Poisoned Pen Press.Poisoned Pen Press 6962 East 1st Street, #103, Scottsdale, AZ 85251 www.poisonedpenpress.com Three excellent, very different mysteries are powerful picks. James Sallis' DRIVE (1590581814, $19.95) tells of one Driver, an odd fellow with two very different jobs: stunt driving for movies by day, driving for criminals at night. A double-cross brings him into the world of murder and attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. . Frederick Ramsay's SECRETS (1590581881, $24.95) tells of a murder at a church, a bishop's exile, a gossiping secretary's murder, and one Blake Fisher, who becomes a suspect. Two murders and the FBI in town will wreck WRECK, mar. law. A wreck (called in law Latin, wreccum maris, and in law French, wrec de mer,) signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast upon land by the sea, and left there within some county, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. the lives of not just the suspect, but the town sheriff in this fast-paced mystery. Libby Fischer Hellmann's A SHOT TO DIE FOR (1590581857, $24.95) provides the fourth title in the Ellie Foreman mystery series: while newcomers may dive right in, familiarity with the prior mysteries will make this one even more satisfying. Ellie befriends a woman who has been abandoned at a highway rest stop; but when her newfound new·found adj. Recently discovered: a newfound pastime. Adj. 1. newfound - newly discovered; "his newfound aggressiveness"; "Hudson pointed his ship down the coast of the newfound sea" friend is shot dead shortly thereafter, Ellie reluctantly decides to return to sleuthing Sleuthing See also Crime Fighting. Alleyn, Inspector detective in Ngaio Marsh’s many mystery stories. [New Zealand Lit.: Harvey, 520] Archer, Lew tough solver of brutal crimes. [Am. Lit. to find out what happens. When a second shooting happens, she's drawn into a prominent family's dangerous secret. Swift intrigue Intrigue See also Conspiracy. Borgias 15th-century family who stopped at nothing to gain power. [Ital. Hist.: Plumb, 59] Ems dispatch Bismarck’s purposely provocative memo on Spanish succession; sparked Franco-Prussian war (1870). and quick action mark a dramatic series of events. |
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