num_pages: 294
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.  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.  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?  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?ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Kris 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.  Geraldine Gallentree has written of Revenge of the Gypsy Queen in her Cozies, Capers &amp; 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).  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.  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.
title: Dem Bones' Revenge
titlecomplete: Dem Bones' Revenge (Tracy Eaton Mysteries #2)
characters: Uncle Philly, Martha Collins, Drew Eaton, Charlotte Eaton, Vince Sperry, Carolyn, Tracy Eaton, Alec Grainger
genres: Cozy Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 54
series: Tracy Eaton
publisher: Rainbow Books