Welcome to Hank Phillippi Ryan!
Hank Phillippi Ryan's Prime Time, won the Agatha for best first mystery and a Romantic Times Reviewers'
Choice award, and has been nominated for several more awards--stay tuned!
Meanwhile, the Femmes Fatales thought Hank and her heroine, Charlie McNally, would make
great additions to our team.
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Everybody is a geek about something!
That's what Toni L.P. Kelner is exploiting in her new "Where are they now?" series. Tilda Harper, a Boston-based freelance entertainment reporter, specializes in tracking down the formerly famous. Of course Toni herself is a geek about mysteries, but she's also geeking out on urban fantasy. She and Femme Charlaine Harris have co-edited two anthologies about things that go bump in the night: Many Bloody Returns and Wolfsbane and Mistletoe.
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Kris Neri returns to her short story roots
Whether you like stories that are dark and original, or light and frothy, with cats as protagonists, or the mix of mystical and mystery, Kris Neri's latest publication, The Rose in the Snow: Tales of Mischief and Mayhem, contains something for every mystery lover.
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Does a lady shoot in the woods?
Mary Saums doesn't, but her new series heroines, Jane Thistle and
Phoebe Twigg, sure do. They don't hunt animals, only bad guys foolish
enough to mess with two sixty-ish widows or the pristine forest surrounding
Tullulah, Alabama.
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Dead end jobs and mystery shopping
Elaine Viets started working at age sixteen for minimum wage.
More than thirty years later, she is still working for minimum wage.
But this time, it's for her Dead-End Job series. We're glad she also gets
to do retail therapy as research for her mystery shopper series.
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Cockatiels, Geese....Swans?
In 2008, Donna Andrews had two new Meg Langslow books.
In Cockatiels at Seven, Meg solves the disappearance of an old
friend--while taking care of the friend's wayward two-year-old--and in
Six Geese A-Slaying, she organizes her town's annual holiday parade.
Coming in August 2009: Swan for the Money--which features competitive
rose growing, belted Tennessee fainting goats, and (of course) swans.
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From the past, to the present, to the paranormal. . .
Dana Cameron's sixth Emma Fielding mystery, Ashes and Bones,
won the 2007 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original;
her historical mystery, "The Lords of Misrule," was nominated for
Best Short Story. Her werewolf story, "The Night Things Changed,"
will appear in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe in October 2008.
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Harris stakes out the night
May sees the release of Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris's
ninth Sookie Stackhouse, and the release of the DVDs of the first season of
True Blood. The second season will air in June on HBO. In October,
the fourth Harper Connelly, Grave Secrets, will hit the shelves.
To fill in her copious spare time, Charlaine's editing an anthology for
Mystery Writers of America and she and Toni are once again co-editing
a collection of stories about supernatural creatures on vacation.
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