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I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason

Susan Kandel · 304 pages

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The PMS Murder

Laura Levine · 256 pages

On the frontlines of the battle of the bulge, otherwise known as trying on bathing suits in the communal dressing room at Loehmann's, freelance writer Jaine Austen makes a new friend--a wannabe actress named Pam--and gets a new job: sprucing up Pam's bare-bones resume. Their feeling of connection is mutual, so Pam invites Jaine to join The PMS Club-a women's support group that meets once a week ov

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Opal Fire

Barbra Annino · 291 pages

Stacy Justice did not expect to be set on fire that night but being raised by withes prepares one for life's little surprises. When a decades-old secret is discovered within the walls of her cousin's bar eve Stacy is rattled. Now someone wants her dead and she finds herself dodging angry motorists, exploding chickens and a creepy man who seems to lurk around every corner.

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How to Solve Your Own Murder

Kristen Perrin · 358 pages

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The Boy with the Painful Tattoo

Josh Lanyon · 275 pages

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The Alpine Advocate

Mary Daheim · 304 pages

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Social Suicide

Gemma Halliday

"Hartley Featherstone's first big story for the school paper takes an unexpected turn when she discovers the girl she's supposed to interview dead in her swimming pool"--

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Succubus Blues

Richelle Mead · 368 pages

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If Looks Could Kill

Kate White · 410 pages

Meet Bailey Weggins, the thirty-something, single-again true crime writer for a leading Manhattan woman's magazine. Smart and savvy, she's got a sixth sense when it comes to seeing the truth in a story-especially if it's murder. Bailey's in bed with her commitment-challenged lover K.C. when she gets a frantic call from her high-maintenance boss at Gloss magazine. Grabbing coffee and a cab outside

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Murder Your Darlings

J.J. Murphy · 316 pages

When she stumbles over the dead body of drama critic Leland Mayflower and an aspiring writer named Billy Faulkner is accused of the murder, Dorothy Parker investigates with the aid of her fellow Algonquin Round Tablemates.

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Katy Carter Wants a Hero

Ruth Saberton · 408 pages

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The Herring Seller's Apprentice

L.C. Tyler · 233 pages

Ethelred Tressider is a crime writer with problems. His latest novel is going nowhere, a mid-life crisis is looming and he's burdened by the literary agent he probably deserves: Elsie Thirkettle, who claims to enjoy neither the company of writers nor literature of any sort. But however bad things look they can always get worse, as Ethelred discovers when his ex-wife Geraldine vanishes close to his

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The Mystery Guest

Nita Prose · 336 pages

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Limoncello Yellow

Traci Andrighetti · 324 pages

An unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces Francesca "Franki" Amato that she just isn't cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move from Austin to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica's detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. Hopes for a more stable life are dashed when Private Chicks is hired to find ou

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Dying to Get Published

Judy Fitzwater · 198 pages

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Size 14 Is Not Fat Either

Meg Cabot · 362 pages

Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she's definitely having a hard time dealing w

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The Woman Who Stole My Life

Marian Keyes · 338 pages

'Name: Stella Sweeney. Height: average. Recent life events: dramatic.' One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That's okay. She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). But in this meeting

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Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Janet Evanovich · 332 pages

Stephanie Plum is working overtime tracking felons for the bonds office at night and snooping for security expert Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, during the day. Can she hunt down two killers, a traitor, and five skips, keep her grandmother out of the sauce, and solve Ranger's problems and not jump his bones?

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Maggie Needs An Alibi

Kasey Michaels · 352 pages

An ex-boyfriend dies on the sofa, at the worst possible time. He was a publisher. The author is under suspicion for his murder. He was her dream man made into flesh. She is in trouble with the NYPD and how can she put him back into her PC where he belongs and be right with the police?

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Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret

Benjamin Stevenson · 240 pages

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I Heart Hollywood

Lindsey Kelk · 326 pages

Angela Clark can't believe her luck... she's an English girl living in New York with a dream job at hip magazine The Look and a sexy boyfriend.Her latest assignment takes her to Hollywood to interview hot actor and fellow Brit James Jacobs.Thrown in at the deep end she heads west with best friend Jenny dreaming of Rodeo Drive and Malibu beach.Soon Angela discovers that celebrity life in Hollywood

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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam

Chris Ewan · 240 pages

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Never the Bride

Rene Gutteridge, Cheryl McKay

"What girl can't identify with Never the Bride? This is a fabulously funny novel with deep truths embedded in its pages." --Kristin Billerbeck, author of What a Girl Wants"I admire writers who employ words to paint touchable pictures, likable characters, introducing us to instant friends who lead us to unexpected endings. That's why I love Never The Bride." --SQuire Rushnell, author of the When

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