| "Oh!
What a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive."
Sir Walter Scott |
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Web Mystery Magazine Authors' New Books
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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 |
$20.76;
HarperCollins |
| 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. | |
 Forge $24.95 ISBN 0-765-30020-6 |
Lucrezia Borgia and The Mother of Poisons |
Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and sister of Cesare Borgia, agreed to a loveless third marriage only to escape from Rome. There the machinations of her father and brother had so damaged her reputation that it was whispered behind her back that she was incestuous with both her male relatives and a murderess beside. It was said that those invited to dine at Lucrezia's table made out their wills before they left home. In Ferrara, however, she was greeted with joy–by everyone except her husband–and regarded as beautiful, innocent, and virtuous. And then one of her ladies-in-waiting died ... of poison. | |
| Since 1964, Ms. Gellis has published about 25 meticulously researched historical novels. The recipient of many awards (including the Silver and Gold Medal Porgy for historical novels from West Coast Review of Books, and The Romantic Times Award for Best Novel in the Medieval Period and Lifetime Achievement Award for Historical Fantasy), Roberta Gellis holds master's degrees in medieval literature and biochemistry. | |
The Outcast Dove, A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery |
 $25.95 Forge ISBN : 0-765-30377-9 |
| Catherine LeVendeur’s curiosity and passion for justice
have sometimes led her to brave horrors and solve grisly murders…but
this time the threat is to those she loves.
Catherine’s family business relies on her cousin Solomon to negotiate the treacherous path to riches. The fact that Solomon is her cousin is secret, however, because he’s Jewish—and if their family connections were discovered, it could mean ruin or death. As Solomon travels to Spain to make their fortunes, he is drawn into a scheme to rescue a Jewish girl taken by Christians during the conquest of the Spanish city of Almeira. To complicate matters, and sorely vex his heart, Solomon encounters his long-lost father Jacob, a man who rejected his Jewish faith and is now Brother James, preparing his own trip to Spain to ransom Crusader knights taken by the Moslems. When a fellow monk is killed by an attacker in the street late once night, it’s put down to a random mugging. But James, who is carrying the ransom money, believes that he will be the next target, and he turns for help to the son he had abandoned. Solomon wants nothing to do with his father. But he’s confronted by his past, his ancestry, the need for secrecy, and his love for those of his family who have chosen a different path. |
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| In dealing with all these things, Solomon will come to a decision about who he is…and where he really belongs. | |
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. | |
Atomic Renaissance: Women
in 1950s America found themselves trapped into a mold of Donna Reed and
June Cleaver, marginalized by the hyper-masculinity of the age. Mystery
fiction was a male bastion as well, promoting hardboiled private eye
novels and spy fiction. It would be another three decades before groups
to promote equality between the sexes in mystery fiction appeared.
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A Good Soldier | ||||
When Grant, Julia, and his family travel on to Bethel, Ohio, to visit some friends from his West Point days, Grant finds them dying off at an alarming rate. In spite of the poverty and need brought on by the Great War, Grant's friends seem to have discovered the Midas touch. Grant (along with Julia and his father) has to get to the bottom of a golden mystery to find out why people in this small town are dying. |
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"Jeffrey
Marks has a real talent for interesting descriptions, making me really
see the characters." -- Sharan Newman, The Outcast Dove, A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery |
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| Death's
Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab, The Body Farm, Where the Dead Do Tell Tales |
 G.P.
Putnam’s Sons,
$24.95; photographs |
"If you’ve ever read Patricia Cornwell’s novel or seen gruesome footage of this place, you may (or not, depending on your nerve) be thrilled to know that there’s finally a book about that strange area in Tennessee known fondly as the Body Farm. Founder Bill Bass has at last organized his notes and teamed up with writer Jon Jefferson to present a definitive history in Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab, the Body Farm, Where the Dead Do Tell Tales. "As Bass tells the history and development of this one-of-a-kind place, he utilizes cases that taught him something new or put his acquired knowledge to the test, so the book sometimes has the quality of a detective novel. The stories of the Zoo Man, a serial killer, and the slaughtered Perry family stand out as Bass’s best work, but there are lesser known tales as well that engage the reader with a fine balance between science and gore. [I]f you’re interested in forensic pathology and anthropology ... you’ll come away with knowledge about teeth, insects, adipocere, and time of death that you won’t get anywhere else." |
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| Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D.author of twenty books, teaches forensic psychology at DeSales University and writes forensic science articles for Court TV’s Crime Library. | |
 $27.95; |
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. | |
 $14.95;
Leapfrog Press |
The German Money "Lev Raphael writes with the precision of a neurosurgeon, the warmth of an ancient storyteller, and the soul of a people that has known the extremes of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, love and hate more than almost any other." The Jewish BulletinLev Raphael is the mysteries columnist for the Detroit Free Press and prize-winning author of 14 books including the critically acclaimed Nick Hoffman series, Let's Get Criminal, The Edith Wharton Murders, The Death of a Constant Lover, Little Miss Evil, and Burning Down the House. His latest novel is The German Money. |
 Trafford
$14.95 ISBN: 1-55212-990-X |
The
Chalk Town Train & Other Tales Eccentric Scottish-born crime reporter Harper loathes sensationalism and yet always finds himself embroiled in the news he covers. “The Chalk Town Train,” the book’s opening story, is based loosely on the saga of a real-life Carolina bandit of the 1890s. Other tales in Volume One find Harper unraveling sinister intrigues involving a Revolutionary War ghost, a rowdy pugilist, a row of unmarked rural graves, a penitentiary escape with a poignant twist, and a shipwreck that isn’t what it appears to be. He joins his 10-year-old niece in exposing a capital city swindle and the president of the United States in recovering a sensitive stolen document. |
| “Imagine
a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Mark Twain and you get some idea
of these entertaining
stories.” -- Sarah Cuthbertson, Editor, British Historical Novel Society Journal. |
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 $21.95; Delphi |
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Find through Time: A Native American Time Travel by Marianne Petit |
Struggling with severed family ties and a love life gone sour, forensic artist Gabrielle Camden immerses herself in sculpting the face of a young Native American woman whose parallel life takes her on an incredible journey back in time to Custer's Last Stand. The path leads her deep into the heart of the Sioux nation and into the arms of a Lakota warrior named Two Moons. |
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Gabrielle must reconcile her life on the plains with the one she left behind and the man who awaits her return. But before she can give her love to one man, she must lose the love of another. |
| 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. | |||
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