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Handbags
and Homicide - A Haley Randolph Mystery
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Author
: Dorothy Howell
Description:
According
to Haley Randolph, you can never have enough handbags. She has
one for every occasion, but that doesn't mean she won't go to
any lengths to get the latest Louis Vuitton. Unfortunately for
Haley, her life goes from glam to grim when her passion for
fashion outlasts her credit cards, and she's forced to work
during the holiday season at Holt's, a mid-market department
store that doesn't even stock designer labels much to her
horror. Looking for a bit of shopping inspiration, Haley
abandons the sales floor and sneaks into the stock room to get a
first glimpse of Holt's ultra-fab holiday promotion, a
one-of-a-kind selection of handbag styles but instead of the
newest Vuitton, Haley discovers her boss is the ultimate fashion
victim. He's face down in lingerie, stone cold dead. According
to the security tapes, Haley was the only person in the
stockroom before, during, and after the murder. With everyone in
the store eyeing her like last season's Marc Jacobs, Haley turns
to the hunky Ty Cameron, who heads up the store's loss
prevention unit, to help her investigate the murder. In a race
to clear her reputation, Haley's knowledge of hot trends will
take her from the sales floor to the boardroom to the gritty
streets of L.A.'s Garment District. Now, Haley must find a
killer with impeccable fashion taste and get her hands on that
perfectly chequered Louis Vuitton bag before time runs out.
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Author
: Mary Stanton Description:
Moneys
been tight ever since Bree Winston Beaufort inherited
Savannah’s haunted law firm Beaufort & Company along with
its less-than-angelic staff .but she’s finally going to tackle
a case that pays the bills representing a spoiled girl who stole
someone’s Girl Scout cookie money. Soon enough she finds that
her client’s departed millionaire father needs help too. Can
she help an unsavoury father/daughter duo and make a living off
of the living?
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Cool
Cache - A Tucker Sinclair Mystery |
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: Patricia Smiley Description:
To
help her new chocolate shop flourish, gourmand Helen Taggart has
hired Tucker Sinclair and Associates. Tucker will admit that by
Associates, a she means Eugene, an asthmatic young secretary and
Dick Tracy wannabe. Then one night, Tucker finds the shop open,
truffles strewn across the floor, and the body of cleaning woman
Lupe Ortiz lying next to a bloody green feathers.
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Author
: Laura Caldwell Description:
Overwhelmed
by the details of her upcoming wedding, Chicago attorney Isabel
McNeil doesn't need any more grief or stress in her life, but
she gets both in spades. Izzy's mentor and highest profile
client, media mogul Forester Pickett, dies suddenly of an
apparent heart attack. The same night, her fiancé, Sam
Hollings, vanishes with $30 million in shares of Panamanian real
estate. Sam was the last person to see Forester alive, so he's a
person of interest to the police, and so is Izzy. Finding a
explanation for what's happened becomes Izzy's priority, but for
every answer Izzy comes up with, there are more questions, and
getting to the bottom of things could be hazardous to her
health.
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Murder
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Author
: Victoria Thompson Description:
In
the four years since her husband’s death, midwife Sarah Brandt
has become an angel of mercy in the tenements of
turn-of-the-century New York, helping the less fortunate bring
new life into the world, and, with Detective Sergeant Frank
Malloy, seeing that justice is done for them. Now, Malloy has
taken up the task of solving the murder of Dr. Tom Brandt,
believing he’s found a motive among the families of the
doctor’s patients. When he discovers what he believes to be
the truth, the shocking revelation may destroy Sahara, and
Malloy’s hopes for any future with her.
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Author
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James Lee Burke
Description:
Swan
Peak, finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia
roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural
Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have
retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping to spend
their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh,
gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina. The serenity is soon
shattered when two college students are found brutally murdered
in the hills behind where the Robicheauxs and Purcell are
staying. They quickly find themselves involved in a twisted and
dangerous mystery involving a wealthy, vicious oil tycoon, his
deformed brother and beautiful wife, a sexually deviant
minister, an escaped convict and former country music star, and
a vigilante Texan out for blood. At the centre of the storm is
Clete, who cannot shake the feeling that he is being haunted by
the ghosts from his past, namely Sally Dio, the mob boss
he'd sabotaged and killed years before.
