eHarlequin.com has released the list of November 2011 titles for its 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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Alibi for a Cold Winter's Night
A Cybil Quint Mystery (3rd in series)
Murder strikes a homeless shelter and fledgling private investigator Cybil Quindt volunteers in the kitchen to investigate. The first victim was found behind the wheel of the shelter delivery truck. The second, an elderly homeless woman, died after eating a shelter meal. Cybil wonders if the real target is the homeless … or the shelter itself, built on prime real estate.
Meanwhile, a case involving a very rich cheating husband puts her undercover in a local industrial company. She nails the cheater and the girlfriend, and she makes a surprising connection to the shelter—but not before the lovers end up dead. Though the wife is the prime suspect, Cybil believes greed is a more likely motive for murder. She follows clues left in the killer's wake … straight into a very dangerous—and tragic—discovery.
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Hazards of the Game
A Cedar Harbor Mystery (3rd in series)
Recently widowed Paula Madigan agrees to house-sit for a friend on Puget Sound. Soon, new friends and a fresh perspective find her on the golf course, where to her shock, she discovers the bejeweled hand of a dead woman in the sand trap. The victim, unpopular at the country club, was suspected of sending nasty anonymous notes to other members. But when Paula receives her own ominous note after the murder, it's clear the writer—perhaps the killer—is alive and well.
Paula's life becomes even more complicated when the thirteen-year-old granddaughter she's never met visits for the summer. She's a typical teenager whose knack for sleuthing puts her in danger's path. Another murder occurs and Paula, desperate to protect her granddaughter, has to draw on all her detective skills—before death becomes par for the course.
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The Murder Hole
A Jean Fairbairn and Alasdair Cameron Mystery (2nd in series)
American journalist Jean Fairbairn, on an assignment for Great Scot magazine, is covering a new effort to unravel the mystery of Nessie, Scotland's Loch Ness monster. At the helm of the controversial probe is an American scientist who believes his technology will prove or disprove the monster's existence once and for all. But the locals—who profit from the tourist dollars Nessie brings—are protesting. So is an outspoken environmentalist, as the area is full of ancient Pictish artifacts … possibly a treasure trove.
As the mystery and magic of Nessie come to life in Jean's investigation, threatening letters and untimely death wreak havoc with the expedition. Jean must confront her turbulent feelings for investigating detective Alasdair Cameron, as the pair uncover the sinister truth about who stands to profit from Scotland's rich history—and who will die.
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Touch-Me-Not
A Victoria Trumbull Mystery (9th in series)
Victoria Trumbull, the nonagenarian poet, columnist and police deputy of Martha's Vineyard, requires the services of the town's electrician. But he's behaving oddly. His former assistant, fired for bad behavior, has gone missing. Someone is making obscene phone calls to members of the local knitting group and Victoria suspects a connection.
The first body is discovered in the book storage shed of the West Tisbury library. The mystery deepens when the electrician's anxious wife learns his terrible secret. Then another victim turns up, stabbed with a knitting needle. Spry and spirited ninety-two-year-old Victoria, with her brilliant insight into the darker side of the human condition, finds clues connecting several people's sordid pasts. And she discovers that age is no hindrance when she's all that stands between a killer and her family.
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The Paris Secret
Non-Series
Less than twenty-four hours after fleeing to Paris, Maya Sinclair is the prime suspect in a brutal murder—and targeted by the real killer. When she's viciously attacked in the gardens of Versailles, Maya barely escapes with her life thanks to sexy French journalist Simon Girard.
Simon has been investigating the mysterious death of his brother, an art forger with ties to the woman Maya is suspected of killing. Still healing from heartbreak of his own, Simon reluctantly joins forces with Maya, who has awakened feelings within him he thought long dead.
Their search for answers uncovers the existence of a secret society, and puts them on a quest to find a missing crucifix rumored to hold the key to everlasting life. Together, Maya and Simon must race through Paris to stay one step ahead of the killer. A killer who will do anything to ensure some secrets remain buried forever …
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Good Girls
Non-Series
The lives of three Southern women are tainted by one man—the charismatic, ruthlessly ambitious Jack Sullivan—until he's finally stopped by a bullet …
Suzanne: Beautiful, intelligent and burning for a career in the law, she is nearly destroyed by a single act of violence. Guarding her secret, she rises in her profession—then scandal breaks.
Taylor: Suzanne's sister. Marrying the man of the hour, she should have been happy forever. Instead, she's only a pawn in her husband's ruthless climb to the top.
Annie: Their eccentric cousin by marriage, she runs from the secrets of her heart. Tragedy brings her home and temptation beckons, but she vows not to repeat her mother's mistakes.
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