A Winning Death

At last Pauli Golden has found the perfect life and the perfect job. She's living in Connecticut with her lover, Chessie Anaya, and is a partner in a suburban fitness club which she manages. The tragic events in San Franciso that had turned her life upside down, seem far away. Her partners and the club members are a complex combination of health and wealth. They are medical and business professionals and community leaders. They are also personally diverse, including gays and lesbians and fundamentalist Christians who either work out professionally-many are competitive bodybuilders-or for their health including a disabled group of members. Everything is great until one day when a sick note is found just inside the front door-a threat of violence. Maybe a crack pot, Pauli thinks until more notes appear. Then one day she discovers two people dead-inside the gym. It looks like a possible murder-suicide, but Pauli has a bad feeling that appearances may be deceiving. The reasonable little community at the gym is coming apart. When violence escalates, Pauli's too-perfect job becomes a perfect horror.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

McCauley, Carole Spearin

Mystery

Hilliard & Harris Publishers

Detective-in-training Cat Caliban meets her latest client when a pilot crash-lands in the middle of a family picnic. Toots Magruder confesses her suspicions that the plane was sabotaged, and tells Cat and her partner, retired cop Moses Fogg, a story that begins during World War II, when young women with a passion for flying traveled from all over the country to Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, for the chance at the best flight training available and a coveted place in the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Those who succeeded, like Toots, flew some of the most dangerous missions of the war in every plane the Army owned, from single-engine trainers to sophisticated bombers like the Fortress and the Superfortress. Toots herself had been one of eight WASP who trained anti-aircraft gunners at Harlingen Air Base. In the final weeks before the WASP was disbanded, however, one of those eight, returning for the final graduation at Avenger, disappeared into the Texas sky and was never heard from again. Now, forty years after the women of WASP were sent home without jobs, severance pay, or veterans' benefits, two of the Harlingen Eight have died in similar accidents within days of each other, and Toots fears that a killer is at work. Protected only by an antique parachute and handicapped by a fear of flying, Cat must unravel the forty-year-old mystery before the remaining Harlingen WASP converge at the Dayton Air Show and provide the killer with a perfect opportunity to reduce their numbers to zero.

Eight Miles High

D. B. Borton

Boca News

ENJOYING THE EASY ISLAND LIFE... Lynn Woo's laid-back existence in southwest Florida's Boca Grande is shattered as she finds her friend, newspaper publisher Lester Hood, looking at the wrong end of long knife. It's wielded by an islander who is upset with the publisher over his editorials on a raging local controversy which has the governor involved. But Lynn soon discovers there's a list of islanders who have it in for Lester. ISN'T SO EASY... When Lynn and Lester narrowly escape the bombing of Lynn's boat while on a manatee survey, it becomes clear that the publisher is a target. When he falls ill and dies in the emergency room of "congestive heart failure" it doesn't pass Lynn's sniff test. She and her lover Rolf Berglund, and best friend and sheriff's deputy, Truck Kershaw, dig for the truth. WHEN SOMEONE'S TRYING KILL YOU... But Lynn's digging makes her a target which hardens her conviction that Lester did not die of natural causes. She weaves her way through a cast of colorful, tropical characters on her way to shocking discoveries of greed, lust and revenge, and a gut-wrenching, slam-bang conclusion.

BOCA NEWS

Frank, Foster

A Jimmy Choo Sandal. A Manolo Blahnik mule; a Sergio Rossi slide, a Prada sliver-heeled boot. As magic as Cinderella's glass slipper. Even when they don't fit, they can determine your life—or end it. Emily knows these things because she owns a discount shoe store on the colorful Upper West Side of Manhattan—Emily’s Place a neighborhood hangout for shoe lovers, where customers could find a sympathetic ear, a hot cup of coffee and the perfect shoe. Unfortunately, someone has decided that a sexy stiletto-heeled shoe is an excellent murder weapon. A member of the Emily’s Place “family”—the staff of women who run the store and love the shoes in it—is murdered with a red Jimmy Choo high-heeled shoe—sharp as an ice pick, the spiked heel is embedded in her head. Emily is still reeling from the shock of her friend’s murder when a bag is shoved through her mail slot containing the mate to the shoe that was the murder weapon. Emily realizes that her store and everyone connected to it is a target and that a psycho killer is stalking them all. In fact the killer seems to particularly want Emily to suffer. She insists on working with the detective assigned to the case, Paul Murphy to find the killer—and she will do whatever it takes. It’s personal.

Goodie One Shoes

Literature & Fiction

Siegel, Roz

Literary

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