Jane Haddam Books

True Believers by Jane Haddam

Early one morning at St. Anselm's church in Philadelphia, a parishioner sneaks the body of his wife into the sacristy and then commits suicide. The husband, known to be devoted to his wife, is presumed to have killed himself out of grief. His wife, a severe diabetic, is assumed to have died of natural causes - until the corner discovers that she actually died of arsenic poisoning. The police close the murder case, believing that the husband was clearly responsible, but one of the nuns at St. Anselm's doesn't accept the prevailing wisdom. Sure that the husband is innocent, she asks Gregor Demarkian, the retired head of the FBI's Behaviorial Science Unit, to investigate.
With tensions mounting among the city's religious groups, agitated by outside extremists, Demarkian's investigation is made difficult by the environment. Bennis Hannaford, an acclaimed author and Demarkian's lover, is undergoing a crisis of her own while the many and various denizen's of Cavanaugh Street - their Armenian-American neighborhood - are involved in various uproars of their own. But at the base of everything is a mysteriously murdered young woman and the most perplexing case yet for Gregor Demarkian.

 

Skeleton Key by Jane Haddam

When writer and ex-deb Bennis Hannaford discovers the body of super-heiress Kayla Anson in the family garage, her visit to Litchfield County, Connecticut, is reluctantly extended. Bennis's hostess, Margaret Anson, presents an icy version of the grieving mother, cut out of her late husband's will-until now. And when Gregor Demarkian, ex-FBI man and Bennis's lover, arrives from Philadelphia to consult with local police, a media blitz storms in as more suspects crawl out of the woods. Kayla may have been too blindingly rich for her wild, private school chum; her older, socially ambitious entrepreneur boyfriend; and a divorced, downsized bookkeeper selling her furniture to survive. As Gregor maps out distances, locations, and motives, Halloween descends on the dark, silent hills. From a skeleton sprawled on the cemetery caretakers' porch to more deadly mischief and mayhem, the countryside is brimming with secrets. And a killer is about to strike again...

 

Wicked, Loving Murder by Orania Papazoglou, Jane Haddam

McKenna knew the score when she went to work for Writing magazine. There would always be people who couldn't write but wanted to be writers. There would always be people with get-rich-quick fantasies looking to produce the next sex-and-sin bestseller. She fully expected to uncover skeletons in closets. Instead, on her very first day, she found an entire body. Join McKenna, former romance novelist turned true-crime writer, as she once again turns reluctant sleuth in this mystery that presents a picture of one corner of the publishing world.

 

Sweet, Savage Death by Jane Haddam, Orania Papazoglou

Murder, mayhem, and other unladylike behavior erupt at the Third Annual Conference of American Writers of Romance where author Patience McKenna finds herself caught in an intrigue that would horrify her most devoted readers. Complete with a crime-solving cat, this Edgar-nominated whodunit is a clever behind-the-scenes look at the romance business-authors, agents, editors, publishers, and fans.

 

Death's Savage Passion by Jane Haddam, Jane Haddam writing as Orania Papazoglou

Midlist mystery and romance writers are outraged when quite a few romance authors, in a declining market for their own genre, turn to the new hybrid of Romantic Suspense-a move that takes the New York literary world by storm and sends mystery and romance sales plummeting. Is this grounds for murder? When the newly minted romantic suspense writer Verna Train lands on the subway tracks just ahead of the Lexington Avenue Local, Patience McKenna, romance novelist-turned-true crime writer, is in the ideal field to investigate.

 

Deadly Beloved by Jane Haddam


Down the aisle--to death
Armies on the eve of invasion could learn a thing or two about preparation from the denizens of Cavanaugh Street, who never do anything halfway. This time it's a wedding that's taking over the collective consciousness of the street...and bringing up painful memories for Gregor Demarkian. So when he's consulted on a murder in exclusive Fox Run Hill, the ex-FBI special agent is grateful for the diversion.
Why did country-club matron Patsy MacLaren Willis coldly shoot her husband in his sleep? Why did she remove every trace of her existence from the home they'd shared, pipe bomb her own car--and then disappear? The police think it's another marriage gone bad, but Demarkian thinks there's more to the case. And it soon looks like he's right: a second pipe bomb explodes, with devastating results, and Gregor knows that he must find a killer wedded to an explosive secret--before more victims take that final walk down the aisle.
Summary
Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is sent to investigate Patsy Willis, whose wealthy husband was shot in his sleep. But in the gated hamlet of Fox Run Hill, it seems that every wife has a motive for killing her spouse--except Patsy Willis. Then an explosion rocks Fox Run Hill, and Demarkian must unmask a killer at once--before death causes another couple to part.

 

About the Author
Jane Haddam (the pen name of Orania Papazoglou) has written over 20 mysteries and is a regular contributor to magazines such as Ladies Home Journal, Family Circle, and Parents.



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