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And All That Murder: A Casey McKie Mystery
A new mystery novel from Joan Merrill
When singer and club owner Dee Jefferson asks Casey to check into the supposed suicide of a long-time friend, Casey hesitates. She doesn’t believe he was murdered, since all signs point to suicide. But, friendship wins out, and Casey reluctantly agrees, believing it will be easy to disprove Dee’s theory. After a second body is found, Casey decides Dee is right – someone may be targeting people from the jazz community.
"Joan Merrill had me before I began reading "And All That Murder" with its sly, witty, perversely cunning title. What jazz musician has not played or appreciated the harmonic freedom of a deceptive cadence? What jazz musician does not relish being
smoothly nudged into a different key? Jazz lovers will feel that same joy as Ms Merrill craftily deflects suspicion from suspect to suspect before sounding the final chord in this swinging whodunit."
-- Harvey Siders, Jazz Times
"Imagine a setting as syncopated as San Francisco; add the lingo of hard-nosed local gendarmes. Mix both in the unpredictable environment of jazz, and you have an irresistible recipe for another exhilarating page-turner from Joan Merrill and her alter ego, Detective Casey McKie."
-- Harvey Siders, Jazz Times
"The pace is crisp, the dialogue snappy and apposite,
and the comments on jazz, the music and the people, are
insightful... Merrill writes with flair and imagination and this
book will appeal to lovers of crime fiction and to jazz fans. To
fans of both crime fiction and jazz it will be a special delight."
-- Bruce Crowther, Jazz Journal International
"Casey McKie is a smart, tough, straight-talking (and when necessary straight-shooting) PI and one of the most original characters to come along in years. The dark side of San Francisco is where Casey works. In her free time, she indulges her passion for jazz, frequenting her best friend’s jazz club in North Beach. Both these worlds, the dark and the jazzy, are brought vividly and accurately to life as Casey solves the mysteries that surround her."
-- Bruce Crowther, novelist and jazz writer
-- Bruce Crowther, Jazz Journal International
"Casey McKie is a smart, tough, straight-talking (and when necessary straight-shooting) PI and one of the most original characters to come along in years. The dark side of San Francisco is where Casey works. In her free time, she indulges her passion for jazz, frequenting her best friend’s jazz club in North Beach. Both these worlds, the dark and the jazzy, are brought vividly and accurately to life as Casey solves the mysteries that surround her."
-- Bruce Crowther, novelist and jazz writer