People in Glass Houses - Softcover

Hemlin, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345409027 ISBN 13: 9780345409027

Publisher: Fawcett, 1997

Synopsis

CANDIDATE FOR MURDER

While congressional candidate Chip Gunn sweet-talks power brokers at his Houston fund-raiser, all hell breaks loose for catering chef Neil Marshall. In the kitchen, Gunn's guard is stabbed, and Neil's assistant is found gripping a bloody knife, swearing she never used it.

But when the victim vanishes, Neil and his friends become ensnared in a lethal mystery where innocence offers no protection . . . and where people in glass houses never throw stones, but shoot to kill. . . .

"Tim Hemlin is a tremedously gifted writer, and his kitchen scenes are pure seduction."
--Martha C. Lawrence, Author of Murder in Scorpio and The Cold Heart of Capricorn

"A WELCOME NEW VOICE IN THE MYSTERY FIELD."
--Earl Emerson

About this title

From the Publisher

When friends and relatives ask me which authors we publish at Ballantine, where I am the mass market managing editor, they always want to hear the big names. They're impressed that I get to work on books by Anne Rice, Michael Crichton, Sue Grafton, Dean Koontz, Richard North Patterson, etc. While that is an impressive list (and one that I and my cohorts are immensely proud of), I always go out of my way to mention some of the authors who have not quite reached that level of fame. One of those authors is Tim Hemlin. "Tim who?" my relatives will say. And then I get to describe to them the many charms of Tim Hemlin. From his first book, IF WISHES WERE HORSES . . . to the most recent one we are working on right now (A CATERED CHRISTMAS), Tim has put together an impressive list of mysteries featuring the Jim Rockford-like amateur sleuth Neil Marshall. Neil, a poet and a chef, follows recipes for cooking (and poetry) somewhat better than he does recipes for catching criminals. It's not always pretty, but he always gets his crook, in an always entertaining manner. Neil is just a likable guy who happens to find himself in the middle of these murderous situations, and reading how he solves the crime and still gets a wonderful dinner on the table makes for enormous fun.

Mark Rifkin, Managing Editorial

About the Author

For twelve years, Tim Hemlin was a chef for a gourmet catering company in Houston, Texas. He now lives near Houston with his wife and children and teaches English in a secondary school. He is the author of If Wishes Were Horses . . .  and A Whisper of Rage.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345409027
• ISBN 13: 9780345409027
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230