"Oh what a tangled
web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
Sir Walter Scott
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"Oh what a tangled
web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." |
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| Wishful Sinful by Tracy Dunham |
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| Tal Jefferson has returned home after a disastrous loss in a capital murder case. She has left her big-city law practice and has returned to the small Georgia town where she was raised. Booze has become her best friend. | |
| Then she is appointed defense attorney in a local murder case. Tal knows the only reason she was chosen is that everyone is sure the defendant is guilty and they want a slam-dunk case. | |
| Soon Tal finds herself untangling a web of deceit and trying to determine who is the father of whom and who is sleeping with whom! She knows the answers to those questions will help her figure out this case. | |
| Judas Island by Kathryn R. Wall |  |
| Bay Tanner and her friend Erik Whiteside have started an investigation agency. Bay’s father, The Judge, although confined to a wheelchair, often assists them. | |
| Bay returns home from Paris after the apparent collapse of her short-lived affair with a French Interpol agent. Erik's old college drinking buddy, archaeologist Gray Palmer, has uncovered a grave and taken a bone. After hinting the bone may belong to a murder victim, Gray is found dead. | |
| Bay and Erik start investigating to find out whether his death is related and who the murder victim is. Before they uncover the truth, they put themselves in grave danger. | |
| Tagged for Murder by Elaine Flinn |
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| Molly Doyle is an antiques dealer in Carmel. One night Molly’s long-lost sister Carrie shows up at her place with her twelve-year-old daughter Emma. A couple days later Carrie leaves Em with her. Soon it is discovered that Carrie isn’t coming back. | |
| Trudy Collins dies from an apparent heart attack at a local show. Kenneth Randall, chief of police, tells Molly that Trudy was murdered, but that he doesn’t want very many people to know. Randall tells Molly to not do any investigating. | |
| But Molly can’t help herself. Molly soon discovers that Trudy’s antiques business was not all on the up and up. She worries Carrie may have been involved in that side of her business. She must investigate but keep Emma safe. Not always easy to do. | |
| On Thin Ice by Alina Adams |  |
TV journalist Bex Levy is a figure-skating researcher who is asked to do a segment on thirteen-year-old Jeremy Hunt. He may be the future of skating. Unfortunately his father is refusing to allow him to compete at Nationals. |
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Before Bex can do much filming or ask any questions, Jeremy's father stops her. Then he and Jeremy disappear. Bex thinks there is more to this story than just a father not wanting his son to compete. She decides to do a story on other up-and-coming skaters that disappeared from skating. |
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When one of the skaters she recently interviewed is found brutally murdered, Bex realizes not all competition stops on the ice. Can she uncover the truth before anyone else becomes a victim? |
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Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson |
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Goldy's ex-husband Dr. John Richard Korman, or "The Jerk" as she and Marla, his other ex-wife, refer to him, has just had his sentence commuted by the governor. |
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| Goldy is attacked and The Roundhouse sabotaged. She wonders if this could be the work of The Jerk. Then she finds The Jerk shot to death in his garage. | |
There are many reasons Goldy is a major suspect. With Marla's help, Goldy begins to look into who could have wanted The Jerk dead. He was not a well-liked man. Can Goldy figure out why the Jerk was killed and by whom? |
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Priceless by Marne Davis Kellogg |
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Kick Keswick is a retired jewel thief. She wasn't just any jewel thief, she was the Shamrock Burglar. Now she and her husband, Commander Thomas Curtis of the Scotland Yard, have retired to their wonderful home in Provence. They enjoy wonderful food and picnics in lavender-filled fields. |
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| Not long after Thomas disappears with her secret cache of precious stones and a cryptic note, Kick starts hearing about the antics of the Shamrock Burglar stealing irreplaceable jewels. Since she didn't do the thefts, she knows an imposter is using her signature. And not using it right, she might add. | |
| She heads off to figure out who is pretending to be the Shamrock Burglar. She finds out that her husband is heading up the investigation. Can she find a way to thwart the thief and get away without being caught? | |
Copyright 2005 by Dawn Dowdle
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