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Shaded Light: The Case of the Tactless Trophy Wife by J. A. Menzies originally written under the pseudonym N. J. Lindquist (
SYKM), 1st in her Manziuk & Ryan series of Toronto-set cozy-leaning police procedurals starring a Detective Inspector and his newly-promoted African-Canadian Detective partner, which the extended blurb indicates has a bunch of Agatha Christie references/homages in it, out from small press Murder Will Out Mysteries in 2004.
A muggy July weekend in Toronto. A house party with a disparate assortment of guests. A tired police inspector and his rookie partner. And murder.
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Mad Money by Linda L. Richards (
SYKM), 1st in her Madeline Carter mystery/thriller series starring a New York stockbroker turned L. A. day trader, originally out from Harlequin's Mira imprint in 2004. This was an Arthur Ellis Award finalist for Best First Novel, according to SYKM.
When her best friend is killed in front of her at the New York City brokerage where they both work, Madeline Carter quits her job and aims for a safer life on the warm coast. But life has a way of interrupting the best laid plans and it isn’t long before Madeline’s quiet new life of day trading in the Malibu hills is interrupted by kidnapping, murder and a run-in with a corporate psychopath.
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Magic Mirror by Michaela Thompson originally written under the pseudonym Mickey Friedman (
SYKM), 1st in her Georgia Lee Maxwell mystery series starring a Florida expat magazine columnist in Paris, originally out from Penguin in 1988.
SACRE BLEU! THEY KILLED A MAN FOR A MIRROR!
Florida transplant Georgia Lee Maxwell doesn't take to Paris at first, despite the fact that she's at least leaving a no-good man and a hated job as a society editor. Now she's a Paris correspondent, thank you very much—a dream come true for any journalist.
There's just a slight down side—she arrives in freezing rain, gets caught in a traffic jam caused by a bomb scare, and hates her apartment; but the real Bonjour is finding herself face down on a museum floor during a robbery. "Killed for a boring story!" she thinks. But as it happens, she isn't the one who dies. Three terrifying masked gunmen shoot the unfortunate security guard.
They could have stolen all the treasures of Monte Cristo's cave, so to speak, but it turns out they've made off with only a mirror. True, it once belonged to the French seer Nostradamus, but it may be the museum's least valuable item.
Does it have some prophetic ability? Does someone know something the gendarmes don't? Here's what Georgia Lee knows: If she finds out first, she's a journalistic hero. If she doesn't, she's dead.
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Horror megathread, where self-publishing champion J. A. Konrath aka Jack Kilborn is offering a bunch of new and repeat items, among them a few things in his Disney Hyperion-published Jack Daniels police procedural mystery series (and a self-pub future-set sci-fi police procedural starring one of Jack Daniels' descendants).