Jan Burke: Sweet Dreams, Irene (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Irene Kelly is a reporter with a fierce integrity. Detective Frank Harriman is her lover and friend. Now they're both about to be plunged into political hellfire when a ruthless politician rocks a race for district attorney with a stunning allegation: his opponent's son is in the clutches of a satanic cult. The charge takes a fatal turn when a local woman is brutally murdered, and the grisly crime scene bears unholy implications. Tracking the clues takes Irene behind the closed doors of an isolated home for troubled youths, where obscuring the truth is only part of a stranger's diabolic game. To win it, Irene will have the devil to pay.

"Virtually nonstop drama. It's hard to see how Burke can top this one." -- The Drood Review of Mystery
INCLUDES EXCERPTS FROM TWO THRILLING JAN BURKE NOVELS: FLIGHT, NOW A POCKET BOOKS PAPERBACK, AND NINE, FORTHCOMING IN HARDCOVER FROM SIMON & SCHUSTER!

Jan Burke: Sweet Dreams, Irene. An Irene Kelly Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0743444523 (September, 2002), 342 p., $6.99.

Jan Burke: Sweet Dreams, Irene (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
EVEN DARK DREAMS CAN COME TRUE
Jacob Henderson, the sixteen-year-old son of an aspiring candidate for D.A., has come to Irene Kelly for help. The corrupt incumbent plans to blackmail the boy's father with incriminating photos suggesting Jacob is involved in a devil cult. But the discovery of a ritually butchered corpse suggests more to the inquisitive reporter than political dirty tricks -- dragging Irene into a real life nightmare of Satanism, mind control and murder.

"A WELCOME ADDITION... A HIGHLY READABLE MYSTERY WITH A RAPID HEARTBEAT AND A THOROUGHLY MODERN POINT OF VIEWS" -- Dallas Morning News
"SOMETHING TRULY SPECIAL... BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED... DEVILISHLY CLEVER... EXOTICALLY INTRIGUING... A THOROUGHGOING JOY... BURKE IS EXCELLENT" -- Orange County Register

Don't miss the first Irene Kelly mystery: GOODNIGHT, IRENE

Jan Burke: Sweet Dreams, Irene. An Irene Kelly Mystery. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380723506 (February, 1995), 251 p., $4.99.

Jan Burke: Sweet Dreams, Irene (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
After taking the mystery world by storm in Jan Burke's debut novel, Goodnight, Irene, intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Irene Kelly is back on her second case in this exciting new mystery series.

Instantly winning fans and critics alike, Irene Kelly is a heroine as likable as she is clever, and as unpredictable as she is hardheaded. She is a newswoman who always gets her story and who never loses her sense of humor along the way. Irene proved she had all the right stuff when she solved a decades-old murder like a master and found love on the run with detective Frank Harriman. Now, in Sweet Dreams, Irene, things are hotter than ever -- at work, with Frank, and in the murder business.

Irene's latest assignment is to cover the fierce and heated rivalry between district attorney candidates Brian Henderson and Monty Montgomery. It's a politically corrupt race that causes mayhem -- and murder -- in the ordinarily quiet beach community of Las Piernas, California. When Irene agrees to help the teenage son of Brian Henderson scotch the latest in a string of malicious smear tactics, she has no idea that the innocent favor could very well cost her her life.

Monty Montgomery is digging deeper than usual into his bag of political dirty tricks, this time using Henderson's own son to bring down his opponent. Montgomery plans to show a damning photograph suggesting that young Henderson belongs to a satanic cult with ties to the local youth center. AlthoughIrene at first dismisses the cult as "kid stuff," soon a terrifying series of events -- including murder -- convinces her there is more than child's play at work: There is a cold-blooded murderer on the loose.

Determined to discover whether the rash of treacherous "pranks" is connected to the embittered political race, Irene embarks upon an investigation that lands her directly in the killer's line of fire. When she ignores deadly threats as well as the desperate urgings of her detective-boyfriend to drop the case, she finds herself not only in harm's way but beyond the reach of any helping hands. With her detecting and survival instincts put to the ultimate test, Irene now faces the most difficult struggle of her life.

JAN BURKE lives with her husband in Seal Beach, California, where she is currently at work on her third Irene Kelly mystery.

Jan Burke: Sweet Dreams, Irene. An Irene Kelly Mystery. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 067178210X (March, 1994), 287 p., $20.00.