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The Cats Came Back (Magical Cats #10)
Par Sofie Kelly. 2018
Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson often seems to gets mixed up in murder, but luckily, her very special cats always find…
a way to help her close a case . . .The charming Minnesota town of Mayville Heights is hosting a music festival, and the whole place is bustling with musicians and tourists. Kathleen is looking forward to taking in some fabulous performances--and her two cats, Owen and Hercules, are looking forward to taking in some fabulous sardine crackers. But then the trio stumbles across a dead body by the river. The victim is a close friend--who also happens to be a look-alike of a popular cabaret singer set to perform at the festival. Who could have wanted to harm this innocent girl? Was it a case of mistaken identity? As accusations abound and suspicions swirl, Kathleen, Hercules and Owen will put their abilities--both mundane and magical--to the test, and lay down the paw.Pretty Boy (Sam Jones #7)
Par Lauren Henderson. 2001
It's New Year's Eve in the quiet English village of Lesser Swinfold, and sculptress Sam Jones has arrived to celebrate…
the holiday with her old friend Tom, who teaches primary school and lives in a rustic bed-and-breakfast. Sam is not in for a relaxing vacation, though. Hugo, Sam's city-loving boyfriend, is vexed to no end that they had to leave London for the countryside and won't let her forget how unhappy he is. However, Hugo's tantrums are quickly forgotten when Tom's latest girlfriend is killed and Sam suddenly finds herself thrust again into a murder investigation where Tom is the lead suspect. While defending her wrongly accused best pal, Sam ends up uncovering more than she bargained for, including her deep attraction to Alan, a young, impossibly gorgeous college student who may hold the key to the entire case.Witch Slapped (Witchless In Seattle Mysteries Ser. #1)
Par Dakota Cassidy. 2016
Oh good Not a problem I ll invoke the Gods of Pilates I m sure they…
d be happy to help Hang on just one sec while I dial them up Oh wait I can t Know why I can t Because my hands are tied behind my back with zip ties Win A rib-tickling cozy mystery complete with an ex-witch a dead British spy a cotton ball bat and a cast of suspects that will keep you guessing right up to the end Witch Slapped from USA Today bestselling romantic comedy author Dakota Cassidy is Book 1 of her new cozy mystery series Witchless In Seattle Join the hunt for a murderer with Stevie Winterbottom and Belfry in a race against time as the local police prepare an eight by ten cell for our intrepid ex-witch What s a girl to do when she s a broke shunned ex-witch with a very tiny very hungry bat familiar named Belfry to feed Hello My name is Stevie Cartwright and I ve been witchless for thirty days If only there was a support group for down-on-their-luck ex-witches who ve had their powers slapped right out of them literally Just as I was licking my wounds after returning to my hometown of Ebenezer Falls WA and navigating my suddenly non-magical existence with the help of my familiar the only friend I have left in the world--things got sticky Enter an ex-spy and newly departed spirit named Winterbottom who s infiltrated my life with his sexy British accent and a couple of requests Thanks to Belfry s successful attempt to use me as a human antenna to the afterlife I can somehow hear Win I should be ecstatic helping departed souls used to be my witch specialty It s like I got the teensiest piece of my old life back Except Win s dropped me right at a dead woman s feet Madam Zoltar the town s beloved fake medium has been murdered and Win wants me to catch the killer My old life won t be worth much if it gets me whacked before my new life has barely begun--and that seems to be exactly what the killer has planned This cozy mystery has a complete cast of oddball characters from witches to ghosts and bats to psychics Witchless In Seattle Mysteries is a spin-off of Dakota Cassidy s bestselling paranormal romance series A Paris Texas RomanceHome Fires (Deborah Knott #6)
Par Margaret Maron. 1998
Paging the Dead
Par Brynn Bonner. 2013
Piecing together the evidence . . .Genealogist Sophreena McClure is an expert at unearthing other people's secrets. Using old documents…
