New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Napoleon Publishing 2004 Oct-Dec
File Updated: 16/12/2006
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Napoleon Publishing OCT-DEC 2004

Lou Allin Blackflies are Murder: A Belle Palmer Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.99 ISBN: 092914192X

Shortlisted for a 2003 Arthur Ellis Award in the Best Novel Category!
Dark secrets unearthed in a Northern paradise...
In the sequel to Northern Winters Are Murder,it's now high summer in Northern Ontario, where everyone is bear bait, even the bears. Gunshots chase Belle Palmer from her quiet forest paths. Then, on her remote lakeside road, the savage and unexplainable murder of an elderly neighbour puts her on guard against two-footed killers. Does the answer lie in the woods? In the alleys of the Nickel Capital? Or in the black rock moonscape of an ecological disaster area?
Belle's investigations gradually uncover the sordid details of a sexual abuse scandal in a residential school years before that has left scars on its victim that can never heal. The horrifying truth and its deadly fallout may destroy many more lives before this tragedy reaches its last act.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


Lou Allin Northern Winters are Murder: A Belle Palmer Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.99 ISBN: 0929141741

Murder on a frozen lake...
Another freezing winter descends in seeming peace upon the Northern Ontario lake where realtor Belle Palmer lives genteelly with her dog, tropical fishes and classic film collection. But the snow-laden tranquillity is tragically disturbed when a good friend is lost in a freak snowmobile accident on an isolated lake. Or so it seems. Belle and others suspect foul play, but a motive and a criminal prove hard to find. Resort owners, anti-environmentalists and the new local drug dealers may all have had reason to want Jim Burian quietly removed, and information isn't forthcoming. Belle is determined to find out what happened to this decent man, but she is shocked when she discovers what twisted roots underlie this savage crime on idyllic northern ice.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


Joan Boswell Fit to Die: A Crime and Mystery Collection Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £9.50 ISBN: 0929141873

Featuring Mary Jane Maffini's Arthur Ellis Award-winning story "Sign of the Times", and runner-up Barbara Fradkin's "Double Trouble"
It doesn't always pay to be in shape...
Sport, fitness, games and murder are the main themes of this collection of wicked and witty crime fiction and poetry by the "Ladies' Killing Circle", who brought you Menopause is Murder and Cottage Country Killers. From the gym to the golf course to the supposedly peaceful practice of tai chi, murder, rage and revenge refuse to respect the human quest for immortality through fitness and can victimize the most tanned and toned bodies as easily as those of couch potatoes and gourmands. Excessive good health can lead to an early demise in this energetic new anthology.
You'll watch your back in the hot tub after reading this book...


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


Jessica Burton Death Goes Shopping: A Jenny Turnbull Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.99 ISBN: 0929141954

Slaughter in the food court...
Being promotions director of a large shopping mall isn't the most stress-free job on the planet, but Jenny Turnbull enjoys it and is darn good at it. But her job becomes quite a bit more gruesomely stressful when an unseen gunman goes on a spree in a bloody food court massacre during her special Hallowe'en promotion. And the situation gets totally out of hand when it turns out that the surviving victim, whose life is hanging by a thread in hospital, is the deadbeat son of a powerful, vindictive and grudge-carrying local city councillor.
Dark secrets hidden in the mall's back corridors come to light, rumours of drugs, child prostitution and infidelity, some involving the victims. Or was the murderer simply a crazed customer like the one that threatened Jenny on the very day of the murders?
As Christmas nears, the mall Santa quits suddenly and the pressure is on for Jenny - protect the mall's reputation as a safe place to shop, find a new Santa two weeks before the big mall parade and help solve the mystery of the murder.
The inner workings of a large urban mall make fascinating reading but don't detract from the central questions. How will Jenny find the time and resources to unravel the tightly wound skein of this mystery?


