High Rhymes and Misdemeanors: A Poetic Death Mystery (Poetic Death Mysteries)

Overview: Multi-published Diana Killian is the author of the critically praised Poetic Death series featuring the adventures of an American teacher and her ex-jewel thief boyboyfriend in the English Lake District. In Spring 2008, CORPSE POSE, the first book in the new yoga-themed Mantra for Murder series made its debut from Berkeley Prime Crime. Diana is the recipient of a Mystery Writers of America grant, and can be found blogging weekly on the notorious Good Girls Kill For Money Club. Can a love of dead poets save her from following in their footsteps? While visiting her favorite poets' old haunts in England's Lake District, Grace Hollister, an American schoolteacher and literary scholar, stumbles upon the body of Peter Fox face down in a stream. Thankfully, the dashing local antiques dealer is not dead -- but after saving his life Grace soon finds herself pursued by two menacing thugs who are after the gewgaws Peter is hiding. Problem is, Peter doesn't have any gewgaws. He doesn't even know what gewgaws are. But he and Grace soon discover they've got something to do with Lord Byron?and someone's willing to kill for them. As Peter's dark past is gradually revealed, his knowledge of vice coupled with Grace's love of verse lead them straight into the heart of a caper of the highest order -- one that might lead to a spectacular literary discovery and poetic justice for all. A Selection of the Mystery Guild