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Jenna Preston is used to investigating cheating spouses, fraud, and even a murder or two in her role as a private investigator. But, she's never consulted on a case quite like the one at Darcy's Salon in East Hampton. A killer has struck and left behind a woman's head in the upscale salon's shampoo sink.
As Jenna struggles to make sense of the what's happened, she comes up against entitled and badly behaved beach dwellers, greedy parties with motives...
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MANAGING AN HOA IS MURDER....
He championed shooting deer inside the HOA's nature sanctuary. Now his corpse is, posed curbside, cradling a trophy deer head. The theatrical murder panics residents, and Ted Welch asks Kylee Kane, retired Coast Guard investigator, to help his HOA management firm calm fears. Kylee agrees. Her own mother is getting death threats over her crusade to protect the deer.
HOA=DOA TERROR REIGNS...
When a belligerent owner...
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As Monongahela County's new coroner Zoe Chambers-Adams gears up for a third day searching for a missing woman, she receives the news she's been dreading: a body has been found. What she discovers at the scene leaves no doubt-the missing woman was violently murdered. Worse, the manner of death mirrors the Monongahela Strangler case that terrorized the county when Zoe was in high school. Those murders stopped, but the case was never satisfactorily solved....
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Real estate rule #1: A dead body creates buzz. A dead body in a house for sale is never the buzz you want.
It isn't the first time real estate agent Helen Morrisey has found someone naked in bed while showing a house. But this one is different. One glance at the bluish cast around his lips and the vacant, staring eyes, and Helen knows developer Al Capelli is never going to sign another sales agreement.
His death is big news for a small Chesapeake...
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Jamie Forest, a native New Yorker, has escaped the city for the quiet of a Minnesota Northwoods lake only to become the prime suspect in a murder. After the death of her father, a divorce and a traumatic experience with the New York police, Jamie settles into the old family cabin to eke out a living as a freelance editor.
As a member of a local environmental group, she clashes with the editor of the county newspaper over the development of a copper...
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"Intelligent, touching, wise and evocative - fans of Louise Penny will adore this!Winter Witness is a wonderful book." Hank Phillippi Ryan ~ USA Today Bestselling author of THE FIRST TO LIE &Agatha and Anthony Award Winner
When a beloved nun is murdered in a sleepy Catskill Mountain town, a grieving young widow finds herself at the center of the turmoil. Bianca St. Denis is searching for a job and seeking acceptance in her new home of Batavia-on-Hudson....
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Journalist Lisa Jamison wants to blow off some steam after an argument with her boyfriend, so she heads to her friend Ricky's kickboxing studio for an early morning workout. She expects to find Ricky alone, setting up for his first class of the day, but someone was there before Lisa, uninvited. Ricky is dead, shot only moments before she arrived, and now Lisa is a suspect in his murder. Lisa wants two things: to clear her name and seek justice for...
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Is It Time to Exit the Stage?
A close brush with death in Texas has left Pinkerton agent Lilly Long wondering if the demands of the job she wanted so badly are more than she can mentally and physically endure without becoming cold and uncaring. Instead of allowing her time to reflect on her future, William Pinkerton sends her to hone her skills with renowned self-defense master, Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery, and when she and her partner, Cadence...
10) Nouveau Noir
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The new Gamay Nouveau is here-and it's killer.
Celia Bouchet is hot smoke in silk pajamas, the beautiful daughter of Napa Valley scion Florian Bouchet, owner of Domaine Laurent winery. When two costly paintings in Domaine Laurent's tasting room vanish and then Bouchet himself dies suddenly, his mistress, Napa's most exclusive high-end realtor, and Celia's possessive fiancé can't wait to get their hands on Bouchet's insurance settlement. But by the...