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


Barbara Fradkin Do or Die: An Inspector Green Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.50 ISBN: 0929141784

A brutal crime in an unlikely setting Ottawa Homicide Inspector Michael Green is absolutely obsessed with his job, a condition which has almost ruined his marriage several times. When the biggest case of his career comes up, his position, his relationships and several lives are put into grave danger. A young graduate student and scion of a rich family is found expertly stabbed in the stacks of a university library, but no one seems to have the slightest idea why. But as Green probes into the circumstances of the young man's life, a tangled web of jealousy and intrigue is revealed.
Green finds himself in the middle of a rivalry in the delicate arena of university politics, where gigantic egos regularly collide. Was it the diligent but socially inept researcher, or the macho ladies-man golden boy of the laboratory? Or was it a crime of passion involving the over-protective family of his beautiful new girlfriend? When the murderer strikes again, Green realizes that he must waste no time in solving the case, no matter what the consequences may be.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


Barbara Fradkin Once Upon a Time: An Inspector Green Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.99 ISBN: 0929141849

Shortlisted for a 2003 Arthur Ellis Award in the Best Novel Category!
Some wounds will never be healed...
When an old man dies a seemingly natural death in a parking lot, only Inspector Michael Green finds it suspicious. Something about the closed case has caught his eye - why did the victim have a mysterious gash on his head, inflicted around the time of his death? Talking to the man's family only increases Green's curiosity. They are obviously hiding something about the old man, who lived in isolation as though avoiding painful memories. A search of his house turns up an old tool box with a hidden compartment containing a German ID card from World War II.
Was the victim a Jewish camp survivor or a Nazi soldier trying to escape imprisonment? Or had he been a Polish collaborator who had sold his own people into slavery and death? Could someone have tracked him down for revenge? Even Green, with all his experience, could never have imagined the truth.
The sequel to Do or Die is not only a tightly plotted police mystery, but a compelling tale of unhealed emotional wounds from a time of unspeakable atrocity.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


Karen Hood Caddy Flying Lessons: A Jessica Dearborn Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £10.99 ISBN: 0929141806

.

.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


Mary Jane Maflini Speak Ill of the Dead Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.50 ISBN: 0929141652

Shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award!
Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, although she runs a law office specializing in Justice for Victims of violent crimes. However, her uneasy association with the world of crime takes a bizarre turn when a vicious, vindictive fashion columnist with underworld connections named Mitzi Brochu is crucified in a downtown hotel room. The problem is that Camilla's best friend Robin was on her way to meet the victim, and has become the main suspect.
Camilla sets out to vindicate her friend, but finding the real killer isn't easy, as just about anyone among the politicians and supermodels skewered by Mitzi's rapier wit could be said to have had ample motive. The investigation turns dangerous, as Camilla receives cryptic warnings while following a grisly killer's trail marked by more murders of humans and felines. The cast of characters includes a sleazy rock promoter, a nosy, sherry-mad old lady, a suave but mysterious hotel manager, a grumpy Mountie, and several manipulative sisters in this seriously funny first mystery novel by Mary Jane Maffini.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


Mary Jane Maflini Little Boy Blues: A Camilla Macphee Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.50 ISBN: 0929141946

Born Under a Bad Sign...
In the third Camilla MacPhee Mystery, Camilla's looking forward to cutting loose at Ottawa's Bluesfest, the huge open-air extravaganza, and to seeing the tail end of her annoying office assistant, Alvin, who is finally quitting. Then the news comes from the East Coast. Alvin's younger brother Jimmy has vanished from the midst of a Canada Day crowd in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Is he dead? Has he been abducted?
Sleuthing irritably about Sydney on Alvin's behalf, Camilla manages to make the usual quota of people froth at the mouth, including Jimmy's frantic family, forlorn friends and puzzled teachers. She doesn't spare the parish priest or even the guy at the chip stand. Before Camilla knows it, all roads lead back to Ottawa, where a killer with everything to lose waits to create havoc among the tents, guitar-pickers and happy, swaying crowds. If Camilla doesn't sort out this whole mess, how many other people are going to die?


