RED-BLOODED LUST LEADS TO COLD-BLOODED MURDER

IN THE SECOND BOOK OF NEW MYSTERY TRILOGY!

 

By Critically Acclaimed Author and Law Professor 

Laura Caldwell

 

RED BLOODED MURDER

July 2009

 

An Izzy McNeil Mystery

 

 

“Red Blooded Murder Aims for the sweet spot between tough and tender, between thrills andthought – and hits the bull’s-eye. A terrific novel.”

–Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author

 

 

RED BLOODED MURDER (MIRA Books, July 2008, $7.99 U.S./$8.99 CAN.) is the second book in a new back-to-back-to-back trilogy from critically acclaimed author Laura Caldwell that includes RED HOT LIES (June 2009) and  RED, WHITE & DEAD (August 2009).

 

Chicago is the Windy City, and these days the winds of change are whipping Izzy McNeil’s life all over the map. A high-profile job on Trial TV lands her in the hot seat. After a shocking end to her engagement, she finds herself juggling not only her ex-fiancé, but a guy she never expected.  And a moonlighting undercover gig has her digging deep into worlds she barely knew existed.But all of this takes a backseat when Izzy’s friend winds up brutally murdered.  Suddenly, Izzy must balance the demands of a voracious media and the knowledge that she didn’t know her friend as well as she thought.

 

As a Chicago resident and former trial attorney Caldwell brings her vast knowledge of the city’s unique character and the legal system to the pages of her mystery trilogy that is gaining wide acclaim and praise.  In describing the trilogy debut, RED HOT LIES, Publishers Weekly said “Former trial attorney Laura Caldwell launches a mystery series that weaves the emotional appeal of her chick lit titles with the blinding speed of her thrillers…(a) headlong chase…readers will be left looking forward to another heart-pounding ride on Izzy’s silver Vespa.”

 

RED BLOODED MURDER is available July 1 wherever books are sold and at www.MIRABooks.com.

RED BLOODED MURDER

LAURA CALDWELL

$7.99 U.S./$8.99 CAN.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2658-8 

 

 

 

 

PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF LAURA CALDWELL:

 

Red Hot Lies                                                                                                                                

“Red Hot Lies is a wonderfully plotted story, smoothly crafted, filled with striking characters and great narrative.  Caldwell slips seamlessly between voices to deliver an emotional roller coaster of a thriller.  A legal lioness – Caldwell has written a gripping edge-of-the-seat thriller that will not disappoint.”

–Steve Martini, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow of Power and Compelling Evidence

“Laura Caldwell writes remarkable, sexy, razor-edged thrillers that race to the finish and yet always make you stop to think. Chicago is brilliantly illuminated in Red Hot Lies, a book bursting with scandals and secrets. The Izzy McNeil trilogy [is] a riveting must-read.”

 –David Ellis, Edgar Award winning author of Line of Vision and Eye of the Beholder

“Caldwell’s writing is always smart, sassy, and sexy, with more suspense than a celebrity murder trial. In Red Hot Lies, her prose burns up the page, and you’ll be still reading waaaaay past your bedtime. Highly recommended!”

 – JA Konrath, author of the Lt. Jacqueline Daniels thrillers

 

Red Blooded Murder

“Take Izzy McNeil to bed tonight.  You won’t get much sleep, but you’ll spend tomorrow smiling.  At once a novel of sexual politics and an intricate thriller, Red Blooded is smoking hot and impossible to put down.”

– Marcus Sakey, author of Good People and The Blade Itself

 

“This is a Red Blooded thriller that keeps you turning the pages. But there’s more –  the wonderful surprise is that these characters will matter to you. You feel for them and fear for them and that’s a serious achievement. Caldwell’s writing is at the top of her game and just about everyone else’s in this compelling novel that I dare you to put down!”

– International Bestseller, M.J. Rose, author of The Memoirist

 

 

“Laura Caldwell’s Red Blooded is a smart, stylish, and sexy thriller. Picking up in Chicago where Sex and the City left off in New York, the series features a fearless but appealing protagonist who will earn your respect as well as your heart. Caldwell’s smooth prose sparkles with wit and sophistication.”

- Libby Fischer Hellmann, author of Easy Innocence and the Ellie Foreman series

 

 

The Good Liar

“Laura Caldwell’s The Good Liar strikes like an assassin’s bullet:  sudden, swift, precise, deadly.  Here is a taut international thriller certain to keep readers breathless and awake until the wee hours of the morning.  Not to be missed.”

– New York Times bestselling author, James Rollins

 

“In the field of mystery, women are excelling in all branches of the genre, from forensics to private eyes to kick-ass heroines to police procedurals.  But we haven’t had a top notch female thriller writer.  Until now.  Laura Caldwell’s, The Good Liar is a massive achievement, in one novel, launching a woman right up there with the top thriller writers around.”

–International bestselling author, Ken Bruen

 

“Red Hot. Laura Caldwell’s latest is an international thriller that just may put her in position to compete with the big boys… A good read, with interesting characters and short, fast-paced chapters that keep the action moving.  Caldwell writes with as much authority in the Vietnam chapters as she does in the Chicago chapters.”

-Chicago Sun-Times 

 

The Rome Affair

 “This is [Caldwell’s] most exciting book yet, with a plot that begins with an extramarital affair and develops into a tale of betrayal that makes an affair seem like the least of one’s worries. It’s a summer must-read.”  

–Chicago Sun-Times 

Look Closely                                                                                                                      

“Riveting.  Laura Caldwell has weaved a haunting story of suspense and family secrets.  If you pick up Look Closely, you won’t want to put it down.”                                                                     

–New York Times bestselling author, Mary Jane Clark

The Night I Got Lucky

“Caldwell is one of the most talented and inventive…writers around, and her latest features a likable heroine in an unusual situation and ends with a clever resolution.”

–Booklist 

The Year of Living Famously

“Caldwell’s snazzy, gripping third novel gives readers an exciting taste of life in the fast lane, exposing the truth behind the fairy tale.”

–Booklist 

A Clean Slate

“A Clean Slate is Laura Caldwell’s page-turner about a woman with a chance to reinvent herself, something most of us have imagined from time to time.”

–Chicago Tribune 

Burning the Map

“This debut novel from Laura Caldwell won us over with its exotic locales (Rome and Greece), strong portrayal of the bonds between girlfriends, cast of sexy foreign guys and, most of all, its touching story of a young woman at a crossroads in her life.”  

–Barnes & Noble.com on Burning the Map, selected as one of “The Best of 2002”