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A film star begs Croft to find his missing wife and daughter Hollywood icon Roy Alonzo has just learned that in Los Angeles there is no such thing as a simple divorce. After years of bitterness and jealousy, his wife Melissa leaves him, taking most of his money, property, and five days a week with their only child. When Roy begins dating again, Melissa accuses him of sexually abusing their daughter, and disappears with her. Alonzo asks Santa Fe detective...
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Biggie is delighted when her old friend Rex Barnwell and his wife return to Job's Crossing to convert the local ranch to a retreat for overweight teenage girls, but it also means that Biggie must reveal to her thirteen-year-old grandson that Rex is his biological grandfather. Sadly, the reunion is short-lived when Rex is murdered, and Biggie becomes involved in the ensuing investigation.
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On the way to a lunch meeting of her local book discussion group, the Uppity Women, small-town Southern librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is shocked and dismayed to find her sister-in-law, Poppy, lying bloody and dead right outside her own back door. Poppy had her flaws, certainly - she and her husband were having trouble staying faithful to each other - but she didn't deserve to be so brutally murdered." Investigating a case like this is never easy,...
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2009 [2004]
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When two skeletons turn up in one of Wilmington's antebellum mansions, historic preservationist Ashley Wilkes suspects there is more to the discovery than meets the eye. Her subsequent investigations uncover clues that tell her a killer is poised to strike.
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2005
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The annual cricket match between the Comedians and the Writers is a little more eventful than usual when Bruce Lester is murdered with a baseball bat. Detective Inspector Don Packham interrogates the many suspects. Murder is a serious business. But bringing a baseball bat into a cricket pavilion--that is one unspeakable crime.
11) Jury of one
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2006, �2005
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A Mitch Burns/Elise Jenkins mystery.
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You can waste a lot of time looking... Or you can pay me to find it for you.
Brodie Farrell is a busy woman, what with running her one-woman firm Looking for Something? and raising her daughter. So on her night off, all she wants is to spend a relaxing evening teaching her friend Daniel Hood to drive. But the evening takes a disturbing turn when Daniel hits a young woman who seems to appear out of nowhere. The girl, Alison Barker, is mostly uninjured,...
15) Restless spirit
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Nearly two decades ago, sixteen year old Catherine DeMarco took a scandalous secret to her grave - a secret that only now has come under the unorthodox scrutiny of Sergeant Samantha Casey, currently on suspension from the force. The teenager's boyfriend was convicted of the crime and his execution date is approaching, unless Sam can nail the true killer before the wrong man dies ... the closer Sam gets to the deception at the heart of the crime, the...
