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1) The postcard
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Rachel Yoder, a young Amish widow, struggles to come to terms with the tragic loss of her husband, her son, her sight. Though painfully shy, Rachel and her precocious daughter help her parents run a bed-and-breakfast in Lancaster County. Philip Bradley, a New York journalist on assignment, comes to stay at the family's B & B. When he finds an old postcard written in Pennsylvania Dutch, he enlists Rachel's help in uncovering its mysteries. Soon Philip...
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Rachel Alexander and Dash mysteries volume 6
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In Shamus Award–winning author Carol Lea Benjamin's riveting mystery, dog trainer–turned-PI Rachel Alexander and her pit bull, Dash, take a walk on the wild side-with a little help from a courageous dachshund-to solve a series of murders Rachel and Dash have a new client. Well, three new clients. A trio of transvestite working girls want Rachel to investigate the death of one of their own. Rosalinda's throat was slashed on Halloween right...
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Rachel Chavez only wants to stay sober and keep her recently inherited parking lot in downtown LA financially afloat. Then an executive from the nearby water agency is killed by a hit-and-run driver, and Rachel spots the car that did the deed in her garage. A few days later, her stand-in employee dies of peculiar causes, and Rachel unknowingly becomes tangled in the conniving cross-purposes of California water politics. When she uncovers evidence...
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Rachel Yoder, always trouble somewhere volume 5
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 05
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 5
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 05
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 5
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Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Even though it is spring, Rachel is not feeling very happy.
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Rachel Yoder, always trouble somewhere volume 6
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 06
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 6
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 06
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 6
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Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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At the end of summer, Rachel takes a trip to an amusement park with an English friend without her parents' permission.
10) New beginnings
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Rachel's unhappiness since her best friend moved away gets worse with the arrival of a new girl at school.
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Rachel Alexander and Dash mysteries volume 7
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English
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Former detective turned noted author and dog trainer, Carol Lea Benjamin, returns with her celebrated dark and edgy suspense series featuring smart and compelling private investigator Rachel Alexander – a new addition to the Morrow/Avon list.
A New York City police officer nearing retirement dies "accidentally," while cleaning his service revolver in the bathroom of his Greenwich Village apartment. Private investigator, Rachel Alexander, is stunned...
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A lifelong New Yorker, Private Investigator Rachel Alexander has lived through some rough times-from 9/11, to a difficult divorce, to cases that have taken her to the depths of the city's dark underbelly. But when wealthy business owner Eleanor Redstone approaches Rachel to ask if she can investigate her father's murder-a brutal slaying that occurred when he was pushed onto the subway tracks-Rachel takes the case, plunging herself into parts of the...
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Rachel Alexander and Dash mysteries volume 4
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From former detective turned noted author and dog trainer, Carol Lea Benjamin, comes the fourth book in the critically-lauded Rachel Alexander mystery series, with a sharp new package and for the first time in mass market! Dash, Rachel Alexander's pit bull terrier, has come to be known as half a sleuthing team. But when not called upon to solve crimes he has another very important job: that of a therapy dog, working with people who are developmentally...
14) Restless Waters
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Rachel Porter mysteries volume 9
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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For most people, Hawaii is heaven on Earth. But U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Rachel Porter sees the rot beneath its natural splendor. Its pristine shores are harboring a new breed of criminal, those who would upset the fragile ecological balance in the name of profit ... those who would kill in the cause of greed.
On the trail of illegal traffickers in exotic animals, Rachel stumbles upon something far more insidious and frightening --
...15) Without a Word
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Rachel Alexander and Dash mysteries volume 8
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English
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Private investigator Rachel Alexander and her pit bull Dashiell return in this stylish, dark, emotionally complex seventh mystery from former detective and noted dog trainer Carol Lea Benjamin. When a distraught father approaches private investigator Rachel Alexander in a New York City park, asking her to help find his missing wife, Rachel accepts-reluctantly. After all, the chances of finding a woman who disappeared without a trace-and without a...
16) The Wrong Dog
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Rachel Alexander and Dash mysteries volume 5
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English
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From former detective turned noted author and dog trainer, Carol Lea Benjamin, comes the fifth book in the critically-lauded Rachel Alexander mystery series, for the first time in mass market.
Sophie Gordon didn't let her epilepsy get in the way of her life as a teacher of deaf children. But without her trusty canine companion, an indispensable service dog named Blanche, she wouldn't be nearly as well-off. A service dog that can perform the difficult...
17) Broken Places
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Summer is deadly in the mountain community of Mason County, Virginia. Deputy Sheriff Tom Bridger and veterinarian Rachel Goddard are caught in a maelstrom of lies that stretch far into the past and suspicions that threaten the future. Cam and Meredith Taylor are murdered within hours of one another, and Rachel is dragged into the case because she heard-but didn't see-Cam's murder. The Taylors arrived in Mason County as volunteers in the 1960s War...
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Another Posadas County mystery with Estelle Reyes-Guzman as the undersheriff, but with the ever more popular Bill Gastner peering out of the wings to which he dispatched himself upon retirement. Estelle's new job continues to be far from easy, and now she is faced the death of a young woman on a motorcycle-a death that could have been caused by improper driving from one of the county's traffic officers when he tried to stop her for speeding. But there...
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Rachel Knight novels volume 1
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English
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A Deputy DA specializing in high-profile cases, Rachel Knight is addicted to her work and fiercely loyal to her friends. But when her colleague Jake is found dead in a seedy Los Angeles hotel room next to the body of a teenage male prostitute, Rachel realizes she might not know those around her as well as she thinks.
20) Lifeblood
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Rachel Chavez, a recovering alcoholic, owns and lives in an apartment on the top floor of a parking garage in downtown Los Angeles. She leases parking space and the use of the rooftop helicopter pad to nearby businesses. Tough but vulnerable, she is struggling to stay sober and keep her business financially afloat. Horrified when she discovers two unconscious young Mexican boys locked in an apparently abandoned van in the garage, she rushes them to...