Saturday, May 17, 2008

Mystery Book Review: Seven for a Secret by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Seven for a Secret by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

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Seven for a Secret by
A John the Eunuch Mystery

Poisoned Pen Press (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 1-59058-489-9 (1590584899)
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-489-7 (9781590584897)
Publication Date: April 2008
List Price: $24.95

Synopsis (from the publisher): Who killed the mosaic girl? As Lord Chamberlain, John spends his days counseling Emperor Justinian while passing the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He never expected to meet her in a public square or afterwards find her red-dyed corpse in a subterranean cistern. Had the mysterious woman truly been the model for the mosaic years before as she claimed? Who was she? Why had she sought John out? Who wanted her dead -- and why?

The answers seem to lie among the denizens of the smoky streets of that quarter of Constantinople known as the Copper Market, where artisans, beggars, prostitutes, pillar saints, and exiled aristocrats struggle to survive within sight of the Great Palace and yet worlds distant. John encounters a faded actress, a patriotic sausage maker, a sundial maker who fears the sun, a religious visionary, a man who lives in a treasure trove, and a beggar who owes his life to a cartload of melons. Before long he suspects he is attempting to unravel not just a murder but a plot against the empire. Or is John really on a personal quest, to find the reality behind the confidante he thought existed only in his own imagination? Is there such a thing as truth in a place where people live on memories, dreams, and illusions? Even if there is, can John push aside the shadows and find the truth in time?

Review: John, Lord Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, investigates the murder of a women in 6th century Constantinople in Seven for a Secret, the seventh mystery in this historical series by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer.

In a typical day, John retires to his office following his consultations with the emperor. There he reflects on current events, often looking out on a mosaic wall that contains the likeness of a young woman who seems to be looking at him, asking him to confide in her. One evening while strolling through the streets near the Great Palace, a woman confronts him, introducing herself as Zoe, the model for the mosaic, and asking that he meet her the next evening. Not sure why, he agrees, and then at the appointed time and place he discovers her murdered, strangled, her face painted red. As he searches for her killer through the market, he's followed. Who was this woman? Why was she murdered? He senses he's being drawn into a situation that may be greater in scope than he initially imagined, and that his life may be in danger.

The books in this series are inspired by actual events attributed to Procopius, secretary and advisor to General Belisarius, during the reign of Emperor Justinian I (c. 505-565). This lends an air of authenticity to the story that enhances its appeal as a historical mystery, though the authors clearly draw parallels between the 6th century and today. The city and its citizens are well drawn and provide a good backdrop to John's investigation. The plot itself unfolds at a measured pace allowing the reader to be as puzzled as John as to what may be happening around him. With a few twists in the story and the various plot threads neatly wrapped up in the end, Seven for a Secret should satisfy not only fans of historical mysteries but also those seeking an interesting story in an unusual setting.

Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of for contributing her review of Seven for a Secret and to Poisoned Pen Press for providing a copy of the book for this review.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Mystery Bestsellers for May 16, 2008

Mystery Bestsellers

A list of the top 15 for the week ending May 16, 2008 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website. Note: A bestseller list for the week ending May 09, 2008 was not published.

's The Whole Truth assumes the top position this week with several new titles entering the top 15.

Phantom Prey by John Sandford

Debuting at number 4 this week is Phantom Prey, the 18th mystery in the Lucas Davenport series by . A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood everywhere, no body—and her college-aged daughter missing. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them—Goths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup and black clothing, listening to that awful music, so attracted to death. And now this. But the police can't find the girl, alive or dead, and when a second Goth is found slashed to death in Minneapolis, the widow truly panics. There's someone she knows, a surgeon named Weather Davenport, whose husband is a big deal with the police, and she implores Weather to get him directly involved. Lucas begins to investigate only reluctantly—but then when a third Goth is slashed in what is now looking like a 'Jack the Ripper' series of killings, he starts working it hard. The clues don't seem to add up, though. And then there's the young Goth who keeps appearing and disappearing: Who is she? Where does she come from and, more important, where does she vanish to? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going onhere . . . something very, very bad indeed? Publishers Weekly calls Phantom Prey "solid" and adds, "Sandford delivers the kind of riveting action that keeps thriller fans turning the pages."

