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Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Mrs. Ranelagh has never stopped thinking about the dead body she found in the gutter twenty years ago, during Britains Winter of Discontent. "Mad Annie," as she was known, was the only black resident of her West London neighborhood and openly despised by the community. The police called her death an accident, but Mrs. Ranelagh has always suspected it was murder. However, her pleas for an investigation were met with a vicious hate campaign...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The Las Vegas reunion show of a groundbreaking band revives a deadly duel between its two divas.
Tabloids went wild over the shocking disappearance of Black & White's two singing divas and flamboyant manager years earlier. The women made comebacks, but manager Cale Watson was never seen again. Now, the Las Vegas reunion show revives a deadly duel between the two divas. Temple Barr and Midnight Louie must sniff out clues to save the Crystal Phoenix...
Author
Series
Midnight Louie mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally taking a turn for the better. Hard-nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina is too busy chasing after her own ex-lover, rogue L.A. cop Rafi Nadir, to pursue Temple's boyfriend, sexy magician Max Kinsella, and nobody Temple knows has been murdered... at least, not in the past few weeks. Temple takes this downtime as a signal she should buy a new pair of Jimmy Choo...
Author
Series
Joe Grey volume 10
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Readers and reviewers alike have consistently praised multiple-award-winning author Shirley Rousseau Murphy for her absorbing plots, her charming, lyrical prose, and most of all, her delightful and highly realistic feline sleuths -- the wily tomcat Joe Grey, his best pal Dulcie, and their tattercoat friend Kit. Now Murphy has created her most compelling novel to date: the murder of a much-beloved actress and the havoc it uncovers in an unsuspecting...
Author
Series
Joe Grey volume 9
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A young, healthy waiter drops dead and a series of big-time thefts lead Joe Grey and Dulcie to challenge evil yellow-eyed Azrael to get to the bottom of the misdeads
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy volume 14
Pub. Date
c2006
Formats
Description
The tiny town of Crozet is abuzz with the talk of grapes and how to protect the finicky crop when an outspoken wine grower is murdered. A competitor is blamed for his death, and suddenly the expensive hobby takes on a much more serious tone. As Harry tries to figure out why a non-native species of insect pest has appeared in her peach orchard, her animal companions--tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, corgi Tucker, and "big boned" feline Pewter--discover another...
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
When a shooting leads to the discovery of a half-million crisp, clean dollar bills that look to be very dirty, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen's blood is really up. But by the time she's close to fingering a cold-blooded murderer, Mrs. Murphy (cat deetective) already knows who it is--and who's next in line. She also knows that Harry, curious as a caat, does not have nine lives. And the one she does have is hanging by the thinnest of threads.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
A mysterious death in a Virginia farm town has the locals scratching their heads - while frisky feline Mrs. Murphy and her friends, fat-cat Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker, uncover clues as the curl their way around a cold-blooded killer.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Once again murder and mayhem have come to Brown's (Wish You Were Here, LJ 11/1/90) sleepy little town of Crozet, Virginia, heralded by the arrival of a leather-clad biker who storms up to historic Ash Lawn (James Monroe's home) demanding to see the "thieving slut" Malibu and upsetting the docents.
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Series
Description
At the Blue Dahlia, where homicide detective Carmen Molina moonlights as a torch singer, she finds a dead woman lying in the parking lot. The words "she left" are spray-painted nearby. Soon, a second anonymous woman is found dead in another parking lot. Is a serial killer at work? Will the tough lieutenant have to resort to accepting help from the despised amateur sleuth Temple Barr to crack the case? Meanwhile, Midnight Louie, Temple's jet-black...
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
PI Temple Barr and her cat, Midnight Louie, investigate the death of an actor in Las Vegas. A womanizer, the actor was being harassed by someone claiming to be his daughter. Temple's probe is held against the background of a romance with an ex-priest. By the author of Cat with the Emerald Eye.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
It's been raining cats and dogs in Mayville Heights. The small town's been deluged, and now the local artists' co-op is on the verge of flooding. Kathleen has been working hard to help her friends move their creations to the safety of the upstairs studio. The artwork survives, but when controversial mask-maker Jaeger Merrill is found drowned in the so-op basement, Kathleen questions whether the death was accidental. With the help of handsome detective...
59) Toasting Tina
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Schemer Tina Vale, publisher of Corsair Books, slept her way to the top, making many enemies on the way. Now she's going after an old enemy, single mom and literary agent Jane Stuart. Nearly twenty years ago, Tina lost out to Jane when Jane married Kenneth, someone Tina wanted.
Now Tina makes Jane pay for it. She cancels Jane's multi-million-dollar publishing contract with Corsair. Jane is damaged financially, but by having the past stirred up, Jane...