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Amberleigh
Amberleigh's father died leaving her penniless and forced to become a governess to a wealthy family in America. When she received a strange letter from the step-mother of her school friend, Elaine, she immediately moved to Carnhaven, the family's estate in Ireland. What she discovered, after the damage was done, was a cleverly woven trap, and old family secrets she really didn't want to know. Meanwhile, she befriended the Irish patriot Devlin Quade, whic...
Castle Rouge
Doherty, Sep 2002, 25.95, 544 pp. ISBN: 031286941X Sleuth Irene Adler is stunned that the man she thought might be Jack the Ripper escaped from his prison asylum and concludes that that he will kill again. Irene caught him before and feels obligated to do so again though she knows how dangerous that mission is. However, the cat and mouse game takes quite a few twists even before it starts. First someone abducts her companion Nell Huxleigh. ...
Cat In A Leopard Spot
Forge, Apr 2001, 24,95, 384 pp. ISBN: 031285370X One year has passed since freelance Las Vegas publicist Temple Barr and black alley cat Midnight Louie found each other. Temple also got back with her boyfriend Max Kinsella, a counter terrorist agent with many more enemies than friends. During Max's absence, Temple made a friend in former priest Matt Devine, a virgin. This quartet is linked, and like it or not, are forced to work together ...
Cat In A Midnight Choir
Forge, May 2002, 24.95, 336 pp. ISBN 0312857977 There are a lot of unsolved crimes in Las Vegas, many of them involving ex-magician Max Kinsella since some of the victims were magicians or their assistants. There is also a rash of attacks and killings of strippers, one of whom was last seen with the mysterious Max. All of the above is too much coincidence for Lieutenant Carmen Molina to dismiss. She goes undercover to try and ferret ...

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Cat In A Neon Nightmare
Forge, May 2003, 24.95, 384 pp. ISBN 0765306808 Las Vegas public relations expert Temple Barr has been involved in several recent homicide investigations. Helping her besides her feline bodyguard Louie is her lover Max Kinsella (a magician and part-time counter terrorist operative) and ex-priest Matthew Devine. Matt has also been stalked and threatened by Kathleen O'Connor an IRA agent, who wants his virginity in exchange for leaving him and th...
Cat in an Orange Twist
Forge, August 2004, 24.95, 398 pp. ISBN 076530681 Life has been quiet for public relation specialist Temple Barr for the last few weeks. She has not been involved in any homicide investigations and Max Kinsella disappeared from her life again. She is unaware that the former magician is working with his former mentor Gary Gandalf in order to infiltrate the Synth, a cabal of magicians with a secret agenda which threatens world peace. Temple is...
Chapel Noir
Forge, Oct 2001, 25.95, 480 pp. ISBN: 0312854935 In 1889 American Irene Adler Norton resides in Paris with her beloved British husband Godfrey. At first the social swirl provides Irene with much distraction, but that quickly turns boring for the only known female to outwit and out-deduce the great Sherlock Holmes. Thus, when the police, acting at the direction of a higher up, ask her to assist with the inquiries into the murders of pr...
Femme Fatale
Forge, Sep 2003, 25.95, 544 pp. ISBN: 0765306824 In 1889 New York based journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane better known as Nellie Bly sends a wire to England to American expatriate and pal Irene Adler Norton. Nellie insists that someone wants to kill Irene's mother. Though having some doubts, Irene worked the Ripper case with Nellie who has some credibility with her. So she and her companion, Nell Huxleigh, head back to her hometown in the sta...
Six Of Swords
Irissa, a young witch, finds herself abandoned by her people, and stranded on a dying planet with a young resentful knight, and a sarcastic old cat (who is magical, of course!). As she searches for a gate to the world her people have escaped to, she learns to control the magic inside of her, and at the same time "coming into her own" as a woman. As she and the knight learn to trust each other, they soon realize there are few others to depend on. In th...
Spider Dance
Forge, Dec 2004, 24.95, 384 pp. ISBN: 0765306832 In August 18899 at the Green-wood cemetery in Brooklyn, Irene Adler Norton and her companion Nell Huxleigh look at the gravesite that might be the last resting place of Adler's mother. Out of nowhere, Sherlock Holmes appears and directs them to the grave of Eliza Gilbert. Both females assume that Gilbert is most likely Irene's biological mother who gave her up at birth. Further research reveals ...