New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Llewellyn 07 July-Sept
File Updated: 29/09/2007
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Llewellyn JULY-SEPT 07

Gerald Anderson Death Before Dinner: An Otter Tail County Mystery Pbk published July 2007 by Llewellyn at £9.99 ISBN: 0738708747

When Dr. George Gherkin, president of Fergus Falls State University, is killed at a faculty party he was hosting, it is up to local sheriff Palmer Knutson to determine which disgruntled guest disturbed the peace of this quiet Minnesota town with murder.

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Candy Calvert Aye Do or Die: A Darcy Cavanaugh Mystery Pbk published July 2007 by Llewellyn at £9.99 ISBN: 0738709042

ER nurse Darcy Cavanaugh is sailing the high seas again--this time for a wedding cruise. It promises to be a wild ride with a "Poet Stalker" after Darcy, a podiatrist infatuated with her feet, and--surprise!--her ex-boyfriend. Before the happy couple says "I do," one groomsman ends up with Krazy Glue down his pants and another has a fatal run-in.

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Susan Goodwill Brigadoom: A Kate London Mystery (Mudd Lake Players Mysteries) Pbk published July 2007 by Llewellyn at £9.99 ISBN: 0738710377

Susan Goodwill writes the laugh-out-loud funny Kate London Mystery Series. Kate and her Aunt Kitty, an eccentric former B-grade movie star, own and operate the Egyptian Theatre on Michigan's west coast. When the first act is murder, the quirky cast of the Mudd Lake Players, Kitty's amateur theatre group, "assist" Kate in her pursuit of justice. Come along for the outageously funny rides as Kate solves off kilter crimes and the Players struggle with the show. Stick around for the last act, Kate always drops the curtain on the bad guys.

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Sue Ann Jaffarian The Curse of the Holy Pail: An Odelia Grey Mystery Pbk published July 2007 by Llewellyn at £10.99 ISBN: 073870864X

Every owner of the vintage Chappy Wheeler lunchbox--a prototype based on the 1940s TV western--has died and now Sterling Price, a wealthy client of Odelia Grey's law firm, has been fatally poisoned and his one-of-a kind lunchbox has disappeared, leaving Odelia to tread cautiously as she investigates.

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Karen Macinerney Dead and Berried (Gray Whale Inn Mysteries) Pbk published July 2007 by Llewellyn at £9.99 ISBN: 073870914X

In this delicious follow-up to Murder on the Rocks, developers are planning to wipe out a cranberry bog to build a subdivision. Natalie Barnes isn't sweet on the idea, but the single innkeeper has other problems on her plate: a withering relationship with her best friend Charlene, eerie bumps in the night suggesting the Gray Whale Inn is haunted

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Tim Maleeny Stealing the Dragon: A Cape Weathers Investigation Pbk published July 2007 by Llewellyn at £10.99 ISBN: 0738709972

In the midst of a cutthroat mayoral election, a ship smuggling Chinese refugees runs aground on Alcatraz. With the entire crew murdered, the crime screams professional assassin. Is it a coincidence that Cape Weathers friend Sally trained to be a deadly force by a Chinese secret society has disappeared? The private investigator knows little about Sally's murky history as an orphan in Hong Kong. But she has saved his butt umpteen times, and Cape wants to return the favor. With help from a neurotic cop, a drug lord, and an autistic computer genius, he scours the darkest corners of San Francisco's Chinatown searching for the snake head the leader of the human smuggling ring that will lead him to Sally.

Tim Maleeny is a San Francisco-based writer whose short stories appear in DEATH DO US PART, an anthology from Mystery Writers of America edited by Harlan Coben, and also Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. STEALING THE DRAGON is the first in an ongoing series featuring private eye Cape Weathers and his deadly companion Sally.

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Amy Patricia Meade Ghost of a Chance: A Marjorie McClelland Mystery Pbk published July 2007 by Llewellyn at £10.99 ISBN: 073871092X

In 1935, its simply not ladylike for young women to involve themselves in macabre matters such as murder. But fiercely independent mystery writer Marjorie McClelland, a.k.a. Miss Never-Say-Die, cant resist when another killing strikes their small Connecticut town. No one sees the poison dart hit a man riding the Ferris wheel at the church festival. Much to the annoyance of her fiancé, police detective Robert Jameson, Marjorie finagles her way into the investigation. And soon Creighton Ashcrofta wealthy Englishman hopelessly smitten with the beautiful writeris helping out, too. Together, the unusual trio piece together the life of the victim who left behind two wives and a huge gambling debt. While the case unfolds, Marjorie faces another dilemma that sends her heart into a tailspin. Should she marry the reliable, if dull, police detective . . . or is she ready to risk security for passion?

Amy Patricia Meade (New York) graduated cum laude from New York Institute of Technology, and currently works as a freelance technical writer. Amy lives with her husband, Steve, his daughter, Carrie, and their two cats, Scout and Boo. She enjoys travel, cooking, needlepoint, and entertaining friends and family, and is a member of Sisters in Crime.

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Richard B Schwartz Proof of Purchase: A Jack Grant Mystery Pbk published July 2007 by Llewellyn at £9.99 ISBN: 0738708291

Cynthia Bladen has been missing for weeks when private investigator Jack Grant takes the case. This time there is a motivating, if unsettling, force behind the investigation: Cynthia is Jacks ex-girlfriend. When her mutilated body is found, Cynthias distraught husband accepts the grim outcome. But Jack cant give up until he finds her killer. He teams up with Lieutenant Diana Craig, a tough-as-nails tracker, whose razor-sharp insights and intellect give Jack a run for his money. Its a partnership peppered with barbs that soon progresses to cozy banter and trust. As romance unfolds, so does their investigation, and they uncover intriguing connections to organized crime. Jack mines his memories for clues, hoping for anything that will give him an edge. When buried feelings also rise to the surface, he struggles to stay ahead of an emotional tidal wave that could compromise his detective instincts.

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