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Janet Evanovich gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job.


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Killer cocktail Killer cocktail
Anderson, Sheryl J., 1958-
Advice columnist Molly Forrester needs a much-needed break from her job at Zeitgeist, a Manhattan glossy. The opportunity for some R-n-R arrives when her best friends, Tricia and Cassady, invite her to the Hamptons for a weekend of hard-earned fun to celebrate Tricia's brother's engagement. But Molly's plans of sipping margaritas by the poolside and working on nothing more than her tan are sidetracked by an unscheduled event--the murder of the bride-to-be...



Subjects
Forrester, Molly (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Women journalists -- Fiction.
Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Advice columnists -- Fiction.
Hamptons (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

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Skating around the law Skating around the law
Charbonneau, Joelle.
Rebecca Robbins is a woman on a mission---to sell the roller rink she inherited from her mother and get back to Chicago. Fast. However, when she discovers the dead body of the town’s handyman headfirst in a rink toilet, potential buyers are scared off. Now Rebecca is stuck in a small town where her former neighbors think she doesn’t belong, living with her scarily frisky grandfather, Pop, and relying on a police department that’s better at gardening than solving crimes.



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Roller-skating rinks -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

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Wanna get lucky? Wanna get lucky?
Coonts, Deborah.
A young woman plunges from a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter, landing in the pirates' lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle of the 8:30 p.m. pirate show. Everyone writes her off as another Vegas victim, except Lucky O'Toole. As head of Customer Relations at Babylon megacasino and resort, she's got a lot on her plate, but she can't resist getting involved in this one.



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Young women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Casinos -- Employees -- Fiction.
Customer relations -- Management -- Fiction.
Sex-oriented businesses -- Fiction.
Female impersonators -- Fiction.
Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Fiction.

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Me, myself and why? Me, myself and why?
Davidson, MaryJanice.
FBI agent Cadence Jones and her "sociopath" partner, George, get tagged to bring down the Threefer Killer--who soon starts leaving messages that seem to be just for Cadence and her sisters. In the meantime, love blooms in the most unexpected place when Cadence meets her best friend's gorgeous brother who is in town visiting.



Subjects
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Serial murderers -- Fiction.

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Swift justice Swift justice
DiSilverio, Laura A. H.
Charlotte "Charlie" Swift, a former Air Force investigator turned private eye, likes her solitary existence. When her silent partner flees the the country, leaving his socialite wife Gigi with a half interest in the business, Charlie must find a way to cope with her while also investigating the case of an abandoned baby.



Subjects
Women private investigators -- Fiction.
Abandoned children -- Fiction.

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Spying in high heels Spying in high heels
Halliday, Gemma.
With the help of a three-hundred-pound psychic, her post-menopausal mother, and her oversexed best friend, L.A. shoe designer Maddie Spring digs her heels into mystery and mayhem when her boyfriend absconds with $20 million dollars in embezzled funds and she is placed under surveillance by a sexy cop who makes her toes curl.



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Women fashion designers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.

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Bad manners Bad manners
Kellogg, Marne Davis.
Lilly Bennett has resigned her position as chief of detectives of a large California police department after being caught in a compromising position with a powerful politician. After returning to her family's huge ranch near Roundup, Wyoming, she hangs out her shingle as a private investigator. Her first case comes from her neighbor, friend, and erstwhile rival Ellen Butterfield, who claims she is being pushed out of her family's business and wants to know why.



Subjects
Bennett, Lilly (Fictitious character)
Private investigators -- Wyoming -- Fiction.
Women detectives -- Wyoming -- Fiction.
Sheriffs -- Wyoming -- Fiction.

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Whiskey sour : a Jack Daniels mystery Whiskey sour : a Jack Daniels mystery
Konrath, Joe, 1970-
lLilly Bennett has resigned her position as chief of detectives of a large California police department after being caught in a compromising position with a powerful politician. After returning to her family's huge ranch near Roundup, Wyoming, she hangs out her shingle as a private investigator. Her first case comes from her neighbor, friend, and erstwhile rival Ellen Butterfield, who claims she is being pushed out of her family's business and wants to know why.



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Daniels, Jacqueline (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Police -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction.
Policewomen -- Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.

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The Spellman files The Spellman files
Lutz, Lisa.
Izzy Spellman launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family.



Subjects
Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.

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Dog on it : a Chet and Bernie mystery Dog on it : a Chet and Bernie mystery
Quinn, Spencer.
Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters.



Subjects
Dogs -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.

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Bubbles unbound Bubbles unbound
Strohmeyer, Sarah.
Against all odds, Bubbles Yablonsky has returned to school, but while on her way to journalism school, she happens upon a crime scene and finds herself drawn into a murder investigation.



Subjects
Beauty operators -- Fiction.
Women journalists -- Fiction.
Pennsylvania -- Fiction.

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Fashion victim Fashion victim
Green, Chloe, 1967-
Style and suspense come seamlessly together in Dallas's latest sleuthing adventure, "Fashion Victim." This time, a video shoot in the Caribbean is haunted by sinister pranks, voodoo curses, and gruesome murder.



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O'Connor, Dallas (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

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Assault with a deadly glue gun Assault with a deadly glue gun
Winston, Lois.
When Anastasia Pollack's gambling-addicted husband permanently cashes in his chips in Vegas, her life craps out. Anastasia's job as crafts editor at American woman magazine makes life even stickier when she discovers the dead body of über-ambitious fashion editor Marlys Vandenburg hot-glued to Anastasia's office chair. When evidence surfaces of an illicit affair between Marlys and Anastasia's husband, Anastasia becomes the prime suspect. Can she sew up the case and keep herself out of jail before the real killer puts a permanent end to her investigation?



Subjects
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Periodical editors -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Handicraft -- Fiction.

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