Careless in Red by Elizabeth George

Coming in at number 5 this week is Careless in Red, the 14th mystery in the Inspector Thomas Lynley series by . After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no matter how far he walks, no matter how exhausting his days, the painful memories of Helen's death do not diminish. On the forty-third day of his walk, at the base of a cliff, Lynley discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to his death. The closest town, better known for its tourists and its surfing than its intrigue, seems an unlikely place for murder. However, it soon becomes apparent that a clever killer is indeed at work, and this time Lynley is not a detective but a witness and possibly a suspect. The head of the vastly understaffed local police department needs Lynley's help, though, especially when it comes to the mysterious, secretive woman whose cottage lies not far from where the body was discovered. But can Lynley let go of the past long enough to solve a most devious and carefully planned crime? Publishers Weekly states that Careless in Red is a "stellar new suspense novel".

From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris

Finally, in 9th position is From Dead to Worse, the 8th mystery in the Southern Vampire series by featuring telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse. After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone—human and otherwise—is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing. It's clear that things are changing—whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And Sookie—Friend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire community—is caught up in the changes. In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death, and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood finished flowing, her world will be forever altered. Library Journal states that "Sookie's fans will love this addition to the series."

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The Whole Truth by David BaldacciThe Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall SmithHold Tight by Harlan Coben Phantom Prey by John Sandford

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for May 12, 2008

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for May 05, 2008A new has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).

This week's letters and mystery clue: A D G I L N O S Y. wrote this short story for the collection Dick Tracy: The Secret Files (9 letters).

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Monday, May 05, 2008

Mysteries on TV: Crossing Jordan

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, your source for the most complete selection of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series now available or coming soon to DVD, has one series that has a season DVD being released this week.

Jill Hennessy starred as Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, a medical examiner in , a ensemble series that aired on NBC for six seasons. For the first two seasons, Ken Howard played Jordan's father, retired police detective Max Cavanaugh, who helped his daughter solve cases by role-playing the events leading up to the crime.

The Crossing Jordan Season One DVD set of 5 discs contains all 23 episodes of the first season including the pilot that aired from September 2001 to May 2002.

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for May 05, 2008

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This week's letters and mystery clue: C E F H L N O T W. Published in 1985, this was the penultimate mystery in a popular series by Gregory McDonald (9 letters).

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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Mystery Book Review: Chili Con Corpses by J. B. Stanley

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Chili Con Corpses by J. B. Stanley. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

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Chili Con Corpses by
A Supper Club Mystery with James Henry

Midnight Ink (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-7387-1259-0 (0738712590)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7387-1259-8 (9780738712598)
Publication Date: January 2008
List Price: $13.95

Synopsis (from the publisher): Things are chugging merrily along for librarian James Henry. He has a closet filled with new clothes, a trimmer waistline, and a closer bond with his father. His only real problem is that his girlfriend Lucy's interest in him seems to have inexplicably cooled. When schoolteacher Lindy suggests the club members join a Mexican cooking class, James jumps at the idea. Over cervezas and black bean dip, the supper club members warm to their new adventure. The class heats up even more when a reporter and her friends, twin sisters with supermodel physiques, enroll. But when people start turning up dead, and the evidence points toward Lindy, things become hotter than a jalapeo. James, who was looking to add a little more spice to his life, gets much more than he bargained for.

Review: Anyone with an appetite for comfort food and a cozy read will feel right at home with Chili con Corpses, the third volume in J. B. Stanley’s popular Supper Club Mystery series that features librarian James Henry, (“Professor” to some), and his four Shenandoah Valley Qunicy’s Gap friends, known to themselves as “the Flab Five.” Between snacking, dieting, exercising at the YMCA, attending Saturday night Mexican cooking classes and getting on with their daily lives and sometimes feisty loves, the culinary team discovers what’s cooking with a murder most foul.

