Laura DiSilverio
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Swift Edge Author: Laura DiSilverio Published: December 6, 2011 by Minotaur Series Name: Swift Investigations Category: Private investigator Main Character: Charlie Swift and Gigi Goldman An Olympic ice skater hires Charlie Swift and her pampered socialite partner, Gigi Goldman, to find her missing pairs partner days before the Olympic trials. The reluctant partners make their way through a maze of international skulduggery, crime and identity theft as they track the skater, who has a history of going missing. Gigi's 14-year-old daughter Kendall, an ice skater herself, complicates the case with her crush on the missing skater and her determination to solve the case herself. Click for more info. |
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Die Buying Author: Laura DiSilverio Published: August 2, 2011 by Berkley Prime Crime Series Name: Mall Cop Mysteries Category: Traditional Main Character: EJ Ferris, Grandpa Atherton, Detective Anders Helland Emma-Joy "EJ" Ferris was a military cop until an IED in Afghanistan tore up her knee. Medically retired, she takes a job as a mall security officer at the Fernglen Galleria in Vernonville, Virginia, hoping she'll soon find a job with a police department, despite her disability. When a local developer's body turns up nude in a boutique window, EJ investigates, determined to solve the case before the supercilious police detective who clearly thinks she couldn't investigate her way out of a paper bag. With the help of her mall "family"--her friend Kyra who runs a magic shop, and young ma |
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Polished Off Author: Lila Dare Published: February 2, 2011 by Berkley Prime Crime Series Name: Southern Beauty Shop Category: Traditional Main Character: Grace and Violetta Terhune, Althea Jenkins, Special Agent John Dillon Grace Terhune and Stella Michaelson of Violetta's Salon in St. Elizabeth, Georgia, are invited to do hair and nails for the contestants in the Miss Magnolia Blossom beauty pageant. When the pageant coordinator, Audrey Faye, turns up dead with Stella's nail file through her neck, Grace must investigate to keep Stella out of jail. With the salon's seventeen-year-old shampoo girl, Rachel Whitley, competing in the pageant, and aesthetician Althea Jenkins infiltrating a group of pageant protestors, the women of Violetta's Salon are hot on the trail of another murderer... |
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