Susan Kandel signs Dial H for Hitchcock

Saturday, November 7, at 2:00 PM, dial 'E' for Event when mystery authors Susan Kandel and Diana Killian join us for a Hitchcock- inspired afternoon. Susan's mystery biographer Cece Caruso is already struggling with a number of challenges -- her Hitchcock biography is overdue, and she abruptly canceled her wedding -- when a happenstance exchange of cell phones with a strange woman leads to her hearing the woman's being murdered, and being a serious suspect in the crime. Dial H for Hitchcock was originally titled Vertigo A-Go-Go, which wouldn't pair nearly as neatly with Diana's Dial Om for Murder. The second Mantra for Murder Mystery, following Corpse Pose, finds free-lance publicist and complete Jersey girl A.H. Alexander settling into her new incarnation as the owner of her late aunt's yoga studio -- and as an amateur sleuth -- when a celebrity student is murdered, and another student is suspected of the crime. Part of our National Bookstore Day Celebration!

Dial H for Hitchcock: A Cece Caruso Mystery (Paperback)

By Susan Kandel

$13.99

ISBN-13: 9780061826672
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Published: Harper Paperbacks, 11/2009

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Cece Caruso--mystery biographer extraordinaire, vintage clothing enthusiast, and part-time sleuth--is in freefall. First, she calls off her wedding, for reasons even she can't explain. Second, her newest biography (of Alfred Hitchcock) is way past deadline.

 

So Cece puts on a houndstooth suit with peplum and heads out to see "Vertigo," only to come home with a cell phone belonging to a stranger named Anita Colby. Nothing if not a good citizen, Cece tries to return the cell phone--only to hear someone push Anita off a cliff.

 

Now a woman is dead, and Cece is under suspicion (tip: don't leave rambling, incoherent messages on someone's answering machine just before she gets murdered). To clear her name and put the real murderer in jail, Cece's going on the lam, where she'll encounter mysterious strangers, unhelpful strippers, a bottle of blond hair dye, and twists and turns so eerie it's as if Hitch himself were writing the script.

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I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason (Mass Market Paperback)

By Susan Kandel

$7.34

ISBN-13: 9780060581060
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Published: Avon, 4/2005

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"I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason" is the debut novel in a hip, sexy, smart and, yes, cozy mystery series with a great hook. Think "Sex and the City" collides with "Murder, She Wrote." All that writer Cece Caruso really wants to do is complete her biography of mystery legend Erle Stanley Gardner, find a vintage 1970s Ossie Clark gown to add to her collection, and fix the doorknob on her picturesque West Hollywood bungalow. Then a chance visit with a prison inmate who knew Gardner lands her right in the middle of a 40-year-old murder and another case where the blood is still warm. In fact, Cece finds the body. This brings her into irresistible contact with her inner personal sleuth and shows how crime and greed can reverberate through several generations of a single family.

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