eHarlequin.com has announced the August 2009 titles for their Worldwide imprint, your partner in crime. Amateur sleuths, traditional cozies, police procedurals and private-eye fiction, written by award-winning authors. To purchase any of the books below, click on the book title or the book cover. (Previous months titles can be found on the backlist page.)
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Closer Still
A Brodie Farrell Mystery (8th in series)
Brodie Farrell has all but put her detective agency, Looking for Something?, on hold while she tends to her new baby, born with a rare condition. Now, as her son's health issues stabilize and longtime friend Daniel Hood offers to care for him, she finds herself drawn back to the business of searching—particularly for a killer who some suspect is Dimmock Police superintendent Jack Deacon … her baby's father.
The victim is Joe Loomis, a nasty underworld character with a grudge against Deacon, who calmly threatened Brodie and baby Jonathan. Loomis's dying words have incriminated the police superintendent, and now the brass have removed Deacon from the case for both motive and opportunity. But when suspicions of a terrorist attack turn the focus away from the circumstantial and toward the truly horrifying, Brodie finds herself in the midst of a panic-stricken town turning violent—while a killer watches closely from the sidelines.
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Dead Hot Shot
A Loon Lake Mystery with Paul "Doc" Osborne (9th in series)
Thanksgiving morning in Loon Lake, Wisconsin, is interrupted by the discovery of wealthy resident Nolan Reece, found floating by her dock just hours after a posh engagement party for her daughter. Chief of police Lewellyn Ferris, shorthanded without a coroner, deputizes retired dentist and close companion Paul Osborne to assist with cause of death—accident, suicide … or murder? Judging from the lack of grief displayed by the family, and signs of a struggle, Lew and Doc suspect the latter.
But the holiday isn't over before more tragedy strikes—a fatal shooting at the local general store. And, whether it's coincidence or something deeper, a case of credit-card theft is tied to the small Wisconsin town. As Lew and Doc work to make sense of the sudden death and strange doings, the tragic yet inevitable turn of events takes them both by surprise.
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Point No Point
A Claire Watkins Mystery (7th in series)
Summer is beating down on Pepin County, Wisconsin, and deputy sheriff Claire Watkins is beginning to sweat. First, there's a floater—an unidentified male shot in the gut. Next, a frantic phone call from an old friend, Chet Baldwin, found sobbing and lying next to his dead wife, Anne, shot in the head. Murder or suicide? Claire suspects the former, but it puts a huge strain on her relationship with live-in boyfriend, Rich, also Chet's best friend.
Things go from bad to worse when Chet attempts suicide in custody and Claire begins to second-guess her instincts. A broken arm and a tortured conscience add to her struggle, especially when she begins to suspect that the body in the water and the death of Anne Baldwin may be linked. The how and the why soon lead to more tragedy, as the complexities of the human heart prove love and death are often inexorably linked.
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