New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Vanguard P 07 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Vanguard P JULY-SEPT 07

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J M Allen A Senior Sort of Murder Pbk published August 2007 by Vanguard P at £7.99 ISBN: 1843863707

It was Jane Denton's turn to host the meeting of the Wednesday Club, of which her father was a member. Little did she know that this Wednesday was to be very different from the usual meetings of the 'senior citizens'. How could she have known she was welcoming a murderer into her home? George Weston's whisky flask had been tampered with and he was the first to die. While Detective Dominic Hawley and his team are investigating this suspicious death, another member of the Wednesday Club is poisoned in her own home. Is there a killer who targets the elderly on the loose - and if so, why - and who is next? D.I. Hawley is up against a cunning and devious mind, and will need all his intuitive powers of detection and deduction to bring the case, which has its roots in the past, to its startling conclusion.

This is the fourth crime novel to be written by J M Allen. She spent most of her working life in the teaching profession, but took early retirement in order to care for an elderly relative. This gave her the opportunity to take up writing, which had always been an ambition. Her interest in crime fiction stems from the short time that she took a secretarial post with the Northamptonshire County Constabulary before going to college. The author is married and lives in Hampshire.

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Christiana Elfwood Murder Most Classical Pbk published July 2007 by Vanguard P at £7.99 ISBN: 184386357X

The sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia, outside Athens, is preparing for its major festival, which includes the graduation ceremony of a group of girls who were temporarily living in the sanctuary while serving the goddess in the ritual office of bears . Just before the festival a murder takes place in the woods during the Sacred Hunt. A young man, found with the body, seems the obvious suspect and is arrested. But Chloe, the subpriestess of Artemis, is not convinced that he is the murderer and decides to investigate. She discovers that several people had both the motive and the opportunity to kill the victim. Then a second murder takes place, and this time it is hard to find any reason for it. Was it the same killer or a different one? As the festival is fast approaching there are religious pressures for the murders to be solved before it begins, because otherwise the killer might pollute the sacred rites. Chloe is prepared to risk everything to find the murderer. And she does.

Christiana Elfwood is the pseudonym of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, a classical scholar who was born in Greece. She has taught Classics and Classical Archaeology at the Universities of Liverpool, Reading and Oxford, and published six books and many articles on Greek religion, mythology, tragedy, comedy, archaeology, and ancient perceptions of women and death - including studies of the sanctuary and cult of Artemis at Brauron (near Athens): the setting for Murder Most Classical.

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