Author: Edward Sklepowich
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur
Keywords: macintyre, series, urbino, venice, sight, mystery, deadly
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-02-19
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312269552
ISBN-13: 9780312269555

Cast:The Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, wealthy, elegant English widow of an Italian count.Urbino Macintyre, well-named urbane, an expatriate American and author who effectively functions as amateur detective when the situation requires.And the magical city that is a character in herself - Venice.These play the principal parts in Edward Sklepowich’s brilliant series of neo-classic mysteries.We visit Venice and the delightful pair again in this sixth episode. Urbino has just returned from a long stay in Morocco, bringing with him a young painter named Habib.At their reunion, the first order o

Author: Lisa Miscione
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur
Keywords: mysteries, strong, lydia, smoke
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-11-29
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312341857
ISBN-13: 9780312341855

Lydia Strong+s old writing student, Lily Samuels, has been missing for weeks. Before her disappearance, Lily contacted Lydia, asking for help, but Lydia didn+t think anything was amiss until she learned that Lily was looking into her brother+s suicide. Now she+s concerned. In this fourth of Lisa Miscione+s intense and gripping thrillers, Lydia teams up with her husband, ex-FBI agent, p.i. Jeffrey Mark, to uncover the truth behind Lily+s disappearance.

Author: Peter Bowen
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur
Keywords: gabriel, pre, featuring, mysteries, montana, nails
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-02-21
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312312075
ISBN-13: 9780312312077

A vanful of praying, protesting fundamentalist Christians has arrived in Toussaint at about the time that Gabriel Du PrŽ+s precocious granddaughter Pallas returns from her studies in Washington, DC. A young soldier follows, just back from Iraq missing a leg, an eye, and his grip on reality. Du PrŽ suspects that he+s going to have his hands full for the forseeable future.First, graffiti appears on the door of a local church, and then a cryptic phone call from a missing girl causes concern in town. When a confluence of these strange events and even stranger people threatens problems that even

Author: Peter Bowen
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur
Keywords: gabriel, pre, featuring, mystery, montana, badlands
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312262523
ISBN-13: 9780312262525

From the critically acclaimed author of Ash Child, the tenth in this popular series set in Montana A wealthy millennial cult from California relocates to the outskirts of the Montana badlands-the dry and windy dead zone-and the Toussaint townsfolk are none too pleased. The cult members keep to themselves, but Gabriel Du Pr soon learns that seven of their recently defected members were killed-each shot to death. When another shooting incident occurs just outside of the compound, Du Pr finds himself blindly searching for a killer and an explanation for the murders-for which there seem to be no a

Author: Richard Stevenson
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur
Keywords: mystery, strachey, donald, tied, tongue
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-03-10
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0312309740
ISBN-13: 9780312309749

Under normal circumstances, PI Donald Strachey wouldn’t take a job from right-wing radio ’shock jock’ J-Bird. But Strachey not only needs the money, he’s also intrigued that the death threats against the radio DJ are being made in the name of a radical gay rights group that has been defunct for over twenty years. When things escalate past mere threats, Strachey has precious little time to uncover the connection between a group from the past and the violent present.

Author: David Pirie
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur
Keywords: calls, night
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-08-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312291043
ISBN-13: 9780312291044

As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle-the creator of Sherlock Holmes-studied under one of the pioneers in forensic medicine, Dr. Joseph Bell. While details of Doyle’s actual relationship with the Doctor remain shrouded in mystery, author David Pirie has created an engrossing series that pairs the two as partners in criminal investigations in the dark underworlds of Victorian Edinburgh.The Night Calls chronicles their most frightening and disturbing case, the encounter with the man who prefigures Holmes’ archnemesis Moriarty. A series of bizarre and outlandish assaults on women in

Author: Nancy Means Wright
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur
Keywords: ruth, willmarth, featuring, mysteries, cow, nightmare, mad
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312331339
ISBN-13: 9780312331337

Ruth Willmarth wakes one hot July night to a cacophony of drums, high-pitched warbling, and the bellowing of cows. Her lover, Colm, has invited his distant cousin, Darren, to fill in as herdsman on her Vermont farm, and Darren has brought along his extended family of volatile Irish Travellers. Among the crowd are Darren’s estranged brother, Ritchie, and his beautiful but exhausted girlfriend, Nola, who has recently undergone brain surgery in a Toronto hospital. Now the hospital is seeking recent patients who might be infected with the human form of the fatal Mad Cow. Almost as soon