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"At first, the girl J.W. Jackson encounters strolling alone along South Beach seems like your typical teenager. But there's nothing typical about young Cricket Callahan, the spirited only daughter of the vacationing President of the United States. What ex-cop-turned-fisherman Jackson can't figure out is why the feisty First Kid is so intent upon eluding her Secret Service guardians ... or why the Chief Executive himself wants J.W. and his lovely lady...
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 9
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The arrivals of a handsome Hollywood director and an old enemy from the Massachusetts environmental agency spell trouble for J.W. Jackson, putting his marriage and his life in danger.
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 10
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Martha's Vineyard is home to ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson, his adored wife Zee, their toddler Joshua, and newborn daughter Diana. For others, the picturesque vacation spot is a relaxing escape from a world filled with trouble. But there is no escap for Julia Crandel and Ivy Holiday, two Hollywood actresses staying in the Vineyard town of Oak Bluffs. Their arrival has incurred the wrath of a pair of local gangsters, and a deadly stalker from out of the...
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When Victoria Trumbull is hired by the Conservation Trust to search a plot of land for any endangered plants, which would prevent a large developer from bull-dozing the area, Victoria looks forward to the challenge, but she soon realizes that someone is willing to go to any lengths to prevent her from putting a stop to the project.
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In this fifth book in the Victoria Trumbull series, the ninety-two-year-old sleuth finds herself embroiled in a series of murders after she is fired from her job as West Tisbury correspondent for The Island Enquirer (the editor claims the newspaper needs a younger look). Victoria, determined to show that age is no barrier to news papering, immediately throws her weight behind The Grackle, intent on turning the two-page West Tisbury newsletter into...
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 17
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c2006
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A clash between golfers and cyclists stirs up tension on idyllic Martha's Vineyard. Ex-cop J.W. Jackson is buying a pound of shrimp when he's verbally and physically attacked by Yale professor Henry Highsmith, who takes exception to J.W.'s parking his SUV too close to Highsmith's bike. When the professor's wife, Abigail, is run off the road by an old SUV, rumor suggests J.W. is to blame. A round of golf with some friends reveals Highsmith's body buried...
10) Indian pipes
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"Victoria Trumbull, ninety-two-year-old native of Martha's Vineyard, is savoring the sea air over Vineyard Sound with her granddaughter, Elizabeth, when she spots a person who seems in trouble near the top of the cliff. Elizabeth goes for help, but it's too late-the man dies before he can be rescued. The man had been hired as a consultant to see whether a site's soil could support a sewage system for a possible casino. The police call it an accident,...
11) Vineyard chill
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2008
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1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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J.W. Jackson, a year-round resident of Martha's Vineyard, looks forward to the peace and quiet of the winter season in the popular tourist area, but the calm he seeks is disturbed when long-ago pal Clay Stockton arrives looking for a place to hide out from trouble, and another friend, Bonzo, makes a frightening discovery that implicates him in murder.
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