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Available 4th Quarter 2009: Sweet and Lowdown by Lise McClendon. In this sequel to One O'clock Jump, featuring Kansas City private detective, Dorie Lennox, it's 1940, FDR is running for a third term, France has fallen, and the Nazis are bombing London. In Kansas City, PI Dorie Lennox and her partner, Amos Haddam, are tailing Thalia Hines, the wayward 21-year-old daughter of a prominent local family. Dorie takes over investigating the men in Thalia's life after Amos becomes preoccupied with a refugee from London and a series of anonymous threats to the Negro League Monarchs baseball team the week before a postseason game against the KC Blues. When someone tries to kidnap Thalia and a dead body turns up, Dorie gets caught in the backlash. Meanwhile, as the pressure on the Monarchs builds, race riots may break out at any time. Publishers Weekly: McClendon lightly handles all the threads, using a taut, staccato style that perfectly complements her edgy, skittish heroine. ISBN 978-0-9819442-9-6 Sign up to be emailed when it's available.
Available 4th Quarter 2009: Partners in Crime by Gallagher Gray. 84-year old
sleuth Auntie Lil and her buttoned-down nephew, the 55-year old T.S.
Hubbert, investigate the death of a very proper
partner at Sterling & Sterling, a private Wall Street bank -- the
very bank where T.S. used
to work. On his first day of early retirement, T.S. is ordered back to
work pronto to find out who would have the nerve to invade Sterling
& Sterling's hallowed halls with murder in mind, leaving an antique
dagger protruding from the chest of a partner so old it's hard to
fathom who would hold a grudge against him. Auntie Lil smells
a mystery and promptly butts in, despite T.S.'s efforts to stop her.
Together, they investigate a trail that leads them back four decades,
to a time when the stuffy old men now in power at Sterling &
Sterling were not nearly so old and nowhere near as stuffy. It was a
time many of them would like to forget -- especially now that it
appears retribution may be at hand. This book is part of Katy Munger's
first mystery series, writing as Gallagher Gray. ISBN 978-0-9819442-6-5 Sign up to be emailed when it's available.
