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43) Vanishing point
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.
45) Wicked craving
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Series
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Description
Savannah is more than happy to help her good friend, Detective Sergeant Dirk Coulter investigate the death of the wife of Dr. Robert Wellman, owner of a popular weightloss clinic. She was found dead at the bottom of a cliff outside the Wellman's seaside estate--and it's clear she didn't go down without a fight.
Author
Publisher
Hansen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man in the old west. As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love with a runaway slave and had his child. The destruction of her family drove her west to California, dressed as a man, to track the killer. Charley became a renowned stagecoach driver for Wells Fargo. She killed a famous outlaw, had a secret...
Author
Description
A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
48) Rush
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
295, 13 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
A pariah in his town and home for the results of his risk-taking behavior, eighteen-year-old Jake seeks adrenaline rushes to clear his dark thoughts, but when Salome, the girl he loves, gets caught up in taking chances, too, the consequences are devastating.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
PI Kinsey Millhone of California goes looking for the loot of a $500,000 robbery, an assignment filled with danger as one of the robbers is a psychopath. By the author of "K" Is for Killer.
50) The arraignment
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 7
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
52) Cat running
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
168 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
53) Going vintage
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
54) City of secrets
Author
Series
San Francisco mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 290 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Miranda Corbie investigates the hate-crime murder of Pandora Blake during San Francisco's 1940 World's Fair, a case that subjects her to a devastating web of deceit and betrayal.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
256 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Description
After discovering the body of a prominent wine merchant near her Virginia vineyard, Lucie Montgomery helps a family friend by traveling to California, where she teams up with Quinn Santori in a deadly game involving a vengeful killer.
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 6
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Description
"Stella and her family drive to Los Angeles to attend her aunt Laura's wedding. Stella is excited to be a flower girl but things don't go as planned. She accidently sprays paint on her aunt's wedding dress and the daughter of the man marrying Aunt Laura wants to run away"--
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 30
Publisher
Grand Central Pubishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When she is hired to investigate devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, private detective Sharon McCone discovers what her clients are really up to and goes undercover to find the truth.
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 29
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
Sharon McCone investigates when Caro Warrick, a woman acquitted for the murder of her best friend, is discovered brutally beaten close to home.
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