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A Royal Pain
by
Rhys Bowen Details
Assigned by the Queen of England to entertain a Bavarian princess, penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie must help Princess Hanni unlearn the English she has learned from American gangster films, break her of her shoplifting habit, and investigate a murder.
Handling Sin
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Michael Malone Details
Raleigh Hayes' father has run off to New Orleans in a yellow Cadillac convertible with a young black woman, leading his ever-respectable son into an adventure. Raleigh will save his neighbor from the law, be rolled by Hell's Angels and rescued by renegade nuns, deliver a baby, tangle with the Ku Klux Klan, and befriend a master criminal.
Murder at the Academy Awards
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Joan Rivers Details
While hosting Oscar night on the red carpet, Hollywood personality Maxine Taylor witnesses an actress's suspicious drug-overdose death, which she investigates as part of a plot to separate her daughter from an unworthy boyfriend.
One for the Money
by
Janet Evanovich Details
Since she lost her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store, Stephanie Plum has been broke, and soon she's forced to take a gig at her sleazy cousin's bail bonding company. If Stephanie can nab murder suspect Morelli -- with whom she has a romantic history -- in a week, she'll make a cool ten grand. All she has to do is become an expert bounty hunter overnight -- and keep herself from getting killed before she gets her man.
Skin Tight
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Carl Hiaasen Details
Ex-state investigator Mick Stananhan, the target of a hit man, skewers the culprit with a stuffed marlin head. Plastic surgeon, Dr. Rudy Graveline hired the hit man to prevent Stranahan from exposing Graveline's guilt in the death of a patient. Soon, a second hit man, a six-foot-nine-inch assassin, appears with a weed whacker attached to the stump of his amputated arm.
Smoke
by
Donald Westlake Details
Freddie Noon is a thief. When he breaks into the apartment of two doctors doing research for the tobacco industry, they convince Freddie to sample a drug they are creating. Freddie becomes invisible! Not such a bad thing for a thief, or is it?
The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
by
Donna Andrews Details
While digging a pool in the basement for a flock of penguins from the bankrupt local zoo, Meg Langslow's father accidentally stumbles upon a body buried beneath the floor, sending Meg on a desperate quest to find a killer.
The Spellman Files
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Lisa Lutz Details
Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This 28-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to "Get Smart" reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her family's firm, Spellman Investigations.
Updated 12/01/2011
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