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Women sleuths. by Greenberg, Martin Harry.(CARDINAL)722091; Pronzini, Bill.(CARDINAL)341630;
Subjects: Fiction.; Detective and mystery stories, American.; Women detectives;
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The sleeping beauty killer [audio-enabled device] by Clark, Mary Higgins,author.(CARDINAL)293727; Burke, Alafair,author.(CARDINAL)350661; Maxwell, Jan,narrator.(CARDINAL)528388; Brilliance Audio (Firm)(CARDINAL)539950; Findaway World, LLC,distributor.(CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Digital Audio,publisher.(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by Jan Maxwell.The fourth thrilling installment in the bestselling Under Suspicion series from #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and American crime novelist Alafair Burke. Television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help a woman she thinks was wrongfully convicted of murder. Issued on Playaway LIGHT, a dedicated audio media player.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Audiobooks.; Women sleuths;
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Burning rage : Deuce Mora mystery, by Heller, Jean.;
It's already been a rough year for the Chicago Journal's first-rate journalistic sleuth, Deuce Mora. After two agonizing investigations - one of which won her a Pulitzer Prize, the other of which forced her to kill a man - she claims she's sworn off action-packed chases that cause nightmares. Still...from the moment she hears the earliest details of the first fire, her detective-instincts say the pieces don't fit, and every other instinct tells the hard-hitting reporter she can't walk away from the story - even though she knows she'll regret it. As a series of deadly fires destroys landmarks first, then occupied structures, the body count rises by scores and the city is gripped by terror at Christmastime, adding lost revenue to property damage in the hundreds of millions. Whole blocks of Chicago real estate are falling to an arsonist, but no one knows why and everyone suspects the worst--terrorism. After the initial tip from the lead arson investigator (aka her boyfriend), Deuce is on her own to solve the mystery. Their relationship could endanger his reputation and his job if he's even suspected of leaking information to her, so they've called a temporary halt. But she's not exactly lacking for company - her old adversary, FBI agent Colter, has a tail on her, and Colter himself keeps popping out of the shadows. His presence at the crime scene and, even more revealingly, that of an NSA agent point to the suspicion of jihadist terrorism. But no terrorist group has claimed the mayhem.
Subjects: Hard-boiled fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Women sleuths;
© 2018., Jean Heller Stephens,
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The someday file : Deuce Mora mystery, by Heller, Jean.;
Deuce Mora's one tough cookie--a female sleuth with a conscience and an attitude--fiery, tough, athletic, a dirty fighter when she has to be. In Jean Heller's first mystery featuring the scrappy newspaper columnist, Deuce finds out in short order that if you mess with organized crime, you have to be tough--and you'd better be as much detective as reporter. When she walks into a seedy neighborhood bar in a suburb of Chicago--all six feet of her, topped with auburn curls--she's searching for a human-interest story. What she finds is Vinnie Colangelo, an aging mobster living on bad beer, cheap bourbon and regret for the life he wasted. Vinnie hints at secrets much bigger than his rap sheet should entitle him to, and Deuce immediately discovers that somebody's willing to kill to keep those secrets buried. She uncovers a series of crimes committed over nearly six decades, and, as her human interest story morphs into a hard-boiled, action-packed mystery, she finds herself dead center in a storm of threats and reprisals from the mob. It's not enough that the mob's after her, and corrupt government is concealing the evidence that would explain why; even her own editors, frightened of lawsuits and losing subscribers, want her off the story. Fortunately, she has many allies: a network of loyal co-workers and contacts, even an ardent new admirer. But which ones can she trust? At least one of them, she suspects, is hiding a secret-- corruption? Murder? The veteran reporter knows: if you're talking Chicago crime scene--it's probably both.
Subjects: Hard-boiled fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Women sleuths;
© 2018., Jean Heller Stephens,
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The hunting ground : Deuce Mora mystery, by Heller, Jean.(CARDINAL)377391;
In Jean Heller's first Deuce Mora mystery, the scrappy female sleuth tangled with the mob; this time out she's on the wrong side of the NSA, the FBI and the CIA. At a minimum. Fans of hard-boiled female protagonists should hang onto their fedoras--this one's an action-packed extravaganza! The grisly discovery of a human bone while Deuce is out for a hike with handsome arson investigator Mark Hearst, leads to the unearthing of a vast burial field, a human trafficking ring, and international intrigue. The pulls-no-punches columnist-- and meticulous detective-- keeps turning up information, bit by bit, only to find some Fed in her face, at her door, emerging from the shadows, always guarding the edges of the story, insisting it will not be told. Yes, the Feds are aware of the trafficking ring; yes they have a plan to move on it; no, Deuce can't be told about the plan; and under no circumstances can she write about its existence. This is the story of a lifetime--bigger than the Vinnie Colangelo story, which earned Deuce and the Journal a Pulitzer, and, for once, she has the support of her editor, but the Journal's lawyer appears daily bringing warnings about "national security." What, Deuce seethes, could be a greater matter of national security than the safety of the city's children who are being kidnapped and murdered? And this story has become very personal for Deuce, as she herself admits, lamenting her loss of objectivity. The hard-hitting journalist has fallen hard for a new guy: a savvy and charming eight-year-old boy named Charles with the face of an angel and the possibility of a bright future, but at great risk due to a life in foster care. Already the street-smart kid has revealed a depth of knowledge about the failures of DCFS and the machinery meant to protect him. For Deuce, every child reported missing and every new body discovered in the hunting ground has Charles's face. But while she's racing to break the case wide open, her life and her career are threatened on all sides; she has to wonder where - or if - the Feds will stop to contain the horrific truth. But break wide open it does, racing to an outrageous surprise ending that seems shockingly ... plausible, and Deuce learns first-hand the lesson that sometimes the only way to accomplish a great good is to commit unthinkable evil, and then learn to live with the consequences. Author Heller does a masterful job of expanding the story--and her canvas--from a simple murder mystery to an ever-widening crime thriller, and finally to an international conspiracy.
