Sherlock Holmes
The Affair of the Incognito Tenant: A Mystery with Sherlock Holmes
In 1903, widow Charlotte Dodson’s livelihood is threatened by sinister events that converge on the small Sussex village where she is housekeeper at a mysterious manor. At the center of a black conspiracy, the only man she can trust emerges as Sherlock Holmes.
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Liz Sullivan
Murder in a Nice Neighborhood
While vagabond writer Liz Sullivan sleeps innocently in her ‘69 VW microbus, someone parks a dead body under it. Since she’d had words with the victim hours before, the police type her as the murderer–unless she’s got a better alternative. Not easy for a determined loner like Liz, who has few friends and apparently one dangerous enemy. Luckily, her friends are more numerous than she suspected: the shrewd old ladies in her writing workshop, a charming real estate developer, and maybe even handsome detective Paul Drake–if he gets over thinking she’s the killer. Yet none of them knows Liz quite as well as they think–and her past is closing in with a vengeance….
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Murder in the Marketplace
It must be mere chance that puts freelance writer Liz Sullivan on the scene when the body of beautiful Jenifer Paston is discovered — and coincidence that Jenifer happens to be a star at SoftWrite, the Silicon Valley company where Liz is temping. After all, she’s barely met the dead woman.
Liz’s neighbor, police detective Paul Drake, tells her to stay home and mind her writing, and she’d like nothing better. Unfortunately — with a runaway niece and a homeless pup on her hands — she has to earn a living. The best — and worst — place to earn it is turbulent SoftWrite, where spite, sex, and greed take top priority, and where the computer games are murder….
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Murder Mile High
For the first time in years, struggling freelance writer Liz Sullivan is headed home to Denver to visit her estranged family. No sooner does she arrive than her former husband’s dead body is delivered to her father’s front porch with a bullet between the eyes.
Since Liz once tried to kill her violently abusive husband, the police assume she has finally succeeded. Her relatives are furious at this new disgrace, and only Liz’s new, hard-won self-respect keeps her going, as she desperately tries to discover what vicious new shenanigans might have caused her ex’s death–without causing her own…
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Murder Bone by Bone
Back in the Sixties, the street belonged to students, druggies, and rolling stones. Nowadays it’s a sedate family enclave, and freelance writer Liz Sullivan, who is child-and house-sitting on the block, is astonished when the kids find human bones in their dug-up sidewalk.
Whose bones? Probably those of a male in his twenties, whose body was stashed away some thirty years ago. Positive identification seems unlikely. But Liz and her friend, police detective Paul Drake, go digging, and from the memories of people who lived the days of peace and love in Palo Alto they resurrect a past that someone would–and will–murder to keep buried. Meanwhile, the bones take a walk, the helter-skelter past resumes its sway, and Liz picks a bone with a killer…
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Murder Crops Up
In the cheerful community garden where struggling freelance writer Liz Sullivan grows her veggies, someone is raking up old, hurtful scandals. So when a dead body turns up in nosy Lois Humphries’s meticulously maintained plot, Liz is labeled a murderer!
With her reliable friend Detective Paul Drake out of town, Liz has a hard row to hoe–until she digs up dirt on some fellow gardeners who seem more than capable of giving the grim reaper a hand. But it’ll take a deadly encounter among the cornstalks to catch a green-thumbed killer red-handed…
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Murder Follows Money
The grandmotherly disposition that food celebrity Hannah Couch dishes out in her bestselling books and on her TV shows is totally missing when Liz Sullivan joins Hannah’s San Francisco publicity tour as media escort. In private the lady is unpredictable and cruel, and so is her chief assistant, tight-lipped Naomi. Yet a mysterious missive among Hannah’s messages has the power to make both women turn pale, and an innocent bowl of ivy and forget-me-nots delivered to their luxurious suite nearly causes cardiac arrest.
What’s cooking? Before Liz can find out, a killer joins the tour and Liz is in the soup as a front-burner murder suspect…
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Bridget Montrose
Revolting Development (as Lora R. Smith)
The condo developer wasn’t known for her community spirit, but that was no reason to push her out of a third-story window, or to dispose of her in a dumpster. Housewife / writer Bridget Montrose, who discovers the body, reluctantly pursues clues through Palo Alto from behind a stroller. She uncovers suburban goings-on that really belong in the dumpster, as the mystery spreads to involve friends, neighbors, and some surpisingly simpatico cops. By the time she finally tracks down the truth, the murderer’s right behind her…
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Another Fine Mess
Writer Bridget Montrose finds that the rarefied world of the literati can be hazardous, not only to her self-esteem but also to her life. Bridget is delighted to be accepted at a prestigious writer’s retreat on the California coast and is looking forward to high-minded conversations at the dinner table. High-mindedness is, however, in short supply. Instead, Bridget gets an up-close, personal look at the writing and publishing world: authors of pot boilers and of literature, e-published authors and perennially best-selling authors. The eccentric billionaire owner of the retreat, the jealous manager, surfers, and cops enliven the literary mix. Readers will be fascinated by the insider’s detail enlivening this closed-circle-of-suspects mystery.
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