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A Conspiracy of Strangers [Deb Ralston Series Book 2]
by Lee Martin
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Detective Deb Ralston's chance discovery of a dead woman, nine months pregnant, in a ditch leads her into a morass of kidnapping and murder in which she has to fight for her own life and for her son's life as well. (Published: 1985)
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A Corpse in the Soup
by Morgan St. James, Phyllice Bradner
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Identical twin sisters Goldie and Godiva take a wild and funny romp through the glitzy world of TV chefs--in search of a killer. When Godiva Olivia DuBois, a.k.a. G.O.D.--an advice columnist from Beverly Hills--takes her niece Chili to a taping of the TV cooking show Flirting with Food she's selected from the audience as a food taster--and winds up in the hospital with food poisoning. Chili's mother, Goldie Silver, an 'aging hippie' living in Alaska, already sensed trouble through a psychic bond... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 74914 - Reading Time: 214-299 min.
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A Cry For Self-Help
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this eighth mystery in the series. ("A cultural anthropologist of the laughing gas variety."--Don Herron, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN.) In A CRY FOR SELF-HELP, Kate Jasper and her sweetie take the plunge and join a Wedding Ritual Class, hoping to find inspiration for their own possible nuptials. On a field trip to observe a scuba-diving marriage ceremony, Sam Skyler, the man who has become a living legend as... more info>> (Published: 1997)
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A Dark Night
by Christen Davis
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Two small town friends, Kyra and Sam find themselves lost in the middle of the night. A spur of the moment decision to explore a deserted road turns into their worst nightmare. Sam disappears. Kyra comes face to face with evil. A vampire. Will she escape? Or is her fate sealed?
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A Deal On A Handshake [Jeff McQuede Mysteries]
by Vickie Britton, Loretta Jackson
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In these seven mysteries, Sheriff Jeff McQuede finds himself in the middle of a deal made on a handshake--where the result is murder. Set in the high country of modern-day Wyoming, the deal makers are speculators at an old-time mountain man rendezvous, traders vying over rare Indian pots, or two family patriarchs pretending to bridge a lifetime of feuding. Throughout the book McQuede battles his arch-enemy Ruger, who runs a host of illegal activities, but generally manages to evade McQuede's tra... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 60794 - Reading Time: 173-243 min.
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A Death in Texas
by Lisa Rene' Smith
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Welcome to the second annual mystery anthology by The Final Twist, a Houston, Texas based writers group. Sample an assortment of unique stories set in cities and towns throughout the Lone Star State. Some characters reappear from the first anthology, Dead and Breakfast, also set in Texas. Other short stories are adapted from the authors' novels, such as Men in Jeans, where Pauline Baird Jones brings in elements from her award-winning novel The Key. Enjoy your taste of Texas terror - Pushing up B... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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A Death of Leisure
by Marthanne Shubert
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Calvin Kahanamoku is a college football star on a scholarship, young and good looking. So when aging but still lovely--and rich--Helen Palmgren offers him bed and board for Spring Break, he can't resist. Their idyll ends when he discovers her dead in her boudoir and finds himself the most likely suspect. Calvin calls on P.I. Gin Ritchy to find the real killer and clear his name. When Gin starts digging into Helen's past, she finds too many well kept secrets, including a murder that no one but H... more info>> (Published: 2012)
Words: 64151 - Reading Time: 183-256 min.