and photographs, Soph and her business partner, Esme Sabatier--also a gifted medium--trace family histories and create heritage scrapbooks. Their latest client, Dorothy Pritchett Porter, is thrilled with their research into Morningside's most prestigious clan. But before Dorothy can proudly display her new scrapbooks on Founders' Day, she's found murdered. It seems the ties that bind can also strangle, for Dorothy has been killed using the Pritchett family pearls.Pegged as prime suspects, Sophreena and Esme turn their investigative skills from the dearly departed to the alive and dangerous, hoping to pin down the real killer among Dorothy's kinfolk. Sophreena's scrapbooking club members, crafty in more ways than one, pitch in to help. As the Pritchett ancestral roots turn out to be more tangled than anyone suspected, Sophreena wonders just how many skeletons lurk in this family closet--and whether she and Esme are destined to join them. . . .Getting Old is a Disaster (Gladdy Gold Mysteries Ser. #5)
Par Rita Lakin. 2008
Gladdy Gold Mystery 5 The Golden Girls play Nancy Drew in their own funny and…
creative ways colorful and Meshugeneh Mystery Scene After schlepping all over New York City senior PI Gladdy Gold is happy to be back on Florida turf Especially now that she and Jack Langford are officially an item But no sooner has the yenta brigade gotten back to their favorite routines such as poolside stretching and kvetching than the notorious outlaw the Grandpa Bandit issues Gladdy s detective agency a direct challenge Catch me if you can The dapper thief has hit six Fort Lauderdate banks and it s up to Gladdy and the girls to stop him before he robs another But a bandit takes a back burner to murder any day especially when a monster hurricane reveals a 50-year-skeleton at Lanai Gardens retirement community Gladdy and the gals are about to uncover a ruthless killer if he doesn t kill them first Ms Lakin pens an entertaining cozy mystery series with a set of lovable and oddball characters The mystery has a puzzling plot with twists and turns that will surprise readers at the outcome Retirement takes on a new meaning after spending time with Gladdy and her gladiators Gladdy Gold and her screwball bunch of gladiators are out to solve another hilarious case Fresh Fiction This is a wonderful series for cozy-lovers of all persuasions Mystery Lovers Rita Lakin s delightful series featuring senior sleuth Gladdy Gold and her posse of kibitzing friends continues full of humor and heart Mystery SceneClairvoyant and Present Danger (A Bay Island Psychic Mystery)
Par Lena Gregory. 2018
A haunting vision reveals a ghostly grave in the latest Bay Island Psychic Mystery from the author of Occult and…
Battery.Whoever said that dead men tell no tales has never met Cass Donnovan...Cass has always relied on her abilities to guide her, but after communications with a ghost land her in the middle of a murder investigation, she has to wonder if her gifts are really more a curse.Cass knows she is meant to help track down the killer--much to the chagrin of local law enforcement--when the apparition leads her to a dead body on the beach near her psychic shop, Mystical Musings. But the police are not the only ones who wish Cass would stick to reading palms. Someone is trying to scare her off, and it will take all her powers of premonition to catch the killer before Cass herself becomes the next victim...Clock and Dagger
Par Julianne Holmes. 2016
Expert clockmaker Ruth Clagan has another murder on her hands in the second Clock Shop Mystery from the author of…
Just Killing Time.Ruth has three days to pull off four events--including the grand reopening of Cog & Sprocket, the clock shop she inherited from her grandfather--so she doesn't have time for Beckett Green's nonsense. The competitive owner of a new bookstore, Green seems determined to put other businesses out of business by also carrying their specialty items. He's trying to steal Ruth's new watchmaker, Mark Pine, not to mention block her plans to renovate the town clock tower. Ruth is already all wound up when she's alarmed to discover Mark's dead body. As the denizens of Orchard each chime in as to who they think the murderer is, Ruth needs to watch her back as she investigates on her own. Despite the danger, Ruth won't stop until the killer is behind bars and serving time...The Confidence Woman
Par Judith Van Gieson. 2002
When Claire Reynier becomes the victim of credit card fraud, she's stunned to discover that Evelyn Martin, an old college…
