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1) Charm City
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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 2
Tess Monaghan novel volume 02
Tess Monaghan mystery volume 2
Wheeler large print book
Tess Monaghan novel volume 02
Tess Monaghan mystery volume 2
Wheeler large print book
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When a lurid exposé mysteriously appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light and causes a business tycoon to commit suicide in his garage, private investigator Tess Monaghan takes on the case.
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When private investigator Tess Monaghan literally runs into the crew of the fledgling TV series Mann of Steel while sculling, she expects sharp words, not an assignment. But the company has been plagued by a series of disturbing incident - bad press, union threats, and small costly on-set "accidents" - since it's arrival on location in Baltimore. Mann's creator, Flip Tumulty, the son of a Hollywood legend, is now worried for the safety of his young...
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PI Tess Monaghan thought she'd seen the last of her ex-boyfriend Ed Crow when they ended their relationship. But when she receives a newspaper clipping with a photo of Crow and the headline "IN BIG TROUBLE," she's reluctantly pulled into looking for him and heads to Austin, Texas -- the last place he was seen. Searching the house where Crow was staying, Tess stumbles on more than she bargained for when she finds the body of an ex-convict whose face...
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When a former Baltimore reporter must solve the murder of a notorious attorney, she discovers Charm City is rife with dark, sordid, and dangerous secrets. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety and his taste for illicit midday trysts make the case front-page news in every local paper except the Star, which crashed and burned before...
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Pregnant Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan probes the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she'd been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman's abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell and unravels a complex scam.
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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 9
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For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor is nothing more than a theoretical problem, one of several cases to be deconstructed in her new gig as a consultant to the local newspaper. But then her boyfriend brings home a street kid who doesn't even realize he holds an important key to the man's death. Tess agrees to protect the boy's identity no matter what, especially when one of his friends is killed in an apparent case...
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For the past fifty years on the birth date of Edgar Allan Poe, a person wearing a cloak has placed three roses and a half bottle of cognac on the writer's gravesite. PI Tess Monaghan has never witnessed the event. But when John P. Kennedy, an eccentric antiques dealer, asks her to uncover the identity of the caped visitor, who he believes has duped him with the sale of an inauthentic antique, Tess decides to hold vigil on the night the cloaked stranger...
10) Hush hush
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On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism about her mental state. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. But now Melisandre has returned to Baltimore...
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Five lives in the Baltimore area have been brutally destroyed over the past six years-five unsolved homicides, seemingly unconnected except for the suspicion that each death was the result of domestic violence. In hot legal water, and court-ordered therapy, Tess Monaghan accepts an assignment with a local nonprofit organization, agreeing to review police documents on each case for inconsistencies and investigative blunders. But curiosity is leading...
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In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know--everyone, that is, except Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, she's bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore...
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When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore hotel room, reporter Val Ritter's world is turned upside down. An empty pill bottle at the scene leads the police to believe the cause of death is suicide, but Val teams up with a retired detective to prove something more sinister is responsible. In 1921, another guest on the brink of womanhood will soon marry an eligible older man, sure to be a comfortable match--or is it? With time running short, Val...
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