"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
Sir Walter Scott
Summer
2004
Volume II
Issue 1
Volume II
Issue 1
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." | Summer
2004 Volume II Issue 1 |
| Welcome to the Web Mystery Magazine Authors' New Books |
 Knee
Deep Port Town Pub. ISBN: 1-59466-007-7 |
Knee Deep ... The New Mexico desert promises two immutable truths: no secret stays buried forever, and no one disappears without a trace. Thirty-two year old doctoral student Tamara Kindrel makes one final research trip to the Hagan Mineral Mine - and doesn’t return. A rock hunting club is digging around the same mine two years later when young Seth Robbins falls down a shaft and finds himself in a cave containing bones, artifacts, and a fully intact human skeleton! Without waiting for the coroner to confirm his suspicions, Sheriff Judd Eakins has his own ideas about the identity of the remains. First on his agenda is to call Leo Drucker, Law Enforcement Ranger with BLM. He’s a friend, fishing buddy, and one of the keenest investigators Judd’s ever known. The killer has had a two year head start when Sheriff Judd Eakins and BLM Ranger Leo Drucker join what rapidly becomes an obsessive race to find Tamara's murderer. On the narrow sliver between legal and illegal and barely surviving the precarious game of chase, Drucker and Eakins discover that the evidence they need is right in front of them -- and then he kills again. |
| From the author of the eerie psychological thriller Blackwater Tango comes Lisa Polisar’s second novel – a sure fit for mystery lovers and those enchanted with the haunting allure of the American Southwest. | |
| Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry | |||
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On St Valentine's Day 1988 Lynette White, 20, was horrifically
murdered in Cardiff. South Wales Police issued photofits of two white
men but never traced them. Ten months later, ignoring a stronger case
against a white pedophile, police arrested five black men. None of the
forensic evidence related them to the victim. The longest murder trial
in British history ended, despite no credible evidence, with three men
convicted on unlawful verdicts In 1992 the Court of Appeal quashed the
convictions. Satish Sekar, a member of the NUJ's London Freelance Branch,
has devoted much of his working life to an expose of this shocking case.
Contact Satish Sekar to order Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry. |
 Fitted In: The Cardiff
3 and the Lynette White Inquiry ISBN: 0 9527325 0 5 |
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| Satish Sekar holds a BA Hons. degree in Sociology. A freelance journalist since 1990, his work has appeared in The Guardian and The Independent and has been used by television and radio stations throughout England and Wales. | |||
Island
of Bones |
Island of Bones | |||
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P. J. Parrish is
actually two sisters - Kristy Montee and Kelly Montee - who decided to
pool their life-long loves of writing by teaming up in 1995 to create
the character of Louis Kincaid. Island of Bones was published this January. In the Summer issue of Web Mystery Magazine, P. J. Parrish explains how two writers, living hundreds of miles apart, consistently produce thrillers so compelling that they make the News York Times bestsellers list. |
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| Beginner's Luck |
Beginner's
Luck |
| Paul
Grey doesn’t know much about art, politics, or detective work for
that matter, but he’s about to get a crash course in all three after
Senator Allan Puckett dispatches his blackmailer to the hereafter and then
turns the weapon on himself. At least that’s the way the cops say
it went down. Paul must follow a trail of fraud, treachery, and corruption
to locate the single clue that will reveal instead a double murder. His
suspects are the arrogant, delusional, manipulative, and sometimes homicidal
players that inhabit the political and artistic circles of Atlanta. Using
his smarts, occasional brawn, and a whole lot of beginner’s luck,
Paul tackles the case. From shooting ranges to golf ranges, Paul pounds
the pavement in search of an unlikely assassin. Will he expose a double
murderer? Or will this, his first case, be his last?
Author Cheryl Ritzel contributes an article to the Summer issue of Web Mystery Magazine on the use of forensic hypnosis in famous court cases, explaining how it was used to solve cases such as Sam Sheppard, Ted Bundy, and the Boston Strangler. Her newest novel, due out Christmas of 2004, uses forensic hypnosis as part of the evidence for solving the crime. |
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The
Unknown Darkness: "In a book that combines engrossing writing with seasoned insight, McCrary, a 25-year veteran of the FBI and a former criminal profiler in the bureau's renowned behavioral science unit, has teamed up with Ramsland, a forensic psychologist and writer, to produce a detailed account of criminal investigative analysis." Publisher's Weekly Dr. Katherine Ramsland teaches forensic psychology at DeSales University. |
| She has published twenty books, including The Forensic Science of CSI and The Criminal Mind: A Writer’s Guide to Forensic Psychology. She writes for Court TV’s Crime Library and co-wrote The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us with Gregg McCrary. | |
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Degrees of Separation Who is killing the midnight ladies? Falcon's Bend is a small, sleepy town in Wisconsin that owns more taverns than churches, but fills both on the appropriate days. Teenagers talk of escape from a one-horse town like Falcon's Bend because nothing ever seems to happen...until one fateful night when a dancer from the town's scandalous strip joint is found strangled. It soon becomes clear to Investigators Pete Shasta and Danny Vincent that the close-knit "family" at the nightclub is a bizarre breeding-ground for unbalanced feelings and obsessions. Pete and Danny race to peel away layers of bitterness before another girl falls victim to the dance of death. |
Quiet
Storm Publishing |
| Karen Wiesner has had 25 books published in the past six years, which have been nominated/won 27 awards, and 17 more titles contracted for spanning many genres and formats. Hailing from Germany, Chris Spindler is the award-winning author of the Inspector Terry mysteries. Visit the Falcon's Bend Community for information about the series. | |
 Hilliard & Harris |
Blackwater Tango ... Gena Hollender has a new life. She is in private practice as a psychologist, is renovating an old brownstone in Manhattan, and is becoming an expert on raising exotic plants. But an innocent question – "how do you feel?" – can send her into mind-numbing shock. And now she's been having visions of a dark-haired young woman who is slowly dying. After an exhausting five-year chase, Trikonis eluded capture. But Gena learns that the body of a young woman has been found folded into a submerged lobster trap off Monhegan Island in Maine. The details – no clothing from the waist down and no evidence of sexual assault – is Victor’s signature. Gena goes to an emergency meeting of the old team in Portland only to find that each participant was actually called by Trikonis – a brilliant psychologist expert at the manipulation of his subjects. Gena's dread is palpable. She wavers between instincts of fight or flight. When bodies start turning up with alarming frequency, Gena decides she must end Trikonis' reign of terror even if her own life is the prize he seeks. |
| Blackwater Tango is an intense, edge-of-your-seat thriller by the author of Knee Deep. | |
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first
we practice to deceive."
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