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1) Fadeout
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Fadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay. When entertainer Fox Olson's car plunges off a bridge in a storm, a death claim is filed, but where is Olson's body? As Brandstetter questions family, fans, and detractors, he grows certain Olson is still alive and that Dave must find him before the would-be killer does. Suspenseful and wry, shrewd...
2) Death Claims
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Death Claims is the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator. When John Oats's body is found washed up on a beach, his young lover April Stannard is sure it was no accident. Brandstetter agrees: Oats's college-age son, the beneficiary of the life insurance policy, has gone missing."--Goodreads.
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels (Joe Clifford) volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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4) Rollover
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A bank heist turns sleepy little Wagon Mound, New Mexico on its ear. It's no straight-forward, demand all the money at gun-point, and run out the front door kind of robbery. It's a sneaky tunneling that probably took months to complete and put the thieves in a room of safe deposit boxes-not the vault which held some two million. Safe deposit boxes? What could have made it worthwhile to bypass a cool couple million? Maybe the one hundred and ten year...
5) Bimini twist
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Jane Bunker returns in another thrilling, small-town mystery set in Down East Maine. It seems like everyone in Green Haven knows that Jane Bunker has scored an invite to the ultra-exclusive Summer Solstice Soiree--and they all assume she'll be in attendance, as one of the few eligible single women in town. Of course, that's the last place Jane would like to be; hobnobbing and making small talk with the upper crust isn't exactly her idea of a good...
6) Shiver hitch
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jane Bunker thought she'd escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she's left behind the bustle of the city, but not the murder. When Jane is called to the remote Acadia Island to assess the damages from a house fire, she also finds a badly burned body...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Insurance adjustor Jack Wade investigates a house fire which killed a California heiress. Police rule an accident, but Wade suspects the woman's husband. Or is he being led up the creek by the real arsonist? By the author of The Death and Life of Bobby Z.
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Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Investigator Oscar Basaran travels to Kidney Island off the coast of Maine to document the negative effects of shadow flicker from wind turbines on residents living near the windmills, but is unprepared for what he encounters from the islanders. Oscar's research shows that sleep deprivation, light deficiency and ringing headaches brought on by the noise and constant strobe-like effect of the sun filtered through the spinning blades of the turbines...
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