New Releases by Carole Nelson Douglas

A Midnight Louie mystery.

Irene Adler--the American diva who is the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes--her barrister husband Godfrey Norton, and their companion, Nell Huxleigh, come home to Paris. But rest is fleeting, for Irene is approached by a royal princess who is faced with a loveless husband--and a puzzling dilemma that could destroy several European nations. Original.

When an escapee from a lunatic asylum masquerades as Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler fear that the Ripper will soon carve another bloody trail.

In Cat in a Midnight Choir, the fourteenth Midnight Louie Mystery, both feline and human evil-doers and crime-solvers work overtime to make Las Vegas the Capital of Noir Suspense. This time our feisty black cat detective is hunting a mysterious and possibly murderous organization of renegade magicians called the Synth, which has been making Las Vegas too hot to hold for some of Louie's human friends, particularly ex-magician Max Kinsella. Louie's on the case . . . but the trick may be on him this time. And just to make things interesting, while Louie and his furred cohorts battle black magic, both human and not-so-human, Louie's cherished roommate, plucky PR freelancer Temple Barr, is investigating the murderous side of the Synth despite the intense discouragement of female homicide lieutenant C. R. Molina. Molina herself is secretly moonlighting as an undercover operative to nail the killer of a sad, young stripper, and the search has boiled down to two suspects: Temple's current significant other, Max Kinsella, and Molina's long-gone ex-lover, Raf Nadir. Unfortunately, proving either man guilty will seriously impact the lives of Molina and her daughter, Mariah. As Louie and his human friends sink deeper into a lose-lose situation of crime and punishment, there doesn't seem to be any way out of this escalating crisis, except another murder. Can Louie solve some nagging past mysteries, find out just what some mad magicians have in store and stop the stripper killer before he claims another victim? And what will Louie do if he finds that the killer is someone Louie knows . . . and likes? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Before Caleb Carr and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a compelling look into Victoriana with a bold new detective character: Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. An operatic diva and the intellectual equal of most of the men she encounters, Irene is as much at home with disguises and a revolver as with high society and haute couture. Chapel Noir is the fifth book in Carole Nelson Douglas's critically acclaimed Irene Adler series, which reinvents "the woman" that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced in "A Scandal in Bohemia" as the heroine of her own extravagant adventures. This time readers are thrust into one of the darkest periods of criminal fact and fiction when two courtesans are found brutally slaughtered in the lavish boudoir of a Paris house. No woman should ever see such horrors, authorities declare, but a powerful sponsor has insisted that Irene investigate the case, along with her faithful companion, sheltered parson's daughter Penelope Huxleigh. But does anyone really seek the truth, or do they wish only to bury it with the dead women--for there is a worse horror that will draw Irene and her archrival, Sherlock Holmes, into a duel of wits with a fiendish opponent. These Paris killings mimic a series of gruesome murders that terrorized London only months before, in a dangerous and disreputable part of town known as Whitechapel . . .

The purring P.I. is back with his human partner, Templeton Barr, and her significant other, Max Kinsella. While in Las Vegas, Louie follows a Siamese cat to the world''s largest science fiction convention that''s filled with characters and fans in costume. When a prominent player is killed, not only is the method of death perplexing, but the suspects are in a cast of thousands.

A Purrfect Mystery: Midnight Louie Returns to Save a Fellow Feline in Las Vegas! In Carole Nelson Douglas's Cat in a Leopard Spot, Midnight Louie, the lovable and feisty feline sleuth, returns once again to delight his legions of fans. This time, not only does Louie have to bail out his favorite investigative partner, public relations woman Temple Barr, but he also has to save a fellow feline from a charge of Murder One. The stakes are high when a big-game hunter is found dead with only a leopard named Osiris for company. Osiris, a performing Big Cat, was kidnapped from his magician owner just days before the murder. As Louie and Temple investigate, they encounter a cast of colorful characters: a woman surgically altered to resemble a Big Cat, Las Vegas high-rollers illegally hunting big game at the victim's ranch, and ardent animal rights protesters secretly staking out the premises, determined to stop the killing at any cost. With suspense, humor, and a touch of feline charm, Cat in a Leopard Spot delivers a purrfect cozy mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Midnight Louie, feline detective, and his human partner, Temple Barr, take on a mysterious case involving death threats, ghosts, and the King himself--Elvis Presley.

