eHarlequin.com has released the list of May 2011 titles for their Worldwide Mystery imprint, your partner in crime. Amateur sleuths, traditional cozies, police procedurals and private-eye fiction, written by award-winning authors.
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Murder in Exile
A Frank Cole Mystery (1st in series)
The sleepy Florida Panhandle town of Exile is now home to the extremely downsized life of Frank Cole, a former computer company CEO who caught a bum deal in bankruptcy court. Now living on next to nothing as a fact-checker for insurance companies, Frank is cynical and weary, but still savvy enough to spot something rotten with his newest assignment.
A college student, killed in a hit-and-run accident, had recently taken out a large life insurance policy. As Frank digs into the suspicious circumstances, he begins to suspect the young man was simply a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, mistaken for the real target, a high-profile businessman. The claim is legit. But the closer Frank gets to untangling the twisted truth behind murder and corruption, the tighter the noose around his own neck becomes.
Murder in Exile was the winner of the 2005 St. Martin's Press / Malice Domestic Best Traditional Mystery Novel Contest.
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A Matter of Motive
A Dexter Loomis Mystery (1st in series)
Newly appointed police chief Dexter Loomis suspects he's in over his head when murder strikes Higgins Point, Wisconsin. When the ex-engineer signed on for deputy duty, he never expected the murder of the mayor's daughter to land in his inexperienced lap. Luckily, he's got help from friend and state crime bureau detective Ann Summer, who's willing to teach the reticent new lawman the ropes … in exchange for a little help with a case of her own.
It seems the tiny resort town has a surprisingly seedy underbelly hiding drugs, dirty money and death. Could the tragic suicide of Ann's father in a lakeside cabin outside of town be connected to something more sinister? As the bucolic veneer of Higgins Point wears dangerously thin, Dexter and Ann zero in on a motive for murder … and a killer lying in wait.
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Death's Door
A Leigh Girard Mystery (2nd in series)
A killer is targeting young women as spring arrives in Door County, Wisconsin. Assigned to cover the story, local reporter Leigh Girard discovers a teenager—her body ritually arranged in the woods by Mink River. Next, a college student is found positioned the same way, as if sleeping, a purple ponytail holder wrapped around her finger.
As Leigh digs deeper for links between the victims, another girl dies. The police make an arrest, but Leigh suspects the real killer has eluded them. And she's right. Now he's drawing her into his game, sending cryptic clues about what he's going to do next. Leigh's connected the evil playing out before her with a twenty-three-year-old murder case, but she's also discovered another horrifying truth …
She's been carefully baited and trapped—and there's no way out.
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Red Hot
Non-Series
The quiet life of Julie Simms, children's librarian, suddenly reads like a spy novel when she discovers her parents were art thieves. The thrilling bedtime stories her mother told her when she was little weren't imaginary: they were real. And they got both her parents killed. But Julie didn't know that when she compiled the tales into a newly published book for children.
Now as government agents, art thieves and a sexy-but-too-curious new neighbor pop up at every turn, Julie is swept up into her parents' lethal legacy. At the heart of the mystery is a missing painting: Portrait of Isabella. Putting together clues from the past, Julie suspects her only shot at untangling the mess is to find the painting herself—before dying young becomes another family tradition.
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