New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Five Star
07 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Five Star
APRIL-JUNE 07
Mike Befeler
Retirement Homes Are Murder (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Published June 2007 by Five Star at £17.99
ISBN: 1594145156
Remembering nothing from the day before, crotchety octogenarian Paul Jacobson must become an amateur sleuth to clear himself as a murder suspect when he finds a dead body in the trash chute of a retirement home. As Paul’s snooping and short-term memory loss get him in trouble with the local police, his new friends and granddaughter Jennifer help him solve an expanding list of crimes. Paul finds romance as he struggles to escape a murderer intent on a repeat performance.
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L C Hayden
Why Casey Had to Die (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Published June 2007 by Five Star at £17.99
ISBN: 1594144931
Casey Secrist, a college student, is murdered. Her boyfriend is found guilty. Twenty years later, Detective Harry Bronson, who originally worked on the case, once again becomes involved. It begins when Bronson is hired to be a consultant for a mystery convention in Arizona. The attendees are supposed to solve a make-believe murder. Much to Bronson's surprise, the fictitious murder parallels Casey's death. Bronson investigates who perpetrated the charade and why. In so doing, he confronts the conference organizer, L'ee (pronounced el-ee) Chalmers who has no idea what's going on. Bronson's investigation leads him to Tom and Marie O'Day who seem to know more than they're saying. There's also the mysterious strangers Trent Powers and Norman Childes. Another suspect, Katherine Shepard, stirs trouble and someone named Sam stalks Bronson. When Trent Powers turns up dead, Bronson knows that someone is willing to kill again to keep the past hidden.
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Terry Hoover
Double Dead (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Published June 2007 by Five Star at £17.99
ISBN: 1594145873
Yo-yos are the latest craze. Teenagers are mad for madras. JFK has faced down Castro and the French are fawning over the First Lady, but suburbanites in Charlotte, North Carolina, a big small town with aspirations, are building bomb shelters in the back yard. Things really heat up when John Lattimore, a wealthy local banker, is arrested for the murder of his mistress Delores Green.
After exposing a scandal among management that destroyed his career and his wife’s, former newspaper reporter Steve Harlan is eking out a living as a private investigator, when an invitation to join the defense team offers him the big break he has been praying for. His jubilation is tempered, however, when he learns how heartlessly Lattimore has involved Delores’s 13-year-old son.
Lattimore admits bringing Delores’s body home and bullying her son into helping him make it appear she died a natural death, but claims she was a secret alcoholic who drank herself to death and all he’s guilty of is a cover up.
But the Medical Examiner says the 200 bruises on her body make it murder. Lattimore insists Delores acquired the bruises when she went missing two nights before her death, but the only witness who might confirm his story has also mysteriously disappeared.
Battling his ambivalence toward his client as well as the Prosecution, Steve races to unearth evidence that will save Lattimore from the gas chamber — and protect his own family from someone who will do anything to keep it hidden.
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Robert S Napier
Love, Death and the Toyman (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Published June 2007 by Five Star at £17.99
ISBN: 1594144907
An ex-girlfriend looks to former soldier and investigative reporter Jack Lorentz to exonerate her husband from scandal and murder in this debut by the creator of the Mystery & Detective Monthly fanzine. Napier works for the U.S. Air Force.
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