eHarlequin.com has released the list of July 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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A Case of Imagination
A Madeline Maclin Mystery (1st in series)
Beauty pageants can be murder—nobody knows that better than Madeline "Mac" Maclin, a former homegrown North Carolina beauty queen turned struggling private investigator. So when somebody starts sabotaging a local pageant, Mac knows just where to start snooping in the world of big hair, skimpy costumes and fierce rivalry. But when one of the contestants is found strangled, things really get ugly.
Especially because Mac's also investigating some strange doings at a haunted house belonging to her friend Jerry, a sexy psychic who remains oblivious to her growing romantic affections. Juggling a murder mystery, a ghost and her love life requires some talent—but nobody can outclass or outsmart a former Miss Parkland, North Carolina … except, perhaps, a clever killer.
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Impulse
Non-Series
Successful mystery writer Frank Smith's life turned into a plot from one of his novels when his own wife went missing near their Phoenix home four years earlier. Her body was never found and police are still trying to prove Frank killed her for the insurance money. Hoping for a brief escape from his troubles, Frank attends his fiftieth prep school reunion in Baltimore, a place with another mystery for him to solve.
Four twelve-year-old boys disappeared without a trace into a densely wooded area on the school grounds two decades ago. Intrigued and still trying to make sense of his own personal tragedy, Frank begins sleuthing and uncovers some deeply buried secrets. When news that his wife's body has been found reaches him, Frank must contend with his past just as he's beginning to think some mysteries are best left unsolved.
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Liars All
A Brodie Farrell Mystery (9th in series)
Brodie Farrell's eclectic agency, called "Looking for Something?", has been hired to find a rare star sapphire tied to tragedy. As Brodie herself is preoccupied with a tougher challenge, finding a cure for her infant son's illness, the case falls largely to her best friend Daniel Hood.
The necklace, stolen from a young woman's neck after a hit-and-run, was pawned by the perpetrator, who is now behind bars. Desperate to atone for her son's sins, the thief's mother wants the necklace found so she can return it. But the trail is growing cold and proving dangerous for Daniel. Twice he's attacked and warned to back off. Stranger still, the clues point close to homeland the precious sapphire soon reveals unexpectedly intersecting lives, as events play out with a stunning twist.
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Ultimate Doom
A Liz Rooney Mystery (3rd in series)
When a Manhattan real-estate mogul is found bludgeoned to death in his study, evidence points to those near and dear. His wife loathed and feared him, his daughter hated him and his perfect son is anything but. Coroner's assistant Liz Rooney tags along to the scene of the crime with her homicide detective friend, and she's drawn into a family drama that puts her life in peril.
The murder weapon is missing, but police suspect it to be one half of a pair of valuable winged-dragon bookends. Liz has a couple of suspicions, but chasing them lands her in big trouble—namely the back of a car driven by hired hit men. She figures if she can survive that, she can live through anything. And she puts that theory to the test as she continues to pursue a mystery that gets more convoluted and treacherous by the moment.
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