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While searching for fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus, who has run away from her foster home, Black homicide cop-turned-PI Cass Raines soon discovers that Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for and if Cass can't find her first, she will have nowhere left to run.
Chicago in the dead of winter. Fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus has run away from her foster home. Her biological mother, Leesa Evans, is a recovering addict who admits she failed Ramona...
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Against the backdrop of the 1893 World's Fair, a young woman finds employment with an illustrious Chicago family-a family who may guard the secret of her sister's disappearance.Sloane House is among the most gilded mansions of Gilded Age Chicago. Rosalind Perry, the new housemaid, pours the morning coffee before the hard gaze of her mistress."It's simple, Rosalind," she says. "I am Veronica Sloane, heiress to one of the country's greatest fortunes....
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The World's Fair has introduced many new ideas to Chicago society-but can two individuals from very different backgrounds find love together? It's mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane, heir to one of Chicago's wealthiest families....
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Lydia's job at the library is her world-until a mysterious patron catches her eye... and perhaps her heart. Just months after the closure of the Chicago World's Fair, librarian Lydia Bancroft finds herself fascinated by a mysterious dark-haired and dark-eyed patron. He has never given her his name; he actually never speaks to a single person. All she knows about him is that he loves books as much as she does. Only when he rescues her in the lobby...
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Shelley Shepard Gray's Chicago World's Fair Mystery Series is now available as an e-collection!
Secrets of Sloane House
Against the backdrop of the 1893 World's Fair, a young woman finds employment with an illustrious Chicago family-a family who may guard the secret of her sister's disappearance.
Deception on Sable Hill
The World's Fair has introduced many new ideas to Chicago society-but can two individuals from very different backgrounds find love...
6) Knife Skills
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"Armchair travellers and foodies, rejoice!" Booklist Starred Review on Murder on the Spanish Seas
Sagarine Pfister is a great cook but has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in Chicago. She gets her chance at Louie's, a below-average restaurant, the only place that will give her a job.
Things change when she finds head chef Louie Ferrar dead in the walk-in freezer of his restaurant. But instead of closing the place down, the owner, Russian...
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Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to wake out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose.
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