Mystery

Book releases for June 2010

 

Cat in a Topaz Tango - A Midnight Louie Mystery $AU 16.95
	Author : Carole Nelson Douglas Description: Temple Barr and Matt Devine make a cosy engaged couple, and the feisty redhead is all for her handsome radio host fiancé staring in a week-long televised Las Vegas charity event, Dancing with the Celebs, but while ex-priest Matt struggles to master the sexy moves of the tango, a killer stalks the dance floor. Not only is Matt in danger, but so is the lovely tween Mariah, daughter of homicide cop C. R. Molina, who is dancing in the Junior Division of the show. So Temple gets dragooned into resurrecting her kicky teen persona, Zoe Chloe Ozone, now an Internet hottie, to ensure Matt and Mariah don't foxtrot into a fatal misstep. Where is Louie in all this? Well, he's out and about, proving that he's still the cat's meow. He's got his paws full as he tries to keep all the various players in his little troupe from dancing right into death's arm.
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Greedy Bones - A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery $AU 16.95
	Author : Carolyn Haines Description: Sarah is no stranger to drama, so when this talented actress and a P.I. hears that her best friend's husband is suddenly on his deathbed back home, she snaps into action, and gets right on the case. Turns out others in Zinnia, Mississippi, have fallen prey to the illness as well. The folks from the Centres for Disease Control are on the scene, but they can't find a cure for it or for the boll weevils that are decimating Sunflower County's cotton crop. With patients in quarantine and the whole town in crisis, Sarah will go out on a limb to stop the outbreak and try to save the only place she's been proud enough to call home.
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A Killer Plot - A Books by the Bay Mystery $AU 16.95
	Author : Ellery Adams Description: In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you'll find plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells, and even a few celebs trying to duck the paparazzi but when murder joins this curious community, the Bayside Book Writers are there to get the story. Olivia Limoges is the subject of constant gossip. Ever since she came back to town, a return as mysterious as her departure, Olivia has kept to herself, her dog, and her unfinished novel. With a little cajoling from the eminently charming writer Camden Ford, she agrees to join the Bayside Book Writers, break her writer's block, and even make a few friends, bBut when townspeople start turning up dead with haiku poems left by the bodies, anyone with a flair for language is suddenly suspect. It's up to Olivia to catch the killer before she meets her own surprise ending.
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Mrs Jeffries Speaks Her Mind - A Victorian Mystery $AU 16.95
	Author : Emily Brightwell Description: In Victorian London, wealthy spinster Olive Kettering hears footsteps and tries to flee to safety, but knows someone is following her. She gets out of her mansion and runs to a person she is happy to see only that individual shoots her in the head. Inspector Witherspoon, who has a 100% homicide clearance rate thanks to his servants secretly assisting him, leads the inquiry. He learns no one liked Olive, not her peers or servants whom she treated like vermin. She was also estranged from her blood relatives, Dorien who refused to get married and Patricia of whom Olive disapproved of the man she married. Olive was involved with the Society of the Humble Servant led by Reverend Samuel Richards. The victim rejected the concept he was a con artist as she believed in a vengeful god like he preaches. All the suspects offer viable alibis, but some lied. Using the information Witherspoon unknowingly gives her, the housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries and her team is determined to find the killer for their boss, not aware of the danger this endeavour provides.
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Forbidden Fruit $AU 29.95
	Author : Kerry Greenwood Description:Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is summer festival. Corinna loathes the festival and the heat. She is a perfect size 20 with a genius for baking bread, and muffins. While dreaming of air conditioned comfort she finds herself dealing with a rose-addicted donkey named Serena, a maniacal mother with staring eyes, a distracted assistant seeking for the definitive glace cherry recipe, her friend, the fearless witch Meroe and the luscious Daniel with whom she would like to spend a lot more time. Daniel is on the track of two runaways, Brigid and Manny. This Romeo and Juliet romance is not as straightforward as it seems and the pair will go a long way to avoid being found. With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Corinna and Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase against the (biological) clock.
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Black Moonlight - A Marjorie McLelland Mystery $AU 29.95
	Author : Anna Patricia Meade Description: It's 1935, mystery writer Marjorie McClelland and her new husband, millionaire Creighton Ashcroft, have sailed to a secluded island near Bermuda for a romantic getaway. Instead they find the Ashcroft vacation home filled, to Creighton's horror, with his family. The honeymoon is most definitely over when one of the group is found murdered. Can Marjorie untangle the multiple motives and family turmoil to find the killer among them?
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Book releases for May 2010

