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It's Mardi Gras, and ace crime reporter Sam Adams has flown to New Orleans to visit her old college roomie Kitty whose debutante niece is about to be crowned queen of Comus. At the airport Sam first glimpses Harry Zack, a songwriter turned insurance investigator, who's way too cute. When death stalks St. Charles Avenue in the wake of Comus's ball, Sam and Harry's paths collide-and sparks fly in more ways than one.
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Amateur sleuth Samantha Adams journeys to the unlikely place of Hot Springs, Arkansas, partly to celebrate with an old friend who just won the lottery, and partly to recover from being jilted by her boyfriend. But a kidnapping with a million-dollar ransom demand diverts Sam's attentions straight into the arms of a killer.
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Home again in Atlanta after years on the Left Coast, crime reporter Samantha Adams finds that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Beau, the boy who broke her heart eons earlier, is more handsome than ever and is now the Medical Examiner. In the South, good manners (and keen protective instincts) prevent folks from saying what they mean, particularly about extramarital "slippin' and slidin'." And backwoods sheriffs still rule their...
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Sunshine, the brilliant blue Pacific, and the Golden Gate Bridge overhung with fog. The perfect backdrop for romance? Well…in San Francisco, good weather is easy to find; straight men are not. A San Francisco woman needs stamina, patience, cunning, and a plentiful supply of humor. Annie Tannenbaum-beautiful, blonde, divorced but hardly defeated-turns the relentless pursuit of Mr. Right to profit. She's already gotten an advance on Meeting Cute,...
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The letter that arrived from Sam's mother was postmarked Santa Fe, penned in her mother's handwriting, and disclosed details only Johanna Adams could know. There was just one catch: Johanna Adams had been dead for thirty-four years. The mind-blowing missive could have been an entry from Sam's latest book of bizarre anecdotes, American Weird-or an elaborate hoax. Either way, it instantly rekindled Sam's impossible wish that her mother hadn't really...
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"Yes, ma'am," "No, ma'am," elbows off the table, and thank you notes, all examples of the good manners that Southern mothers drill into their young. But the characters in these mostly Southern stories by Sarah Shankman know the deeper meaning of the term.
Good manners are words and actions that put others at ease; bad manners don't. And bad manners, like bad children, must be punished.
A bride left at the altar, as in "All You Need Is Love," is...