Mysterious Press released seventeen mysteries by Jane Haddam in new ebook formats earlier this week, thirteen in the Gregor Demarkian series and four in the Patience McKenna series.
Jane Haddam — born Orania Papazoglou — worked as a college professor and magazine editor before publishing her Edgar Award–nominated first novel, Sweet, Savage Death, in 1984, which introduced Patience McKenna, a former romance novelist who has turned to crime fiction. (All of these books were originally published as written by Orania Papazoglou.)
In 1990, Haddam introduced ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian in Not a Creature Was Stirring. Many of the subsequent titles have holiday themes associated with them. She continues to write books in this series, the 28th of which — Hearts of Sand — will be published later this year.
We're providing a list of all seventeen books newly released ebooks below, with a synopsis from the first in each of the represented series.
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Not a Creature Was Stirring
Jane Haddam
A Gregor Demarkian Mystery (1st in series)
On the Philadelphia Main Line, a family of crooks plots a blue-blooded murder …
The Hannaford who made the family fortune called himself a tycoon. The newspapers called him a robber baron. Since the days of Robert Hannaford I, the family has infested Philadelphia society like a disease. The current Hannafords are a clan of embezzlers, gamblers, and fantasy novelists. This Christmas, they have money in their bank accounts, crime in their blood, and murder on their minds.
Gregor Demarkian is their reluctant guest. A former FBI agent who quit the agency after his wife's death, he is invited by the Hannaford patriarch to come for dinner at the family mansion. Demarkain arrives just in time to find his host bludgeoned to death in his study and his investigation will lead him to the Hannafords, a family of cold-blooded killers.
(3rd) Act of Darkness — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
(4th) Quoth the Raven — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
(5th) A Great Day for the Deadly — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
(7th) A Stillness in Bethlehem — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
(8th) Murder Superior — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
(9th) Dear Old Dead — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
(10th) Festival of Deaths — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
(11th) Bleeding Hearts — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
(12th) Fountain of Death — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
(13th) And One To Die On — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
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Sweet, Savage Death
Jane Haddam
A Patience McKenna Mystery (1st in series)
When a literary agent is murdered, every bodice-ripping author is a suspect …
The nation's most famous romance authors are often so over-the-top that they could star in their own work. Catty, eccentric, and vain, they live to make each other miserable—and Patience McKenna does all she can to stay out of their line of fire. Too smart for her own genre, she writes romance novels to pay the rent and investigates stories to stay sane. Now the romance wars are about to hit her on the home front.
A few nights before the start of the annual American Writers of Romance conference, Pay comes home to find her apartment locked from the inside. When the police break down the door, they stumble onto Julie Simms, literary agent to the leading lights of romance, lying dead on the floor. When the conference convenes, Pay asks: Which of her colleagues has traded make-believe passion for real-life murder?
(2nd) Wicked, Loving Murder — Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
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