 

The Cat, the Professor and the Poison - A Cats in Trouble Mystery $AU 15.95
	Author : Leann Sweeney Description: Recently widowed Jillian Hart is rebuilding a life for herself and her three beloved cats, Chablis, Syrah and Merlot, as a quilter in a small South Carolina town. The quilts she makes are for cats as smart, special, and sweet as her own, and business is thriving. When she returns from an overnight quilting show, she discovers Chablis sneezing, and since Chablis is allergic to humans, that can only mean one thing, someone has broken into her house. When she realizes her Abyssinian Syrah is missing, Jillian suspects catnapping. Spurred by Chablis and Merlot's mournful meowing, she investigates and discovers more missing cats and a murder. Now she's got to save more than one cat in trouble, not to mention herself.
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Killer Cuts - A Dead-End Job Mystery $AU 15.95
	Author : Elaine Viets Description: Helen Hawthorne’s latest dead-end job is in Miguel Angel’s Fort Lauderdale hair salon, where a trim can cost as much as a car payment and a blowout can wipe you out. When one of the salon’s most famous clients, gossip blogger and cable-TV show host Kingman “King” Oden is murdered at his own wedding, things get a little hairy and Miguel becomes the prime suspect. To save her boss, and her job, Helen is determined to find the murderer. When she finds herself the target of threatening notes, it’s more imperative than ever that she figure out who at the wedding was dressed to kill.
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Sworn to Silence - A Kate Burkholder Novel $AU 16.95
	Author : Linda Castillo Description: In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and English residents have lived side by side for two centuries but sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer but came away from its brutality with the realization that she no longer belonged with the Amish. Now, a wealth of experience later, Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as Chief of Police. Her Amish roots and big city law enforcement background make her the perfect candidate. She’s certain she’s come to terms with her past, until the first body is discovered in a snowy field. Kate vows to stop the killer before he strikes again. But to do so, she must betray both her family and her Amish past, and expose a dark secret that could destroy her.
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A Talent for Murder - A Polly Pepper Mystery $AU 15.95
	Author : RT Jordan Description: Polly Pepper’s been hired to be the “nice” judge on “I’ll Do Anything to Become Famous,” the latest reality T.V. show to hit the airwaves, in which contestants have to prove that they’ll go for another’s jugular in order to get their names in the headlines. Someone takes the show’s theme literally when Thane Cornwall, the relentlessly critical and universally hated British judge on the panel, is found dead with a ten-inch knife in his back. If there’s one thing Polly’s learned over the years, it’s that nothing in Hollywood is ever as it seems. Now she’ll have to get to the bottom of this mystery before her star on the Walk of Fame may soon be put out by a cunning killer.
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Love Kills $AU 16.95
	Author : Diane Emley Description: Homicide police detective, single mother to a teenage daughter, and lover of partner Jim Kissick, Nan Vining wishes life was a little more serene - like it is at Georgia Berryhill’s Malibu Canyon compound, or like it’s supposed to be, anyway. A healing ground for the well-heeled, three bizarre deaths bring Vining and Kissick through its exclusive gates. First there’s the double homicide of a celebrity private eye and his nude, drugged-out lover. Then there’s the inexplicable drowning of a Pasadena socialite. Georgia Berryhill, the charismatic self-help guru to the stars is one improbable element linking both investigations, another is Vining’s own mother, who was a friend to one of the victims and was being wooed by another. Now, A-listers and wannabe poseurs, lost souls and keepers of long hidden secrets all converge at the Berryhill Compound. Some search for love and happiness, while others come for murder.
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Undone $AU 16.95
	Author : Karin Slaughter Description: Someone had spent time with her, someone well-practiced in the art of pain. Three years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlanta's Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. When a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror. The woman has been hit by a car but, naked and brutalized, it's clear that she has been the prey of a twisted mind. When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident, he stumbles on a torture chamber buried deep beneath the earth and this hidden house of horror reveals a ghastly truth, Sara's patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer. Wrestling the case away from the local police chief, Will and his partner Faith Mitchell find themselves at the centre of a grisly murder hunt and Sara, Will and Faith, each with their own wounds and their own secrets, are the only thing that stands between a madman and his next crime.
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Book releases for June 2010

 

