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Author Chassie West
photo by Amy Jones Photography
Dear friends,
Welcome to my website. Feel free to browse around for a spell and check out the latest news about my books and adventures.
BarK M for Murder is out the end of February. Hope you enjoy this collection of mysteries with a canine edge.
Thanks for all your letters and emails about the reissue of my Leigh Ann Warren books. I am very excited to have them back in print with beautiful new covers.
Chassie |
Member of
Sisters in Crime,
Mystery Writers of America,
International Thriller Writers,
American Crime Writers League,
Novelists Inc.,
Authors Guild and
Black Americans in Publishing. |
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Bark M for Murder
Now in stores
Who let the dogs out?
Evildoers beware! In Bark M for Murder, four of mystery fiction’s top storytellers are setting the hounds on your trail – in an incomparable quartet of crime stories with a canine edge. Man’s (and woman’s) best friends take the lead in this phenomenal collection of tales tense and surprising, humorous and thrilling: New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s spellbinding saga of a scam-busting septuagenarian and her two golden retrievers; Anthony Award winner Virginia Lanier’s pureblood thriller featuring bloodhounds and bloody murder; Edgar® and Anthony nominee Chassie West’s suspenseful stunner about a life-saving German shepherd and a ghostly forgotten crime; and rising star Lee Charles Kelly’s edge-of-your-seat yarn that pits an ex-cop/kennel owner and a yappy toy poodle against a craven killer... (Read more about Chassie's story)
Bark M for Murder will be an April Mystery Guild Alternate Selection. |
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Killer Chameleon
by Chassie West
Harper Torch, October 2004
Former D.C. cop Leigh Ann Warren is starting a new job and looking forward to a blissful wedded life. But someone is not willing to let her escape so easily -- a lethal adversary with a grudge who's determined to make Leigh Ann pay ... and keep paying.
What begins as a series of petty harassments quickly escalates into more serious crimes, as a stranger driven by hate and unburdened by conscience steals Leigh Ann's identity to threaten her extended family. And when her invisible enemy graduates to murder, Leigh Ann realizes that there's only one way to take back her life and stop the terror: She must beat a killer at her own twisted game.
Read an excerpt
Reviews |
"Chassie West creates characters so warm, wonderful, and delightfully quirky they jump right off the page." Janet Evanovich
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Those looking for cozier fare are well-advised to look more locally. Columbia-based Chassie West's series starring ex-D.C. cop Leigh Ann Warren has been showered with award nominations for good reason: The books are infused with warmth, lively characters you'd want to meet and an unhurried pace. The long-awaited fourth entry, Killer Chameleon (HarperTorch, 368 pages, $6.99), has all of those traits, as well as one of the most unhinged psychos in recent memory, whose goal is to stalk Leigh Ann, derail her wedding plans and destroy her life - and possibly kill her. West has stated in interviews that she finds plotting to be "as hard as pulling an impacted wisdom tooth" but there's no evidence of any difficulty here.
Sarah Weinman, The Baltimore Sun, Sunday, December 26, 2004 |
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NEWS |
February 24, 2007 7-11 PM Evening in the Stacks at Howard County Library 6600 Cradlerock Way Columbia, MD 21045 Tickets $100 Proceeds benefit the education and literary programs of Howard County Library. $45 of each ticket is a tax-deductible contribution to Howard County Library For information: www.hclibrary.org
07.28.06--Read an online interview from the Murderati blog with Chassie |
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Now back in print
Those looking for cozier fare are well-advised to look more locally. Columbia-based Chassie West's series starring ex-D.C. cop Leigh Ann Warren has been showered with award nominations for good reason: The books are infused with warmth, lively characters you'd want to meet and an unhurried pace. The long-awaited fourth entry, Killer Chameleon (HarperTorch, 368 pages, $6.99), has all of those traits, as well as one of the most unhinged psychos in recent memory, whose goal is to stalk Leigh Ann, derail her wedding plans and destroy her life - and possibly kill her. West has stated in interviews that she finds plotting to be "as hard as pulling an impacted wisdom tooth" but there's no evidence of any difficulty here.
Sarah Weinman, The Baltimore Sun, Sunday, December 26, 2004 |
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