Hello Houston

Last weekend, you read about the release of Diane Fanning's new book, PUNISH THE DEED. If you live in the Houston area, next weekend is your opportunity to meet the author and ask questions about her Lucinda Pierce mystery series.

Join Diane for her booksigning event at Murder by the Book, 2342 Bissonnet, in Houston, Texas, this coming Saturday, April 4 at 4:30pm.

PUNISH THE DEED--because no good deed goes unpunished.

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Punish the Deed

Homicide Detective Lucinda Pierce is back in PUNISH THE DEED by Diane Fanning.

The mutilated body of children’s charity worker Sharon Fleming is found sprawling on the office kitchen’s floor. A note beside her body bears the words: “I was left behind.”

Lucinda must track down this violent killer before he leaves another victim behind. She finds help from the most unlikely source. But is the price too high to pay? You can read the first chapter on Diane’s Web site.

Diane’s Calendar has a list of interviews and booksignings including stops in Williamsburg, Virginia; and in Houston, San Antonio, and Austin, Texas.

The Lucinda Pierce series began with THE TROPHY EXCHANGE—now it continues.

PUNISH THE DEED. Because no good deed goes unpunished.

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The Trophy Exchange

by Diane Fanning

Spending dozens of hours talking with a serial killer has a permanent impact. The experience often pops up in your mind at predictable, as well as, quite unlikely and inappropriate times.

So, of course, when I sat down to write my first police procedural, I just had to put a serial killer in it. Nonetheless, that is not the character in the book that fascinates me the most.

Lieutenant Lucinda Pierce, Homicide Detective, is my real focus. Life's been rough for her lately. She lost an eye and disfigured her face responding to a domestic violence call. She accidentally killed a small child in the middle of a shoot-out with his father.

Now she's up against a serial killer and her main suspect is a highly respected doctor known for his international relief work.

It's a good thing Lucinda doesn't mind bending the rules.

In a starred review, Kirkus wrote: "Fanning has produced an exciting, emotionally intense story with a complex heroine whose future adventures will be widely anticipated."

Library Journal "highly recommended" THE TROPHY EXCHANGE calling it a "near-perfect police procedural." And Booklist chimed in, too: "Fanning's true-crime experience gives the story added verisimilitude and she has made great strides in tightening her storytelling. She is one to watch." Verisimilitude? Now, that's a word you don't see in a sentence too often.

The first chapter is posted on my website so that you can sample the book.

I have a signing in Houston at Murder By the Book on Thursday, August 7 at 6:30pm. Check the calendar on my website for other signings in San Antonio, Austin and Round Rock.

So hurry up and read it. The next Lucinda book is already at the publisher. PUNISH THE DEED is scheduled for release in the UK in December and in the US in March 2009.

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