Slugfest

A Dirty Business Mystery

Dirty Business Mysteries (Volume 4)

Rosemary Harris

Minotaur Books

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Anthony and Agatha Award-nominated Rosemary Harris is back with her fourth Dirty Business mystery, Slugfest, set at a legendary Northeast flower show where more than the plants are dying.

When Paula Holliday agrees to act as exhibit manager for a reclusive artist she’s expecting a laidback weekend picking up gardening tips. She doesn’t expect to be knee-deep in horticultural sabotage, beheaded gnomes, homicide, and something called The Javits Curse. Then an overeager attendee is found floating in the river and Paula realizes she accidentally holds a clue to his murder—that’s when the garden gloves come off and this flower show turns into a real Slugfest!

      This time out Paula is joined by a colorful cast that includes Rolanda “Fort” Knox, a no-nonsense security guard; Guy Anzalone, Brooklyn's Tumbled Stone King; Jamal Harrington, a high school kid with a black belt and a green thumb; JC Kaufman, a feisty lady who hates leaving home without her weapon of choice; and a slick marketing guy hawking the hottest new product at the show, a foolproof pest repellant that people are dying to get their hands on. 

            With limited means and her ragtag crew, Paula must solve her toughest mystery yet and root out a killer before she finds herself pushing up daisies.

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When I was eight, I was convinced I could disappear. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. It wasn’t as if I saw dead people or thought I could beam myself to another planet. I did it all the time. Grown-ups and teachers would smile and glide past me to torture another poor kid who hadn’t cultivated this valuable skill.
It had been years since I’d thought about this long-neglected talent, but I prayed it was like riding a bicycle as I crouched in a shed, hoping the person who’d already killed two people would not see me or the women I was hiding.

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“Harris’ writing is sharp and funny. Slugfest is an absolute treat.”—RT Book Review (4 ½ stars)

“Lively . . . The New York City locale makes for a refreshing, if temporary, change of scene from rural Connecticut in a series sure to appeal to fans of Susan Wittig Albert.”—Publishers Weekly

“Hilarious.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Slugfest is a knockout! Witty and hilarious, wry and wise, this smart and sophisticated mystery combines quirky characters, clever dialogue and a page-turner of a plot. I loved it!”—Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha-, Anthony-, and Macavity-award winning author of Prime Time

“Delightful . . . Harris works in what is called the ‘cozy’ genre of crime books . . .  but her novels are so sophisticated and are put together so beautifully that she shouldn’t be lumped with all of those books that read like spin-offs of Murder, She Wrote. . . . The protagonist’s observations of the life going on around her are as entertaining as the amateur crime solving she gets sucked into. . . . The plot is laid out smoothly and compellingly but the real fun in Slugfest derives from the eccentric (and sinister) characters Paula meets . . . [Slugfest] deserves a spot near the top of any mystery reader’s warm weather book pile.”—Joe Myers, CTNews.com

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Read the Kirkus Review of SLUGFEST . The owner of a Connecticut nursery finds mayhem in the marigolds when she attends New York's premier flower show.
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Rosemary Harris

Rosemary Harris was born in Brooklyn and has been a bookstore manager, a video producer, and a television executive. She is a past-president of Sisters in Crime, New England, and current vice-president of Mystery Writers of America, New York. She and her husband split their time between New York City and Fairfield County, Connecticut, where she is a master gardener. The previous three Dirty Business mysteries, Pushing Up Daisies, The Big Dirt Nap, and Dead Head, were also published by Minotaur Books. Visit her Web site at www.rosemaryharris.com and her blog at www.jungleredwriters.com.

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Slugfest
A Dirty Business Mystery
Dirty Business Mysteries (Volume 4)
Rosemary Harris

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St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
April 2011
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ISBN: 9780312569969
ISBN10: 0312569963
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 288 pages
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