"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
Sir Walter Scott
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." |
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| Deadmistress | |
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Deadmistress is the first book in a series featuring
Dr. Susan Lombardi, a 40ish professor of education at Metropolitan State
University, in Albion, Connecticut. Deadmistress is a lighthearted,
traditional mystery with a murder in a close-knit community in which almost
everyone has a motive for wanting the demise of the victim. Its heroine
is part of a long tradition of academic sleuths.
Deadmistress begins as Susan hears a news bulletin about the death of Sabena Lazlo, headmistress of Wintonbury Academy for Girls (WAG). Later, Susan is dismayed to learn that history teacher John deHavilland, a dear friend, is thought to be the most likely murderer as he threatened Sabena at a faculty meeting. Susan enlists the aid of Mark Goldin, a Vietnam vet and former PI who is now a grad student, to help her prove that John is not Sabena's killer. Susan turns her research at WAG into an excuse for sleuthing and uncovers secrets about many of the faculty and their students. With a little help from her friend Elaine, a drama teacher at WAG, her husband Swash, who spends his days negotiating financial deals on his home computer, and some very precocious students, Susan and Mark unmask the killer. Dr. Carole B. Shmurak is Professor Emeritus at Central Connecticut State University, where she still teaches a course in the history and philosophy of education. Born and raised in New York City, she was a chemistry and biology teacher for 20 years prior to coming to CCSU. Under the
pseudonym Carroll Thomas, she is the co-author of the Matty Trescott young
adult novels, one of which (Ring Out Wild Bells)
was nominated for the Agatha for best young adult mystery of 2001. |
Deadmistress |
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Designed to Kill |
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Durban House Pub. |
Did the architect/engineer of a new high-rise beachfront condo shoot himself in despair after a balcony fell, killing two people? Or did someone else pull the trigger to solve a bigger problem? That's the dilemma retired Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent Greg McKenzie and his wife Jill face at Perdido Key, Florida. Jill digs for answers in places where Greg's penchant for shaking the bushes leaves tempers smoldering. Working together as a team, they follow the serpentine trail that leads to a fateful confrontation. |
| Chester D. Campbell is author of the Greg McKenzie Mysteries, featuring a retired Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent and his wife, Jill. The first, Secret of the Scroll, won a Bloody Dagger Award and was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's 2002 Mystery Book of the Year. The second, Designed to Kill, was recently released. He is a former journalist, magazine editor, advertising copywriter, and was an Air Force intelligence officer in the Korean War. | |
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Beneath the Morvan Moon |
When Gretchen Lauterbach's grandmother gives her a map marked with two Xs, it leads not to buried treasure but to a lover's remains hidden in the black hills of France's Morvan forest. Now it's up to Gretchen to right an old wrong. If she hopes to succeed –and keep her life—she must distinguish ally from foe, truth from lie, and realize nothing is what it seems Beneath the Morvan Moon. |
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PublishAmerica |
A member of Mystery Writers of America and the Short Mystery Fiction Society, Courtney Mroch's award-winning short stories have appeared in numerous zines. |
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Blood of the Lamb Florida prison chaplain John Jordan’s search for the peace that has so long eluded him is interrupted by an unimaginable murder. Attempting to be a good man in a very bad place while also maintaining his shaky sobriety, John investigates the murder of the seven year-old adopted daughter of ex-con turned televangelist, Bobby Earl Caldwell, a murder committed in John’s own locked office when Bobby Earl conducts a service in the Potter Correctional Institution chapel. This unspeakable act, and the investigation that follows, will force John to confront his own fears and beliefs, causing this man of mercy to thirst for justice. Torn between the seemingly conflicting roles he’s asked to assume—cop and cleric—John must struggle to figure out his identity as well as that of the killer’s, but his past continues to haunt him in the form of troubling thoughts of failure and the resurfacing of his ex-wife, Susan. Putting aside his distrust of the slick televangelist and his seductive wife, John must ignore intimidation and resist manipulation to find a killer among some very unusual suspects—including two murderers, a child molester, a teacher with something to hide, and Bobby Earl Caldwell himself whose very act of exposing his daughter to such risk causes John to suspect him from the very beginning. Amid private crises
and the torturous experiences of a thoughtful, sensitive man working in
such a pitiless place, nothing short of death will end John’s search
for the person who killed little Nicole Caldwell. Uncovering the guilt,
restoring the balance, John seeks pardon from the self-inflicted life
sentence he’s serving and exoneration from the burden of regret
he bears. |
Bleak
House Books |
| Before becoming a full-time writer in 2000, Michael Lister served seven years as a chaplain in the Florida Department of Corrections. His prison chaplaincy brings realism to his mystery series (Power in the Blood, Pineapple Press, and Blood of the Lamb) featuring ex-cop turned prison chaplain, John Jordan. Mr. Lister is currently editing the third book of the series, The Body and the Blood. | |
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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. | |
 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. | |
 Knee
Deep Port Town Pub. 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. | |
Island
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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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