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DUCK THE HALLS
ANDREWS, DONNA
The brilliantly funny and talented Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed
series that mystery readers have come to love. A few nights before Christmas, Meg is awakened when
Michael is summoned to the New Life Baptist Church, where someone has rigged a cage full of skunks in
the choir loft. The lengthy process of de-skunking the church requires its annual pre-Christmas concert to
relocate to Trinity Episcopal, where Mother insists the show must go on, despite the budget-related
protests of Mr. Otis, an elderly vestryman. Meanwhile, when Meg helps her grandfather take the skunks
to the zoo, they discover that his boa has been stolen—only to turn up later during the concert
slithering out from the ribbon-bedecked evergreens. It’s clear that some serious holiday pranksters are on
the loose, and Meg is determined to find them. But before she can, a fire breaks out at Trinity, and Mr.
Otis is discovered dead. Could this be a bit of nasty revenge from the now deposed Pruitt family? Or
harassment from the Evil Lender? As Meg searches for answers she also races to finish all of her
Christmas shopping, wrapping, cooking, caroling, and decorating in time to make the season jolly for
Michael and the twins.
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 50,000
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
288 PAGES
9781250028778 SERIES: MEG LANSLOW
$28.99 HC
OCTOBER 2013
DUST
CORNWELL, PATRICIA
After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she’s recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The
body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field.
The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way
that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination in the sea of red mud where
the body has been left also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and
sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington,
D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital
Murderer. The cases all connect and yet seem to conflict. Gail Shipman was murdered for financial gain—
or was she? It will require the usual ensemble of characters to find out the truth, including Scarpetta's
sidekick Pete Marino, who has undergone a drastic change in his life that places him center stage in a
Cambridge investigation that puts everyone at risk.
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 1,000,000
PUTNAM
480 PAGES
9780399157578 SERIES: KAY SCARPETTA
$31.00 HC
NOVEMBER 2013
AUDIO DISC:
9781611761979 ($42.00)