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Author
Series
Maggie Kelly mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Coerced by Alexandre Drake, Viscount Saint Just--one of her fictional characters who has become all too real--to attend the WAR (We Are Romance) conference, mystery writer Maggie Kelly is faced with murderous fanatics, backstabbing colleagues, overzealous writers, and NYPD Lieutenant Steve Wendell.
23) Slow man
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Dependent on others after losing his leg in an accident, sixty-year-old Paul Rayment finds himself falling in love with a down-to-earth Croatian nurse and encouraged by a mysterious writer to take an activist role in his own life.
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The first entry in a new urban fantasy saga by the creator of the popular Tinker contemporary fantasy/SF series. A young American expat writer in Japan suffering from OCD tries to figure out if she's crazy or not while solving a murder that may be part of a war among Japanese deities.
25) Brazen virtue
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The steamy summer streets of Washington are no match for the phone lines of Fantasy, Inc., where every man's dreams come true. The "hotline" works perfectly for its anonymous clients and the teachers and housewives who moonlight as call girls... until a brilliant madman plugs in with twisted passion. Superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe comes home to find her sister dead, strangled with the cord of her "special" phone. Suddenly Grace's life turns...
26) Luke
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Luke had let April down in the worst possible way, and she has never been able to forgive him, but Luke would never turn his back on a friend, even if it means kidnapping a woman who despises him to keep her safe.
27) Mona
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Language
English
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Description
Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party-and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from a broken engagement, Jane Austen has scarcely arrived in Scargrave when the local earl is felled by a mysterious ailment that is far too agonizing and fatal to be credited to his fondness for claret and pudding. The earl's widow asks Jane to investigate.
31) Fractured
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After moving with her family across the country to Cincinnati to get away from a stalker, novelist Julie Prentice seems to click with her new neighbor, until a series of misunderstandings lead Julie and her family to become the victims of troubling harassment.
Author
Language
English
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The disappearance of her fawningly dependent husband catapults best-selling mystery writer Lucy Harper into dark memories about her brother who went missing under suspicious circumstances thirty years earlier.
Bestselling mystery writer Lucy Harper has fame, fortune, an army of adoring readers-- and her fawning husband Dan. When Dan goes missing, it evokes dark memories that take Lucy back thirty years to the day her brother vanished without a trace....
33) Pétronille
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With wry humor and a deceptively simple style, Amélie Nothomb, the author of over twenty-three best-selling novels tells an unusual story about twin abiding passions: one for champagne, and the other for a riotous friendship between her protagonist and Petronille Fanto, a woman who refuses to drink alone.
Author
Series
Prison break trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Joanna Sutton, haunted by the loss of her husband and child, finds refuge at her family's secluded lodge in Centennial Valley, Montana, but during a blizzard, Joanna must spearhead a desperate rescue mission of a Boy Scout Troop stranded in the wilderness.
Author
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Overseeing the renovation of the local Worrell mansion into an art colony, Jessica Fletcher finds her suspicions roused when two struggling artists mysteriously die and must stop the killer before she becomes the next target. TV tie-in.
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Series
Language
English
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Robert B. Parker's PI Sunny Randall's newest case hits close to home in ways she never expected in her latest thrilling investigation. Melanie Joan Hall is back in Boston, riding high, refusing to have Sunny and Rosie move out. She has a Netflix series about to start shooting in Boston, based on her wildly popular new series of books for girls. Then it turns out that most of her fortune is gone. And her manager, who was in charge of the money, turns...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St. Michael's Mount--and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary--interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins"--
Author
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Fletcher had come to the elegant Hamptons on Long Island's gold coast for a spell in the sun and a chance to indulge her secret passion; painting. Jessica has only a brief time behind an easel before she finds herself under the gun to solve a mystery as tantalizing as its victim."--Back cover.
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