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SOPHIE KRAMER takes risk for living and fights crime for professional and personal reasons. She is a tough-minded Special FBI Agent who loves to live on edge. Against the wishes of his parents, Ashok leaves India to go to the Sates to study at the Stanford University. He excels at his master's program and also becomes successful in developing an innovative technology. University appoints an intellectual property law firm for legal representation where...
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Just because she's made AARP doesn't mean she's DOA. Take it from sixty-plus Margot Manning. The family vultures are chomping at the bit to grab her considerable fortune, so they petition to become her conservators. But they haven't a clue how strong she still is. Currently, that means solving some highly suspicious deaths. Feisty Old Ladies is the razor-sharp and riotous crime novel by Cynthia Weitz that shadows one irrepressible senior who finds...
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Xanadu's Cavern is the third book of Mallory O'Connor's occult thriller series. The book continues to follow the adventures of psychic Epiphany Mayall as she confronts art theft, environmental destruction, and murder.
For thirty years, Epiphany Mayall has worked as a psychic medium in the small Spiritualist community of Watoolahatchee, Florida. But, when a renowned cave diver and environmental activist goes missing, Epiphany is asked by her friend,...
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As the election year approaches, Addison Landon, an investigative reporter and political analyst, is about to uncover the most elaborate plot she, or anyone else for that matter, has ever seen. An actual plot to create the largest contiguous land empire in human history that began 646 years ago. What she uncovers is not an army that plans to overthrow governments by force, but a secret society that has ultimate political aspirations. Woven into the...
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Nightmare in the Attic takes place in the wine country in Napa Valley, California. It is the story of a brilliant young artist turned forger by impatience and greed. When a famous sculptor is found dead (accident or murder?), Harriet becomes involved. At first she gets side-tracked by several other players who turn out to be benign, however, beyond their penchant for money. During the course of Harriet's investigation, a number of gruesome and mysterious...
6) Emboozlement
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Her PI business just went off script. But her acting skills might catch a homicidal maniac…
Kate McCall dazzles audiences on stage by night, but by day she searches for her father's killer. She seems to gain ground, until the man who pulled the trigger sends texts that prove he's one step ahead. While investigating the murderous messages, she takes on an embezzlement case from a handsome sports bar owner who might just be her top suspect…
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On any given day, a group of women can be found in Harriet's tavern in a small town in Connecticut. From the front, it looks rustic, humble, and intimate. The dark-glass windows make it challenging to look inside. The group members are policewomen, FBI agents, lawyers, and retired women from all over the United States. Their age varies. The group leader, of The Blind Justice Society, is Sadie Barker, an FBI agent. The locals of the town call the older...
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Only the grieving can relate to the massive hole left in your heart by the death of a loved one. Professor McManus attempts to leave a painful past behind her. She closes the door on all that is familiar and moves to Rivertown, Florida.
While taking her students on a field trip, Maggie finds the flamboyant director of sales and marketing, Hannah Johnson, lying on the floor in the hotel boardroom draped in a tablecloth with one shiny red high heel...
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In "The Fatal Truth," the fourth gripping installment of the Kathy Hamilton Mystery series, we return to the tense town of Rosemont, where murder has once again cast its chilling shadow.
When a renowned reporter for the Rosemont Observer is discovered murdered in her own office, killed by one of her prestigious journalism awards, the town is thrown into a frenzy. Her vital files and investigative notes have vanished, leaving behind only an eerie...
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A killer calls with his latest song and dance. And when homicide is on the program, it's no laughing matter…
Kate McCall is determined to make sure it's finally curtains for her father's killer. But her first priority is playing bodyguard to the bad-boy standup comic who hired her to protect him while he tries to prove he's innocent of murder. That is until the real culprit takes a shot at her client just as her dad's assassin sends her a...