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Burn
Notice: The End Game
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Author
: Tod Goldberg
Description:
Ex-covert
op Michael Westen has a new client. Paolo Fornelli is Helmsman
for a yacht in the Hurricane Cup a winner-take-all race financed
by the super-rich and proceeded by a week of high stakes
gambling, high-risk business, and high-class attitude. Paolo’s
family has been taken hostage. If Paolo ever wants to see them
again, he must make it to the final race, and lose. To find the
kidnappers, Michael will have to infiltrate high society and
enter a deadly game against deadlier opponents in a world where
money isn’t the only thing worth killing for.
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Author
: Elaine Viets Description:
In the Superior Club’s complaint
department, Helen Hawthorne has to deal with the rich and
spoiled. Then her deadbeat ex-husband sails back into her life
aboard the yacht of his new lady known as the Black Widow
because of her string of dead spouses. When Helen’s ex goes
missing, she fears the Black Widow may have struck again.
Helen’s barely begun digging when a club patron is found with
his membership permanently expired. Now Helen must find her ex
and get to the truth, without getting clubbed herself.
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Final
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: R. T. Jordan Description:
Polly
Pepper, the legendary superstar of television’s golden age, is
finally back in the entertainment headlines. She’s landed the
title role in a new production of the musical Mame, and though
it’s off-off-off-off Broadway (Glendale, California,
actually), Polly’s bank account, and her ego, need the job.
There’s one minor detour, though: on the second day of
rehearsals, wunderkind director Karen Richards turns up dead. Of
course Polly’s nose for news needs to know, and though Karen
was well liked, it seems some last-minute casting changes did
her in. Sadly, Polly’s Suspect #1 is her new friend and
co-star Sharon Fletcher. Sharon was the last person seen with
the deceased director and her Emmy matches the dent in Karen’s
head. The more Polly sniffs, the surer she is that Sharon
didn’t haul off and bash Karen with her Emmy. The evidence is
mounting, and it’ll take all of Polly’s wits to save the
jailed soap star from a murder rap and a starring role in a
real-life drama tentatively entitled Framed!
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Author
: Mary Jane
Maffini Description:
Nothing
makes Charlotte Adams happier than freeing people from clutter
and she boasts a waiting list of sloppy clients. Her free time
has been taken up solving fatally untidy cases. Her latest task
- a woman has hired her to organize a co-worker’s hopelessly
cluttered desk. When the miss behind the mess goes missing,
workplace tempers rise. Now, Charlotte must open a brand-new
folder, one she hopes won't be filed under M for murder.
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Curse
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Now?" Mystery |
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: Toni L. P. Kelner Description:
Boston freelance reporter Tilda Harper writes
articles about former stage and screen stars and where they've
crash-landed. When someone starts murdering the cast from the TV
show Kissing Cousins, and the actress who played Tilda's
favourite character, Mercy, vanishes, Tilda must find her before
a killer cancels her contract once and for all.
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Author
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Leann Sweeney
Description:
Recently
widowed Jillian Hart is rebuilding a life for herself and her
three beloved cats, Chablis, Syrah and Merlot, as a quilter in a
small South Carolina town. The quilts she makes are for cats as
smart, special, and sweet as her own, and business is thriving.
When she returns from an overnight quilting show, she discovers
Chablis sneezing, and since Chablis is allergic to humans, that
can only mean one thing - someone has broken into her house.
When she realizes her Abyssinian Syrah is missing, Jillian
suspects catnapping. Spurred by Chablis and Merlot’s mournful
meowing, she investigates and discovers more missing cats and a
murder. Now she’s got to save more than one cat in trouble not
to mention herself.
