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Today is Author Spotlight May
2003 Lady M apologizes for her absence and lack of columns recently, but she is back at the dark house on the hill working at all things mysterious once more. The Internet and Lady M are fast becoming the quick route to finding "missing" persons. Two personal friends have found Lady M after many years and moves. A school planning a 20-year reunion found a former dean when typing her name in a search engine brought up reviews she did for our Grassroots section. More recently, a film producer found the author he wanted to contact among our short story authors and will begin shooting a film based on one of the author's stories to enter in a Short Film Festival this fall in San Francisco. A few months ago, a playwright adapted another writer's story that is currently in our Library and is entering it in a renown National Competition. It's been a busy year. On the book scene, ebooks continue to grow in popularity and sales. For those who like the action fast and hard, THE LONELY IMPULSE, by Jim Cort, is available at www.PendulumPress.com , $5.95. Milo Costigan, ex-IRA is hired to hunt down and kill Willie Dowd because he has a score to settle. They offer him fifty thousand dollars to do it. But there's more to the job than money and revenge—betrayal and murder; terror, and nuclear blackmail. An histtorical mystery on the thoughtful, nostalgic side, Robert Goldsborough's The Year Diz Came To Town, also downloadable at www.PendulumPress.com, $595, is set in 1938 Chicago, a brawling, sprawling city in the grip of the Kelly-Nash Democratic machine and the post-Al Capone crime syndicate. Steve Malek, police reporter with the Chicago Tribune, senses his big story when a reform candidate for mayor is murdered. The police write it off as the work of the mob, but Malek thinks otherwise, and follows a clue fron the dead man's past to its deadly present. "KILLING
PAPARAZZI by Robert M. Eversz " Paparazzi is a street-smart,
razor-sharp combination of crime Elaine Rounds Budd's MURDER AT HE FOLLIES, Turtle Press, hardcover, $19.95 hardcover, is going into a second printing. Amy Francis, young and beautiful, is living her dream as a Ziegfield girl on Broadway on the eve of the Roaring Twenties in New York. But murder becomes a nightmare. Jack Allen reports continuing signings and sales for CHANGE OF HEART, his spy novel available from www.BurpingFrog.com ATTENTION AUTHORS!! If you want your book posted in Author Spotlight on Lady M, send the following information: title, author, publisher name, hard, trade or mass-market, price, and where readers can buy the book (bookstores, publisher's web site address, from the author's site or by email. etc.) It doesn't do any good to promote a book if the reader can't find it. Also give a brief blurb about the book so readers know if it's one they'd like. Sorry, but Lady M doesn't have time to go to sites and dig out information about books. Send all mail to LadyM@mysteryinternational.com We will be posting
new reviews, a short story and a news column from Lady M soon. Watch
for them.
Our continuing
list: The Law
of Falling Bodies, by Edmund X. DeJesus, iUniverse,
Amazon.com , Barnes&Noble.com, is reminiscent of the classic Gideon
Fell mysteries that featured "impossible" murders. When
a university professor is murdered, an eyewitness sees everything,
and the only suspect confesses. But physics graduate student, Mark
Napoli, knows that according to the immutable laws of physics, the
murder couldn't have happened that way, so he sets out to solve the
mystery. Intriguing academic amateur sleuth. In C.E. Bart's eBook, Moving Pictures, www.pendulumpress.com would-be actor, part-time private eye, Marko Defoe, thinks he's got the gig of a lifetime when he's assigned to keep an eye on a beautiful Countess carrying a priceless Eighth Centurypainting to Paris. But things go wrong, and he soon finds himself in a web of international art fraud, political intrigue, money laundering— and worse. A refreshing, new private eye. Fun read. Still in the Spotlight: Ebook Breaking The Chain, by C.D. Ledbetter, www.DLSIJpress.com , the sequel to the author's best-selling Blue Moon, reunites Mary Corbett and Jack Windom, now married and running the Blue Moon Bed & Breakfast Inn on the restored Louisiana plantation where they first met—in this lifetime. The visions Mary begins having again are more helpful than terrifying, but Jack's nightmares seem to forecast danger and death. Compelling romantic suspense with supernatural overtones. Out from American Book Publishing, www.american-book.com, suspense thriller Have No Mercy, by Bobby Ruble, examines how the desire for revenge can affect lives far beyond those of the avenger and his intended victim. When David and Todd's childhood friendship ends because of betrayal, neither imagines how tangled their lives will be years later. Friendship turns to anger, and anger eventually to unchained hatred. Psychological thriller. Traditional publisher, St. Martin's Press, released the hardcover edition of TV writer Stephen J. Cannell's new fast-paced thriller this month. In The Viking Funeral, Cannell's LAPD detective, Shane Scully, goes deep undercover to expose a group of rogue cops with plans to profit from the "big bust" they're working on. Drug trafficking and money laundering foster greed in the best of men, but in the worst of them, it can also lead to betrayal and murder. Rogue cops in a suspense-caper-thriller. A review of this book by Jean Schlemmer appears in Mystery International's Grassroots Reviews. *If you've published a mystery you'd like in the Author Spotlight, send the information and a brief synopsis of the story to ladym@mysteryinternational.com . Include the name of the publisher and the format of the book, as well as the URL where it can be purchased if there is one. Latest
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