From the American Library Association's 2004 Award Nominated Author of The Life and Deaths of Carter Falls comes the latest Claire Daniels mystery: The Massabesic Murders, set in 1935 New England. This gripping mystery serves up Nazi's, organized crime lords, drugs, guns, murder and suspense enough for the hardest of the hard-boiled reader. Once again it's Claire Daniels and her assistant Rachel Jackson (from The Life and Deaths of Carter Falls and Two's Company, Three You Die!) against secret, dark forces. On a lonely, snow covered city street in Manchester, NH, Claire and her cousin, Federal Agent Danny St. Claire, are viciously gunned down. Danny is killed and she is forced to unravel the mystery of cryptic clues he left for her before she joins the dead. If this were a movie it would be black and white. If you love Chandler, Spillane, Hammett, and Gardner, you'll love this historical mystery.
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Claire Daniels is back in another novel teamed with her best friend Rachel Jackson. The tall, leggy redhead with her ebony-hued friend beside her has set the mystery world abuzz with her first two adventures, The Life and Deaths of Carter Falls, nominated for the American Library Association’s Stonewall Award in Fiction for 2004, and the sequel, Two’s Company, Three You Die! This time she must deal with the Nazis and organized crime in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Someone has killed her cousin, FBI Special Agent Danny St. Claire, and has left her for dead. Now, with three scars across her chest as a reminder of that snowy night she and her household staff – Rachel, Penny (the longhaired cook with aquiline eyes) and her driver Chris – must solve the clues left to her by Danny and a dead Union Leader reporter. From the beer hall Putsch meetings of Dugmar Country Club to the Capital Building in Concord, New Hampshire, the action rises until the reader is pulled along in the current of murder and intrigue.
This book has something for everyone: fashion, murder, suspense, fast cars, guns, mobsters, and the National Socialist Party. Just when you thought there were no more writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, along comes Gypsey Teague who will rip away the color from the page and take you back to those pre-war days when guns ruled and cars roared.
Readers of the Claire Daniels series will flock to this new addition to their library, and others who are looking for a quality period mystery will discover a new friend. Young, old, male, female, black, white: there is no demographic that this novel won’t please with suspense throughout the novel until the epilogue.
About the Author
Gypsey was born and raised in the house she so favorably writes about. She graduated from Memorial High School, Plymouth State College, and then she joined the Army. She holds the rank of Captain in the Military Intelligence Branch and served as Chief to the All Source Intelligence Center, Korea.
Her first novel, The Life and Deaths of Carter Falls, was a nominee for the American Library Association 2004 Stonewall Award in Fiction
Her graduate degrees are in Business Administration, Landscape Architecture, Regional and City Planning, and Library Sciences. For fun, she is is a Professor of Business at a local University where she also directs the branch library. She also she rebuilds British sports cars and golfs. Ms. Teague shares her life with a spouse, also a librarian, and two cats.
"I have been a fortune hunter, military officer, teacher, adventurer, waitress, and steel worker." She said recently in an interview. "All these things have gone into my books. To read anything of mine is to get a look into my life."
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