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Author
: Cheyenne McCray
Description: Meet
Nyx. This half-human, half-Drow private eye investigates
paranormal crimes by day and is an elite Tracker of demons by
night. She prefers working solo and playing rough. So when a
terrifying force starts murdering innocent humans and paranorms,
and leaving strange demonic symbols burned into their buildings,
it's a case Nyx takes very personally. Meanwhile, Nyx's fellow
Trackers are being killed one by one and a sexy new Tracker
named Torin is shadowing her every move. Torin has powers Nyx
can't read, and sometimes she wonders whose side he's on. Nyx's
instincts tell her something's brewing in the city's meanest
supernatural streets, and that it's ready to unleash hell on
Earth. Who can she trust? Now it's five minutes to permanent
midnight and Nyx's last chance means risking everything .even
her own life.
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Author
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Allison Brennan Description:
When
a top lieutenant in a notorious ring of human traffickers agrees
to turn state's evidence, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
senior agent Sonia Knight believes she'll finally take down the
illegal operation's devilish mastermind, Xavier Jones but when
an FBI sting on Jones's criminal enterprise collides with an ICE
stakeout, Sonia is enraged. Her informant's life and her
evidence are in grave jeopardy. FBI agent Dean Hooper has been
chasing Jones for years on money-laundering and tax-evasion
charges and doesn't need or want a hot-headed ICE agent
second-guessing his every move. When the Bureau is ordered to
join forces with ICE, Sonia is just as livid. Her job is to save
lives, not money but their team effort pays off as fierce mutual
resentment fades and passion flares-along with risk. For Jones
is just one piece of a depraved puzzle, answering to an even
more dangerous predator. Denied his expected prey, this pitiless
fiend intends to make Sonia and Dean pay with their own blood.
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Author
: Toni Blake Description:
The
perfect daughter, the perfect prom queen, the perfect wife,
Jenny Tolliver's been the good girl all her life, and it's
gotten her nowhere. Now that her marriage has been busted up by
her cheating ex, she's decided it's time to regroup and
rediscover herself. This summer she's headed back to her
hometown of Destiny, Ohio, to the very lakeshore cottage where
she grew up, to figure out what life holds in store for her
next. She never dreamed the answer would be Mick Brody,
Destiny's #1 hellraiser. He comes from the wrong side of the
tracks (or in his case, the lake), and he's landed in hot water
more times than he can count. He's exactly the kind of guy
Jenny's always kept her distance from but soon the good girl and
the bad boy are caught in a raw heat that's out of control. Too
bad Mick's got a secret that threatens to tear them apart and
ruin Jenny's perfectly, passionately reckless summer .
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Connie Mason
Description:
The king had ordered him to stop her wedding and send her to a
nunnery, but when Damian Stratton laid eyes on the Lady of
Misterly he knew the passionate Highland beauty wasn’t meant
for a life of purity and prayer. He couldn’t set her free to
marry the Gordon laird, but how could he keep the little minx
under his roof when she tempted him beyond all reason? The
Demon Knight had ruined her wedding day and confined her in his
chamber, but Lady Elissa Fraser refused to surrender until she
saw the tenderness in her captor’s eyes and felt her
traitorous body melt beneath his caress. The clan had her
loyalty, but how could she resist.
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Sherilee
Busbee
Description: Nell Anslowe and Julian, Earl of
Wyndham, are an unlikely couple in every respect. Injured in a
riding accident ten years ago, Nell was left with a fiancé who
abandoned their engagement and the firm belief that she will
never marry. The abrupt end of Julian’s unhappy marriage
formed his resolve to remain a bachelor until the end of his
days. As Julian chases down his reckless stepsister, he seeks
shelter from a summer storm in a cottage and finds it occupied
by Nell, who has escaped from a fortune-seeking libertine bent
on carrying her off to Gretna Green. Discovered together by
Nell’s family, the couple’s hasty wedding is the only way to
save Nell from scandal but the polite union each of them expects
soon ignites into something much more powerful.
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Eloisa James
Description: No
man can resist Jemma's sensuous allure, except her own husband!