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A Fatal Flaw
by Margaret Blake
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"She needed to find out about the man her mother shot, but dare she let the cop help her?" Kerensa travels from Cornwall to Florida. She needs to discover the truth of the dark secret her mother's death revealed. Ned Rochester wants to help but his interference brings danger to her door. Why can't she find any record of Jason Campbell? A novel of suspense and danger and love! (Published: 2010)
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A Father's Ghost
by Robert H. Cherny
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The geeky young owner of a small Boston electronics store who has his life turned upside down when he visits a woman's apartment down the hall from his own in search of food for a stray kitten he has just picked up. The woman's sister embroils him in a vendetta against her father's hate crime murderers and drafts him into her small task force using social networking tools and the Internet to track and trap a serial rapist who targets single mothers with small children. Some things are what they... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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A Fiery Secret
by Diane Craver
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While investigative reporter Catherine Steel looks for Mr. Right, she tries to learn if someone murdered the janitor from her old high school. Catherine Steel is an investigative reporter for a newspaper in Ohio. To supplement her income so that she can buy clothes and gifts for her small godchild, she writes fluff pieces for women's magazines. Two recent articles are: "What To Wear to Get Noticed" and "Catherine's Ten Simple Dating Rules." When Jake Michaels fills a sports editor's spot on t... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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A Ghost from the Shadows [Book 2: Shannon Delaney Paranormal Mystery Series]
by Elizabeth Eagan-Cox
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Talented publicity writer Shannon Delaney rebounds from a failed romance and takes refuge in an assignment at 1920's-era Magic Manor Dinner Theater on California's Catalina Island, Avalon resort. Assured of quiet surroundings as the only lodger at the renovation-in-process Magic Manor, Shannon soon discovers she is not alone! Portentous events, haunting clues and spectral visitations draw Shannon into separate, yet interwoven, mysteries: The hunt for nineteenth-century pirate treasure, and a dec... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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A Ghost of a Chance [Shannon Delaney Series Book 1]
by Elizabeth Eagan-Cox
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Shannon Delaney's writing assignment in San Diego opens new doors for her young career. She has no idea that her temporary home, the Victorian-era Blackthorne House mansion is a portal to a century-old mystery. On her first night a ghostly encounter entagles her in the spectral mission of the mansion's original owner-Eric Blackthorne, master magician. Complicating matters is Alex Blackthorne, handsome and charming descendent of the ghostly magician. Also, there's Zach Zavala, who has guy-next-do... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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A Ghost to Die For: Shannon Delaney Paranormal Mystery Series, Vol. 5
by Elizabeth Eagan-Cox
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by Elizabeth Eagan-Cox Shannon Delaney Paranormal Mystery Series, Vol. 5 Halloween night, 2012. Mount Esperanza Memorial Park, San Diego. Shannon Delaney and Alex Blackthorne accept assignment to guard the grave of Andalyn Dixon, who died on her twenty-first birthday, October 31st, 1892, before she could prove her innocence in one of San Diego's most notorious bank scandals, October Hoax of 1891. Legend says, Andalyn was scared to death, by a ghost. And now, by request of Mt. Esperanza Restora... more info>> (Published: 2012)
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A Gross Carriage of Justice
by Robert Fish
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Another installment into the Murder League, this time ex-detectives Carruthers, Simpson, and Briggs fall prey to inept kidnappers Clarence Alexander and Harold Nishbagel. Of course, the situation is quickly overturned and the captives bring the kidnappers to their knees. It's time for a new brand of justice as these three older Britons take the law into their own hands. (Published: 1979)
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A Horse To Die For
by Carolyn Banks
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Who's beating a dead horse? Certainly not die-hard horse aficionado Robin Vaughan. She would never lay a hand on any four-legged creature, least of all the magnificent horse her friend Lola had just received as a Christmas gift. But Robin suspects that beautiful Noel isn't quite the horse he seems. For one thing, he killed his last owner. For another, he bears an uncanny resemblance to a horse called Wickie, who haunts Robin's past and whom she knows to be dead. In fact, she'd swear that Noel is... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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A is for Apple [Sophie Green Mysteries, Book Three]
by Kate Johnson
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Growing up can be murder. Book 3 of the Sophie Green Mysteries. Cosmos, gays and guns--it's murder on a girl's love life. Cosmically inept spy Sophie Green is dispatched to the Big Apple on the trail of an invisible man. What she finds is an artist, a conspiracy and some very large men with guns. Meanwhile, her gorgeous partner, Luke, is getting worryingly intimate. Could it really be time for him to meet her parents? Sophie, spy extraordinaire, isn't overwhelmed just yet. Until she's inform... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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A Jolly Good fellow
