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2) Fair warning
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"Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates -- against the warnings of the police and his own editor -- and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he...
3) The poet
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Jack McEvoy volume 1
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Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues. It's the news story of a lifetime, if he can get the story without losing his life.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 17
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Floyd Trevelyan?s historic steam locomotive, newly restored, is the newest attraction in Moose County. But the excitement is eclipsed by shock when Trevelyan disappears?along with millions of investors? dollars. Puzzled and suspicious, Qwill?s trying to make a connection between the missing millionaire and a recent murder at a nearby railroad tavern. Now, with the help of his cats, Koko and Yum Yum, he?s about to prove that the police are on the wrong...
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"In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. It's the adventure she's been looking for and her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. But she also finds herself unexpectedly--and uncontrollably--falling in love with Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 7
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Qwill, inheritor of the great Klingenschoen fortune, is living in a mansion in Moose County. With a staff of three and a limousine, he is at a loss as to how to cope with it all. To make matters worse, Koko has become fond of knocking Qwill's pigskin edition of Hamlet to the floor.
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A reporter is about to commit suicide when his editor phones, assigning him to interview a millionaire. He arrives to find the man spirited away, follows him and breaks into a villa just as the man is dying. The next he knows, he's accused of murder and if convicted he'll get the electric chair--and now he wants to live, action having cured him of suicidal thoughts. By the author of Assumed Identity.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 16
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The resort development on Pear Island makes local residents, summer people, and mainland fishermen hopping mad, but who is angry enough to commit murder?
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Cat Who mysteries volume 8
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Jim Qwilleran and his two sleuthing companions, Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum, attempt to solve a series of murders that have rocked the town of Pickax.
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Kitty Weeks mystery volume 1
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"The Lusitania has just been sunk, and headlines about a shooting at J.P. Morgan's mansion and the Great War are splashed across the front page of every newspaper. Capability "Kitty" Weeks would love nothing more than to report on the news of the day, but she's stuck writing about fashion and society gossip over on the Ladies' Page - until a man is murdered at a high society picnic on her beat." --Publisher's description.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 9
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Millionaire newsman Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats solve a series of murders of handymen in the resort town of Mooseville.
16) Beautiful exiles
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Key West, 1936. Headstrong, accomplished journalist Martha Gellhorn is confident with words but less so with men when she meets disheveled literary titan Ernest Hemingway in a dive bar. Their friendship--forged over writing, talk, and family dinners--flourishes into something undeniable in Madrid while they're covering the Spanish Civil War. Martha reveres him. The very married Hemingway is taken with Martha--her beauty, her ambition, and her fearless...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 11
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When a glamorous art dealer is killed in reporter Jim Qwilleran's apartment, he and his crime-solving cats set out to catch the murderer.