Tea-Totally Dead

Tea-Totally Dead PDF Author: Jaqueline Girdner
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497628865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California’s own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this fifth mystery in the series. Kate’s sweetie has finally moved his malevolent mother, Vesta, out of their house and into her own condo in Tea-Totally Dead. But Vesta uses her new home to host a family reunion for each and every member of her extended family. Attendance is compulsory, even for Kate. Vesta baits, insults, and slanders all the guests but her UFO‑abductee roommate, Harmony, until after‑dinner tea time. Vesta cannot interest anyone else in her private blend of herbal tea, which gives off the pungent bouquet of brewed sweat socks. Luckily for them, since the tea also has an extra infusion of poison that evening. By the following morning, Vesta is as dead as any affection her family might have held for her. And it is up to Kate to find the real fiend of the family.

Tea-Totally Dead

Tea-Totally Dead PDF Author: Jaqueline Girdner
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497628865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Book Description
Kate Jasper, Marin County, California’s own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this fifth mystery in the series. Kate’s sweetie has finally moved his malevolent mother, Vesta, out of their house and into her own condo in Tea-Totally Dead. But Vesta uses her new home to host a family reunion for each and every member of her extended family. Attendance is compulsory, even for Kate. Vesta baits, insults, and slanders all the guests but her UFO‑abductee roommate, Harmony, until after‑dinner tea time. Vesta cannot interest anyone else in her private blend of herbal tea, which gives off the pungent bouquet of brewed sweat socks. Luckily for them, since the tea also has an extra infusion of poison that evening. By the following morning, Vesta is as dead as any affection her family might have held for her. And it is up to Kate to find the real fiend of the family.

Adjusted to Death

Adjusted to Death PDF Author: Jaqueline Girdner
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497608651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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Meet Kate Jasper, Marin County, California’s own organically grown amateur sleuth. (“She’s smart, funny, vulnerable, and unpretentious,” says Marilyn Wallace, editor of the Sisters in Crime series.) In this first Kate Jasper mystery, Kate visits her chiropractor for a simple spinal adjustment, but instead finds a dead man on one of the tables . . . dead of a broken neck. And it seems everyone in the chiropractor’s office knew the victim, Scott Younger, in one way or another, except for Kate herself. Maggie, Kate’s friend and chiropractor, has known Scott for years, as has her staff. Her receptionist, Renee, even dated him. Devi knew Scott from college. Guru‐follower Valerie accuses Scott of being a drug pusher! And Wayne, Scott's now unnecessary bodyguard, a shy, homely man who almost makes Kate forget her husband has left her, knew him the best of all. But Kate can't forget murder, especially since Wayne is the main suspect. And there is the pesky matter of Kate's fingerprints on the metal bar that broke Scott Younger's neck. Kate Jasper’s in for a spine‐tingling, bone‐chilling adventure.

Death Hits the Fan

Death Hits the Fan PDF Author: Jaqueline Girdner
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 149762469X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California’s own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this ninth mystery in the series. Kate and her sweetie visit Ivan Nakagawa’s bookstore for an author signing in Death Hits the Fan. The event features three authors and only a few more audience members, but the small audience does not stop Yvette Cassell from reading on and on as fellow author S. X. (Shayla) Greenfree’s eyelids droop and she slumps forward. Kate is shocked by Shayla’s novel approach to boredom. But it turns out that Shayla is not just dozing, she is dead. Is the murderer’s unique signature the bracelet that Shayla snapped on before falling over? The police read an accusation into Shayla’s last utterance of “Kate, I . . . ” before Shayla slumped. But Kate did not even know Shayla. Or did she? The handwriting is on the wall. Can Kate read it before the murderer plots a sequel?

A Sensitive Kind of Murder

A Sensitive Kind of Murder PDF Author: Jaqueline Girdner
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497628806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California’s own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this twelfth mystery in the series. Kate Jasper has sworn off groups, tired of her role as the Typhoid Mary of Murder. In A Sensitive Kind of Murder, it is her sweetheart, and now husband, who attends the Heartlink Men’s Group. Kate is on her way to meet him afterward when a familiar car roars down the street, hits Steve Summers (journalist and fellow Heartlink member), flings him into the air, and then backs up to run over him again. The familiar car is her own sweetie’s muscular Jaguar. Kate is sure her own gentle and gentlemanly husband was not driving the car at the fatal moment. But who was? Kate must break the Heartlink Men’s circle of silence and go where no woman has gone before. Her husband’s life may depend on Kate’s estrogen‐fueled intuition.

