eHarlequin.com has released the list of September 2011 titles for its 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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Death on Disaster Day
by Nancy Gotter Gates
A Tommi Poag Mystery (2nd in series)
The bitterness of being dumped after thirty years of marriage is trumped by murder charges when Greensboro resident Tommi Poag's ex-husband is arrested. The victim was Tommi's divorce lawyer, who was found shot during a Girl Scout disaster-preparedness exercise. Still, Tommi surprises herself when she agrees to help her ex's new — and younger — wife clear his name.
But he has no alibi at the time of the death and there had been bad blood between the two men. When the murder weapon is found hidden in his back shed, Tommi's ex insists he's being framed. When Tommi uncovers some of the victim's secrets, she also finds new questions, like why did he take out a huge insurance policy months before his death? Tommi finds herself on the wrong end of a hit-and-run, and realizes time is counting down to her own fatal disaster day.
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The Last to Remember by Joyce & Jim Lavene
A Sharyn Howard Mystery (3rd in series)
The skeleton of a young boy is unearthed and hung in the chapel of an old reform school. Soon afterward, one of Diamond Spring's wealthiest citizens storms into Sheriff Sharyn Howard's office to confess to the forty-year-old crime. Vividly describing the night he and two of his chums killed another boy when they were at the school together, he implicates a prominent district court judge and Sharyn's own deputy. But before she can investigate, the self-confessed murderer hangs himself in the interview room.
The coroner has a double shock for the sheriff: the body doesn't belong to the boy the murderer thought he'd killed, and the murderer was dead before he was hanged. When the judge barely survives a fire, Sharyn fears for her deputy's life, too. Soon, the dark deeds of past and present collide as a killer plots a final act of retribution that Sharyn may be too late to stop.
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Reduced Circumstances by Vincent H. O'Neil
A Frank Cole Mystery (2nd in series)
Moonlighting as a dispatcher for Midnight Taxi, Frank Cole hopes to supplement slow days as a background checker. It's not the best money he's ever made — but it could be the dirtiest when he's dragged into a mystery involving high-end grifters, stolen cash and murder in the Florida Panhandle town of Exile.
A young con man was picked up by one of Midnight's drivers in front of a sleazy hotel right before a big drug bust. Now, a smooth-talking P.I., a couple of bounty hunters and the kid's dewy-eyed girlfriend all want to know where he is. Frank, a successful software developer before his own bubble burst, knows the kid is in dangerously deep with something. And since everyone's leaning on Frank for hard and fast answers, he decides to start digging for some … to save his own skin.
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The Mephisto Threat by E. V. Seymour
A Paul Tallis Mystery (2nd in series)
In Istanbul, crime journalist Garry Morello is executed in cold blood. Moments before his death, he meets with old friend Paul Tallis, hinting that he has uncovered a link between international terrorism and organized crime back home. On the run from the Turkish authorities, Tallis makes his way back to London and passes the intel to his MI5 handler.
When he's sent undercover to Birmingham to investigate the threat, Tallis's mission is to infiltrate the inner circle of crime boss Johnny Kennedy. Once inside, Tallis must determine if the charismatic gangster is involved in planning the biggest terrorist attack on Britain — or if his MI5 paymasters are the ones he should be watching.
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Green as a Garden Hose by Fran Stewart
A Biscuit McKee Mystery (3rd in series)
A day of hiking turns deadly for Martinsville, Georgia, librarian Biscuit McKee when a woman plunges to her death right before her eyes. Looking down forty feet above the broken body, Biscuit recognizes the vibrant green shirt and its wearer. Diane Marie Ames was the kind of Georgia peach who was more sour than sweet: beautiful, wealthy, spoiled and uppity. Biscuit didn't like the woman—but she didn't wish her dead.
Did Diane Marie jump … or was she pushed? The mystery intrigues Biscuit and her devoted feline companion, Marmalade. While Biscuit's new husband, the town cop, investigates, his wife and her sidekick do some snooping. Diane Marie's diary reveals a woman living in fear; some shocking and deeply buried town secrets; and one very odd coincidence — Martinsville has three women named Diane Marie. And, as Biscuit discovers to her own peril, it's a name to die for.
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