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"For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence-controversial, difficult, but Edenic-is upended when the ambitious young developer Maya...
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Savannah Reid, the "full-figured" private detective who has wowed critics and readers alike in G.A. McKevett's acclaimed mysteries, is back with a vengeance. This time out, the former Dixie belle with the take-no-prisoners attitude is turning her voracious appetite toward a case that hits very close to the heart. When Savannah Reid's only shot at romance for Valentine's Day includes a stakeout with her ex-partner, Dirk Coulter, things aren't exactly...
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"Full-figured fashionista and private investigator Savannah Reid must catch a killer who is preying upon plus-sized models, all of whom had been working for Wentworth's Slenda Flakes, a secretly struggling cereal empire whose strict diet regimens and penchant for murder plunge Savannah into a soggy world of suspects."--From NoveList.
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Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. That night Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart....
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"When mediocre actress-turned-club owner Kat Valentina turns up dead, the victim of a supposedly accidental drowning, Savannah Reid finds herself hired by an anonymous client to find the killer and uncovers a bizarre cast of characters, all of whom have amotive for the crime."--from NoveList.
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Into the drought-weary California town of Valle Rosa comes a stranger who promises he can make it rain. All he asks for is a place to stay and complete privacy. But he is too charismatic to maintain a low profile . . . and the adobe cottage he's given to live in is owned by an investigative TV reporter struggling to revive her career. Fire and Rain is a love story filled with mystery and heart.
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The winds of change are raging in 1960s California. For the Becker brothers, however, the past is always present-and it comes crashing back full force when the corpse of Janelle Vonn is discovered. The Becker and Vonn clans were high school enemies. Now one Becker is a cop, one is a minister and one is a reporter. All three are about to collide with the changing world of 1968 as each brother, in his own way, tries to find Janelle's killer.
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 17
Kennebec Large Print superior collection
Savannah Reid mystery volume 07
Savannah Reid mystery volume 17
Kennebec Large Print superior collection
Savannah Reid mystery volume 07
Savannah Reid mystery volume 17
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"When wedding planner to the stars Madeline Aberson becomes embroiled in a nasty divorce, her life falls apart and rumors swirl that her parties are total duds. Desperate for work, she finds herself planning far less glamorous affairs -- like Savannah Reid's wedding to Dirk Coulter. It doesn't take long for Madeline to get on Savannah's last nerve, and on the big day she can't wait to send Madeline packing. Then the bride finds Madeline's body face...
11) Hank & Chloe
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"Chloe Morgan is a thirty-year-old part-time waitress, small-time horse trainer, and full-time thoroughly toughened Western woman living in a corner of the dwindling canyonlands of Southern California," and then, at a sunrise funeral, she meets Henry Oliver, a professor of folklore.--Cover.
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Private investigator Savannah Reid is hired as a body guard to Dona Papalardo after the newly svelte movie star's personal assistant is shot dead in what is believed to be a case of mistaken identity, and the situation becomes critical when Dona's gardener is also killed and it is discovered that there was a link between the two servants.
13) Cooked goose
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It's hard to get into the Christmas spirit when the Santa Ana winds are blowing at a balmy ninety degrees. It's also hard to live in a Baywatch world when you're an overly-voluptuous size 14. But Savannah Reid has never been one to believe that good things come only in small packages. Right now, the only present Savannah wants wrapped up is the one of a serial rapist who dresses as Santa. Thanks to his twisted brand of holiday visits, Savannah has...
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"When her self-centered younger sister Atlanta arrives on her doorstep demanding to participate in the Miss Gold Coast Beauty Pageant, Savannah Reid is hurled into a world of backstabbing beauties who will stop at nothing to be crowned."--from NoveList.
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"As the creator of the world-famous Helene doll, designer Helene Strauss is equally well-known for her exquisite taste and her brassy, take-no-prisoners style. While Helene's business acumen made her a huge success, it also made her enemies. So when the feisty 80-year-old has several suspicious brushes with death, Savannah Reid is hired to find out why. She soon learns that tensions within the Strauss family have been raging for years, leading her...
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"When the husband of weight loss and exercise diva Clarissa Jardin is found shot to death, P.I. Savannah Reid is called to the crime scene and discovers that Clarissa has a dirty little secret that could topple her multi-million-dollar empire."--from NoveList.
17) Wicked craving
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Helping out her friend Detective Sergeant Dirk Coulter, voluptuous P.I. Savannah Reid is on the trail of a shady weight loss therapist who tricked his patients into losing their money instead of their weight, and who supposedly killed his wife.
18) Poisoned tarts
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What happens when too rich and too thin becomes too deadly? P.I. Savannah Reid is about to find out as she delves into the disappearance of a celebrity hanger-on that soon leads to something more sinister.
19) Oil! : a novel
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After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist. This lively and panoramic book, which was recently cited by David Denby in the New Yorker as being Sinclair's "most readable" novel, is now the...
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"PI Savannah Reid has delved into the ugly side of SoCal's celebrity culture more than once. But the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency may have bitten off more than they can chew when a Hollywood legend makes a deadly comeback... It will be a cold day in San Carmelita before Savannah skips over a high-profile homicide case, especially one attached to a tasty reward. But when 90-year-old former silver screen siren Lucinda Faraday is murdered inside...
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