eHarlequin.com has announced the June 2010 titles for their Worldwide imprint, your partner in crime. Amateur sleuths, traditional cozies, police procedurals and private-eye fiction, written by award-winning authors. For more information or to purchase any of the books below, click on the book title or book cover. (Previous months titles can be found on the backlist page.)
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Grounds for Murder by Sandra Balzo
A Maggy Thorsen Mystery (2nd in series)
Self-made espresso bar owner Maggy Thorsen would rather be whipping up steam with her sexy sheriff boyfriend than organizing a barista competition. But the big Java Ho convention, the coffee industry's seasonal trade show, has come to Milwaukee. And this year it's not only insane, it's murder…when Maggy finds the body of Marvin LaRoche, proprietor of the HotWired coffee chain, under a banquet table.
LaRoche was powerful, mean and nasty—or maybe he just drank too much of his own coffee. Either way, somebody bludgeoned him with Maggy's first-place barista trophy. Hoping to clear her name, Maggy watches the man's too-cheerful widow and an angry activist accusing LaRoche of exploiting Third World coffee growers. With a killer to catch and coffee to brew, Maggy is working overtime to save her own beans.
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The Midnight Tree by Dorothy Kliewer
A Deedra Masefield Mystery (4th in series)
When Rufus County sheriff Aaron Blaine is found murdered in plainclothes in front of a courthouse outside his jurisdiction, investigative reporter Deedra Masefield tackles the most heartbreaking story of her life. Not only was he the man she wanted to marry, but he was a man with secrets worth killing for.
The brutality of his execution and clues to the missing contents of his briefcase help explain his recent strange behavior. Determined not to let his death be in vain, Deedra picks up on grim clues Aaron left for her about the case, involving missing children and a secret meeting place called the Midnight Tree. When a twelve-year-old boy is found dead under the same tree, Deedra uncovers the terrible truth about what's really happening in this small, quiet town. All while a clever killer puts a dark plan in motion to make sure she never tells.
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Deadly Diversion by Eleanor Sullivan
The intensive care unit at St. Teresa's hospital in St. Louis is head nurse Monika Everhardt's personal war zone—understaffed, overworked, tangled in union and government bureaucracy. And that's on a good day. On a bad day, two suspicious deaths make her wonder if one of her own is a killer.
As police and pencil pushers descend, Monika takes matters into her own hands with the help of top cop and best girlfriend, BJ. The first death could have slipped between the cracks—a critical patient, a tired nurse. But the second victim was an old-time mob boss and person of interest to the local D.A. Monika knows it's easy to make a terminal man's death look innocent, but an expert nurse knows the difference between incompetence and murder.
The hard part is finding out who—and why—before the killer strikes again.
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