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1141) Murder at Marigold Mesa
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Diane Phipps., P.I., devotes herself to finding out who poisoned the owner of a turquoise mine in New Mexico--yet, nobody appears to dislike him enough for murder.Who had murder on their mind? Diane Phipps, P.I., accepts a new case in Marigold Mesa, New Mexico to expose who poisoned Ethan Marlboro, owner of the Apache Plume Turquoise Mine, after a miner dies. Working with Detective Jim Diamond, questions rise. Was Rosamond Santorini, Ethan's fiancée...
1142) Die Trying
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A strange Englishman come onto the comarca. He says he wants to find gold, which is something a lot of foreigners wanted. He sets out, then is murdered - then comes back to Cusapín! Some people from his businesses came to town. It gets a bit more complicated. Clint investigates what is going on. He DID see that body!
1143) Cutest Little Killer
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From the author of the Sleuth Sisters Mysteries and Trailer Park Tales comes a new series, the Max and Lucy Mysteries.
Private Investigator Max Dunham is planning a vacation in sunny Mexico when two kids enter his office and ask for help hiring a hit man. They insist their lives are in danger and that murder is the only way they can protect themselves.
Max's disbelief is tempered by sympathy. The precocious girl and her taciturn brother are strangers...
1144) Murder Under Fire
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Murder Under Fire involves intrigue, romance, murder, and many intriguing procedural and crime elements that will cause you to desire turning the pages.
The hunt for a killer and truth should enthrall readers and keep them on the edge of their seats, hungering to reach that last page. The cat-and-mouse game between Detective Jim Hicks and Mallory should leave the reader breathless as they race through the novel to reach that last page, eager to see...
1145) Tainted Legacy
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Sid Langdon, a newly-licensed private investigator, gets his first case-complete with a corpse and a million dollars in missing jewels. And he is tapped to find the answers by the very man who may be responsible for both! So who done it? Sid wades through a sordid quagmire of blackmail, adultery, and betrayal to find the answers. It's Sid's first case-it might well be his last!
1146) The Dark Fantastic
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In a desolate part of Brooklyn, a retired history professor plots mass murder The withered old man speaks into a tape recorder. This is not a confession, he explains, but a presentation. He is Charles Witter Kirwan, a former academic who has lived his whole life in the same house and watched his childhood neighborhood turn from white to black. Now, stricken with terminal cancer, Kirwan has decided to fight back against his neighbors. His may be the...
1147) Murder Unchained
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When Private Investigator Paul West took on his next case, it seemed easy and one that would pay handsomely. All West had to do was compile a profile of Jason Knox for his only son, Matthew, who had no memory of him. His father had walked away from Matthew's mother when he was an infant and left him the sole beneficiary of his multi-million-dollar estate.
It didn't take long before he was thrust into one of the most complex cases in a long and illustrious...
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Deets Shanahan - Indianapolis PI - is back for his last case... At seventy-two years old, Deets Shanahan is ready to 'check out' and embrace old age. But, it seems his body (still functioning – just – after a bout of cancer) and Fate have other plans. Awaiting the arrival of a mystery new client, who wouldn't take no for an answer, he spies her out of his window, making her way up his drive to the front door. Suddenly, he sees her body jerk, go...
1149) Death Clses the Case
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Clint is old and can't move around like he used to. He feels useless because he can't work with his people much.He still can solve mysteriesThis one involves a lot of people. Innocent bystanders. It is a scheme being run by very powerful people.Can the famous Clint Faraday find a way to end this threat to his people?
1150) Cobalt Blues
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Johnny Cobalt is not just another down-on-his-luck PI with a bad attitude to blame for his hard-knock life. He's a Christian in compromise who needs to learn that submission to Christ is the only way out of his problems. And problems are what he has in spades: cops he can't or won't trust and who don't trust him, a partner he can trust professionally but not morally, a girl he loves but whom he keeps pushing away, and a gangster he has sold his soul...
1151) Doyle's Quest
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In this third of the Doyle, P.I. books, Doyle is hired by the curator of a Detroit Art Gallery. It seems nine valuable Egyptian statues were stolen from the gallery. They were replaced with fakes and the gallery doesn't want the Egyptians to know their artifacts are missing. So Doyle and his partner Oscar Drew go on a hunt for the missing objects. Were they taken by a group of terrorist bent on using the money from the sale of the statues to buy a...
1152) A Bloody Shame
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The regular group sitting in The Golden Grill are discussing the way a local con man had stolen the life savings of a resident from England. They are talking about how the corrupt court system will let him get away with it.Roland Eggars, himself a Britisher, says the way those people were able to manipulate the judges and police was a bloody shame. Sooner or later someone would come along and put an end to some of their practices.It was sooner.
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Eyeball Randy accepts an assignment to escort two harmless elves-an elderly maiden aunt and her niece-across the continent. Seems simple enough. If only...Private Eyeball, Randy Aloysius, agrees to accompany an elderly elf and her attractive niece on a relaxing train trip across the continent to the wet coast. They seem harmless enough, so what could go wrong?
Well, there's the obvious murder of a bent politician, throw in a card-playing vampire,...
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Private investigator and Arizona native Conner Bright tries to hide from his past with a b-movie quality Australian accent, alligator skin boots, and a bowie knife strapped to his side, but it always seems to catch up to him. When a little girl swears she saw her great uncle murdered by a purple unicorn, Conner takes the case expecting to face nothing more than a little girl's overactive imagination. But in this short story, Conner must confront his...
1155) A Smidgen of Murder
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"A generous dollop of fresh creamery butter, a touch of mild curry, a teaspoon of nice fresh basil from my own garden, a little salt, a dash of black pepper, and a taste of culantro"Bake for thirty five minutes at three seventy five. Chill, and add a smidgen of murder Serve over curried chilled cheese pasta."Are you going away, with no word of farewell?"Time to get dressed I do want to look good for this "
1156) Live To Tape
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Ethan Benson has no idea his life is about to change forever when he walks through the door of The Weekly Reporter where he's starting a new job as a senior producer, charged with managing the show's mercurial anchorman. As he settles in on his first day, he's summoned by the executive producer and assigned to a story about a rich heart surgeon who's confessed to the salacious murder of a young runaway he picked up on the gritty streets of a South...
1157) Blowback
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Vacillating between the hate he'd nurtured all his life and the burgeoning wish to be the man his father never was, Acey decides to look at the evidence in the case against his father, Karl Tapp. What he finds is proof of full-blown incompetence, a suicidal old man and a killer who wants to put a son alongside his father in lockup.
1158) Finding Elmer Lee
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The tranquility of a small southern town is shattered when one of its citizens is reported missing and a battered body is found in a wrecked car. Hasty investigations and judgment errors result in both cases being prematurely closed. Detective Lieutenant Lanny Boone is faced with the dilemma of following orders from his superiors and letting things lie, or of following his intuition and taking on the Dixie Mafia to find the killers. The only thing...
1159) Omen
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Clint rides to the mountain top to view the evening sky and learn if there are anysigns of trouble. There are. There will be blood. The predictions don't take long to prove correct - but what do they have to do with Clint and/or the comarca?
1160) Duffy's Trials
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The next installment of Duffy's adventures finds him getting ready for the trial of the Torso Murderers. On top of that, it looks like his unusual association with the PPD may come under attack from the defense. That possibility brings the Keane family together to squash it before it becomes a problem.
Life with Anne continues with one difference: Duffy proposes, and Anne accepts. And, the wedding is only nine months away, and getting ready may be...
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