friend and sorority sister, is the culprit. She's even more shocked when Evelyn turns up dead. According to the police, Evelyn also swindled three other former classmates, but Claire is the only one without an alibi for the time of Evelyn's murder. And the only one with an extra motive: Evelyn stole her rare signed first edition of Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, which is still missing. Now, dodging danger at every turn, Claire must sift through past grudges and long-buried resentments to uncover the truth--and clear her name...The Wolf Path
Par Judith Van Gieson. 1992
It's a 104 degree day in Albuquerque when attorney/sleuth Neil Hamel gets a call asking her to go to southern…
New Mexico to help a wolf advocate who calls himself Juan Sololobo. Juan, who attracts trouble wherever he goes, is visiting the town of Soledad to give an educational program featuring his timber wolf, Sirius. After someone lets Sirius out of his pen, a federal official is murdered and Juan becomes the prime suspect. As Neil defends him she finds herself immersed in a deadly conflict between ranchers and environmentalists over wolf reintroduction.Ditch Rider
Par Judith Van Gieson. 1998
As attorney Neil Hamel settles into her new house in Albuquerque's North Valley, she befriends thirteen-year-old Cheyanne Morales, who lives…
in a nearby trailer with her mother and her younger half-brother. Cheyanne's teenage angst is complicated by the pressures that gang culture imposes on her and her peers. Neil gets a harrowing glimpse of these pressures when a fifteen-year-old is shot to death not far from Neil's new home. The cops suspect a rival gang member, but late one night, a battered Cheyanne shows up at Neil's front door to confess that she was the shooter. The authorities are reluctant to accept Cheyanne's story--as a minor she'd get only a slap on the wrist--and Neil is dubious too, but she agrees to represent her young friend. With Cheyanne in custody, Neil uncovers chilling evidence that the girl's family and friends intend to take justice into their own hands. Only Neil and her lover, the Kid, can prevent another tragedy from playing out along the ditches of her new neighborhood.Parrot Blues
Par Judith Van Gieson. 1995
She may be a divorce lawyer, but Neil Hamel uses her PI's instincts when a millionaire's rare indigo macaw and…
newly endangered wife are kidnapped together. The unusual search puts her right in the heart of New Mexico's breathtaking Plains of San Agustin, for a dangerous game of bird smuggling and one-upmanship. Armed with high-tech surveillance equipment and a backpack full of her client's money, Neil treks to a remote exchange point. Alas, she returns with the indigo, but no wife, and she's beginning to get ideas. When she learns that one of her chief suspects has suspiciously expired in her absence, Neil makes it her mission to find out who killed him and where the kidnapped woman is. So far, the only eyewitnesses are the parrots--and they're not talking.Raptor
Par Judith Van Gieson. 1990
A steady law practice, a stash of tequila, a lover she calls the Kid--only a debt of the heart to…
her dear, dead aunt Joan could compel Neil Hamel to leave Albuquerque for Montana in search of a bird. No ordinary winged creature, the Arctic falcon is a near-mythic figure, a cool killer who likes the meat around the heart. In pursuit of this elusive species, Neil witnesses a sight even more awesome--a body plunging off a cliff. Soon she is swept into a murder case that brings together militant environmentalists and high-stakes poachers, federal investigators, and even an Arabian prince. Suddenly, in a wilderness where she has no shelter and little chance for survival, Neil is the target of human predators.The Shadow of Venus
Par Judith Van Gieson. 2004
When a young woman is found dead in the basement of the university library--with an illustration from a valuable book…
beside her--Claire recognizes the victim as someone she had met, but whose name she never knew. To learn more, Claire must descend into the haunting world of the homeless in Albuquerque, where the dead woman was known simply as Maia. It is a name with special meaning, the same as that of a mythical Greek woman who fled to the sky to escape her attacker. The illustration leads Claire to a secretive commune in Taos where Maia grew up--and may have suffered terrible abuse. But someone doesn't want Claire to shed too much light on the shadows of the past--and will do anything to stop her...The Vanishing Point
Par Judith Van Gieson. 2001
Jonathan Vail's novel made him famous. His disappearance made him a legend. Thirty-five years ago the young writer embarked on…