by Stephen V. Masse
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Two different worlds collide one Christmas when a sidewalk Santa becomes a kidnapper, and life will never be the same for Duncan Wagner, who has a foolproof plan to kidnap Gabriel Booker, the eleven-year-old son of State Representative Winthrop Booker. But the plan goes awry from the start when the boy runs away from his own home, straight into Duncan's car. And Duncan's problems don't end there, as the ransom deal goes sour. Duncan soons finds that Gabriel is a runaway with problems of his own.... more info>> (Published: 2008) Independent Publisher Award Winner
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A Kind of Justice
by Judith R. Parker
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A KIND OF JUSTICE is an anthology of mystery, suspense and horror that takes the reader from Southern California to the Caribbean, from Tennessee to Mexico and points in between. Justice can have many faces. (Published: 2000) EPIC eBook Award Finalist
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A Knife in My Back [An Amy Brewster Mystery]
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
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The first outing of Amelia Winslow Brewster ("Amy" to her friends), the elephantine, cigar-smoking, blue-blooded genius of a detective, finds her in a battle of wits with an unknown killer who has neatly framed her nephew. You'll howl with delight as the icon-toppling Amy tackles stuffed-shirts, law enforcement, gargantuan gourmet meals and crime with equal aplomb. Another rollicking Amy Brewster classic from the glory days of the 1940s. Legendary detective-novelist Sam Merwin, Jr.'s A Knife in ... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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A Little Murder
by Cindy Davis
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A Lake Winnipesaukee fishing excursion turns deadly--then Angie discovers becoming a murder suspect is only the beginning of her troubles? When a fishing trip hooks more than a few trout, ER nurse Angie Deacon and her husband find themselves unexpected suspects in a murder investigation. Who amongst the other five aboard Little One could have had a vendetta against the boat's owner--especially one strong enough to see Nolan Little dead? Will Angie live to regret her decision to aid Nolan's aggri... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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A Man of His Word
by Kenneth L. Levinson
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As Denver lawyer Adam Larsen and his legal assistant enter a wealthy client's mansion for an evening appointment, they are literally blown off their feet. The bomb in her private bathroom killed her instantly--and leaves Adam wondering why she wanted so urgently to meet with him. Known to her many enemies as The Empress, mining magnate Helen Emerson had been in the midst of a bitter dispute with a coal miners union, and now her children persuade Adam to fight their battle for them. He soon finds... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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A Matter of Policy [An Amy Brewster Mystery]
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
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Another rollicking Amy Brewster mystery from the glory days of the 1940s. Meet Amelia Winslow Brewster ("Amy" to her friends), the elephantine, cigar-smoking, blue-blooded genius of a detective, finds her in a battle of wits with an unknown killer who has neatly framed her nephew. You'll howl with delight as the icon-toppling Amy tackles stuffed-shirts, law enforcement, gargantuan gourmet meals and crime with equal aplomb. A Matter of Policy is an enthralling read that begins when a young friend... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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A Murderer Among Us
by Marilyn Levinson
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The envelope contained half a dozen photographs. Lydia stifled a gasp as she stared at more than she'd ever hoped to see of Viv Maguire. A shawl had been draped over one shoulder, discretely hiding her bulging middle and considerable thighs, while displaying one drooping breast. The smile, no doubt meant to be enticing, had a gruesome intensity that sent shivers down Lydia's back. Lydia shoved the photos back into the envelope and returned it to its hiding place amid the napery in the drawer... more info>> (Published: 2011)
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A Page From The Past
by Cindy Davis
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The first warning is swift and to the point, but bookstore owners Glenn and Lindsay Reade don't 'get it' until their lives are threatened a second time. All they've done is read a young girl's diary and attempt to locate the owner. Just because the journal describes the girl's rape and subsequent murder of the rapist is no reason for anyone to want them dead, is it? The book is obviously more than forty years old. Who in the tiny Berkshire town of Paris, Massachusetts could still care? But someo... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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A Parasol in a Hurricane
by James Greer
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What would you risk to keep a promise to someone you hardly knew? Your job, your marriage.... Your life? Parasol in a Hurricane poses that question to a young policewoman and dares her to choose. Karen O'Neil is a California girl with a domineering husband, ripped from a sun-drenched, stimulating life as a San Diego cop and spirited away to the isolation of rural Wisconsin. Talented, attractive and intense, she is cut off from everything she knows except how to be a police officer. She works for... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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