Subjects: Hard-boiled fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Women sleuths;
© 2018., Jean Heller Stephens,
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Inherit The Shoes [sound recording] / by Copperman, E.J.; Read by Andrea Emmes.; Dreamscape Media, LLC.;
Read by Andrea Emmes."Newly a resident of LA, an East Coast lawyer gets mixed up in a celebrity murder case. New Jersey prosecutor Sandy Moss is tired of petty criminals, and a new job at a glitzy Los Angeles law firm seems the perfect career move. Putting 3,000 miles between her and her ex-boyfriend is just an added bonus. But on Sandy's first morning as a family attorney, she inadvertently kills her new career stone dead when she offends her boss during a meeting with the firm's top celebrity client, charismatic TV star Patrick McNabb. But that's not as dead as Patrick's soon-to-be ex-wife is that evening when she's discovered shot by an arrow, her husband standing over her. Did Patrick really kill his wife in a dispute over a pair of shoes? All signs point to yes. But Patrick is determined to clear his name, using all the legal skills he's learned from playing a lawyer on TV, and to Sandy's deep dismay, she's the only person he'll let help him."
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Mystery & Detective; Amateur Sleuth; Women Sleuths;
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Dangerous choices / by Hunter, Susan,author.;
Three children entered the woods; just two returned. And they are the only ones who know what happened to their friend. The secret they carry echoes down the years until it becomes too much for one of them to bear. But the attempt to set things right goes horribly wrong. Exactly how wrong is what Leah Nash, a journalist with trust issues and a compulsion to find the truth, aims to discover. Leah is rocked by the seemingly senseless present-day murder of someone very close to her. Driven by her principles and fueled by personal grief, she follows a strange trail of clues that lead her to a dark past. A past where the answer-and the killer-await.
Subjects: Crime thrillers.; Small towns; Women sleuths;
© 2023., Severn River Publishing,
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The Chauffeur Did It: [large print] : Felicity Philips Investigates Book 8 / by Higgs, Steve Author(CARDINAL)858019; Higgs, Steve Author(CARDINAL)858019;
Marriage? It can be absolute murder. When the bride leaves her house in a vintage Rolls Royce, she seems giddy with excitement, and the wedding party at the church think nothing of her late arrival; that's just tradition, right? However, when the clock keeps ticking and the vintage cars fails to appear, it soon becomes clear that something untoward has befallen the bride. Fingers are pointed in every direction, but who is really to blame? Has she been kidnapped? Where is the ransom note? Under self-imposed pressure to figure out what happened, Felicity sets out with her team to find the truth ... and the bride.She has a cast of suspicious characters to sift through, but nothing could have prepared her for the truth.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction ; Women Sleuths ; Amateur Sleuths ; Weddings ;
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The royal wedding: Felicity Philips Investigates Book 10 by Higgs, Steve Author(CARDINAL)858019; Higgs, Steve Author(CARDINAL)858019;
A Royal Wedding. Pomp, pageantry, and a healthy portion of psychotic killers ... For Felicity Philips, wedding planner to the rich and famous, this is her dream job, but convinced someone is out to wreck the whole thing, her attention is on keeping everyone alive. There is security in place, hundreds of cops and bodyguards assigned to the royal family, but do any of them know the threat is coming from multiple angles? A party of anti-royalists have been plotting for years, one of Felicity's rivals wants nothing more than to see her competitor fail in her greatest moment, and a member of the British royal family has their eyes set firmly on the throne. All they must do is remove everyone in their path to get there. What better time to take them out than when they are all together?Mercifully for Felicity, she is not alone. Certain of her need for help she has enlisted super sleuth Patricia Fisher, but her old friend is not the only detective at the event. Albert Smith is an honoured guest of the King. He's there with his trusted canine sidekick and they encountered the anti-royalists months ago. Finally, Tempest Michaels and the Blue Moon team have followed their own trail of clues to the wedding. They think they might know the identity of the murderous royal, but proving it, accusing a member of the royal household, is not a task one approaches without absolute certainty. In the climactic conclusion to Felicity Philips' series, all the players will come together, their stories intertwining as the righteous battle the greedy, the corrupt, and the morally insane. What does a wedding planner know about organising the greatest wedding ever witnessed? Everything. Absolutely everything.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction ; Weddings ; Women Sleuths ; Amateur Sleuths ;
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Hanging by a thread. by Talley, Liz : author,(CARDINAL)590897;
Being a part-time private investigator isn't as glamorous as antiques store owner Cricket Crosby thought it would be. That is, until she finds herself eyeballs deep investigating the attempted murder of a wealthy matriarch. A call from an old friend lands Cricket undercover at an upscale retirement community researching the cantankerous Annabelle Dilworth, who is convinced that someone wants her dead. Cricket suspects the unfriendly senior citizen is simply imagining shadows. Still, enough people dislike the old bat that Cricket dives into eliminating suspects.Cricket ropes best pal Ruby into joining her investigation at the retirement community, even as Ruby has enough on her hands dealing with her own grandmother's health crisis and the launch of her fashion line. But when Annabelle turns up dead, Cricket and Ruby join forces to solve the mystery. Filled with quirky characters and southern charm, Hanging by a Thread will leave you laughing, cheering, and guessing whodunit.
Subjects: Humorous fiction ; Amateur Sleuths ; Women Sleuths ;
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