RED, WHITE & DEAD

August 2009
An Izzy McNeil Mystery
“A few short months before, I’d juggled three men in my life, and then suddenly there were none. Today, one was staging a comeback, and I wasn’t sure what to do about that. In the meantime I was free to date whoever I wanted. Even a ranking member of the mafia as part of a part-time job.”RED WHITE & DEAD (MIRA Books, August 2008, $7.99 U.S./$8.99 CAN.) is the final 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 BLOODED MURDER (July 2009).Izzy McNeil is hot on the trail of one of Chicago’s most notorious gangsters. Not that he realizes the crimson-tressed enchantress, a self-proclaimed “lapsed lawyer,” is moonlighting as a private investigator. But when an unexpected run-in trashes Izzy’s cover, she’s swept into an evil underworld where she is definitely not safe. That is until Izzy receives help from an unlikely source: the ultimate guardian angel. And the last person she ever dreamed she’d see again. Now Izzy is racing from Chicago to Rome, all the while battling personal demons, Mafiosi killers and red-hot emergency desires.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 continues to gain wide acclaim. In describing the trilogy debut, RED HOT LIES, Publishes Weekly said “Former trial attorney Laura Caldwell launches a mystery series that weaves the emotional appeal of her chic 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 WHITE & DEAD is available August 1st wherever books are sold and at www.MIRABooks.com.

RED WHITE & DEADLAURA CALDWELL$7.99 U.S./$8.99 CAN.ISBN-13: 978-0-7783-2666-3