Start: 09/25/2010 2:00 pm
Wendy Hornsby, the Edgar Award-winning author of the Maggie MacGowen mysteries, returned to the mystery community after a 12 year absence with last year’s In the Guise of Mercy . Fortunately readers do not have to wait another 12 years for her new novel, The Paramour’s Daughter , or to visit with Wendy, returning on Saturday, September 25, at 2:00 PM. When a strange woman accosts Maggie and claims to be a long lost relative, bearing an inheritance, Maggie dismisses her claim, as many of us would. But after the woman is murdered, Maggie discovers she is telling the truth, and the path to her newly found family with all its entanglements leads to Normandy. One can take a behind the scenes look at “The Research: Eating and Drinking My Way across Normandy,” on Wendy’s website.
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ISBN-13: 9781564744968
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Published: Perseverance Press, 9/2010
Did you ever, maybe in a dark moment or during a financial pinch, fantasize about suddenly learning that someone you never knew existed has died and left you an inheritance? Be careful what you wish for. When a stranger claims to be filmmaker Maggie MacGowen’s relative, Maggie assumes the woman is what the LAPD calls a fifty-one-fifty, just plain crazy. But when the woman is murdered, Maggie discovers that she was telling the truth. Maggie takes the woman’s ashes home to Normandy, France, to an extended family she did not know existed, all of whom have “expectations” for their share of an inheritance that is tangled in a complex weave of family history, issues, desires, legalities, and for some desperation in a collapsed economy. If the elders of this apparently genteel family did not hesitate to slit the throats of German occupiers to save their estate during the last war, to what lengths will their heirs go to claim their birthright?
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ISBN-13: 9781564744821
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Published: Perseverance Press, 9/2009
A decade has passed since filmmaker Maggie MacGowen’s last investigation in the pages of Hornsby’s award-winning noir series. Gritty and streetwise, yet compassionate, these mysteries appeal to America’s current fascination with realistic crime stories. Maggie MacGowen has taken on many tough assignments over the years. However, when she discovers a note from her newly dead husband, Detective Mike Flint, urging her to take a fresh look at a decade-old unsolved case of a boy who went missing, she isn’t sure that she’s up to the challenge. But how does one say no to a dead man? Maggie seeks information from anyone who has a connection: a spoiled cop, an ex-con taxi dancer, the dead youth’s gang set—the hookers, the cons, the addicts, the homeless and the hopeless—and the good and decent people among them who remain the foundation of a community always in transition, always under siege. The answers Maggie discovers aren’t what she expects, nor is the sometimes deadly opposition from all sides.
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