Ten Things I Love About You   $AU16.95
	Author : Julia Quinn Description: Sebastian Grey is a devilishly handsome rogue with a secret. Annabel Winslow's family voted her The Winslow Most Likely to Speak Her Mind and The Winslow Most Likely to Fall Asleep in Church. Sebastian's uncle is the Earl of Newbury, and if he dies without siring an heir, Sebastian inherits everything. Lord Newbury detests Sebastian and will stop at nothing to prevent this from happening. Lord Newbury has decided that Annabel is the answer to all of his problems. Annabel does not want to marry Lord Newbury, especially when she finds out he once romanced her grandmother. is shocking, is delicious is downright wicked, all of which leads the way to Happily. Ever. After.
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Silent Scream   $AU 16.95
	Author : Karen Rose Description: When a teenage girl dies in a suspicious fire, Detective Olivia Sutherland is assigned to track down the arsonist. Then she discovers something more sinister: a vicious blackmailer who preys on young people and murders without hesitation. Making her work even harder is sexy fire-fighter David Hunter. He's not only sharing the case but sparking memories of their long-ago night of passion, when feelings were left unspoken and hearts were broken. David has his own ghosts, and a million regrets. While he and Olivia try to face the wall of pain between them, a diabolical puppet master is pulling strings to make a group of twenty-somethings do his bidding. Soon Olivia and David are scouring the city for a calculating criminal who seems tantalizingly close and is moving in for the kill.
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Love in the Afternoon - The Hathaways   $AU 16.95
	Author : Lisa Kleypas Description: As a lover of animals and nature, Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom. Even though she participated in the London season in the past, the classic beauty and free-spirited Beatrix has never been swept away or seriously courted and she has resigned herself to the fate of never finding love. Has the time come for the most unconventional of the Hathaway sisters to settle for an ordinary man, just to avoid spinsterhood? Captain Christopher Phelan is a handsome, daring soldier who plans to marry Beatrix's friend, the vivacious flirt Prudence Mercer, when he returns from fighting abroad.As he explains in his letters to Pru, life on the battlefield has darkened his soul and it's becoming clear that Christopher won't come back as the same man. When Beatrix learns of Pru's disappointment, she decides to help by concocting Pru's letters to Christopher for her. Soon the correspondence between Beatrix and Christopher develops into something fulfilling and deep and when Christopher comes home, he's determined to claim the woman he loves. What began as Beatrix's innocent deception has resulted in the agony of unfulfilled love and a passion that can't be denied.
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Strange Neighbours   $AU 15.95
	Author : Ashlyn Chase Description: He's looking for peace, quiet, and a little romance. There's never a dull moment when hunky all-star pitcher and shapeshifter, Jason Falco, invests in an old Boston brownstone apartment building full of supernatural creatures. When Merry MacKenzie moves into the ground floor apartment, the playboy pitcher decides he might just be done playing the field. A girl just wants to have fun, and sexy Jason seems like the perfect fling, but newly independent nurse Merry's not sure she's ready to trust him with her heart especially when the tabloids start trumpeting his playboy lifestyle. Then pandemonium breaks loose and Merry and Jason will never get it together without a little help from the vampire who lives in the basement and the werewolf from upstairs.
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The Wolf Next Door   $AU 15.95
	Author : Lydia Dare Description: They can't even be in the same room together, ever since their failed elopement years ago, Prisca Hawthorne has taunted, insulted, and in every way tried to push him away. If only her heart didn't break every time Lord William Westfield left her but staying apart is even worse. Lord William throws himself into drinking, gambling, and debauchery and pretends not to care about Prisca at all but when he returns to find a rival werewolf vying for her hand, he'll stop at nothing to claim the woman who should have been his all along. Can Prisca forgive the unforgivable, or are the moon-crossed lovers going to be forced into a battle of wills that could be fatal?
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Taste of Temptation   $AU 16.95
	Author : Cheryl Holt Description: Helen Hamilton is a twenty-five-year old spinster, with no income and no prospects, who struggles to care for her two orphaned sisters. Destitute and only a heartbeat away from the streets, Helen applies for a position as a governess to the younger siblings of Captain Tristan Odell, the oldest and illegitimate son of the notorious philanderer, Earl of Hastings. When Tristan turns Helen away, her future seems as desperate as her options. Determined to do whatever it takes to support her sisters, Helen ends up at a brothel, where she agrees to sell herself as a mistress to a client of wealth and prestige. She even drinks a potion to make men desire her and is shocked when the man who buys her is none other than Tristan. He too is shocked and aroused by the possibilities. He hires Helen, but offers her more than a position as governess. Enmeshed in an affair of unrestrained desire, their passion quickly grows, as does an unexpected danger that could soon destroy them both.
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Book releases for May 2010