When school teacher Lindy Perez loudly announces to her friends that she’ll kill a vivacious blonde twin if the twin makes a move on the apple of her eye, Principal Chavez, it’s a recipe for disaster. Especially when the twin is found strangled on a field trip to the ghostly Luray Caverns. It’s an outing that Lindy has arranged for her art students, a couple of chaperones, including Mr. Sneed, a grandparent of student Adam Sneed, and, of course, the stand-in chaperones, the ever-reliable supper club’s “Flab Five.” The action heats up when the police arrive, interview the students and witnesses who found the body, and discover that Mr. Sneed has disappeared and learn soon after that he’s no relation to Adam or any of Adam’s kin. Furthermore, the murdered twin, a veterinarian by trade, was substituting for her sister, the newly hired teacher at Blue Ridge High. As the plot does a slow simmer, Murphy Alistair, The Shenandoah Star Ledger editor-star reporter, gets into the act with some investigative reporting, infiltrates the Saturday evening cooking classes, and whips up some emotions when the romance between Lucy and James sours and she eases into the breach, saucily offering herself as le plat du jour to spice up James’ hormonal appetites. Murphy has known one of the twins, and about their inherited millions, for years, and she recently met the other one. She wants the murderer sliced and diced, and she’s got everyone agreeing to help her. Broiling with anger they set out to winnow the wheat from the chaff among the clues, and to sift through the past lives of three prime suspects, two veterinarians and a stockbroker, one of whom they’re out to roast with a cleverly contrived ruse. In the end, they burn the killer, getting him to confess to what a rotten apple he is before he gets his just desserts at the hands of an accomplice who, in turn, ends up in the beefy paws of Sergeant McClellan and the local constabulary.

Adding to the standard fare found in most cozies, Stanley includes food references and sodium serving amounts in her chapter titles and salt shaker illustrations, tasty snacking tidbits on almost every page, and three full-blown mouth-watering recipes for Milla’s Mexican Chicken Enchiladas, Milla’s Mexican Wedding Cookies, and Milla’s Chili con Queso. There’s also a sample chapter of Stiffs & Swine, book four in the Supper Club series, included as an appetizer in the appendix. As for other ingredients before the plot boils over and the lid comes off in Chili con Corpses, there’s a tastefully done bedroom scene with James and Murphy, some heated but never bitter exchanges between James and Lucy, more sugar than spice in a relationship between the cooking class chef, Milla Fields, and James’ widower dad, Jackson, some nibbles at a budding romance between a library assistant and a cub reporter, and some tantalizing side bars about a lottery ticket found in the returns book bin at the library, colourful descriptions of fantastic meals and parties at Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, the digestive antics of a cat called “The Dalai Lama,” and dollops of comfort zone scenes between the Flab Five and their add-on friends at sites like the Dim Sum Kitchen, the Custard Cottage, Johnny Appleseed’s Restaurant and Milla’s Fix ‘n Freeze cooking school. A palatable concoction to satisfy the appetites of even the most discerning.

Special thanks to M. Wayne Cunningham (mw_cunningham@telus.net) for contributing his review of Chili Con Corpses and to Midnight Ink for providing a copy of the book for this review.

Review Copyright © 2008 — M. Wayne Cunningham — All Rights Reserved — Reprinted with Permission

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Friday, May 02, 2008

Mystery Bestsellers for May 02, 2008

Mystery Bestsellers

A list of the top 15 for the week ending May 02, 2008 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.

More reshuffling of the bestselling mysteries this week though The Miracle at Speedy Motors by retains the number one position.

