New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Kensington Publishing
07 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Kensington Publishing
APRIL-JUNE 07
Nancy J Cohen
Perish by Pedicure (Bad Hair Day Mystery)
Published May 2007 by Kensington Publishing at £16.99
ISBN: 0758212240
Beauty shows are known for a lot of things: glitz, glamour, products, catfights, very big-bordering-on-scary hair "creations", and some equally oversized egos. What they're not usually known for is cold-blooded murder, but that's exactly the case when Luxor Products company director Christine Parks is found dead in her hotel room - facedown in a foot bath. And suspect number one is Marla's college roommate, Georgia Rogers. It was Georgia who got Marla the job working behind the scenes at the beauty show. The least Marla can do is try to clear her name. One thing is clear: Christine Parks didn't make many friends. Everyone who worked with the miserable woman had a reason to hate her. From serial cheating to indulging in blackmail, threats, lawsuits, bad investment advice and worse, she was a walking Bad Hair Day, and the list of possible suspects is longer than a pop diva's hair extensions. The questions swirling through Marla's expertly coiffed head are pure chaos: Who hated Christine strongly enough to kill her? Did someone slip her poison at their company cocktail party? And is it possible that Dalton's ex-in-laws could be more annoying and disapproving? Dealing with her own domestic crises is going to have to take a back seat to solving a crime that's getting more complicated - and deadlier - by the day. When a model with top-secret information for Marla turns up dead at the Russian baths, things go from bad to worse in a hurry. Behind the thumping house music and dazzling, high-platform hair tricks of Florida's hottest beauty show, something very ugly is going down, something that goes beyond polish and style to the dark heart of corruption, greed, and killer-takes-all ambition of the beauty biz. And if Marla isn't careful, she just may end up on the wrong end of a murderer's very skilled hands.
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Barbara Colley
Married to the Mop
Pbk published May 2007 by Kensington Publishing at £6.99
ISBN: 0758207654
Charlotte LaRue is back on the job (and back on a case) when she begins working for notorious crime boss Robert Rossi and his high society family. As family heirlooms disappear and family feuds flame, the big man himself winds up dead at his own party, seemingly at the hands of his wife, Emily. The case seems cut-and-dried - to anyone but Charlotte, that is. Although Emily looks guilty as sin, Charlotte has seen enough of the Rossi family's dirty laundry to suspect everyone. And the Faberge eggs continue to disappear. If there's a crack in the killer's plan, Charlotte will find it, because she won't stand for anything - least of all, murder - being swept under the rug. But she'd better tread carefully if she doesn't want to spend Fat Tuesday in the bayou, sleeping with the catfish.
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Barbara Colley
Scrub-A-Dub-Dead (Charlotte Larue Mysteries)
Published May 2007 by Kensington Publishing at £16.99
ISBN: 0758207662
Doing a favour for a friend has Charlotte cleaning rooms at the new Orleans Jazzy hotel, a historic Garden District mansion. The hotel is serving as a home-away-from-home for Shreveport's chapter of the Red Scarf Sorority, a group of socially elite women in their forties. When a young woman named Lisa is found strangled, apparently with red scarf, the police arrest Sorority member Tessa Morgan, whose husband was having an affair with Lisa. But Charlotte has her doubts. The hotel is awash in suspects, and Lisa had more enemies than friends. It's time for Charlotte to start scouring through clues before the real villain makes a clean getaway...
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Isis Crawford
A Catered Valentine's Day
Published May 2007 by Kensington Publishing at £16.99
ISBN: 0758206895
Bernie and Libby, owners of A Taste of Heaven, are partnering up with the Just Chocolate store for a Valentine's Day mega-event. When a client's mother dies, Bernie and Libby put their plans on hold to attend the funeral, only to become involved in a grisly mystery. A corpse has been found...in someone else's grave. The body belongs to Ted Gorman - the same Ted Gorman who co-owned Just Chocolate and supposedly died in a fiery car crash weeks earlier. Now, Bernie and Libby, working with Ted's widow, must sort through a mixed box of dark financial scandal, sticky family ties, and bittersweet passion to unwrap a killer with a ruthless centre...
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Don Lasseter
If I Can't Have You, No One Can
Pbk published April 2007 by Kensington Publishing at £6.99
ISBN: 0786018208
Richard Namey, 26, drug abuser and woman-beater, had already threatened a previous girlfriend with a gun, but she'd gotten away. Sarah Rodriquez, 21, wasn't so lucky. On April 16, 2002, in Orange County, California, she and her true love, Matt Corbett, 20, were forced off the road by Namey, who shot them both at point-blank range with a.357. Sarah was killed. Corbett was paralyzed for life. After a 42-mile chase, Namey was finally cornered in a drainage tunnel by a police dog. He pleaded manslaughter, claiming he'd really meant to kill himself in front of Sarah. No deal. The man he faced was not your average deputy district attorney: Dennis Conway had pulled himself out of a wayward life torn by seemingly insurmountable tragedy and into law school. He knew all about guys like Namey - and exactly where to find the holes in his story. The verdict: first-degree murder, life sentence. Score one for the good guys.
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John Lutz
Chill of Night
Pbk published April 2007 by Kensington Publishing at £6.99
ISBN: 0786016353
There's a twisted serial killer stalking the streets of New York City, dealing his own perverse version of justice. He kills swiftly and silently, leaving his calling card - a red "J" - on the bodies of his prey. His victims have one thing in common: they've all been jurors in the city's most infamous cases - cases in which the killer was found "not guilty." Overnight, the Justice Killer has the city in a stranglehold. And there's only one man who has a shot at finding him. Homicide detective Artemis Beam made his reputation hunting down serial killers. After getting shot by an armed robber - and stepping on the wrong toes in the NYPD - he's been retired. The city needs him now, and finding the killer is his chance to get back into the life he loves. As the body count climbs and the city's legal system fails, the Justice Killer thinks he's outsmarted the cops. But Beam isn't officially a cop anymore...and he doesn't have to play by the rules.
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Kasey Michaels
High Heels and Holidays
Pbk published April 2007 by Kensington Publishing at £9.99
ISBN: 0758208820
Mystery author Maggie Kelly is getting ready to celebrate her first Christmas with Alexandre, Viscount Saint Just - her once-fictional, but now all too-real sexy hero and boyfriend. But her romantic Christmas plans go haywire when murder decides to deck the halls... There's nothing I'd rather be doing this time of year then singing Christmas carols while I trim my tree, and snuggling next to my man Alex while we watch "It's a Wonderful Life" for the umpteenth time. But this season, it seems some Grinch with a really bad sense of humour is delivering packages of rotting rats and death threats to me and the other authors who contributed to the mystery collection No Secret Anymore. Sure, even I'll admit the book was terrible. But why can't this sicko just go to the bookstore and get a refund? It's Christmas, buddy - not Halloween! But then Jonathan West - the brainchild of No Secret Anymore - turns up dead, and me and Alex aren't so sure anymore that the murderer is a just a disgruntled reader... Jonathan had finally completed a new novel, which his agent claimed to be his best. This leads us to think maybe a jealous rival is the killer - that is, until two of Jonathan's obsessed fans surface. So now the we're scrambling to solve this mystery before eight writers - including yours truly - don't live to see the New Year...
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