"Clever, good-humored, and sharply observed." The Philadelphia Inquirer "Witty.…Quirky characters.…Another gem." The Orlando Sentinel "A thoroughly entertaining mystery that also provides some red-hot sexual tension." New York Times Bestselling Author Jane Heller

Cross Your Heart And Hope To Die
Nancy Martin

It’s a Tempest in a C-Cup!
Because murder is busting out all over…

Combine “great clothes, great mystery, [and] great fun” (Jennifer Crusie) and you get this “smart and sophisticated series” (Jane Heller) featuring a trio of hot-blooded bluebloods with a manor-born flair for fashion… and for solving crimes.

Things are going great for the Blackbirds. Columnist Nora is still dating mobster’s son Michael Abruzzo, Emma’s recovering nicely in a clinic for the rich and infamous, and Libby’s pleased about her new career with Potions and Passions, a company that keeps its customers very satisfied. Best of all, nobody in Nora’s vicinity has been knocked off lately.

Nora’s next journalistic assignment: cover the unveiling of the most miraculous bra in fashion history. But before Nora can hand in her uplifting story, her boss is discovered shot execution-style and trussed up in expensive panty hose—an Abruzzo family trademark.

Now it’s up to Nora to find the killer before her innocent lover takes the rap. That means shadowing the most glamorous suspects in Philadelphia—including a bad-boy designer, a former child star, a neurotic neat freak, a high-strung ad exec, and a pair of luscious twin models on the rise. Though Nora’s accustomed to “murder with style,”* cross your fingers for the Blackbird sisters, because this time, high society has never seemed so low-down dirty.

*Pittsburgh Magazine

"Nora Blackbird has humor, haute couture, and sexual heat, and Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die has me hooked on the Blackbird sisters." —Harley Jane Kozak, author of Dating Dead Men and Dating is Murder

(A Blackbird Sisters Mystery)
NAL, March 2005
272 pages ISBN: 0451213955
Hardcover
$19.95