Santa Fe Dead

New this week: Just missing the top 15 last week but coming in at number 8 this week is Santa Fe Dead, the third mystery in the Ed Eagle series by . When last encountered (in Short Straw), Ed had been the target of a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by his wife, Barbara, the ultimate black widow. But when Barbara escapes from police custody, Ed knows that not only will his life be in danger but also the life of his new girlfriend, and, of course, of any rich man unlucky enough to be lured into Barbara's web. To add to his troubles, Ed has taken on a new client, Don Wells, who may or may not have murdered his own wife and son. From the posh resorts of southern California to the New Mexico desert and the seedy hotels of Tijuana, Ed Eagle will follow every lead—and hope that he doesn't wind up Santa Fe dead..

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Mysteries on TV: Burke's Law, I Spy, Intelligence, and A Touch of Frost

Mysteries on TV

, your source for the most complete selection of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series now available or coming soon to DVD, has four series that have season DVDs being released this week.

Gene Barry starred as Los Angeles Chief of Detectives Amos Burke in , a popular series that aired on ABC for three seasons from 1963 throught 1966. The twist here was the Burke, a multi-millionaire, led an opulant lifestyle. The episodes featured unusual plot twists and were set in glamorous locations, attracting big name guest stars.

Burke's Law Season One Volume 1 DVD set of 4 discs contains the first 16 episodes of the first season that aired from September 1963 to January 1964. Filmed in black and white, the episodes on this DVD set have been digitally remastered from the original 35mm master. Bonus material includes original commercials and previews.

Long available on DVD as a mismatched assorted of individual episodes, the entire  series is now available. Robert Culp and Bill Cosby starred as Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott, international espionage agents whose respective covers as tennis pro and trainer took them around the world. The series aired on NBC from 1965 through 1968 and was one of the first to film many of its episodes outside the US.

All three seasons of I Spy are being released simultaneously: I Spy Season 1 DVD set of 5 discs contains all episodes from the first season, I Spy Season 2 DVD set of 5 discs contains all episodes from the second season, and I Spy Season 3 DVD set of 5 discs contains all episodes from the third and final season.

 is a Canadian crime series that shows the shifty nature of undercover information gathering, where your deadliest enemy can become your closest confidant and treachery is taken for granted. The series stars Ian Tracey as Vancouver crime boss Jimmy Reardon and Klea Scott as ambitious spy director Mary Spalding who forge a tenuous and dangerous relationship, one that threatens to expose them both to their enemies.

The Intelligence Season 1 DVD set of 4 discs contains all 14 episodes from the first season that aired on CBC from September 2006 to January 2007.

, which debuted in 1992, is a returning series that will air its 14th season during 2008. The series stars Sir David Jason as Detective Inspector William Edward "Jack" Frost, a policeman in the English town of Denton.

The A Touch of Frost Season 13 DVD consists of but one single episode entitled Endangered Species that aired on ITV1 in November 2006.

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Mystery Book Review: Death Was the Other Woman by Linda L. Richards

Mysterious Reviews, mysteries reviewed by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, has written a review of Death Was the Other Woman by Linda L. Richards. For our blog readers, we are printing it first here in advance of its publication on our website.

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Death Was the Other Woman by
Non-series

St. Martin's Minotaur (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0-312-37770-3 (0312377703)
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37770-0 (9780312377700)
Publication Date: January 2008
List Price: $23.95

Synopsis (from the publisher): As the lawlessness of Prohibition pushes against the desperation of the Depression there are two ways to make a living in Los Angeles: join the criminals or collar them. Kitty Pangborn has chosen the crime-fighters, becoming secretary to Dexter J. Thomas, one of the hard-drinking, tough-talking PIs who pepper the city’s stew. But after Dex takes an assignment from Rita Heppelwaite, the mistress of Harrison Dempsey, one of L.A.’s shadiest – and richest- businessmen, Kitty isn’t so sure what side of the law she’s on.

