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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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Just look at the Vineyard's criminal du jour, "the Silencer." Loved by many and hated by some, the perp's on a campaign to destroy the audio systems in music-blasting party houses and open-windowed vehicles. J. W. Jackson, former cop and now a part-time investigator, finds it difficult to get too excited about the Silencer's crimes. J.W.'s a classical music man himself, which may explain his reluctance to take the so-called crimes very seriously....
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Summer is a distant memory. Thanksgiving has come and gone. Hunting season is in full swing on the Vineyard. And some of the prey is human. Ex-cop, chef, and dedicated angler J.W. Jackson would do anything for his old 'Nam buddy and fishing companion Joe Begay. But when Joe asks to be smuggled back onto the Vineyard in secret, J.W. knows there's big trouble brewing. After his tour of duty officially ended, Joe was involved in highly sensitive covert...
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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...
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2007
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1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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Ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson, bored being on his own when his wife and kids go to visit relatives, agrees to help out a neighbor in Martha's Vineyard by trying to find out who is stalking Roland Nunes, a recluse who is being pressured to sell his Vineyard property, but the job gets complicated when a body turns up near Roland's land and J.W. realizes his quiet client may have something to hide.
13) 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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