New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Poisoned Pen Press 06 April-June

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Poisoned Pen Press APRIL-JUNE 06

Mark Arsenault Spiked Published April 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł17.95 ISBN: 1590580591

While reporter Eddie Bourque searches for his partner's killer, he finds a bigger story of murder and revenge, in which he continuously risks his life to get.

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David Fulmer Chasing the Devil’s Tail Published May 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł17.95 ISBN: 1890208841

A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans.
1907 Storyville. Cultures, races, and religions more often blend than clash in a rich gumbo only New Orleans could serve up. But trouble brews. In this red light district, prostitutes ply their trade whether in cramped cribs or elegant houses of French ancestry, while music surges through its streets and helps harmonize the light and dark elements. King Bolden rules the Storyville brass with his golden coronet and his gift jasser to blow a riff on the city's music that pulses with new rhythms and notes. But the real King of Storyville is Tom Anderson, the distric's powerful property owner and political fixer, who employs Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr to dig into the deaths of a string of prostitutes. Each victim is found with a black rose. Is a serial killer leaving a calling card? Is King Bolden losing his mind as he stretches his genius to its limits? Why is an elderly priest sent away under care?

"This brilliant debut noir captures a time and place so perfectly the reader will resent each time he has to lay it aside..." - Barbara Peters

David Fulmer has written about blues, jazz and other subjects for The Atlanta Journal & Consitution, Atlanta Magazine, Southline, National Public Radio, The All-Music Guide and Blues Access. He wrote and produced the documentary Blind Willie’s Blues. Video Librarian called the film “nothing less than the economic, social, and historical evolution of America’s indigenous music,” and it earned him a nomination for a W.C. Handy Keeping the Blues Alive Award. He has worked as a welder, bartender, musician and teacher, and spent ten years in the motorsports industry, which included driving in SCCA competition. A native of Pennsylvania, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his daughter Italia.

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Nora Kelly Old Wounds Pbk published April 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł9.95 ISBN: 1890208256
Artwork by: Jacket photograph: Jeff Cottenden
'Kelly is as stunning on the evocative geography of workplaces as she is at dry, educated repartee. A chilling intrigue, which shrewdly examines professional jealousies and warped psychologies. John Coleman, Sunday Times
Returning to her childhood home on a year's sabbatical in order to care for her aged mother, historian Gillian Adams expects to see little in the way of excitement. The sleepy rural campus of Stanford University, though situated within easy reach of New York, has somehow escaped the violence which plagues the big city ... Until the body of a young female student is discovered on a lonely stretch of country road.
Even more shocking than the murder itself are the revelations which follow. Incriminating nude photographs and evidence of a string of affairs with married men prompt the police to conclude that the dead girl had been leading a bizarre double life.
As the murder hunt gains momentum the town finds itself in the grip of a maelstrom, with more than one of Gillian's childhood friends - and enemies - being sucked into the investigation. Can it be that one of them is the killer Like Nora Kelly's previous Gillian Adams novels, Bad Chemistry and In the Shadow of Kings, this intelligent mystery transcends the genre with its moving portrayal of complex characters embroiled in a chilling intrigue.
Nora Kelly was born in the United States in 1945. She has lived in London and Cambridge, and is now based in Vancouver, Canada. She has written three crime novels featuring Gillian Adams.

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Nicholas Kilmer Dirty Linen Pbk published April 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł9.95 ISBN: 1890208531

Nicholas Kilmer writes the most gripping—and well researched—art mysteries of today. With all of the artworld’s chicanery and multimillions at stake, the action never flags. This time the cache is an improbable portfolio of erotica purchased clandestinely at a seaside auction, and protecting it leaves collector Clayton Reed mired deep in the seamy underbelly of a Fall River brothel! The pictures may illuminate the dark side of a major artist. Shades of Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec....
Reed and his scholarly man Friday, Fred Taylor, provide the best mystery tandem this side of Nero Wolfe and Archie, matching wits with a well-etched, mixed cast of villains from both country-club and peerage. This is Kilmer at full throttle, a work with characteristic panache.”
Larry A. Silver, Farquhar Professor of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, who writes an Afterword for Dirty Linen.

Originally published in 1999 by Henry Holt, Dirty Linen is the fourth Fred Taylor art mystery following Poisoned Pen Press’ releases of Harmony in Flesh and Black, Man with a Squirrel, and O Sacred Head.

"This is Kilmer at full throttle, a work with characteristic panache.”

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Dick Lochte Laughing Dog Pbk published May 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł9.95 ISBN: 1890208795

St. Louis Post-Dispatch hilarious and yet sympathetic... works beautifully and memorably.

First, imagine Katherine Hepburn at fourteen. Next, in your mind's eye, replay Humphrey Bogart, at his middle-aged best, as Sam Spade. Now picture this oddest of couples as the newest duo in detective fiction and you'll have a perfect portrait of the memorable leads in Sleeping Dog." - Los Angeles Times Book Review Sleeping Dog (1-890208-51-5) was nominated for every major mystery award. Now Leo Bloodworth (a middle aged grouchy P.I.) and Serendipity Dahlquist (the roller-skating, precocious, wise-acre teen) hit the streets again. This time they're looking for a runaway teenager and a pair of sapphire earrings, which cases may, or may not be connected.

