ISBN: 0-88739-412-4
224 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 9/2002
Paperback Original
Price: $14.95
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Skullduggery
Silvia Foti
Supernatural reporter Alexandria Vikas launches a feature on the Crystal Skull, but is skeptical of its metaphysical powers - until the Chicago mayor dies in her arms. Now the prime suspect in the mayor's murder, Alex needs to clear her name, fast. Along the way she begines to suspect her own mother, discovers a cigarette selling scam that's making some city aldermen rich, stumbles into some bad shenanigans in a tortilla factory, and gets attacked by a lovelorn astrologer. Meanwhile a knockout brawl among the town's fifty aldermen erupts in downtown City Hall and Alex desperately wonders if she'll be alive for the next mayoral election. Can she unearth the connection between the Crystal Skull and the murder before it's too late?
Review: "Chicago politics and New Age hype make for an irresistable combination in Silvia Foti's fast-paced novel of mayoral murder and metaphysical mayhem."
-Eric Maisel, Ph.D., author of Write Mind and The Creativity Book
"Skullduggery by Silvia Foti brings a new novelist of real talent onto the scene. Foti combines a serious whodunit with a comic opera treatment of Chicago politics...Besides delivering many a laugh, Foti creates gripping suspense."
-Robert Gover, author of One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding
"Silvia Foti gives us an unusual and inventive tale full of slippery Chicago politicians; a female hero who's courageous, vulnerable, and oh-so-human; and a smoothly-paced plot to the end."
-David J. Walker, author of No Show of Remorse, a Malachy Foley Mystery "A highly appealing, up-front heroine and a novel look at Chicago politics make this an attractive mystery."
-Library Journal "This book is an unusual kind of suspense read, featuring a crystal skull that may have supernatural powers, Chicago-style politicians, a lovelorn astrologist, new age occultists, and plenty of humor."
-The Daily Southtown "Exceptional!"
-Public News Service
Bio: SILVIA FOTI lives less than a block away from Chicago with her husband and two children. She used her Masters degree in Journalism from Northwestern University, along with her fifteen years of experience reporting for magazines and newspapers, and transmogrified them into her first mystery novel.
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