11) Straight Up
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Jude Dillane, owner of The Corner Lounge in Manhattan's East Village, knows she will never be safe until The New Year's Eve Serial Killer, Art Bevins, is behind bars. Still on the loose, he continues to taunt her. Blaming Jude for all his troubles, Bevins is determined to make her pay. With the FBI investigation at a stand-still, Jude knows it's up to her to bring him to justice. With all this swirling around her, Thomas "Sully" Sullivan, her friend...
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The Nutcracker ballet is filled with holiday cheer, but no one is happy, least of all lead dancer Leah Siderova. It's bad enough when Maurice Kaminsky forces her to perform upon a shaky platform, which teeters high above the stage. It's worse when the curtain opens on the first murder victim, and the scene looks more like the end of Romeo and Juliet than a child's vision of Christmas.
The dancers were unanimous in their dislike of Maurice, and...
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A car bomb kills a New Orleans' Port Commissioner, and a series of thefts from New Orleans' famed above-ground cemeteries may be related to the crime. Especially when the thefts are accompanied by a disembodied arm at a family crypt, and a factory fire nearby-overtones of renewed Mob activity.
When FBI Art Crimes Agent Wynn Cabot takes a working vacation to join André Bishop, now a private investigator, in The Big Easy to investigate the cemetery...
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Jewell McDunn solves one problem-where to live when her daughter's boyfriend takes over the apartment-and becomes entangled in a much more deadly one.
When her barista friends hook her up with a room in one of Miwok town's prestigious Victorian mansions-the scene of a grisly, unsolved murder-Jewell is forced to placate the spirit of the murdered woman in order to get a good night's sleep.
On this trip into the paranormal world, Jewell...
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Madeline Lane, co-owner of an upscale jewelry store in Boston, had never sold a $200,000 emerald necklace before, and certainly not to a billionaire jerk. But, then the murders begin, and Madeline steps up to save an innocent prime suspect from a homicide charge. However, in this edgy, plot-twisting mystery all is not what it seems, and haunted memories of long-lost emeralds set in motion a series of deadly decisions.
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A cross between Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and a Cheers bartender, Sally Witherspoon, a fifty-something accountant turned biker-bar owner, loves solving puzzles. Up to now, she has focused on helping neighbors and friends find lost jewelry, lost pets, and lost loves.
But when she finds her best friend and business partner, Bill Arnold, dead in a dumpster behind her bar on a Saturday night, she needs all her wits and grit to find out who did...
17) Never Broken
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The near corpse of a stranger had no idea where he'd been, how long he'd been there or who had kept him captive. But one thing intrigued journalist Lisa Jamison even more than his story: recent memories of a woman named Chandra Bower.
Seven years had passed since Chandra disappeared from Seneca Springs without a trace. Police investigators still compared DNA records whenever an unidentified body appeared, hoping to at least bring her family closure....
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In October 1925, four New York City jazz musicians known as The Troubadours travel to the neo-Gothic Halcyon Castle near Gloucester, MA, home of occultist Duncan Fox, to perform a week-long series of entertainments. Halloween is Fox's fiftieth birthday and he's invited twelve family members and friends--including an astrologer, a tarot card reader, and a wizard--to celebrate with him.
The activities at Halcyon Castle, however, prove to be anything...
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A late-night call is all it takes for rookie lawyer Corrie Locke to kiss her day job at the movie studio goodbye, and do what she does best: flex her sweet P.I. skills and go undercover to find a senior who's missing from a posh retirement community. One small stumbling block: skirting past security to gain inside access to the exclusive Villa Sunset. Time to call in the heavy artillery. Besides former security guard turned legal assistant-now wannabe...
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GIVE A MAN ENOUGH ROPE AND HE'LL HANG HIMSELF-BUT BE CAREFUL, THE GALLOWS LOVE A CROWD
Gina Malone, a bestselling relationships advice author and expert on exes, meddles in other people's affairs for a living. It makes for enemies. One of them is scaring her to death.
A modern-day Miss Lonelyhearts, Gina's smart, she's sassy, she's got a potty mouth, and she's determined to live life on her own terms. She's also divorced, an empty nester, and turning...
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