Dick Lochte, whose new books include the short story collection Lucky Dog and other Tales of Murder and the legal thriller L.A. Justice, co-authored with attorney Christopher Darden, is the current president of The American Crime Writers League. In addition to plotting crime fiction, Lochte has written screenplays for such actors as Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen and Roger Moore and is a long-time columnist for the Los Angeles Times where his mystery reviews appear every other Sunday. He resides in Southern California with his wife and son.

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Dick Lochte Sleeping Dog Pbk published May 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł9.95 ISBN: 1890208515

First Holmes and Watson, then Nero and Archie, Now Leo and Serendipity; two detectives, two narrative voices, twice as much sleuthing and double the fun.

"First, imagine Katherine Hepburn at fourteen. Next, in your mind's eye, replay Humphrey Bogart, at his middle-aged best, as Sam Spade. Now picture this oddest of couples as the newest duo in detective fiction and you'll have a perfect portrait of the memorable leads in Sleeping Dog." Los Angeles Times Book Review

Sleeping Dog won the Nero Wolfe Award and was nominated for the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony Awards. In 1999, the Independent Mystery Booksellers's Association named it one of their 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century. Poisoned Pen Press will republish the sequel, Laughing Dog.

Dick Lochte is a long-time columnist and Mystery Reviewer for the Los Angeles Times. His new books include the short story collection "Lucky Dog and other Tales of Murder" and the legal thriller "L.A. Justice," co-authored with attorney Christopher Darden. In addition to plotting crime fiction, Lochte has written screenplays for such actors as Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen and Roger Moore. He is the current president of The American Crime Writers League and resides in Southern California with his wife and son.

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Beverley Graves Myers Interrupted Aria: A Baroque Mystery Published April 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł17.95 ISBN: 1590581113

Returning to Venice in 1731, Tito, who was mutilated as a boy to preserve his exceptional soprano voice, finds his opera premier shattered by the murder of a close friend and the subsequent arrest of another, and conducts his own investigation that reveals the shocking secrets of his own family and friends.

Beverle Graves Myers was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She fell in love with opera at age nine, during a marionette production of Rigoletto. An attachment to the mysteries of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers soon followed. She studied history at the University of Louisville and went on to earn a degree in medicine. After a career in public psychiatry, Bev devoted herself to writing mystery fiction full-time. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Interrupted Aria is her first published novel and launches the baroque mystery series featuring castrato soprano Tito Amato. A member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America and the Short Mystery Fiction Society, Bev lives in Louisville with her husband, Lawrence.

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Michael Pearce The Point in the Market: A Mamur Zapt Mystery Published May 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł17.95 ISBN: 1590581377

As the clouds of World War I threaten to engulf Egypt, Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, head of the Secret Police, confronts a series of personal and professional challenges, from the political and social pitfalls of his marriage to Zeinab, the daughter of the local pasha, to a riot in Cairo's Camel Market.

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S K Rizzolo The Rose in the Wheel Published June 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł17.95 ISBN: 189020885X

London, November 1811
The clatter of wheels broke the stillness. Two horses strained in harness, nostrils flaring, breath steaming in the night air. Wrapped in a greatcoat and low-crowned hat, the driver rode hunched over, face hidden by his scarf. A gloved hand cracked the whip. Faster. The woman lying in the road seemed unaware of her peril. She kept her eyes fixed on the church rising against the night sky. As the mists parted, the rose window emerged, a circle of textured shadow patiently awaiting the sun's fire.
The horses reared, and...

Suzanne Rizzolo was born in Aspen, Colorado, but raised in Saudi Arabia and Libya. She was evacuated in a C-130 cargo plane during the Six-Day War. Suzanne returned to the United States, later earning an M.A. in literature. She now teaches high school English.
Native Californian Michael Rizzolo also holds a degree in English. In the past he has made a living as an art gallery director and not made a living as a singer/songwriter. Since moving to Los Angeles, Michael has worked in television. Married in 1992, Suzanne and Michael have a little girl named Miranda after Prospero's daughter in The Tempest.

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Priscilla Royal Wine of Violence Published April 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1590580885

Recently appointed prioress Eleanor of Wynethorpe gets more than she had bargained for when she takes over the Order of Fontevraud, a small priory on the remote East Anglian coast, after a monk is found brutally murdered in the cloister gardens and Brother Thomas arrives to investigate the Order's shaky finances, in a mystery set in thirteenth-cent

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Betty Webb Desert Noir: A Lena Jones Mystery Published June 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł17.95 ISBN: 1890208639

At the age of four, private detective Lena Jones had been found lying unconscious by the side of an Arizona highway, a bullet robbing her of any memories.
Now the scarred survivor of a dozen foster homes, Lena has vowed to find the truth about her origins-no matter how terrible that truth might be.
Lena's quest is interrupted when her friend, art dealer Clarice Kobe, is beaten to death in her Western Heart Art Gallery on Scottsdale's Main Street. Lena and her partner Jimmy Sisiwan, a Pima Indian with his own internal and external scarring, at first suspect Clarice's abusive husband, but their investigations soon reveal that domestic violence was far from the only problem in the dead woman's troubled life.

Betty Webb is a reporter for the Tribune newspapers, and lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her family. Desert Noir is her first Lena Jones mystery.

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