Diane Vallere

The Kidd Stays in the Picture

Samantha Kidd Omnibus #2

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

More crimes! More fashion! More Samantha Kidd! Samantha Kidd Omnibus #2 includes books 4-6 in this humorous mystery series. SOME LIKE IT HAUTE: If you can't stand the heat, get off the runway. Fashion expert turned amateur sleuth Samantha Kidd is in the hot seat. After agreeing to help her ex-boyfriend's former girlfriend with a runway show, her post-break-up life turns explosive. She recruits Dante, a smokin' hot photographer, to turn up the heat on the investigation (and help her get over Nick), but even the third degree won't expose an angry arsonist. With a crash course in sizzle, Samantha's curiosity leads her into another inferno, and this time she either faces the fire or gets burned. GRAND THEFT RETRO: Samantha Kidd is about to go retro. When Samantha Kidd's job at Retrofit Magazine leads her into the fashionable archives of seventies style, she's prepared to report on patchwork velvet and platform shoes, but she never expected to uncover the theft of a major collection of samples from runway shows that took place before disco died. When the guilty party threatens Samantha's family and friends, her priority shift into protection mode. The investigation heats up faster than fondue over sterno, and all too soon Samantha learns that while beat goes on, there's no guarantee that she'll go on with it. PEARLS GONE WILD: Nacre bleu! Amateur sleuth Samantha Kidd's life is finally on track. It's her normally cultured friend Cat whose life has lost its luster: eight months pregnant and abandoned by her husband the week before Christmas. She ropes Samantha into helping at her boutique, but a string of jewelry thefts threatens her business. And when Cat's husband is found strangled with pearls inside the shop, the last thing she's concerned with is profit. Samantha tries to get a bead on the killer, but when the suspects all clam up, she's left tangled in knots. Add in an unexpected proposal, a flirtatious friend, and a brand new detective, and this is bound to be Samantha's wildest adventure yet.

Produktdetails

• Samantha Kidd Omnibus Nr.2
• Verlag: Polyester Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 974g
• ISBN-13: 9781939197764
• ISBN-10: 1939197767
• Artikelnr.: 68332851

Autorenporträt

Diane Vallere is a mystery writer with over twenty-five titles to her name. Both her Material Witness Mysteries and Costume Shop Mysteries (published by Penguin Random House) were national bestsellers and Lefty-Award nominees (best humorous mystery). She also writes the Madison Night Mad for Mod Mystery Series for Henery Press, and under her independent label, Polyester Press, publishes the Samantha Kidd Style & Error, Sylvia Stryker Space Case, and Mermaid Cozy Mystery series. She has contributed short stories to several anthologies, most recently MURDER-A-GO-GO's: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of the Go-Gos (Down & Out Books). Diane served as president of both local (Los Angeles) and national boards of Sisters in Crime and remains an active member. As her legacy project for the organization, she is currently editing PROMOPHOBIA, a collection of essays on promotion for writers, to be published by Wildside Press in 2020. She has attended Malice Domestic Mystery Convention, Bouchercon, Left Coast Crime, and New England Crime Bake and has served as co-chair of California Crime Writers Conference. She has an active newsletter following of 8K subscribers and maintains a social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. She is the creative director of Weekly DiVa, which started as her weekly newsletter and has expanded to encourage and inspire personal growth among women over forty.