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Former LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley takes a job as chief of police in a small town far from the city, but his new peace is overturned when three young men, fleeing a robbery, invade a local home and take a family hostage.
Former LAPD SWAT unit hostage negotiator Jeff Talley is thrown back into the high-pressure world he's tried to leave behind when a family is taken hostage in their Los Angeles home by three fleeing robbers. But Talley's nightmare...
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 1
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She's got a Dixie Peach complexion and a black belt in karate. She's Savannah Reid, a big, sexy southern sleuth who believes in enjoying life to the fullest. She likes good friends, good food, and good lovin'. . .not necessarily in that order.
Memphis-born Detective Sergeant Reid is in her element cruising for crime in one of Southern California's most exclusive enclaves. . .until a shocking murder rouses San Carmelita from its star-studded stupor-and...
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 12
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There's nothing like a makeover story to get people hooked, and America is certainly addicted to the weight-loss saga of once celebrated actress Dona Papalardo. Plus-sized P. I. Savannah Reid is no exception although she can't imagine wanting to shed her own hourglass figure by undergoing gastric bypass surgery like Dona did. After Dona's personal assistant is shot dead in the star's mile-long driveway, Savannah becomes her bodyguard. The victim was...
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 8
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Business has been a little slow at the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency, but full-figured P.I. Savannah Reid doesn't have time to drown her sorrows in a box of double-chocolate truffles. She's too busy watching the Gourmet Network--and drooling over the sinfully scrumptious confections that Lady Eleanor ("The Queen of Chocolate") whips up on-air. But someone isn't sweet on the Queen's charming chatter--and wants her to hang up her oh-so-quaint...
5) Sour grapes
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 6
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When it comes to sassy private detectives, no one's bigger than Savannah Reid. The feisty, full-figured, steel magnolia of G. A. McKevett's acclaimed mysteries knows how to turn every investigation into a delicious romp, even when she's dealing with a bunch of waif-like beauty queen hopefuls who will kill to be crowned. . .
Sour Grapes
Things finally seem to be calm and peaceful in Savannah's life, but before she can celebrate by biting into a mouthful...
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A tour de force of literary craft and emotional resonance, Like Normal People charts a family constellation that revolves around an off-kilter center: Lena, who is forty-eight but mentally locked in childhood. Moving deftly between present and past, the novel follows Lena's day-long escape from her residential home with her troubled twelve-year-old niece. While this odd couple takes refuge on a honky-tonk southern California beach, Lena's widowed...
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Don Winslow worked as a Los Angeles arson investigator for more than 15 years. He has also been a private investigator in Europe and America. Drawing on his extensive experience, Winslow has penned a searing novel fueled by international intrigue and murder. Once, Jack Wade was one of the best fire inspectors in the Orange County sheriff's department. Now he's an arson investigator for California Fire and Life. He lives by one rule: never let a case...
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 5
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Sexy private detective Savannah Reid investigates the murder of her ex-partner's ex-wife, whose body has turned up in his trailer, as she sets out to clear Dirk's name and to find the real killer.
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"When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy,...
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 14
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Obnoxious diet guru Clarissa Jardin reports her womanizing, gambling husband, Bill, missing. When Bill turns up as a frozen corpse with a bullet in his skull, Bill's mother hires Savannah to prove Clarissa killed her son or hired someone to do it.
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Newly established PI Savannah Reid of California, unjustly fired from the police force, lands her first client. A man is looking for his sister to share an inheritance. No sooner does Reid find the sister than she is murdered. Was the killer the brother, or is there another killer?.
14) Oil!: a novel
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Sinclair portrays the oil industry of the 1920s through the eyes of Bunny, son of a genial independent oil developer.
15) Cooked goose
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A man dressed as Santa Claus is raping and murdering women in the parking lot of a shopping mall in California. PI and cook, Savannah Reid is hired to catch him. Recipes included.
16) Killer calories
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 3
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Southern detective Savannah Reid is tempted by an anonymous note and a promise of ten thousand dollars to track down the murderer of ex-disco queen and spa owner Kat Valentina who was found dead in an herbal mud bath.
17) Poisoned tarts
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Private investigator Savannah Reid, newly relocated to Southern California, wades into the middle of a media frenzy when Daisy O'Neil, a chubby hanger-on of the super-rich, super-wealthy clique known as the Skeleton Key Three, goes missing.
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 9
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In a world where stick-thin women adorn fashion magazines and silver screens, plus-sized private eye Savannah Reid is grateful for the wild success, and fabulous fashion tips, of full-figured model Cait Connor. When Cait is found dead after months of extreme dieting, everyone assumes a risky regimen did her in. Then a second full-figured model meets an untimely end, and it's time to weigh the facts and search for suspects.
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Despite New Year's resolutions to avoid irritating houseguests and nerve-wracking cases, California P.I. Savannah Reid finds herself playing host to her assistant's cranky cousin, Abigail, in town for an unwanted makeover at Emerge, a luxury spa. When the spa's renowned plastic surgeon goes missing, the woman's business partner/ex-husband hires Savannah to find her before the cops do. Her investigation reveals suspicious actions by several of the...
20) Private label
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Worlds apart in their high school hierarchy, Serene and Lian Chen find refuge in one another.
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