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61) Betting Blind
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For Lennox Cooper, helping out a friend means gambling with her life. In the rainy city of Portland, Matilda Bauer has been blackmailing her parole officer, Fulin Chen. Just when Fulin's ready to come clean, Matilda disappears. Bad news for Fulin, because once Matilda is arrested for breaking parole she'll show the photos she has on him and end his career. Fulin turns to his longtime friend and poker buddy, Lennox Cooper, P.I., to help him find the...
62) Windy City
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The River Front: Introduces Alex as Cincinnati's first Black female detective.
The Girl on the Grill: About the murder of a young woman by a local drug distributor.
Missing: Alex solves a fifteen year old abduction cold case
Maggot: Alex's work has a Mexican Drug cartel boss attacking her.
Racist: Alex is targeted to be killed by a racist.
Votive Candles: A local priest gives Alex a new perspective of crime.
Windy City: Alex is hired to root...
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What do you do when you can't remember something your hometown can't forget? The Killer in Kynance Cove mystery has been solved, but haunted by the aftermath, DI Rachel Morrison is in need of a change of scene. After accepting a secondment from Cornwall to a brand new Task Force in Liverpool, she gets stuck in immediately clearing the Missing Person's cases that have been cluttering up the Reactive Crime Unit's archives. One day, a new, mysterious...
64) Eye of the Storm
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Appleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta. Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards. Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast. Summoned by her eccentric younger sister, San Francisco's number one PI Sharon McCone arrives in the teeth...
65) Racist
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The River Front: Introduces Alex as Cincinnati's first Black female detective.
The Girl on the Grill: Deals with the murder of a young woman by a local drug distributor.
Missing: Alex solves a fifteen year old abduction cold case
Maggot: Alex's work with the DEA has a Mexican Drug cartel boss attacking her.
Racist: Alex is targeted to be killed by a racist.
Votive Candles: A local priest and his licentious behavior give Alex a new perspective...
66) Catechisms
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Detective Paige McGraw is waiting for something to go her way for once. After letting a suspect slip through her fingers, her career is now in shambles. Stuck working in the shadow of the brash new homicide inspector on the force, Clarissa Wright, she hopes to redeem herself by catching a good case or bringing her slippery fugitive to heel.
When a defrocked priest is found horribly murdered and mutilated, it may be just the right investigation...
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What would life be like if we could manifest anything we wanted? When the Universe Called shows us the infinite possibilities of the universe, when we tap into our innate inner guidance system and harness the power of the Law of Attraction. In Maggie Denhearns compelling debut novel, corporate corruption and conspiracy theory meet metaphysics and romance, over endless cups of tea. The lines of reality start to curve as she takes us through the twists...
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Intrigue lurks everywhere - even at Diamond Head, one of the world's most beautiful places.
Ten talented people dedicated to the preservation of the Hawaiian Islands gather on the summit of the volcanic crater in Oahu for a filmmaking project. But two of the men suddenly vanish after they clash on the clifftop.
Due to highly suspicious past events, sleuth Pari Malik fears the worst. One of the men, the benevolent leader of a historic nature reserve,...
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Is it really over? Have Hobart Lindsey and Marvia Plum solved their last case? Lindsey, the mild-mannered bachelor insurance adjuster. Plum, the tough inner-city cop and single mom. You can hardly think of an odder couple, but somehow they were able to bring out the best in each other. Through a series of eight novels that carried them from California to Louisiana, from Denver to Chicago to New York to Rome, they explored the eccentricities of American...
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Mary Malone, single and recently unemployed - having lost her teaching job due to budget cut-backs, finds herself with limited resources and few options. A last-minute decision to move into her brother, Matt's, apartment with her widowed aunt leads her to accept an assignment at the Bar X Ranch intended for him. Taking this case on, finds Mary having to overcome major obstacles: she knows absolutely nothing about being a PI, she has an irrational...
