New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell has more than
eighty titles published to date with over twenty-four million
copies of her books in print. She lives in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains with her husband, with whom she writes novels under a
pseudonym. Her favorite activity is exploring the Western United
States to find the landscapes that speak to her soul and inspire
her writing.
Maria Tucci began her career in the original production of
Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. She
won a Tony(R) nomination for her work in The Rose Tattoo, has
starred on Broadway and off-Broadway, and in such films as Sweet
Nothing and To Die For.
Of course Carly runs into deadly secrets when she is hired to draw up a family history for New Mexico's super-rich governor. With a one-day laydown. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Ann Maxwell has written over 60 books in multiple genres; as Elizabeth Lowell (Die in Plain Sight), she creates dialogue with immediacy and emotional coloration that sets her apart from the romantic suspense pack. Her 10th outing as Lowell begins with the tidy murder of "The Senator," the ill and infirm patriarch of a prominent Taos, N.Mex., clan. Carly May, a genealogist/historical researcher, is commissioned to write a family history by a disgruntled family member who hopes she'll dig up dirt. As Carly's research starts in earnest, she meets, among the Senator's many legitimate and illegitimate children, Dan Duran, a former CIA-like operative who, she finds out (but the reader knows all along), is the Senator's illegitimate grandson. Carly gets dire threats, she and Dan get close, and more people die. By combining new techniques of DNA testing with old-fashioned research and detective work (lots of appealing New Mexican history comes into play), Carly and Dan finally discover the truth about the family. But readers will care less about that than about their many charming exchanges, which Lowell crafts with sophistication and a sense of play. Quality and quantity may not be mutually exclusive after all. (July 1) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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