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Renée Ballard volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing...
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Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 6
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to write jokes for Dorcas, a struggling stand-up comic, Jaine Austen discovers that murder is the punchline when Dorcas's rival, a heckler named Vic, is strangled with one of her props--a pair of pantyhose.
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Series
Language
English
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Faerie princess Meredith Gentry is heir to a throne--if she can stay alive long enough to claim it. Her cousin, Prince Cel, is determined to see that she doesn't. As long as they both live, they are in a race: Whichever one of them reproduces first gets the throne.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...
5) The big nap
Author
Series
Mommy-track mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Juliet Applebaum juggles the demands of her two young children while investigating the disappearance of her young Hasidic woman babysitter.
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Smarmy personals ads. Daring declarations of love. Writer-for-hire Jaine Austen has penned them all. But when one of the love connections she made is broken up by murder, Jaine finds herself freelancing free-of-charge--and uncovering more than she bargained for. . . No one seems to need her help more than geeky, gawky Howard Murdoch. His request is simple enough: a letter proclaiming his undying love for Stacy Lawrence, a gorgeous aerobics instructor....
7) Short change
Author
Series
[Tucker Sinclair mystery] volume 3
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to get her L.A.-based consulting business off the ground, Tucker Sinclair has her hands full, especially after her clients' businesses--and their lives--are threatened.
Author
Series
[Tucker Sinclair mystery] volume 2
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
When a college boyfriend strolls back into her life after dumping her to marry her former best friend, Tucker Sinclair is charged with the personally difficult task of solving his subsequent murder.
Author
Series
[Wollie Shelley mystery] volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
While reluctantly participating in a reality TV show, greeting card artist and amateur sleuth Wollie Shelley becomes concerned about the disappearance of her friend Annika.
10) Cool cache
Author
Series
[Tucker Sinclair mystery] volume 4
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to make a success of her new chocolate shop, gourmande Helen Taggart hires Tucker Sinclair as a consultant, but things go badly awry when Tucker stumbles upon the body of the shop's cleaning woman Lupe Ortiz and races against time to uncover the meaning of the bloody green feather lying next to the victim and to find a killer.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mystery volume 1
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
12) Unpaid dues
Author
Series
Munch Mancini crime novel volume 6
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Miranda "Munch" Mancini, a single mom and mechanic, seeks out a vicious killer dredging up her past after her fingerprints and picture turn up in a murdered woman's arrest file, along with a current cold murder case headed up by her detective lover Rico Chacon, as she must lure the murderer out or face the consequences of a past that she cannot seem to shed.
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English
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"In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as these women. These women on the corner ... These women in the club ... These women who won't stop asking questions ... These women who got what they deserved ... Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They're connected by one man and his deadly obsession, though...
14) Skies of ash
Author
Series
Detective Elouise Norton novel volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton and her partner, Colin Taggert, arrive at the scene of a tragic house fire. Juliet Chatman perished in the blaze, along with her two children. Left behind is grieving husband and father Christopher Chatman, hospitalized after trying to rescue his family. Chatman is devastated that he couldn't save them. Unless, of course, he's the one who killed them. Neighbors and family friends insist the Chatmans...
15) Dating dead men
Author
Series
[Wollie Shelley mystery] volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show hosts upcoming book, How to Avoid Getting Dumped All the Time. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescadoa state-run mental hospitaland is momentarily taken hostage by a charismatic "doctor" who is on the run from the...
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