Wedding bells celebrating the arranged marriage between the
lovely Duchess of Beaumont and her staid, imperturbable duke had
scarcely fallen silent when a shocking discovery sent Jemma
running from the ducal mansion. For the next nine years she
cavorted abroad, creating one delicious scandal after another
(if one is to believe the rumours). Elijah, Duke of Beaumont,
did believe those rumours but the handsome duke needs an
heir, so he summons his seductive wife home. Jemma laughs at
Elijah's cool eyes and icy heart, but to her secret shock, she
doesn't share his feelings. In fact, she wants the impossible,
her husband's heart at her feet. What manner of seduction will
make a man fall desperately in love with his own wife?
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Author
: Rachel Gibson
Description: Disaster
Number One: Men! Hard knocks and hunger taught Faith Duffy not
to believe in love. Still, when she married her very wealthy,
and very old, husband, she became the perfect wife. Then he went
to that big bank in the sky, leaving Faith with lonely nights, a
pile of money, and a total mess of a pro hockey team. Heck,
Faith doesn't even watch hockey! Disaster Number Two: Passion!
Most of America and half of Canada is watching Ty Savage. His
lethal sex appeal and deadly right hook make him the favourite
of fans. For most of Ty's life, he's dreamed of winning the
Stanley Cup and the last thing he needs is a bimbo messing up
his plans. Disaster Number Three: Love! Faith loathes Ty
on sight, but she can't stop thinking about him all day and
night. Then a moment of temptation ends with Faith in Ty's bed,
and she begins to see there's more to him than sex appeal. Ty
discovers there's far more to Faith than beauty and billions but
a relationship with Faith is impossible, and falling in love,
that would be a disaster.
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Sherryl Woods Description:
When
her last two plays are dismal failures and her relationship with
her mentor falls apart, writer Bree O'Brien abandons Chicago and
the regional theatre where she hoped to make a name for herself
to return home. Opening Flowers on Main promises to bring
her a new challenge and a new kind of fulfilment. Not all is
peaceful and serene in Chesapeake Shores, with her estranged
mother on the scene and her ex-lover on the warpath. Jake
Collins has plenty of reasons to want Bree out of his life, and
one reason to want her to stay - he's still in love with her.
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Author
: Donna Fletcher Description:
The
fearless warrior has finally met his match. When Alyce Bunnock's
father tried to marry her off, she fled, taking shelter at
Everagis Abbey, donning a nun's habit, and renaming herself
Sister Therese. When Lachlan Sinclare arrives to restore her to
her family, the safety of the convent is shattered. At the sight
of the handsome Highlander, Alyce fears for her freedom and
weakens with desire. Lachlan has been tasked with finding
shrewish Alyce, but can think only of beautiful Therese. Yet
with every forbidden touch, Lachlan comes closer to the truth
and once her secret is revealed, Alyce must choose between the
independence she's always craved and the tempting man she cannot
resist.
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Lynn Kurland
Description:
Zachary Smith is finished with high-maintenance women,
impossible clients, and paranormal adventures. When he walks
through a doorway into a different century, and meets Mary de
Piaget, he knows his life isn't going to turn out quite the way
he planned.
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Katie
MacAlister
Description: Pia’s
dream of being married has come true but her husband is straight
out of her nightmares. Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark
Ones and feeling like a fool, considering she doesn’t know
where either of them are. Alec was no doubt broken-hearted over
finding out that Pia was mated to his best friend, Kristoff and
hubby Kristoff believes she has ties to the group trying to
destroy his people. So Pia goes back to her humdrum Seattle life
determined to forget about Kristoff but fate has other plans.
With Alec missing, something truly evil threatening her ghostly
charges, and the vampire community hunting both Kristoff and her
for crimes they didn’t commit, Pia realizes that if they’re
going to be shackled together for better or worse, she may as
well start to enjoy it.
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Jennifer Ashley
Description: It
was whispered all through London Society that he was a murderer,
that he’d spent his youth in an asylum and was not to be
trusted, especially with a lady. Any woman caught in his
presence was immediately ruined yet Beth found herself
inexorably drawn to the Scottish lord whose hint of a brogue
wrapped around her like silk and whose touch could draw her into
a world of ecstasy. Despite his decadence and intimidating
intelligence, she could see he needed help, her help because
suddenly the only thing that made sense to her was the madness
of Lord Ian Mackenzie.
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