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1) Last breath
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When she begins to defend motherless teenager Flora Faulkner, lawyer Charlie Quinn is reminded of her own troubled past, and she begins to realize that her client is in far deeper trouble than she initially anticipates.
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In "Miss Bianca," a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in "Wildcat," embarking on her very first investigation to save her father. A hardboiled New York detective and elderly British aristocrat team up to reveal a murderer in Chicago during the World's Fair in "Murder at the Century of Progress." In the new title story, "Love...
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Compromising Positions’s Judith Singer is back in a story that delivers plenty of Susan Isaacs’s renowned wit and sharp-eyed observations of the contemporary scene—along with a riveting mystery!
Chic Vanessa Giddings, founder and CEO of Panache, the largest employment agency on Long Island, falls into a coma in the designer shoe department of Bloomingdale’s . . . and dies. It’s not long before...
Chic Vanessa Giddings, founder and CEO of Panache, the largest employment agency on Long Island, falls into a coma in the designer shoe department of Bloomingdale’s . . . and dies. It’s not long before...
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A daring debutante solves the crimes of upper-crust Manhattan in this groundbreaking story collection from the queen of American mystery Violet Strange has a secret. A vivacious socialite, she is one of the most sought-after women in New York-as a private investigator. Between well-heeled excursions to the opera and fabulous dinner parties, Violet uses her lively charms to investigate the dark side of Gilded Age society. From the daughter of an important...
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2020
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Award-winning author of the Laura Fleming mysteries and the "Where Are They Now?" mystery series
Tilda Harper, a freelance entertainment writer who specializes in tracking down the formerly famous, has a weekend gig moderating discussions at a Sherlock Holmes convention. She's hoping to pick up some new scoops, but gets more than she'd bargained for when an ex-TV star is murdered during a panel Tilda is in charge of. The police think it's...
Tilda Harper, a freelance entertainment writer who specializes in tracking down the formerly famous, has a weekend gig moderating discussions at a Sherlock Holmes convention. She's hoping to pick up some new scoops, but gets more than she'd bargained for when an ex-TV star is murdered during a panel Tilda is in charge of. The police think it's...
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Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. While Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers.
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A woman hiding from her past in a bridesmaid's dress.Paisley spent five years as an FBI agent before she lost more than she was willing to and walked away from the job she loved. Now, she works for The Maids as a bridesmaid-for hire. It pays more than the rent and she still gets to go undercover, just with less danger and more crazy.A man who faces danger every day but doesn't seek it out. Preston is a world-renowned combat photographer who gets roped...
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Bare Bones
Pixie Silvester looks on her psychic powers as a curse. She sees things, senses things - usually dead things - and sometimes she manages to solve crimes. When a child unearths human bones at a summer barbeque, Pixie experiences sensory overload and gets pitch-forked into a macabre case of missing women, some of whom have been buried alive. Killing Kindness
When Cuddles, a wannabe fashion designer and bakery shop assistant, trips over a...
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When reluctant pet psychic Frankie Chandler receives images of an elderly neighbor's unnatural demise via that woman's pet Pekingese, she wonders who could possibly want a harmless old woman dead. Even more curious, how is the dog able to send her details on a death that hasn't yet happened? And can she stop the murder in time? Novella.
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd goes undercover to get close to a crook who's been defrauding auto insurance companies for two decades. A confidential informant ratted out aging Clayton D. Cooper. Nailed him as ringleader of a major northern Virginia gang.Yet sophisticated FBI data mining programs detect no sign of Cooper's criminal activities.To learn how Cooper evades the software, Dawna has to convince Cooper she's as dirty as he is.If she succeeds,...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd played basketball all four years at the University of Texas. Exactly the right cover to get herself hired by a shady medical equipment manufacturer. Former college cheerleaders and athletes make up big pharma's hottest sales force. Winning personalities matter more than scientific training. The company's device tested safe for asthma patients. Not for women with histories of preterm labor. Though anecdotal evidence...
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Retired Detective Kendra O'Connor solves cold cases.5 years ago, Bella O'Said, a very popular marketing executive, disappears and her body turns up under a diseased lemon tree. Detectives had no leads. The case quickly went cold.Kendra and her friends decide to have one final look at the impossible case.If you enjoy twisted, heart-wrecking detective mysteries, you will love this short story.BUY NOW!
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Brittani Menchin, decidedly not popular high school student, stumbles across her former BFF, Charlotte, in the girls' bathroom.
Cutting herself.
Despite Brittani's pain over Char's defection, she can't not help someone in need.
It will take all her geeky knowledge and wit to sabotage the idiotic game Char's new popular friends have roped her into.
Fans of Veronica Mars will love this first story featuring justice-seeking Brittani Menchin, a not-quite-six-feet-tall...
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3 years ago, Cleaner Maya Johnson leaves work and is found 9 o'clock the next morning smoked alive.Retired Detective Kendra O'Connor, member of the Cold Case Taskforce, takes on Maya's case.She loves working with other retired detectives and hearing interesting stories each week, all to solve cold cases.Buy this gripping twisted detective mystery now!
15) Ends of Justice
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This collection includes an essay, a poem, and two short stories by acclaimed author Sara Paretsky.
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Kendra and Patricia, two recently retired London Detectives, volunteer their time for the Cold Case task force that solves cold cases. Plus, they have great fun along the way.Samantha Cane's disappearance remains at the top of the strange cold cases of all time in London, and for London that says a lot.Samantha, a well-liked Lord in the House of Lords, simply walked into her own home and vanished without a trace. Kendra and Patricia decide to take...
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Kendra O'Connor, member of the London Metropolitan Cold Case Taskforce, solves cold cases.Five years ago Horatio Nelson was superglued to his hotel shower and killed.Kendra and her friends give a final look at the case before it's too late.Join Kendra in another twisted, shocking detective mystery now!
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd teams up with a long haul trucker to nail a rogue Department of Transportation safety inspector. The crooked government employee extorts money from drivers of Middle Eastern appearance who haul hazardous materials through New Jersey. Under cover as the trucker's big-haired flashy wife, Dawna has her ears peeled when the inspector leads up to his payoff demand. Until beribboned Precious, the third member of the team...
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A sleepy town with a disturbing secret. An unstable man seduced by evil whisperings. And a stubborn detective whose life is more intertwined with the killer she hunts than she could ever imagine. Just when the residents of Crest Hill are getting past a shocking unsolved murder in the nearby groves, their greatest unspoken fear materializes: a string of serial killings amongst their own citizens. There is now no mistaking the fact that one member of...
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In this classic short story, Miss Marple steps in to investigate when her niece is accused of murdering her violent husband.
During the first meeting of the Tuesday Night Club at Miss Jane Marple's home, her guests present real tales of mystery. Miss Marple is the first to share a story . . .
Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple's niece, Mabel Denman, was married to an abusive and hot-tempered man-until he suddenly died. Was it the mushrooms he...
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