Carole Nelson Douglas

Broschiertes Buch

Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit

A Midnight Louie Mystery

Beschreibung

JANET EVANOVICH calls Midnight Louie "the funniest, hairiest, hard-boiled PI on the planet" and readers are biting their nails as Carole Nelson Douglas's popular alphabetic Midnight Louie feline PI mystery series nears its end with the 27th and penultimate entry, Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit In Cat in a Zebra Zoot Suit, Louie's roommate, petite powerhouse PR freelancer Temple Barr, discovers a strip club opening in a nearby empty building threatens her elderly landlady's wedding chapel business. Electra's Lark's troubles go supernova with a murder charge for a death that echoes a bizarre slaying decades earlier. Temple and Louie must solve why a forgotten fifties night club has become a now a nexus of death and greed. Meanwhile Temple's fiancé, Matt Devine, ex-priest radio shrink, plays detective with a rough crowd getting rougher, her ex, magician-counterterrorist Max Kinsella, dodges IRA remnants in Ireland, where psychotic liar Kathleen O'Connor leads him to his cousin, presumed dead from a pub bombing years earlier. All the investigators' pasts draw them into shocking revelations and present peril. Readers have fretted on online sites for years about the "Z" book ending Louie's adventures. Not so. A final entry will follow the "Z" book: Cat in an Alphabet Endgame, coming in 2016. Even then, Vegas' hairiest sleuth (whose feline-noir voice has been compared to Hammett, Hammer, and Nathan Detroit) will not be hanging up his fedora. "So in this typically fun-filled, witty and comic Midnight Louie outing, Douglas tackles a multitude of serious and topical issues."-M0STLY MURDER on Cat in a Flamingo Fedora

Autor

From USA Today bestseller Carole Nelson Douglas in fall, 2018, comes Absinthe Without Leave, the first book in a new Midnight Louie feline PI series readers requested. Douglas writes two Las Vegas-set series: the alphabetically titled 28 Midnight Louie feline PI mysteries partially narrated by a "Sam Spade with claws", and the Delilah Street Paranormal Investigator noir urban fantasies (werewolf mobsters and Silver Screen zombies) set in a paranormal Sin City. Absinthe Without Leave combines the two series. Douglas has also written science fiction thrillers and high fantasy, historical and contemporary romance. She's the first woman author of a Sherlockian series and the first to use a female protagonist (Holmes' out-witter Irene Adler), with the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. A four-time Romance Writers Rita Award finalist in four different categories, with RT Book Reviews Career Achievement awards in Suspense, Mystery, Versatility and as a Pioneer of Publishing, and the holder of many Catwriters' Association Muse Medallions in fiction, Carole rescues cats and works at home among mannequins in vintage dress. She does a wicked Marilyn Monroe impersonation (she edited a short story collection on the iconic star), but her literary muse is definitely feline: mysterious, playful, and packing sharp shivs in velvet gloves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sam S. Douglas
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9781943175017
• ISBN-10: 1943175012
• Artikelnr.: 43823250