Rita suspects Dempsey has been stepping out and asks Dex to tail him. It’s an easy enough task, but Dex’s morning stroll with Johnnie Walker would make it tough for him to trail his own shadow. Kitty insists she go along for the ride, keeping her boss – and hopefully her salary – safe. However, she’s about to realize that there’s something far more unpleasant than a three-timing husband at the end of this trail, and that there’s more at risk than her paycheck.

Review: Long-time fans of hard-boiled detective writers Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler or newcomers to the genre are in for a fun ride when Linda L. Richards’ 1930s gal Friday, twenty-one-year-old Katherine “Kitty” Pangborn, and her liquor-loving L.A. gumshoe boss, Dexter J. Theroux, team up to solve a missing persons (or is it murder?) case in Death Was the Other Woman.

Richards has got everything about the genre down pat. “Dex is tall and dreamy,” she says. “Oh. Sure, he’s a mook, but he’s the kind of a mook that can heat a girl’s socks, if you follow my drift. The kind that can get your lipstick melting.” But Dex has got a problem with booze, bad memories from The Great War and getting enough clients for a regular pay check for him and Kitty. But when Rita Heppelwaite comes calling in “her apple-skin tight dress,” offering Dex a bundle to spy on her boyfriend, Dex and Kitty are off and running. They ramble around L.A. by Red Car street car or in a rented auto with “a new bottle of Jack Daniel’s on the passenger seat,” stopping at speakeasies, nightclubs and casinos in search of the two-timing married boyfriend who may or may not be “chilled, neat and sweet.” And while they follow the clues from L.A. to ‘Frisco they’re surrounded by characters as memorable as any that Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe might know. Besides Rita and her missing married squeeze, there’s Dex’s army friend, “a fixer,” and tough guy sidekick, Mustard aka “Mus,” and Kitty’s former housekeeper Marjorie Oleg, and now her landlady, after Kitty’s father simultaneously took a bath and a dive in the stock market crash of ’29, and Marjorie and her husband took over the homestead and turned it into a rooming house. It becomes a hideaway too for “Brucie,” the young wife of a dead mobster, “a torpedo.” She’s got ties to others besides her dearly departed, much to Kitty’s surprise. Then there’s Lilla Dempsey, the wife of her married boyfriend Rita wanted found, and a Rita Mayhew, who may or may not be the alias for another character that turns up in the most unexpected of places. Hopscotch, a big-time gambler, and his threats about welchers getting “zotzed” also has his role to play. And, of course, there’s a dead guy in a bathtub and the riddle of who he is, where the body was found, how it got there, why it suddenly disappears, and where it turns up. And what do the two steamship tickets that Kitty finds have to do with the case?

In all, Death Was the Other Woman is first class entertainment. There’s an historical richness to the 1930’s references to L.A and ‘Frisco landmarks, the “okies,” icons and events of the day, and the songs of the times. Dex, although conflicted, is likeable, especially within the context of his past, and Kitty even more so as she recalls former times with her father but struggles with her future when she meets up with some of her former friends and finishing school classmates on the San Francisco trip. The plot is solid and with enough surprises to keep the reader glued to the page. And as for the story’s ending, even though Kitty says, “It was over. It was done. And I was glad.”, the case still leaves her wondering if someone had “orchestrated the death of her husband.”

(Reviewer's note: Linda L. Richards, the co-founder and editor of ezine January Magazine, www.januarymagazine.com, has also written a three-book series of first-rate reads, The Next Ex, Mad Money, and Calculated Loss, starring internet day trader and amateur sleuth Madeline Carter.)

Special thanks to M. Wayne Cunningham (mw_cunningham@telus.net) for contributing his review of Death Was the Other Woman and to St. Martin's Minotaur for providing a copy of the book for this review.

Review Copyright © 2008 — M. Wayne Cunningham — All Rights Reserved — Reprinted with Permission

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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for April 28, 2008

Mystery Godoku Puzzle for April 28, 2008A new has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.

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This week's letters and mystery clue: A C E L O R S T V. This mystery series by features amateur sleuth Felicity Pride (9 letters).

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