but kept Cassaday's infatuation for her boiling with a steady stream of sexplicit e-mails - and a homemade X-rated videotape of herself. But Miller's e-mails to Cassady also said that her husband was a chronic wife-beater whose sexual abuse had caused her to miscarry Cassady's baby and that he was a career criminal who kept her in constant fear for her life. If only Bruce were dead, Sharee and Jerry could be together! "See if you can come up with a beautiful ending to this nightmare" Sharee Miller messaged. On November 8 1999, Cassaday travelled 700 miles from Missouri to Michigan and emptied a shotgun into Bruce Miller's throat. Cassady killed himself and Miller was sentenced to life in prison.
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