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Creator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone since 1977. In the process, McCone has gained a host of associates and formed her own detective agency. Some seven years ago, Marcia Muller decided to show readers different views of her sleuth by relating cases through the eyes of McCone's colleagues. McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well...
72) Dead ringer
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"Spring is beginning to brighten Sorenson, Wisconsin, for Mattie and Steve Hurley and their family. While their son Matthew may be in his terrible twos and Steve's daughter Emily a moody teenager, the kids bring light to their lives when their work is dark by its nature - Steve is a homicide detective and Mattie is a medicolegal death investigator, aka medical examiner. They deal in corpses. The latest corpse, a Jane Doe, was clearly an addict, but...
73) Rotten Dates
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Newly divorced and vulnerable, baker/sleuth Carol Sabala resists her friend's pressure to use a personal ad to enter the dating scene. Two weeks later a woman's body is found strangled on a riverbank in Santa Cruz. Did the killer use the ads to lure his victim?Hired to investigate by the deceased's cousin, Carol sees the amateur photographer who discovered the body as a likely suspect. He's handsome, charming, and definitely on the prowl. Is it for...
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Solving a murder and discovering love: Private investigator, Kate Cavanaugh is asked to investigate the murder of a young woman found dead, floating in an inlet near Caye Isle, Florida.
What appears to be the murder of the local party girl by one of her many lovers, turns into something more sinister. Soon Kate finds herself working with the very distracting Detective Renato Lopez of the Miami Special Investigations Division.
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Molly O'Hara's young sister Nell is beautiful, spirited, and sweet, and the fact that she hasn't spoken for the last seventeen years, since she was eight, certainly doesn't reflect on her intelligence. After all, it's Nell who does the books for Enchanted Cottage Antiques, which she and her sister operate jointly. Truth is, Nell was home alone with their mother when the woman was murdered, and from that day, forward Nell hasn't spoken. She understands...
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In Vinnie Hansen's sixth mystery, Art, Wine & Bullets, an innocent visit to a premiere gallery turns into a nightmare case for Private Investigator Carol Sabala. The strangled body of the gallery owner offers an opportunity to cement her reputation as a private eye and to save her employer from insolvency. Carol juggles the investigation with her commitment to help boyfriend David Shapiro with his participation in Open Studios, an art event sponsored...
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A young artist awakes one morning alone in an empty house, with no memory of her identity or location. Puzzled and terrified, she finds Dr. Cory's business card in a purse. While the psychologist/sleuth tries to help the artist revive her memory, Cory's neighbor Rita goes missing. Uncovering Rita's real identity, Cory's detection abilities spring into action to confront a menace that haunts their neighborhood.
Written by a longtime psychologist, this...
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It's summertime in the nation's capital, and everyone seems to have fled the capital and its suburbs to escape the heat. Washington News reporter Sutton McPhee is struggling to find a decent story on her Fairfax County police beat. Even Sutton isn't prepared, however, when the young police officer who took her on a less-than-exciting ride-along is found shot to death in his apartment. The subsequent discovery of a body in a public park, where they...
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Tiffany Swanson is finally living the dream when she quits her stressful job to become a poker pro. Except her dream job doesn't turn out to be so perfect when she picks up the troubling vision of a murdered man from one of her opponents. Even more disturbing, Tiffany didn't know she was telepathic. Before long she finds herself spending more time investigating a homicide than playing cards. But with an entire wedding party to suspect and only one...
80) Los perdidos
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Pensaba que su pasado había quedado olvidado. Se equivocaba...
La llamada se produce poco después de las cinco de la mañana...
Nunca antes había oído el nombre de Everett Walsh, pero, según dice, yo podría saber algo sobre una chica que ha desaparecido. Sin embargo no me dice de qué se trata. Me planteo no quedar con él, pero parece desesperado y, si hay algo que me atrae más que la perseverancia, es la desesperación. Pese a que me gano...
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