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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 15
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.
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B is for Burglar, from Sue Grafton's #1 New York Times bestselling Kinsey Millhone Alphabet mystery series
Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this eighth mystery in the series. In A Cry for Self-Help, Kate Jasper and her sweetie take the plunge and join a Wedding Ritual Class, hoping to find inspiration for their own possible nuptials. On a field trip to observe a scuba-diving marriage ceremony, Sam Skyler, the man who has become a living legend as a human-potential guru, is not propelled into marriage,...
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 5
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Winner of every major prize in mystery writing, Jan Burke has earned a dedicated fan base with her acclaimed Irene Kelly novels. In this thrilling gem, Irene's sleuthing is put to the ultimate test when her husband is taken hostage.
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this tenth mystery in the series. Kate Jasper is feeling "karmically impaired" in Murder on the Astral Plane. In her view, she carries an astral virus to any group she joins, always leaving someone just plain dead. Kate's best friend, Barbara Chu, says Kate's simply thinking negatively. Barbara practices a little metaphysical shock therapy by tricking Kate into...
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Too big to miss—that's Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-sized woman who makes no excuses for her weight, she's not super woman just a mere mortal standing on the precipice of menopause, trying to cruise in an ill-fitting bra. She struggles with her relationships, her crazy family, and her crazier boss. And then there's her knack for being in close proximity to dead people...When her close friend Sophie London commits suicide in front...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 13
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PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by three brothers to find a fourth who, it appears from their father's will, was not disinherited after all when he walked out on the family, and is entitled to $5 million. Kinsey finds him working as a janitor in a church, but no is he sooner found, than he is killed. Kinsey has more work to do.
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If Maggie Fiori doesn't have it all, she's got plenty: a writing job at a San Francisco's chic Small Town magazine, a handsome attorney husband, two beautiful sons, and a comfortable life in Oakland. But she's hiding a dark secret beneath her smart mouth and workaday life. That secret threatens to come out when she finds her editor dead in his gorgeous Pacific Heights Victorian. Now, with a killer still on the loose, Maggie must come to terms with...
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"Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw--a shady troublemaker who they had presumed dead reappears, and it's unclear what he wants from his prosperous former associate. Meanwhile, Sharon has a new client...
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Is the "Holy Pail" cursed? Every owner of the vintage Chappy Wheeler lunchbox, a prototype based on the 1940s TV western, has died. And now, Sterling Price, business tycoon and a client of Odelia Grey's law firm, has been fatally poisoned. Is it a coincidence that Price's one-of-a-kind lunch pail, worth over thirty grand, has disappeared at the same time?
Treading cautiously since a recent run-in with a bullet, Odelia takes small bites of this juicy,...
12) Booby trap
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Could Dr. Brian Eddy, plastic surgeon to the rich and famous, possibly be the Blond Bomber serial killer? Odelia would never have suspected the prominent doctor of killing the bevy of buxom blonds if she hadn't heard it directly from her friend Lillian-Dr. Eddy's own mother-over lunch one day.
Newlywed Odelia decides to stick her big nose into the case. But this mystery gets even messier than Odelia's chicken parmigiana sandwich, with everything...
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Tucker Sinclair novels volume 2
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Mysterious Press
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2005
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English
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Women's Murder Club volume 4
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Charged with police brutality after a routine arrest goes wrong, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer waits for her trial in the town of Half Moon Bay, where she discovers a link between a string of murders and a case she worked on years earlier.
15) "N" is for noose
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 14
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California is hired by the widow of a policeman who refused to tell her what was on his mind. Kinsey learns he suspected some policemen of murder. When Kinsey opens an investigation, the town clams up.
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The Mysterious Press
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c1997
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PI Sharon McCone of Los Angeles uses her computer training and her new skills as a pilot to search for a missing man. Sharon learns the man, who was involved in the federal witness protection program, has been murdered and she goes after the killer.
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It started with the murder of Kinsey Millhone's sometime drinking buddy, an insurance claims adjuster. But before long Kinsey stumbles onto a massive insurance scam. Going undercover as a wisecracking vamp, Millhone descends into the Los Angeles nether world of machismo and gang hideouts. Her companion, terrified at having crossed the violent crook Raymond Maldonado, is Bibianna Diaz - no Girl Scout herself.
19) Hell on wheels
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When Odelia Grey and her husband, Greg, attend a rugby match to cheer for their quadriplegic friends, the last thing they expect is to witness a murder on the playing court. Complicating matters is their friendship with the prime suspect. It doesn't help that Odelia's pompous boss is embroiled in a mystery of his own--one that leaves more than his super-sized ego bruised and battered. Odelia enlists the help of family and friends, and gets some surprising...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
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Get ready for one of Kinsey Millhone's "wildest adventures yet" ( San Francisco Examiner ) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton L is for LIES... When Kinsey Millhone's landlord asks her to help deceased World War II vet Johnnie Lee's family find out why the military has no record of his service, she thinks it'll be a cinch. But she is about to meet her match in world-class prevaricators who take her for the ride of her life. L is...
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