11) Sins of Betrayal
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Publishers Weekly called Valerie Wilcox's debut mystery, Sins of Silence, "distinctive and intriguing." Now her sleuthing sailing instructor returns in a thrilling new adventure . . . A run of bad weather means a slow season at Larstad's Marina in Seattle, home of Kellie Montgomery's Sound Sailing offices. But Mother Nataure isn't the only source of an ill wind. A day that starts with Kellie being held at gunpoint by a delusional environmentalist...
12) Sins of Silence
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Sailing instructor Kellie Montgomery discovers a luxury yacht drifting aimlessly outside a Seattle Marina--with its owners on board dead from gunshots to the head. When Kellie sets out to find their killer, she uncovers a web of secrets that link the victims' sordid past to her own family. Probing the murky depths of murder soon proves far more treacherous than any seas she's ever sailed. At first, Kellie's investigation into the victims' background...
13) No Good Deed
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"No Good Deed" invites readers back into the world of the Kathy Hamilton Mystery Series, continuing at the conclusion of Hush Now, Don't Cry. In this third installment, Kathy has finally achieved her dream of being an investigator, and an investigator for defense lawyer Bailey Clark, no less. With Chase Wagner found not guilty, Kathy now turns her attention to locating Charlie, their only eyewitness to what really happened. Problems arise when it...
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Divorced Cuban social worker Válairia Hernández (named for Vladimir Lenin), the outspoken mulatta, who met her first foreigner and solved her first murder in That Time in Havana, comes to New York in 2005 for a brief fiancée visit "but I am not your fiancée", fulfilling a longtime wish to travel.
The story is told through the perspectives of key characters, a gay couple, a divorced professor and single father, a lesbian couple, a couple facing...
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An Argentinean priest with an American passport has decided to fight the drug cartel of Columbia that is making inroads into Argentina. He is preparing to fight in the next presidential election against the popular political parties to become the president of Argentina. But the popular political parties have forged a relationship with the drug cartel and relying upon it to remove the priest before the election date. Sophie Kramer, a FBI Special Agent...
16) Resonance
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After getting her foot in the door with the LAPD as a medical examiner in the Forensics Services Division, Van Eng finds herself promoted to detective and assigned to the Cold Case Homicide Special Section. Her unique investigative skills and raw courage, combined with her heightened senses due to a hearing impairment, make her an unstoppable force on the squad. Her vision and her sense of smell are acute, and she instinctively catalogues everything...
17) The O'Brien
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After being betrayed by her cheating husband, Catherine (Cat) Murphy and her Irish Wolfhound, The O'Brien, leave their home in Annapolis, Maryland and escape to a small fishing village on the wild western coast of Ireland hoping to find peace and quiet. But when The O'Brien unearths a small skeleton in their cottage garden with ties to the disappearance of the handsome Lord Granville's young wife, Cat is swept headfirst into a web of mystery and danger....
18) And All That Sea
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Casey's relaxing Caribbean jazz cruise is interrupted when "The Countess" goes missing and the captain asks her to investigate … quietly. All Casey wanted was to sit on the deck reading novels and possibly pursue her attraction to Aaron, an intriguing jazz magazine editor. But she can't resist a mystery, especially when homicide might be involved. Ship authorities believe the countess simply overstayed an island stop, but Casey suspects something...
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"Dale Moore's Days of Wine and Tomatoes, is a tasty tidbit mixing humor, romance, a plucky heroine and steadfast hero, a suspected kidnapping, and shenanigans in the Canadian world of wine." Deborah Coonts, Author of the Lucky O'Toole Las Vegas Adventures Katrina is back for her third chaotic adventure! Trying to revive a struggling relationship with her detective boyfriend, they're off for a long weekend to wine country along the shores of Lake Erie....
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Tony Edwards, A dock neighbor of Peter's is a suspended police officer with a known dislike for people who are the color of his alleged victim. He's also the subject of many citizen complaints for using excessive force in the minority community At Suzi's request, Tony taught her how to help him re-load his target practice ammunition, also giving the little girl a basic course in ballistics. When a local black movie producer who Tony was working for...
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