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A richly detailed story that quite simply gets to your heart. Lise McClendon expertly probes the mystery of human desires and behavior with a character so real you will swear you are riding in the Packard right next to her. Dorie Lennox is a heroine that needs to stick around.
-- Michael Connelly, bestselling author
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One O'clock Jump
Segueing neatly from the ski slopes of contemporary Wyoming to the Kansas City of Count Basie... McClendon debuts an excellent historical series, with evocative period dialogue and a story line full of surprises. Layers of lies, pretext and disguise must be peeled back to solve an old mystery before thugs succeed in doing more than simply beating Dorie Lennox up. The pace accelerates rapidly, as Dorie moves from hospital to racetrack to jazz clubs, wisecracking all the way. With a blurb praising Dorie's appeal from Sue Grafton, McClendon seems well poised to make this new series a hit.
-- Publisher’s Weekly
Lise McClendon shows how versatile her talent is with a new series set in 1939 that uses period idioms and vernacular to set the tone. The complex, cleverly crafted mystery keeps reader's attention throughout the novel. Dorie is hard-boiled on the outside yet tender on the inside, as she has risen above some tough breaks in her life. A new winning series that will please historical mystery fans.
-- Harriet Klausner
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Sweet and Lowdown
In this worthy sequel to One O'Clock Jump, set in the fall of 1940, Britain stands alone against Hitler, FDR is making a bid for a third term as president and Nazi spies have infiltrated American political groups to promote isolationism. In Kansas City, PI Dorie Lennox and her partner, Amos Haddam, are tailing Thalia Hines, the wayward 21-year-old daughter of a prominent local family. (Not the least of this mystery's myriad pleasures is the author's tip of the hat to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.)
McClendon handles all the threads, using a taut, staccato style that perfectly complements her edgy, skittish heroine. The author masterfully evokes the period. This is a book to be savored; read it too fast and you might miss something.
-- Publisher’s Weekly
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One O'clock Jump
Available in these editions:
St. Martin's Press, 2001
Thalia Press, 2009
Amazon Kindle, 2010
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Sweet and Lowdown
Available in these editions:
St. Martin's Press, 2002
Thalia Press, 2010
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