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41) 15th affair
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Women's Murder Club volume 15
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Lindsay Boxer has a beautiful baby daughter and a husband she loves unconditionally. Always focused on her career as a San Francisco police detective, she wondered what domestic bliss might feel like, and she's never been happier. She can't imagine that a brutal murder at a downtown luxury hotel, and the disappearance of a gorgeous blond woman from the scene would have anything to do with her own life and marriage--yet Lindsay can't ignore disturbing...
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"In 1895 San Francisco young debutantes don't commit suicide at festive parties, particularly not under the eye of Sabina Carpenter. But Virginia St. Ives evidently did, leaping from a foggy parapet in a shimmer of ghostly light. The seemingly impossible disappearance of her body creates an even more serious problem for the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services. Sabina hadn't wanted to take the assignment, but her partner...
43) 16th Seduction
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Lindsay Boxer is learning to love again. After the picture-perfect world she shared with her husband, Joe, and their beautiful young daughter shattered under the weight of Joe's double life, Lindsay is determined to put the pieces back together. But before she can welcome Joe back with open arms, their beloved hometown of San Francisco faces a threat unlike any the city--or the country--has ever seen.When the danger hits even closer to home, Lindsay...
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[2015]
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First Place Winner of the 2018 Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Historical Mystery Award and fourth book in the USA Today bestselling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series.It's the summer of 1880, and once again the lovely and inquisitive businesswoman, Annie Fuller, is helping San Francisco lawyer and fiancé, Nate Dawson, with a troublesome case. Nate's client, a female typesetter accused of murdering her boss, refuses to help in her own defense....
45) Unlucky 13
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Women's Murder Club volume 13
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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"San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the...
46) Eye of the storm
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 7
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Appleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta. Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards. Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast inn. Summoned by her eccentric younger sister, P.I. Sharon McCone arrives in the teeth of a gale, taking a...
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[2013]
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It's the winter of 1880, and the teachers of San Francisco are under attack: their salaries slashed and their competency and morals questioned in a series of poison pen letters. Annie Fuller, the reluctant clairvoyant, has been called in to investigate by Nate Dawson, her lawyer beau, and the case becomes personal when they discover that Laura, Nate's sister, may be one of the teachers targeted for attack.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 14
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[1994]
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PI Sharon McCone of San Francisco is hired by a hippie drug dealer from her college days. Now a "turnaround man" who fixes corporations in trouble, he has many enemies and needs protection. No sooner does Sharon take the case, than the man's wife is murdered and he disappears. By the author of Wolf in the Shadows.
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[2009]
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"It's the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie's husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the boardinghouse she owns to pay off a debt. Annie Fuller also has a secret. She supplements her income by giving domestic and business advice as Madam Sibyl, one of San Francisco's most exclusive clairvoyants, and one of Madam...
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2013.
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San Francisco contractor Mel Turner is leading a volunteer home renovation project, and while she expects lots of questions from her inexperienced crew, she can't help asking a few of her own--especially about the haunted house next door, the place local kids call the Murder House. But when volunteers discover a body while cleaning out a shed, questions pile up faster than discarded lumber. Mel notices signs of ghostly activity next door and she wonders:...
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Kate Martinelli mysteries volume 5
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San Francisco detective Kate Martinelli receives a lesson in detection from the master sleuth himself when she investigates the murder of a Sherlock Holmes aficionado, who may have been killed for a century-old manuscript purportedly penned by Holmes.
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Spellman files volume 5
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[2012]
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For the first time in Spellman history, Isabel Spellman, P.I., might be the most normal member of her family. Yet as a number of cases pile, Izzy won't stop hunting for the answers--even when they threaten to shatter both the business and the family.
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c2012
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"Word has spread that contractor Mel Turner can communicate with the spirits of the dead, and shes having a hard time maintaining a low profile. She decides to embrace her reputation for the chance to restore a historic house that calls to her. The new owners, who hope to run a haunted bed-and-breakfast, want Mel to encourage the ghosts that supposedly roam the halls to enhance the houses paranormal charm. The catch: Mel has to spend one night in...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 2
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There's trouble in Sharon McCone's quiet San Francisco apartment building. Madame Anya is predicting doom and gloom for all.
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Women's Murder Club volume 11
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c2012
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the death of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker.
59) The Cove
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FBI special agent James Quinlan journeys undercover to the town of The Cove, where Sally St. John Brainerd is hiding from police who want to question her about her possible involvement in her father's murder.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 14
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[1994]
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PI Sharon McCone of San Francisco is hired by a hippie drug dealer from her college days. Now a "turnaround man" who fixes corporations in trouble, he has many enemies and needs protection. No sooner does Sharon take the case, than the man's wife is murdered and he disappears. By the author of Wolf in the Shadows.