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


Mary Jane Maflini The Icing on the Corpse: A Camilla Macphee Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.95 ISBN: 0929141814

Someone is taking revenge...
In the second Camilla MacPhee mystery, it's now forty below in Canada's capital, but victims' advocate Camilla is feeling the heat. When a savage serial batterer goes on the rampage looking for revenge against his former girlfriend, the terrified woman turns to Camilla and Justice for Victims for help. But a sudden change of fortune causes her client to really feel the chill. Camilla wades into the investigation, now one of murder, and gets a frosty reception from the police. Soon everyone connected with the case is either cooling their heels behind bars or trying to avoid cold storage in the morgue. Camilla's really skating on thin ice looking for this killer - literally.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


H. Mel Malton Down in the Dumps: A Polly Deacon Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.99 ISBN: 0929141628

Shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award!
There is a killer at work in the sleepy village of Cedar Falls. The peaceful order of puppet-maker Polly Deacon's back-to-nature rural life is violently interrupted when she finds her best friend Francy's abusive husband lying dead in the dump with a hole in his chest. What's worse, Francy can't remember what happened the night of the murder.
The cops soon get involved...and in more ways than one, as Polly finds herself falling for hunky officer Mark Becker. Afraid that the police will arrest Francy for the murder and exasperated with their ineptitude, Polly decides that only she can get to the bottom of the mysterious murder.
The situation comes to a head as the outspoken and resourceful Polly begins receiving threats to her life. As she searches for answers, Polly discovers that the puzzle often points inward and she is forced to question her values and her friendships.
But where there is death, there is also grief and passion, and passion in Cedar Falls is never simple, and sometimes, as Polly discovers, it can also be deadly.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


H. Mel Malton Cue the Dead Guy: A Polly Deacon Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £6.50 ISBN: 0929141660

There's a murderer in the cast...
In the sequel to Down in the Dumps, Polly finds herself touring as set and puppet designer for a small rural theatre company. When the stage manager mysteriously fails to appear for the first rehearsal, Polly has to step in and do the job. The full-time employment is welcome, but the work is hell.
Dealing with a cast of viciously feuding actors, a mysterious practical joker whose tricks are decidedly gruesome, and a deepening conviction that the stage manager has been murdered, Polly finds her new job more than a little stressful. Where's the stage manager's body? Is somebody really out to get the star of the show? Will the show open with all of the cast still breathing? The local police won't show an interest, so the intrepid Polly investigates alone, unwittingly carrying out the murderer's master plan, which almost ends in curtains for everybody.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online


H. Mel Malton Dead Cow in Aisle Three: A Polly Deacon Mystery Pbk published December 2004 by Napoleon Publishing at £7.99 ISBN: 0929141822

Municipal politics at its deadliest!
The third Polly Deacon novel finds our heroine in the unlikely (and uncomfortable) job of designing a mascot (Kountry Kow) for a new mega-grocery store, despite vitriolic opposition by local merchants, including her aunt. This is nasty enough, but when allegations of municipal corruption arise concerning the sale of the property on which the store will stand, Polly's sleuthing instincts take over, to the usual chagrin of her sometimes boyfriend, surly Detective Mark Becker. But the scene starts to get really ugly when people start dying - not exactly the family environment that the developers desire!

Down in the Dumps: A Polly Deacon Mystery. pbk £7.99 Napole Publishing,Canada (6.2004) 0929141628 nb # Paperback 288 pages (June 1, 2004) # Publisher: Napoleon Publishing,Canada # ISBN: 0929141628 Down in the Dumps
Shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award!
There is a killer at work in the sleepy village of Cedar Falls. The peaceful order of puppet-maker Polly Deacon's back-to-nature rural life is violently interrupted when she finds her best friend Francy's abusive husband lying dead in the dump with a hole in his chest. What's worse, Francy can't remember what happened the night of the murder.
The cops soon get involved...and in more ways than one, as Polly finds herself falling for hunky officer Mark Becker. Afraid that the police will arrest Francy for the murder and exasperated with their ineptitude, Polly decides that only she can get to the bottom of the mysterious murder.
The situation comes to a head as the outspoken and resourceful Polly begins receiving threats to her life. As she searches for answers, Polly discovers that the puzzle often points inward and she is forced to question her values and her friendships.
But where there is death, there is also grief and passion, and passion in Cedar Falls is never simple, and sometimes, as Polly discovers, it can also be deadly.


Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
Support Tangled Web - Buy Your Books Online



top