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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her abusive professional-matchmaker boss ends up dead, Jaine Austen is on the long list of suspects.
When Jaine lands a job writing web copy and brochures for matchmaker Joy Amoroso, shes excited for a chance to help the lovelorn just in time for Valentines Day until she realizes what Dates of Joy is really all about. Joy is a ruthless taskmaster who screams at her employees for the smallest infractions, pads her website with pictures of professional...
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 9
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Marv Cooper's trophy wife Bunny is murdered during a lavish party, Jaine's friend Lance becomes the prime suspect. But Jaine knows he just couldn't have done it and sets out to find the real killer.
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 8
Language
English
Description
While teaching on a swanky cruise, wordsmith Jaine Austen soon discovers that her all-expenses-paid trip to the Mexican Riviera comes with a high price when she is faced with blackmail, a sleazy British dancer, eccentric passengers, and murder.
6) Last writes
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jaine lands a job as a sitcom writer with the help of her best friend Kandi. Everything is going well until the star actor Quinn Kirkland ends up murdered and Jaine's best friend is the primary suspect of the police.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Haley Randolph is always ready to go to any lengths to get the latest Louis Vuitton. Unfortunately for Haley, her life goes from glam to grim when her passion for fashion outlasts her credit cards, and she's forced to work at Holt's--a mid-market department store. Looking for a bit of shopping inspiration, Haley sneaks into the stock room to get a first glimpse of Holt's one-of-a-kind selection of handbag styles. But instead of the newest Vuitton,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Running out of money, Diana Poole is forced to go back to the only work she knows: acting. Her much-loved husband and movie-star mother have died, and now Diana is over thirty-five. In Hollywood that means she might as well be dead. Still, a few key people remember her talent, and she lands a role in a new movie. But an actress should never get her hopes up, especially when she discovers the female lead's murdered body. Raised in her mother's shadow,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Smarmy personals ads. Daring declarations of love. Freelance writer Jaine Austen has penned them all. But no one needs her help more than geeky, gawky Howard Murdoch. His request is simple enough: a letter proclaiming his undying love for Stacy Lawrence, a gorgeous aerobics instructor. The fact that he's never actually met the woman gives Jaine pause-yet she soon overcomes her misgivings, and the unlikely Romeo lands a date! But his triumph is short-lived....
Author
Series
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lily Wong--a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja--has more trouble than she was bargaining for when controlling grandparents arrive in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at the same time she goes undercover in the dangerous world of youth sex trafficking. As she hunts for a kidnapped prostitution victim, a missing high school girl, and a sociopathic trafficker, the surviving members of a murderous street gang hunt for her. Life would be easier if Lily knew...
12) Turn on the heat
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hired by a mysterious 'Mr. Smith' to find a woman who vanished 21 years earlier, Donald Lam finds himself facing a sadistic cop, a desperate showgirl, a duplicitous client, and one very dogged (and beautiful) newspaper reporter--while Bertha Cool's attempts to cut herself in on this lucrative opportunity land them both hip-deep in murder..." -- Page [4] cover.
13) Bad memory
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks Jessica to help her sister, Rue Hunter, a convicted murderer whose execution is days away, Jessica can't resist the offer. Rue doesn't remember what happened the night two high school students were killed thirty years ago, but everybody in town is certain she's guilty. As Jessica...
14) Enchanted hill
Author
Publisher
Union Square and Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two young people with an entangled history collide while both working undercover at a Hollywood tycoon's lush California estate." -- Provided by publisher.