Whack 'N' Roll

Whack 'N' Roll
Author: Gail Oust
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101105321

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Shake, Murder, and Roll

Shake, Murder, and Roll
Author: Gail Oust
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101514647

Bunco is Kate McCall's game, not gardening. But it starts to grow on her when she's invited to Serenity Cove Estate's gardening club banquet. When renowned botanist and gardening celeb Shelia falls ill and her husband dies, the Bunco Babes have a landscape of suspects to weed through...

Ian Dury: Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll

Ian Dury: Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll
Author: Richard Balls
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2011-09-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0857126989

Here is the complete, no-holds-barred biography of the late, great self-made Essex lad himself!The abrasive Dury always met life head on, in his relationships and in his music, and this acclaimed biography does not shrink from chronicling some of his darker moments as well as his triumphs. Author Richard Bells talked to over 50 of Dury's friends as well as Dury himself shortly before his death.Dury's extraordinary life was always a battle. As a rocker, lyricist, artist and actor he was unsentimental and uncompromising. As a man he was harder to fathom - until now. In this classic rock biography, the self-styled 'diamond geezer' stands revealed as a real diamond after all.This edition is updated to cover the release of the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll, and includes original interviews with Oscar-winning actor Andy Serkis who portrayed Dury in the film.

Amped

Amped
Author: Dave Hunter
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-05-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1610585593

Guitarists love amps—really love them. Amplifiers may look dull to the rest of the world, but to guitarists they are full of mystique, romance, and rockin' sound. And while there are many strong-selling electric guitar histories available, here's the first illustrated history of the electric guitar’s best friend, the amp. World-famous guitar and amp historian Dave Hunter tells the story of 60 of the greatest amps ever built, including classics from Fender, Marshall, Vox, the bizarre EchoSonic that created Elvis' sound, and the ultimate esoteric $75,000+ Dumble amps. The story is illustrated with hundreds of technical photos, rare machines, catalogs, memorabilia, and the amps of the stars, from Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Ray Vaughan to Eric Clapton. This is a book guitarists will drool over.

Rosemary and Crime

Rosemary and Crime
Author: Gail Oust
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250011043

Piper Prescott, a transplanted Yankee living in the South, finds the grand opening of her business, a spice shop called Spice It Up!, has gone seriously awry when the local chef hired to do a cooking demo is found stabbed. Not only did Piper find the body, but she also handled the murder weapon and doesn't have an alibi. Desperate to uncover the truth and prove her own innocence, Piper enlists the help of her friend Reba Mae Johnson to find the real killer.

Whack 'n' Roll

Whack 'n' Roll
Author: Gail Oust
Publisher: Large Print Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781410419699

The sixty set at Serenity Cove Estates in South Carolina certainly knows how to keep active. When not playing bunco or putting the greens, they are gossiping - and where there's gossip, there's a party. So it's no surprise that when Kate McCall and her fellow Bunco Babes come across a dismembered arm during a golf game, the rumors - and excitement - surely follow. So they decide to roll out their own investigation.

Curried Away

Curried Away
Author: Gail Oust
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250081254

When an Indian cuisine demonstration at her spice shop is interrupted by the murder of the unpopular director of a local theater production, Piper Prescott sifts through a rash of suspects to clear the name of her accused best friend, Reba Mae.

'Til Dice Do Us Part

'Til Dice Do Us Part
Author: Gail Oust
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2010-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101186518

The Bunco Babes are a group of hip retirees who love to play bunco- and addictive game of luck. But someone's luck is about to run out... For good. When Claudia Connors returns from Vegas with a new husband, actor Lance Ledeaux, Kate McCall and the other Bunco Babes are shocked. To make matters worse, Lance has plans to direct, produce, and star in a play he has written-and he wants all the Babes to participate. When he's killed during rehearsal with a pistol, all eyes are on Claudia, who is literally holding the smoking gun. Anyone could have loaded the real bullets, but its up to Kate to prove Claudia's innocence-or her newly widowed friend will be throwing dice behind bars.