{"product_id":"9781568250779","title":"DEM Bones' Revenge: A Tracy Eaton Mystery","description":"When the cops catch mystery writer Tracy Eaton's mom, Hollywood legend   Martha Collins, alone with the bloody remains of celebrity litigant Vince   Sperry — holding nothing but a lame excuse — Tracy leaps to her mother's   defense, despite her own publication woes. \u003cp\u003e       Only Martha seems determined to impede Tracy's attempts to clear her.   That just convinces Tracy her mom has pulled a doozy this time, even if Tracy   can't see how anything Martha does relates to Sperry's murder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e       Not that other suspects don't abound — but those scare Tracy even more.   Was Martha right, had Tracy's stuffy lawyer husband, Drew, settled his   career-making lawsuit with a bullet? Or did her dad, aging Hollywood   heartthrob Alec Grainger, decide to end an old feud once and for all? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e       All roads seem to lead to the past, to one Hollywood scandal after   another. Will Tracy's digging clear Martha's past and free her future? Or   will she unearth something that's sure to slam the cell door shut on her   exasperating, but much-loved mother?  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKris Neri's first Tracy Eaton Mystery, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen, has   been nominated for Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel.   Neri, a Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA member, has combined her acting   background with her love of mystery fiction to create a ground-breaking new   chapter in the evolving L.A. Detective Story that began with Raymond   Chandler. Her humorous mystery novels, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen and Dem   Bones' Revenge, feature Tracy Eaton — mystery writer, detective wannabe and   the offspring of eccentric Hollywood stars — a heroine as impulsive,   energetic and imaginative as the city that shaped her. The quintessential   industry brat, Tracy is both a product of her background and its most droll   critic. \u003cp\u003e       Geraldine Gallentree has written of Revenge of the Gypsy Queen in her   Cozies, Capers \u0026amp; Crimes newsletter, \"This was a book I kept trying to cast as   a movie. What potential this would have on the big screen. Imagine Marisa   Tomei as the errant bride who's actually named Marisa and Alec Baldwin as   Tracy Eaton's rock solid, blue-blood husband, Drew. What fun! Rush to your   local bookstore and demand they order Revenge of the Gypsy Queen by Kris   Neri.\" Orange County bestselling author, Jan Burke, has described it as, \"I   Love Lucy meets Murder She Wrote.\" L.A. mystery novelist Dale Furutani has   called it, \"A great read.\" And The Charlotte Austin Review describes the   ending of Revenge of the Gypsy Queen as \"ingenious and unpredictable . . .   needs to be read in one sitting. Don't miss it.\" Tracy Eaton was introduced   in Neri's humorous Derringer Award winning story, \"L.A. Justice\" (Murder by   Thirteen). She's made two new short story appearances in \"L.A. Memorial\"   (Dead on Arrival\/Gerstenberg, Germany) and \"Beverly Hills Halloween\"   (Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e       Neri has published more than forty short stories in such publications as   Woman's World, TheCase.com, Blue Murder Magazine, Murderous Intent Mystery   Magazine, Mystery Time, Crimestalker Casebook and many others. Her story,   \"Capital Justice,\" which took a dark, edgy look at the convoluted path   justice must sometime follow in the City of the Angels, also won a Derringer   Award for Best Short Story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e       An L.A.-area resident since 1978, Kris Neri has spoken before many local   and national audiences. She's appeared on Larry Mantle's \"Airtalk\" on KPCC-FM   radio, and has been interviewed on CNBC-TV. The former president of the Los   Angeles chapter of Sisters in Crime, she is also a member of the SoCal   chapter of Mystery Writers of America. She teaches crime writing at various   Southland campuses.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rainbow Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049660858608,"sku":"9781568250779","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781568250779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}