Pistol-packing poker queen Jill O'Rourke is an Annie Oakley at nailing targets or cards. She needs to be sharp at both, since she secretly supports her desert-rat grandfather and his cronies on her poker winnings -- a dangerous profession for a young, pint-sized woman in Las Vegas. Stardusted balladeer Johnny Diamond finds himself a prisoner of fame when a stalker threatens him. Love and death are in the cards, but the jet-black feline house detective known as Midnight Louie sees all, knows all, and gets his paws into the action.

A tourist named Gayle meets up with a mysterious stranger named Solitaire who is a baccarat referee at the Crystal Phoenix Hotel in Las Vegas. But soon they are sent to the surrounding desert area by a pair of hit men and fight for survival.

Las Vegas feline sleuth Midnight Louie witnesses the appearance of a corpse in the pools around the Oasis Hotel, a dead man with ties to both boyfriends of his redheaded, high-heeled human companion, Temple Barr.

Midnight Louie, a tomcat sleuth, and his human companion Temple Barr head for the Big Apple to celebrate Christmas but they find murder mixed in with their merriment.

Midnight Louie, the crime-fighting cat, and his human partner, Temple Barr, become embroiled in the murder of comic actor Darren Cooke when they set out to find a killer.

A Midnight Louie mystery.

Five yuletide romances about divine intervention include Mary Balogh''s "Guarded by Angels," Marilyn Campbell''s "The Trouble With Angelina," Carole Nelson Douglas''s "Catch a Falling Angel," Emma Merritt''s "Brush of Angel Wings," and Patricia Rice''s "Tin Angel." Original.

Midnight Louie and his human companion, Temple Barr try to discover who is trying to wreck the annual las Vegas cat show, and prevent mass cat murder.

As public relations woman Temple Barr tracks a killer at a striptease convention, Midnight Louie, Temple's cat, tries to prevent fading film star Savannah Ashleigh and her purebred Persian from becoming the next victims.

Irene Adler, the sexy counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, confronts the King of Bohemia, her former lover and the one man who had nearly destroyed her, and turns to her sleuthing friends for help when the case becomes more than elementary. 12,500 first printing.

In the sequel to Cup of Clay, Alison Carver, holder of the fabled Cup of Clay, is forced to leave the safety of Minnesota and enter the enchanted land of Veil. Reprint. AB. PW.

Irene Adler searches the countries of Europe for the mysterious Englishman Quentin and to save Dr. Watson from danger.

Eager to save her lost brother, iron-willed Miranda Hathaway becomes a swashbuckling buccaneer and follows the strange course set by the mysterious Dutchman, a mystical sea captain. Original.

Sherlock Holmes' female counterpart, Irene Adler, is in Paris reading her own obituaries when a drowned sailor, recently fished from the Seine and who bears a mysterious tattoo, draws her into a new adventure

Free-lance public relations expert Temple Barr teams up with Midnight Louie, the sleuthing tomcat, to investigate the murder of a publisher at the Las Vegas ABA and the kidnapping of Baker & Taylor's feline corporate mascots from their ABA booth.

An unusual cupid--a huge stray tomcat called Midnight Louie--comes to the aid of two very different couples at the Crystal Phoenix, a Las Vegas hotel

Jane Doe, a probe sent by aliens to explore Earth, is under the watchful eye of Dr. Kevin Blake, government forces and others who would kill to get her secrets or to bury them

Liz Jordan, daughter of a newspaper editor, works her way up from reporter to national television journalist.

Here is a special re-release of Probe, the bestselling saga of a young alien woman sent to Earth with a mission and her befriended psychiatrist who seeks to help this mysterious, lost creature.