a camping trip in Utah's Slickrock Canyon, never to be seen again. His journal vanished with him. Now, archivist Claire Reynier--preserver of Vail's legacy--finds herself drawn into literature's most elusive mystery. But separating fact from fiction proves to be a dangerous proposition. The search for the missing diary has led Claire to a case of cold-blooded murder committed in the shadow of Vail family secrets--and linked to a devoted fan determined to keep the mystery of Jonathan Vail's vanishing buried forever...Hotshots
Par Judith Van Gieson. 1996
It is a devastating tragedy: In the South Canyon of Colorado's Thunder Mountain, a sudden cold front whips a small,…
containable fire into a raging inferno, killing nine heroic firefighters from the Duke City Hotshots. The U.S. Forest Service blames the dead; a victim's grieving mother charges the government with negligence. Into this flammable mix enters Albuquerque lawyer Neil Hamel, hired to pursue the explosive wrongful death case. Mounting an investigation of her own, Neil interviews shocked survivors of the fire, then hikes the charred remains of the forest where the Hotshots met their end. But after retracing the steps of their flight, she will face the terror of their last gasps of breath. Because someone is playing with fire...Land of Burning Heat
Par Judith Van Gieson. 2003
Archivist Claire Reynier may have a priceless find on her hands. A woman named Isabel Santos has discovered a faded…
document hidden for hundreds of years under the floor of her family's adobe house. It could be the controversial last words of a Jewish mystic condemned to death by the Inquisition in Mexico City. But before Claire can establish the document's authenticity, it disappears, and tragedy visits the Santos family. As Claire searches for the missing paper, she fears that uncovering the history of a dark and dangerous time may bolster her career...at the cost of her life.The Lies that Bind
Par Judith Van Gieson. 1993
Early in the morning of November 1, Albuquerque lawyer Neil Hamel and her boyfriend, the Kid, are shaken out of…
their post-coital bliss when they find a surprise visitor at Neil's apartment door. The visitor is Martha Conover, a pinched, elegant older woman pleads for help. Martha's been accused of running over Justine Virga, the girl who accidentally killed her grandson, Michael, in a car crash three years--to the day--earlier. But Martha doesn't remember killing the girl. While Justine's crushed corpse is found outside Martha's home and Martha's car bears an incriminating dent, Neil gradually discovers clues from Martha's prim past and Justine's wild one that point to other suspects, from drug dealers to South American death squads to Michael's Latino father, wronged two decades earlier by Martha's bigotry. But can she find and prove who the real killer is?McCone and Friends
Par Marcia Muller. 2011
Creator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone…
for decades. Now McCone's colleagues get a chance to offer their viewpoints on some cases. McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as two stories narrated by the agency's investigator Rae Kelleher; a story from the viewpoint of its office manager Ted Smalley; an investigation conducted by McCone's nephew Mick Savage; and one by her long-term lover Hy Ripinsky. The settings range from small planes to a sweatshop which puts Asian women into virtual slavery, and the mysteries surround a 1950's jukebox in a rundown hotel, a sculpture welded together by a long-missing and now very-dead artist. In perhaps the most moving story of all, a teenage girl has vanished leaving as a clue only a collage on her wall.The Matador's Crown
Par Alex Archer. 2012
An invitation too irresistible to refuse from the Museum of Cadiz leads archaeologist Annja Creed to the sun-drenched southern coast…
of Andalucia, Spain. In a region rich in Moorish and Roman ruins, she leaps at the chance to join a dig across the Bay of Cadiz, where she unearths a bronze bull statue that makes the entire trip worth every minute. Until the day after her discovery, when she sees the same artifact beside the body of a dead Spaniard, killed by the estocada, the final sword thrust used by bullfighters to bring down the bull.Whoever killed the man left clear signs of having taken something. And yet the bronze bull remained. What was so valuable the murderer chose it over a priceless artifact? How had her find come into this dead man's hands? With few leads and a growing body count, Annja's investigation takes her through a colorful world of flamenco and bullfighting to a renowned matador and an illegal-and deadly-collection of Visigoth votive crowns.