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Bliss, Miranda: Murder on the Menu, Berkley Prime Crime June 2007 - In the second Cooking Club mystery, best friends Annie and Eve know the bare bones of both cooking and amateur sleuthing. Now, they're in the trenches, struggling to keep a new restaurant, Bellywasher's, from going belly up... Includes recipes for a multi-course gourmet meal! |
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Bliss, Miranda: Dead Men Don't Get the Munchies, Berkley Prime Crime December 2007 - Cooking class is back in session. But this time, Annie is on the teacher's side of the cutting board, helping out during a bar food cooking class at D.C.'s latest hotspot, Bellywasher's. And her best friend, Eve, is in more hot water than ever—as the prime suspect in a student's murder. |
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Chance, Jackie: Death on the Flop, Berkley Prime Crime, 2006 - The first in a poker mystery series. The author, Linda Zimmerhanzel, has also written two hairdressing mystery series THE BRUSH OFF and SPRAYED STIFF (Pocket), writing as Laura Bradley and a romance with St. Martin's Press. Debut Author. |
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Chance, Jackie: Cashed In, Berkley September 2007 - High stakes on the high seas: Amateur Texas Hold 'Em champ Belinda Cooley, aka "Bee Cool," boards a high-stakes poker cruise, and loses her cool when her fellow poker pros start disappearing. It seems someone is out to turn the card sharks into shark bait-and Belinda may be next. |
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Daniels, Casey: The Chick and the Dead, Avon Books, February 2007 - Pepper Martin finds yet another ghost in the graveyard. Didi Bowman is a 1950s bubble-gum snapping girl insistent that she's been done wrong -- and it's up to Pepper to prove it. If only she could do so without making Cleveland's biggest social event the biggest social scandal... |
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Daniels, Casey: Tombs of Endearment, Avon, 2007 - When it comes to love, things aren't always smooth. Just ask Pepper Martin. After a failed engagement, an iffy, on-again/off-again relationship, and a couple more puzzling visits, she should know better than to fall head-over-heels in love with any guy....especially one who’s dead. Awards: Independent Mystery Bookstores Bestseller Author for her debut Pepper Martin Mystery. |
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Dionne, Karen: Freezing Point, Berkley, 2008 - A concerned environmentalist thinks he's found the answer to the world's water crisis using Antarctica's ice caps. But, an eco-terrorist has vowed to stop his plan. Neither realizes that the ice-cap water is contaminated with an unknown deadly disease... |
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Ghelfi, Brent: Volk's Game, Henry Holt and Co., 2007 & 2008 - Volk is a battle-hardened war veteran, now involved in the black market and a covert agent for the Russian military. He is commissioned to steal a long-lost da Vinci painting from the Hermitage Museum. Volk must choose who to betray in order to escape with the painting - and with his life. World sales in UK, Germany, Hebrew, Polish, Japanese, Czech, Italian. Dramatic rights with Joel Gotler at IPG, optioned. Debut Author |
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Ghelfi, Brent: Volk's Shadow, Henry Holt and Co., 2008 - An international cabal drives Volk back to blood-soaked Chechnya, where he confronts an old nemesis and reunites with his lost love in this gripping sequel to the acclaimed series debut. World sales in UK, Germany, Hebrew, Polish, Japanese, Czech, Italian [World rights sold]. Dramatic rights with Joel Gotler at IPG, option pending. |
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Isleib, Roberta: Deadly Advice, Berkley Prime Crime March 2007 - The first in the Advice Columnist Mystery series introduces Rebecca Butterman, a clinical psychologist. She's also the advice columnist for Late Bloomer magazine, but when her neighbor is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Rebecca is the one who badly needs advice. Awards: Isleib has been nominated for both the Anthony and Agatha awards. Rights sold in UK; Wheeler Publishing June 2007 & BBC Audiobooks Hardsover November 2007. |
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Isleib, Roberta: Preaching to the Corpse, Berkley Prime Crime, Dece - Dr. Rebecca Butterman gets a call in the middle of night from her minister, in custody after finding a parishioner dead at home. She must search for the real killer, resist the urge to break the seventh commandment with a very married detective, and pray that she's not the next victim. Awards: Isleib has been nominated for both the Anthony and Agatha awards. |
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Johnston, Linda O.: Meow is For Murder, Berkley Prime Crime February 2007 - In this Pet Sitter mystery, Kendra gets an offer she can't refuse: solve the case, and her lover’s ex-wife will take her claws out of Jeff for good. It won't be easy, but the killer has forgotten that when it comes to crime-solving, Kendra Ballantyne is the cat's meow. Awards: Independent Mystery Bookseller's Association's Best Selling Author. Rights sold in UK/World Excluding North America to Wheeler Publishing July 2007. |
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Johnston, Linda O.: The Fright of the Iguana, Berkley Prime Crime October 2007 - Los Angeles attorney and part-time pet-sitter Kendra Ballantyne has a lot more time to tend to animals now that she's determined to stay out of the perfectly toned arms of superhunky investigator Jeff Hubbard. But all too soon, her time is tied up chasing a truly nasty pet-napper. Awards: Independent Mystery Bookseller's Association's Best Selling Author for October. |
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Kent, Rebecca: High Marks for Murder, Berkley, 2008 - The first novel in the Bellehaven Mystery series, an intriguing set of mysteries set in England in 1906 at a Girls' Finishing School, where Headmistress Meredith Llewellyn must learn a new role as a detective. Debut Author. |
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Kingsbury, Kate: Slay Bells, Berkley, 2006 - A new book in the Pennyfoot Hotel series set in Edwardian England, where hotel manager, Cecily Sinclair, has to solve the mystery of a slain Father Christmas and a wayward ghost. |
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Kingsbury, Kate: Shrouds Of Holly, Berkley November, 2007 - College students in a logic and reasoning class are asked to solve the hypothetical disappearance of a young girl. Fiction and reality blur when a real life disappearance mimics the classroom assignment in this smart, taut, psychological thriller. Awards: New York Times Bestseller; Booksense Pick; Featured Alternate of: Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild, InsightOut Book Club. Rights sold: Italy, Spain, China, Taiwan, France, Holland, Sweden, UK, Norway, Portugal, Russia. Debut Author |
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Lavender, Will: Obedience, Harmony/Shaye Areheart Books, 2/2008 - College students in a logic and reasoning class are asked to solve the hypothetical disappearance of a young girl. Fiction and reality blur when a real life disappearance mimics the classroom assignment in this smart, taut, psychological thriller. Awards: New York Times Bestseller; Booksense Pick; Featured Alternate of: Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild, InsightOut Book Club. Rights sold: Italy, Spain, China, Taiwan, France, Holland, Sweden, UK, Norway, Portugal, Russia. Debut Author |
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Parke, Daryn: The Art of Evil, Five Star, Spring 2009 - Synopsis coming soon! |
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Salzberg, Charles: Swann's Last Song, Five Star, 2008 - This is the first in a series of detective novels featuring a world-weary, wise-cracking, Spanish Harlem-based skiptracer, whose hunt for the killer of a mysterious art dealer leads him into the murky world of art fraud and antiquities theft. Foliospeak Autnor |
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Schumacher, Barret: Fear Itself, Forge Books, 2003 - Devrie gets signals that tell her things that she should have no way of knowing. Her powers charm and amuse her adoring husband…until a premonition comes true: the one about her own violent death. Now Reed must follow the clues that she has left him and discover the identity of her killer. Debut Author |
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