New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
03 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
St Martins P US
OCT-DEC 03
David Daniel
White Rabbit
Published November 2003 by St Martins P US at £18.99
ISBN: 0312304293
San Fransisco, 1967, Jefferson Airplane and the Doors in the air. US Casualties in Vietnam reach a new high. Longhaired kids if colourful garb throng Haight-Ashbury. It's a time of peace and love, but a serial killer, dubbed The Death Tripper, is at large. Tough, bright Homicide Inspector John Sparrow is assigned to the case. He meets Amy Cole, a young writer for the underground weekly The Rag and both come away mistrusting the other. But they need each other if they are to stop the Death Tripper. Amy leads Sparrow into her world, with its ethos of sharing and free love and its sacraments of music and drugs. For his part, he brings a first hand awareness of the dark side of the Summer of Love. From opposite sides they pool their talents to track down a killer.
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Carole Nelson Douglas
Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit
Pbk published November 2003 by St Martins P US at £5.99
Midnight Louie, the hugely popular jet-black feline sleuth who thinks he's Sam Spade with hairballs, returns for an eleventh outing in Carole Nelson Douglas's acclaimed cozy-noir series. This time his human partner, Temple Barr, learns that the remodeling of the Crystal Pheonix hotel is being held up by a ghost: the workmen swear it's Elvis. The opening of Las Vegas's first Elvis-themed attraction might explain this unscheduled appearance. But what of the death threats against the Priscilla Presley-esque daughter of Crawford Buchanan, Temple's professional enemy? And who is the late-night caller to Temple's former suitor, radio counselor Matt Devine, who sounds remarkably like the King of Rock 'N Roll? When a dead Elvis is found, the question is not only whodunit, and why, but who the dead man really is. Could the King himself have been hiding behind the guise of his own imitators, and is he really dead again, or for the first time... or not at all?
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J P. Morrissey
Weekend at Blenheim.
Pbk published November 2003 by St Martins P US at £9.99
ISBN: 0312311389
In 1905, John Vanbrugh, an ambitious, young architect, receives an invitation from the Duchess of Marlborough, the American-born Consuelo Vanderbilt, to visit Blenheim Palace and help her with renovations. And so young Vanbrugh joins a weekend house party which includes a young Winston Churchill and John Singer Sargent, who has been hired to paint a family portrait. Right away Vanbrugh learns that Blenheim has many dark secrets. The mystery grows larger as a young housemaid is found strangled in the courtyard. From there, events spin out of control, with Vanbrugh soon realising that he too has fallen victim to the cursed history of Blenheim. !
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Richard Stevenson
Tongue Tied
Published November 2003 by St Martins P US at £16.99
ISBN: 0312309740
Donald Strachey Mysteries
Under normal circumstances, PI Donald Strachey wouldn't take a job from right-wing radio "shock jock" J-Bird. But Strachey not only needs the money, he's also intrigued that the death threats against the radio DJ are being made in the name of a radical gay rights group that has been defunct for over twenty years. When things escalate past mere threats, Strachey has precious little time to uncover the connection between a group from the past and the violent present.
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Lono Waiwaiole
Wiley's Lament
Published November 2003 by St Martins P US at £17.99
ISBN: 0312303831
From another impressive newcomer to crime fiction, Wiley's Lament is the story of a man who's drifting through the remains of his torn-up life like a ghost, playing poker to make ends meet but always on the edge of an abyss, not quite sure whether his minimal efforts at life are worth the trouble. When the estranged daughter he hasn't spoken to in a year turns up gutted with a sharp knife in a cheap motel room, Wiley's solitary life spins out of control and a violent showdown with both the killer and with his own bloody conscience becomes inevitable. He stalks the nasty underside of Portland's sex industry, jumping at every shadow and taking two steps back for every forward stride. But Wiley is determined to do this one thing right, perhaps to make amends with his lost daughter, or maybe to make peace with his own battered soul.
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