Murder Hurts

A Fiddler and Fiora Mystery Book 8

by A. E. Maxwell, Elizabeth Lowell

Two of A Kind, Inc

March 27, 2012

Available in: e-Book (reprint)

Murder Hurts
by A. E. Maxwell, Elizabeth Lowell

I keep thinking the past is dead. I keep being wrong.

Long ago I had killed one of Uncle Jake's murderers. I didn't know the second hit man's name, so I had filed it under Unfinished Business and gone on with my life.

Then someone sent me a letter with the second name in it. That was a temptation I couldn't ignore.

I was doing fine not killing Jake's second hit man until someone stole my Detonics at a fancy Hollywood party, started killing people, and framing me. It complicated my life, but it didn't make me angry.

Then a task force put Fiora in jail.

I quit being nice.

Originally published September 1993 in hardcover and February 1995 in mass market paperback.



A. E. Maxwell's Bio

Individually and with co-author/husband Evan, Ann Maxwell has written over 60 novels and one non-fiction book. There are 30 million copies of these books in print, as well as reprints in 30 foreign languages. The novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense. Writing as Ann Maxwell, she began her career in 1975 with a science fiction novel, CHANGE. Since then, seven of her nine science fiction novels have been recommended for the Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Award; A DEAD GOD DANCING was nominated for what was then called TABA (The American Book Award). In 1976 Ann and Evan (as A. E. Maxwell) collaborated with a Norwegian hunter and photographer, Ivar Ruud, on The Year-Long Day, a nonfiction work that was condensed in Reader's Digest and published in four foreign editions and three book club editions. In 1985, the first A. E. Maxwell crime novel featuring a couple called Fiddler and Fiora was published by Doubleday. THE FROG AND THE SCORPION, received a creative writing award from the University of California. The fourth book in the series, JUST ENOUGH LIGHT TO KILL, was named by Time magazine as one of the best crime novels of 1988. Ann and Evan (writing as Ann Maxwell) have published four suspense novels, the most recent of which is SHADOW AND SILK. These novels appeared on nation-wide bestseller lists. In 1982, Ann began publishing romances as Elizabeth Lowell. Under that name she has received numerous professional awards in the romance field, including a Lifetime Achievement award from the Romance Writers of America (1994). Since July of 1992, she has had 30 novels on the New York Times list.