New Releases by Eleanor Taylor

Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland''s popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny''s past is back, looking for him, and Marti fears she knows who it might be. In the meantime, her work as a suburban Chicago homicide detective has taken her back in time in another way, to a group of children she once counseled, each now four years older and with four more year''s worth of problems. There''s LaShawna, now seventeen and with her own four-year-old daughter; Padgett, all grown up at twelve but still living with his alcoholic mother; and then Jose, fifteen, who''s in the most trouble of them all. He''s been accused of murder, but the Jose that Marti remembers could not have committed such a terrible crime. Her first step is to find out what could have happened in the past four years to lead Jose to such a desperate act, and she hopes her second step will be to prove his innocence. It won''t be easy, though; just what''s going on with this tight group of kids, and how does it relate to the increasingly foreboding sense of doom Marti gets about the mystery man who''s nosing around the remnants of her distant past? She''s not sure, but she knows she must figure it all out, and soon, before another of the children, or even Marti herself, falls into grave danger. Windy City Dying is another taut, absorbing read from one of the masters of mystery fiction.

When Grandfather bear is babysitting his two adored little grandchildren he knows that they will be as good as gold - in fact they will be no trouble at all. So Grandfather puts them to bed and settles down for a nice quiet evening.

Black, female, widowed, and relocated from Chicago to Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, homicide detective Marti MacAlister is confronted with small-town attitudes. When Marti and her partner, Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik, investigate the murder of an elderly woman at a live-in hotel, and discover two homeless children may have seen the killer, the case becomes urgent.

Poor Pig! All he wants to do is play with his friends but, being squirrels, hedgehogs, a dormouse and a tortoise, they have all gone to sleep for the winter. So Pig has the grand idea of going to sleep himself. But nothing is as easy as it seems and after devouring the contents of his fridge Pig still can''t sleep. So he decides to make himself useful instead while waiting for his friends to call round. A charming and delightful picture book about friendship and sleepless nights that will enchant readers young and old.

In Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, black policewoman Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a black woman--dead for some thirty years--whose body is discovered in an abandoned movie theater. Shortly after, the theater''s owner is murdered and MacAlister finds a connection.

A novel on child abuse featuring lady detective Marti McAllister of Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, investigating the murders of a teacher and a social worker. The cases have links to the disappearance of a girl, victim of abuse at the hands of her father.

In Eleanor Taylor Bland''s most ambitious novel to date, Illinois police detective Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a young woman whose criminal contacts may put a homeless man and Marti''s own family at risk.

In Chicago, a black woman detective starts her own probe into the death, three years earlier, of her policeman husband who was said to have committed suicide. The husband was a narcotics officer. A tale of police corruption by the author of Dead time.

Includes holographic full scores, holographic piano and choral reduction, framentary cello part, correspondence, judge''s comments.