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Blind Side
A Connor Westphal Mystery
Penny Warner
ISBN 978-1-880284-42-1
216 pages, Original Trade Paperback, $12.95
Buford the Bullfrog is dead, and that's only the beginning. Connor Westphal, the feisty deaf publisher of the weekly Eureka!, sets about finding out who is killing the frogs-and people-of Calaveras County.
"With an amazing cast of colorful characters, laugh-out-loud humor, chili-covered frogs, and the best literary treatment of a jumping amphibian festival since 1867, this book has it all. Mark Twain would be proud!"
—Rick Riordan, Edgar winner and author of The Last King of Texas
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Nominated for the ANTHONY AWARD
"Best Paperback Original, 2000"
Nominated for the ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD
"Best Novel, 2000"
Nominated for the EDGAR AWARD
"Best Paperback Original, 2000"
Winner of the BARRY AWARD
"Best Paperback Original, 2000"
The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn
A Joe Barley Mystery
Eric Wright
ISBN 978-1-880284-40-7
224 pages, Original Trade Paperback, $12.95
FROM THE HALLS OF ACADEME
TO THE WATERFRONT OF TORONTO
Rosie Dawn, who is working her way through college as an exotic dancer and mistress of a fast-food entrepreneur, has disappeared. Joe Barley, an English teacher and sometime private eye, looks for her in high and low places. Meanwhile, the university's political correctness police are after Joe's best friend, and his live-in lady, Carole, is acting very peculiar indeed....
Advance Praise for THE KIDNAPPING OF ROSIE DAWN
'This book is fine in every sense of the word, for Eric Wright has always been the kind of writer whose art conceals art. The things he does well he does so well you hardly notice them, and The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn leaves the reader with a sense of effortless ease. It's witty, intelligent, elegantly shaped, beautifully paced, and every page is generously sown with pleasures of phrase and insight. Read and enjoy!"
—Reginald Hill, winner of the CWA Diamond and Golden Daggers, and author of
Arms and the Women
"Eric Wright is intelligent, engaging, and stylishly funny. So is his detective, Joe Barley. Together, they provide a very satisfying read indeed."
—K.K. Beck, author of the Iris Cooper series, the Jane da Silva series,
and The Revenge of Kali-Ra
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Nominated for the MACAVITY AWARD
"Best Novel, 2000"
Nominated for the AGATHA AWARD
"Best Novel, 2000"
Guns and Roses
A Modern Mystery Set in Colonial Williamsburg
Taffy Cannon
ISBN 978-1-880284-34-6
226 pages, Original Trade Paperback, $12.95
"Anyone who remembers Leslie Ford's mysteries set in Williamsburg just when Rockefeller money was beginning to buy up dilapidated Colonial properties will delight in Taffy Canon's Guns and Roses, set amidst the prettied-up modern restoration. Would-be tour guide Roxanne Prescott may not know how to mollify miffed tourist, but when 'accidents' start happening to her group, this former policewoman has all the skills necessary to separate the real from the illusory. Roxanne's tragic history gives her complexity. Taffy Cannon's light touch makes he an appealing heroine we want to know better. I've already booked my ticket for Irish Eye's next trip."
—Margaret Maron, Edgar Award winner and author of Storm Track
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Royal Flush
A Jake Samson and Rosie Vicente Mystery
Shelley Singer
ISBN 978-1-880284-33-9
256 pages, Original Trade Paperback, $12.95
Laid-back private eye Jake Samson is now living in mellow Marin, and working for a new boss, former assistant Rosie Vicente. This time, they're going undercover in a Bay Area far-right group to help a young warrior named Royal who wants out. The problem is, the last time someone tried to leave the gang, they killed him.
Jake and Rosie, in disguise, risk their lives as they follow a beer-hall trail of convoluted connections, bizarre secrets, and outright lunacy. When someone else dies and the group begins to suspect Royal and our two detectives of treachery, they must move fast to keep one step ahead of the raving, violent—and possibly terminally incompetent—leaders and their troops, who seem more bent on offing each other than on world domination.
"Jake and Rosie are a royal pleasure! I'm a great fan of Shelley Singer, but in this one she really ups the ante. . .a scary story of a decent kid caught up in a bigger, nastier game than he could ever have envisioned." —Julie Smith
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Baby Mine
A Port Silva Mystery
Janet LaPierre
ISBN 978-1-880284-32-2
256 pages, Original Trade Paperback, $12.95
"I love Baby Mine, a rich, multi-faceted mystery. What a pleasure to revisit Meg, Vince, and Katy, who are, as always, real and unforgettable. The issues they tackle are important and complex, and their north coast setting so powerful, you can feel the fog. Best of all, Janet LaPierre juggles all of it with style and grace. In short, this is one terrific book." —Gillian Roberts
In rain-weary and economically depressed Port Silva, on the California north coast, domestic violence is on the rise, a gang of hoodlums is committing increasingly brutal robberies and assaults, and religi
ous fundamentalists are picketing a fertility clinic and harassing its clients.
When the battered body of a young Hispanic woman is pulled from the rocky coastal waters, the frustrated and furious chief of police, Vince Gutierrez, pursues a search for her missing husband and children. Then he learns of her connection to the fertility clinic, and possibly with the doctor who owns it.
In the end, Meg Halloran, Gutierrez's schoolteacher wife, must once again join forces with the police to save Port Silva from an unprecedented crime wave—and her marriage from the stress of these crushing blows.
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