New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Kensington Publishing 06 Jan-March

File Updated: 15/12/2006

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Kensington Publishing JAN-MARCH 06

Laurien Berenson Raining Cats and Dogs Published January 2006 by Kensington Publishing at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0758208138

It's an all-new case for Melanie: a husband, an eight-year-old son and, count them, five poodles. Finding a new, bigger house is at the top of her agenda. To add to the mayhem, Melanie has got the task of keeping an eye on her disconcertingly beautiful new neighbour, whose absent husband is nearly as worrisome as her seven wander outdoor cats. Melanie's poodles are constantly being provoked by the frisky felines. Melanie is not going to let all of the chaos in her life deter her from enrolling her dog Faith in obedience school. The South Avenue Obedience Club to be exact, which seems to be a fun challenge. Melanie is especially eager to bring faith to the group's program at the Winston Pumpernill Nursing Home. Obedience club member Paul Lennox initiated the outings to please his Great Aunt Mary and the other dog lovers at Winston Pumpernill. All is nice and good at Pumpernill, that is until Aunt Mary is tragically found suffocated during Melanie's first visit. Melanie's investigative pedigree quickly comes to light and the club members urge her to track the killer. Suspects, motives and opportunities are plentiful. Melanie simply has to sniff out the culprit - and watch her back.

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Nancy Bush Candy Apple Red Published February 2006 by Kensington Publishing at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0758209053

Jane Kelly is through with following men anywhere. Last time she did, she left Southern California for the dubious charms of Lake Chinook, Oregon, where she's traded in bartending for the much more glamorous trade of process serving. (Well, she can tell herself it's glamorous, anyway.) And the boyfriend, of course, is long gone. She's not making any lifetime commitments, but when Portland divorce attorney Marta Cornell calls with a P.I. job, the money involved sounds like the answer to her dwindling bank account - until she learns Tess Bradbury wants her to investigate the disappearance of Bobby Reynolds. Four years ago, without warning, Bobby murdered his young family and promptly vanished. No one disputed that he'd slaughtered his own flesh and blood except Tim Murphy, his best friend - and Jane's ex, the one guy she's never quite gotten over. The murders had driven a wedge between him and Jane, and finally drove him right out of town. Now he's on his way back, to attend a Lake Chinook Historical Society benefit that Cotton Reynolds, Bobby's father, is hosting. It looks like Jane's going to be following men around again - this time with a tape recorder and a camera.

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Isis Crawford Catered Wedding Pbk published January 2006 by Kensington Publishing at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0758206860

Leeza Sharp is getting ready to have the wedding of her dreams. She's got a USD25,000 dress (gorgeous and made to order), a rich Estonian fiance (head of a multimillion dollar caviar empire) and a four-star menu (planned by none other than Bernadette and Libby Simmons). Never mind that she's not really in love with her boring, bland groom-to-be. This is about as good as it gets for a country girl from Missouri. But the dream wedding quickly turns into a nightmare. Just hours before she's scheduled to walk down the aisle, Leeza takes an arrow to the chest - and drops dead. Now Libby and Bernadette have more, on their minds than pouring Cristal and cutting up wedding cake: they've got an archery inclined killer to find. The sisters suspect that Leeza may have been involved in a caviar-switching scam, which would give several people a motive for murder. But the chef/sleuths aren't about to put all their fish eggs in one basket there's also the up-for-grabs fiance's formerly frumpy assistant, the groomsman with the wandering hands, and, of course, the bereft almost - husband himself. It's up to Bernadette and Libby to get to the bottom of it before the killer can hit another bull's-eye...

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Evan Marshall Crushing Crystal Pbk published February 2006 by Kensington Publishing at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0758202296

When murder strikes close to home and pretty young girls vanish from the privileged streets of Shady Hills, literary agent Jane Stuart finds herself in the midst of a real life page turner...with a deadly surprise ending... Jane couldn't say no when her nanny's sister needed a place to stay, but she's certainly glad to see her houseguest go. In just two weeks as assistant director of the Shady Hills Public Library, Crystal Ryerson has proven herself a meddler par excellence. Still, it's shocking when the next meeting of Jane's reading group crashes to a halt as thousands of pounds of books and shelves come toppling down on poor Crystal - especially after it's discovered that the bolts on the bookcase had been deliberately removed. But when the body of a teenager who worked at the library is found in the woods behind the railroad tracks, and two other girls go missing, Jane is sure the events are all pieces of the same puzzle. Somehow, despite the ever-present distractions of trying to keep Winky's claws out of the couch and her diva clients' claws out of each other, Jane manages to stay on the murderer's trail. But a trail can go both ways, and this one may well lead the killer right to Jane's doorstep...

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