 

Chasing Perfect   $AU16.95
	Author : Susan Mallery Description: Welcome to Fool’s Gold, California, a charming community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. There’s lots to do and plenty of people to meet, especially women because there’s just one tiny problem in Fool’s Gold, the men don’t seem to stick around. Maybe it’s the lure of big-city life, or maybe it’s plain old bad luck, but regardless of the reason, the problem has to be fixed, fast and Charity Jones may be just the city planner to do it. Charity’s nomadic childhood has left her itching to settle down, and she immediately falls in love with all the storybook town has to offer, everything, that is, except its sexiest and most famous resident, former world-class cyclist Josh Golden. With her long list of romantic disasters, she’s not about to take a chance on another bad boy, even if everyone else thinks he’s perfect just the way he is. Maybe that’s just what he needs, someone who knows the value of his flaws, someone who knows that he’s just chasing perfect.
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Married by Morning - The Hathaways   $AU 16.95
	Author : Lisa Kleypas Description: For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters, a pleasant position, with one caveat. Her charges’ older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. Cat can hardly believe that their constant arguing could mask a mutual attraction but when one quarrel ends in a sudden kiss, Cat is shocked at her powerful response and even more so when Leo proposes a dangerous liaison. Leo must marry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home. Catherine’s respectable demeanour hides a secret that would utterly destroy her. To Leo, Cat is intriguing and infernally tempting, even to a man resolved never to love again. The danger Cat tried to outrun is about to separate them forever, unless two wary lovers can find a way to banish the shadows and give in to their desires.
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Extreme Danger   $AU 15.95
	Author : Shannon McKenna Description: Skinny-dipping in a stranger’s pool, it’s as close to reckless as good girl Becca Cattrell has ever been but the house Becca picked for her midnight swim just changed owners and her harmless escapade has landed her at the mercy of a brutal, terrifying organization who’ll make sure she doesn’t live to tell a soul. The most gorgeous woman Nick Ward has ever laid eyes on is also the worst luck he’s ever had. Becca’s presence at this top-secret meeting place won’t just destroy the undercover operation he’s been working on, it’s liable to get them both killed. To his surprise, Becca isn’t running away, from the danger or from him. Becca knows she should be scared. Instead, she’s discovering just how fearless she can be when innocent lives are at stake and white-hot desire is running through her veins. She’ll need every ounce of that courage as she and Nick face off against an enemy more powerful and more ruthless than she could ever imagine.
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Wild Fire   $AU 16.95
	Author : Christine Feehan Description: Called on a dangerous assignment, leopard shifter Conner Vega returns to the Panama rainforest of his homeland, looking every bit the civilized male. As a member of the most lethal of the shifter tribes, he doesn’t have a civilized bone in his body. He carries the scent of a wild animal in its prime, he bears the soul-crushing sins of past kills, and he’s branded by the scars of shame inflicted by the woman he betrayed. Isabeau Chandler’s a Borneo shifter who’s never forgiven Conner, or forgotten him. The mating urge is still with her, and when she crosses Connor’s path, passions run like wild fire. As Connor’s mission draws Isabeau closer, another betrayal lies waiting in the shadows and it’s the most perilous and intimate one of all.
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One Enchanted Evening   $AU 16.95
	Author : Lynn Kurland Description:  A duty-bound knight has taken on the task of rebuilding the most dilapidated castle in all of England. A costume designer gets her chance to shine by showcasing her fairy-tale designs at an upscale party in an authentic medieval castle. The magic that whispers along the castle’s hallways is about to orchestrate an improbable happily-ever-after.
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Never Less Than a Lady - The Lost Lords   $AU 15.95
	Author: Mary Jo Putney Description: As the sole remaining heir to the Earl of Daventry, Alexander Randall knows his duty, find a wife and sire a son of his own. The perfect bride for a man in his position would be a biddable young girl of good breeding but the woman who haunts his imagination is Julia Bancroft, a village midwife with a dark secret that thrusts her into Randall’s protection. Within the space of a day, Julia has been abducted by her first husband’s cronies, rescued, and proposed to by a man she scarcely knows. Stranger still is her urge to say yes. A union with Alexander Randall could benefit them both, but Julia doubts she can ever trust her heart again, or the fervent desire Randall ignites. Yet perhaps only a Lost Lord can show a woman like Julia everything a true marriage can be.
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