Jane Haddam, Orania Papazoglou

Rich, Radiant Slaughter (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A "tour de force" mystery in the Edgar Award-nominated series featuring a writer who not only covers murder cases, but cracks them too ( Publishers Weekly). An exhausted Patience McKenna is attending a benefit at a Baltimore bookstore as part of a ten-city tour arranged by a do-gooder publicist and a mega-rich donor. It's for a good cause, but she's more than ready to head back home to New York and hit the sack. At least they're serving refreshments. Then, as she's chatting with a fan, McKenna's foot bumps the body of a priggish local bibliophile hidden beneath the book-signing table. The deceased woman had been widely disliked, but would a literary luminary have actually gone to the trouble of killing her? Fortunately, McKenna's background as a true crime writer will enable her to examine the evidence and help the police turn the page on this case, in a twist-filled, witty mystery by Orania Papazoglou, aka Jane Haddam, author of the Gregor Demarkian Holiday series. "Sophisticated adventure edged with terror.... [A] smash finale." - Publishers Weekly "Patience is likably wry company." - Kirkus Reviews

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Seitenzahl: 185
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504060776
• Artikelnr.: 59148433

Autorenporträt

Jane Haddam (1951-2019) was an American author of mysteries. Born Orania Papazoglou, she worked as a college professor and magazine editor before publishing her Edgar Award-nominated first novel, Sweet, Savage Death, in 1984. This mystery introduced Patience McKenna, a sleuthing scribe who would go on to appear in four more books, including Wicked, Loving Murder (1985) and Rich, Radiant Slaughter (1988). Not a Creature Was Stirring (1990) introduced Haddam's best-known character, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian. The series spans more than twenty novels, many of them holiday-themed, including Murder Superior (1993), Fountain of Death (1995), and Wanting Sheila Dead (2005). Haddam's later novels include Blood in the Water (2012) and Hearts of Sand (2013).