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Haunted home renovation mystery volume 4
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San Francisco contractor Mel Turner is leading a volunteer home renovation project, and while she expects lots of questions from her inexperienced crew, she can't help asking a few of her own--especially about the haunted house next door, the place local kids call the Murder House. But when volunteers discover a body while cleaning out a shed, questions pile up faster than discarded lumber. Mel notices signs of ghostly activity next door and she wonders:...
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Kate Austen volume 2
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Art consultant Kate Austen visits a neighbor and finds her dead, pills and whisky by her side. Police say suicide, but as Kate observes, she didn't like whisky and why kill herself just when she is awarded a handsome alimony?
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Haunted home renovation mystery volume 2
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General contractor Melanie Turner's latest restoration is a historic Queen Anne Victorian in San Franisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood. Trouble is, she'll have to work around the owners, the Daley family, who refuse to leave during the construction. But when eerie things start happening around the site, the Daleys threaten to call off the renovation for fear that the work is disrupting ghosts who live on the property. But the ghosts aren't the only ones...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 13
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Private investigator Sharon McCone is asked to reinvestigate the case of a client's mother, who was convicted of murder in 1956. When the woman is found murdered, McCone searches for the killer.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 14
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Just when All Souls Legal Cooperative hands her a promotion that will tie her to an uninspiring desk job, Sharon McCone's main squeeze, Hy Ripinsky, disappears. An environmentalist, he seemingly consented to deliver a two million dollar ransom demanded by the kidnappers of a biotech biggie. Putting her career crisis on hold, Sharon discovers Hy's abandoned plane, wrecked rental car and the intrigues of a shady international security firm.
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Haunted home renovation mystery volume 1
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The first title in the new Haunted Home Renovation Mystery series about Melanie Turner, a woman who owns a construction company in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in historic home repair--and ridding the properties of unwanted ghosts. At her newest renovation project, a run-down Pacific Heights mansion, Mel is visited by the ghost of a colleague who recently met a bad end with power tools. Mel hopes that by tracking down the killer, she can...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 4
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Private eye Sharon McCone is hired to find a portrait photographer's missing lady friend, and shortly finds that she must solve a murder.
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Haunted home renovation mystery volume 3
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"word has spread that contractor Mel Turner can communicate with the spirits of the dead, it's been difficult to maintain a low profile. She embraces her new reputation for the chance to restore an historic house that calls to her. The new owners, who hope to run a haunted B&B, want Mel to encourage the ghosts that supposedly roam the halls to enhance the paranormal charm. The catch: Mel has to spend one night in the house to win the project. But...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 19
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It's an identity crisis for PI Sharon McCone when she discovers that someone is pretending to be her. To make matters worse, her office manager, Ted Smalley has been acting oddly. McCone gets caught in a game of cat and mouse through the nightlife of San Francisco.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 15
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Sharon McCone has struck out on her own and one of her first clients is T.J. "Suitcase" Gordon, known as a turnaround artist who creates profits and enemies while reviving failed businesses. After McCone saves Gordon from an explosion, he performs another kind of turnaround: he vanishes.
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Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 5
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For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative. When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention.The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel...
13) 3rd degree
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Women's murder club volume 3
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Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found--and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled....
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 12
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Since the Gold Rush, California prospectors have siphoned off the waters of isolated Tufa Lake, exposing the fragile, otherworldly mineral formation of the lake basin. Now a local environmental group seeks to block the latest incursion by developers - a massive mining operation funded by TransPacific, a U.S.-Hong Kong interest that seems to be behind a series of break-ins, disappearances, and shady land deals. Into this stark lunar landscape walks...
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Women's murder club volume 8
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The Women's Murder Club faces its toughest challenge as Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder of two San Francisco millionaires and reporter Cindy Thomas digs into the brutal slaying of a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 9
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Private eye Sharon McCone takes on a routine surveillance as a favor to a friend, and her target's day proceeds normally until he is murdered.
18) To play the fool
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Kate Martinelli mystery volume 2
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THE SECOND BOOK IN THE KATE MARTINELLI MYSTERY SERIES
When a band of homeless people cremate a beloved dog in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the authorities are willing to overlook a few broken regulations. But three weeks later, when the dog's owner gets the same fiery send-off, the SFPD has a real headache on its hands. The autopsy suggests homicide, but Inspector Kate Martinelli and her partner, Al Hawkin, have little else to go on: a
20) 12th of never
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Women's murder club volume 12
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Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career. A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she's ever heard: An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he's...