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1) Anonymous
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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San Diego PI Madison Kelly arrives home to a note stabbed to her front door: "Stop investigating me, or I will hunt you down and kill you." The only problem? Madison hasn't been investigating anyone. The only way to remove the threat is to do exactly what "Anonymous", the note writer, is telling her not to do: investigate to see who left it. Madison has been tweeting about a true crime podcast about girls who went missing, two years apart, after a...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When a young journalist goes missing in sunny San Diego, PI Madison Kelly takes on the case.
San Diego journalist Barrett Brown has been missing for a week, and her boyfriend hires private investigator Madison Kelly to find her. Barrett reminds Madison of a younger version of herself: smart, ambitious, and a loner. As she investigates, Madison realizes that Barrett's disappearance is connected to a big story she was chasing. She sets out to walk...
3) The Janes
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English
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"The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"When fate and tacos bring Ramón and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them. Ramón Montez always achieves his goals. Whether that means collecting Ivy League degrees or growing his father's fast-food empire, nothing sets Ramón off course. So when the sexy señorita who kissed him on the Day of the Dead runs...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007, ©2006.
Language
English
Description
When a local mob boss calls in an old favor, Frank Machianno, the middle-aged owner of a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront, is forced to return to his old job as a hit man, and discovers that someone from his past wants him dead.
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Gunnie Rose novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Following the murderous events of Serpent of Heaven, Lizbeth Rose is awaiting the arrival of her sister Felicia and her husband's younger brother Eli in Texoma. Both needed to leave the seat of the Holy Russian Empire in San Diego after Felicia's burgeoning wizardly power in death magic became the reason for kidnapping and assassination attempts from her mother's family of high-powered wizards in Mexico. Yet bad news has traveled ahead of them, as...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After dropping out of college, Bree Bozeman is living in the surf community of Pacific Beach, San Diego-- delivering food as a GrubGetter. When she starts a new Instagram account-- @breebythesea --one of her posts gets a signal boost from none other than wildly popular self-help guru Demi DiPalma, owner of a lifestyle brand empire. Suddenly, Bree just might be a rising star in the world of Instagram influencing. It is not a career choice she had ever...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Annie and Sarah need cash-fast. Sarah, a beautiful, successful lawyer, wants nothing more than to have a baby. But balancing IVF treatments with a grueling eighty-hour workweek is no walk in the park. Meanwhile, Annie, a Harvard-grad chemist recently transplanted to Southern California, is cutting coupons to afford her young autistic son's expensive therapy. Desperate, the two friends come up with a brilliant plan: they'll combine Sarah's...
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Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Felicia, Lizbeth Rose's half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego--capital of the Holy Russian Empire--is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the hemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like a nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she's seen as a charity...
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Series
D'angelos volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Brooke Turner has always had a complicated relationship with her father. But when his health takes a turn for the worse, she drops everything to care for him. What Brooke doesn't anticipate is a cross-country move to San Diego. Luca D'Angelo is the oldest of three children and a single father to a young daughter. When his mother rents the top floor of their house to Brooke, he's angry. As Luca learns of Brooke's difficult journey, his heart softens....
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Pub. Date
©2015.
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English
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Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She and her husband live in San Diego, where they hope to soon adopt a baby. But the process terrifies her. As the questions and background checks come one after another, Molly worries that the truth she's kept hidden about her North Carolina childhood will rise to the surface and destroy not only her chance at adoption, but her marriage as well. She ran away from her family twenty years ago after a shocking...
14) Blind vigil
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Blinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago, Rick Cahill is now sure of only one thing: he has to start a new life and leave his old one behind. He's still trying to figure out what that life is when his onetime partner, Moira MacFarlane, asks for his help on a case she's taken for Rick's former best friend. The case is simple and Moira only needs Rick for one interview, but Rick is wary of waking...
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Series
San Diego case files volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Sam Reeves is a kindhearted psychologist who treats court-ordered clients. After one of his earliest patients-a pathological liar-starts revealing plausible new details from a long-unsolved serial murder case, he's compelled to report anonymously to the SDPD tip line, though his attempts to respect patient confidentiality land him facedown and cuffed by the aggressive (and cute) Detective McKittrick. San Diego homicide detective Kit McKittrick loves...
16) Doomed legacy
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Private investigator Rick Cahill has been running from his past and chasing the truth his whole life. But his past is relentless--and so is his CTE, a disease caused by repeated head traumas that has attacked his body and his mind. As his CTE progresses, he realizes that the disease not only threatens his life but also endangers his family's wellbeing. As Rick struggles to keep his family together, he does a favor for Sara Bhandari, a business contact....
17) Cheater
Author
Series
San Diego case files volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shady Oaks Retirement Village, which provides San Diego's premier elderly support from independent retiree housing to full-time hospice care. But when a resident's body is found brutally stabbed and his apartment ransacked, it's clear there's someone deadly in their community. Detective Katherine "Kit" McKittrick quickly discovers that Shady Oaks is full of skeleton-riddled closets, and most tenants prefer to...
18) Odyssey's end
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"San Diego private investigator Rick Cahill's past comes back to haunt him when he's at his most vulnerable. His wife, Leah, has fled with their daughter, Krista, to her parents' home in Santa Barbara. She fears Rick's violent outbursts brought on by his potentially fatal brain disorder, CTE--and she doesn't trust that he'll ever be able to tame his manic desire to bring his own brand of justice to an unjust world. Rick desperately wants to reunite...
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