Private investigator Kat Colorado, still coping with the death of her fiancé, agrees to investigate when the wife of an abusive police officer asks for her help and later disappears.

Detective Kat Colorado is hired by a corporate whistle-blower for protection and learns some lethal lessons about love and vengeance. By the author of Copy Kat. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

She's a hard-boiled Sacramento P.I. with a soft spot for the unlucky, the unloved, and one special cop named Hank. Her name is Kat Colorado and in her line of business curiosity can be mre than an occupational hazard -- it can be murder. She said her name was Paige Morrell and she came to Kat Colorado hoping to untangle the twisted mystery of her past. She was a twenty-one-year-old "orphan," a poor little rich girl on the verge of inheriting a weathy old river estate -- and some very nasty surprises. But when Kat set out to solve the case, she found herself following a thread of lies, greed and deceit that led straight to the corpse of a key source to Paige's past. Now the Sacramento private eye was about to learn that in the California Delta some family secrets were better left buried . . .because uncovering them could be murder.

Scat, a stray cat, has a difficult life. It is hard for Scat to find food, shelter and love. Scat's hardships are compared to a variety of other cats, all who have homes.

Waltz of the Psychotics deals with the power struggle between two unhinged symphonic musicians. Amarah Zarcy is a fledgling violist in the Baton Rouge Symphony. The principal of her section, Reba Kane takes an immediate disliking to homely and timid new musician. As Reba plots to remove her nemesis from the ensemble, Amarah fights back in the only way she can. With the help of her twin sister, Celeste, Amarah cleverly deceives everyone around her to keep her coveted orchestra job. This epic battle of wills quickly escalates out of control, to the point of no return. As both Amarah and Reba’s realities slowly fade away, all-consuming insanity rapidly takes over, much to the demise of all who become involved with the pair. Waltz of the Psychotics dances into the murky and turbid recesses of the demented and brainsick mind. I promise, once you start reading this book, you will not want to put it down.

Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder? Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors. Some--such as P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Sherlock Holmes, and Kinsey Millhone--appear in individual entries. Still more keep company in articles about characters we admire, such as the Clerical Sleuth, and in pieces about those we love to hate, including the Femme Fatale and Con Artist. There is even an article on a figure that haunts so many great works of mystery--The Corpse. Drawing on the Edgar Award-nominated volume The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, Herbert adds 101 new entries on the hottest new names in works ranging from puzzling whodunits to chilling crime novels.

Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).