Murder Among Neighbors

Murder Among Neighbors PDF Author: Jonnie Jacobs
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9781575662756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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With her husband off in Europe "finding himself," Kate Austen must cope with life in the San Francisco suburbs, but her world is suddenly transformed by the murder of her neighbor and fellow carpooler and the arrival of handsome homicide detective Michael Stone

Sequels

Sequels PDF Author: Janet G. Husband
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838909671
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 793

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Book Description
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Murder My Deer

Murder My Deer PDF Author: Jaqueline Girdner
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497628741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California’s own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this eleventh mystery in the series. In Murder, My Deer, Kate and her sweetie’s budding romance has finally flowered into a full‐fledged marriage. But no one ever promised them a rose garden. Deer have gate‐crashed their yard to munch every bud, blossom, and petal. Instead of happily honeymooning, Kate and her sweetie attend the deer‐abused support group for those whose dearly beloved plants have been deerly beheaded. Antlers clash during group discussion, since everyone has their own idea for deer prevention . . . from feeding them to killing them. Dr. Searle Sandstrom, ex‐military, would like to use a gun, napalm, and land mines. But someone bashes in his head first, and no one spots any hoofprints near his dead body. Killing season is open, and Kate is game to flush out the hunter before she becomes the hunted game.

Most Likely to Die

Most Likely to Die PDF Author: Jaqueline Girdner
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497628687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California’s own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this seventh mystery in the series. Kate’s twenty‐fifth high school reunion was bad enough, but the post‐reunion barbecue for the old gang was a real shock. Kate lends her own pinball machine, Hot Flash, to Sid Semling the week before his barbecue party. Sid, master prankster and live wire, does his own wiring on the pinball machine so it spews sexist menopausal insults as fast as he does. But when he steps up to play pinball at the party, it zaps the jokes right out of him. The machine’s been rigged for electrocution, and Kate scores as the primary suspect. Everyone was annoyed by Sid, but it was Kate’s pinball machine that made him the first man to die from a Hot Flash. She must short‐circuit the real culprit before she becomes the next Most Likely to Die.

Death Wore a Smart Little Outfit

Death Wore a Smart Little Outfit PDF Author: Orland Outland
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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First in a new mystery series with an outrageously funny hook--a drag queen detective! Doan McCandler, San Francisco's best dressed detective, is a Sherlock Holmes in high heels. His stunning sidekick Binky is Watson with a waistline. Together, they make a killer ensemble of amateur sleuths so smart and sassy, readers will just die!

The Chronicle of Charles Weatherby

The Chronicle of Charles Weatherby PDF Author: Bill Grant
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1780883331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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The Chronicle of Charles Weatherby is set in the early 1980s and tells the tale of Charles, who drifts into a job in the City for which he is wholly unsuited and, failing to read the politics at the long established Stones & Co., finds himself peremptorily fired. Unemployed and rusticated, Charles agrees to go to India on an errand for a friend of his wife's family. Here his grip on reality slips and he believes that someone is trying to kill him.Eventually, he manages to get back to England and is reunited with his wife. Life settles down but it isn’t long before his old employer is in the news – for all the wrong reasons. Charles feels that something that he has done in India may be to blame, but he fails to take into account the Machiavellian machinations of one of his former colleagues. This person offers him a job but he ends up buying a bookshop, made possible by the deviousness of the person who sent him to India. With his career resolved, other aspects of Charles’ life start to resolve themselves and he discovers some startling information about his wife’s family. Ironically, it is this that has lead, indirectly, to his transformation from failed yuppie into contented bookshop proprietor. It would be nice to say that Charles’ enemies are confounded and his friends prosper, but life is rarely as clean cut as that...The Chronicle of Charles Weatherby is a work of humorous fiction that will appeal to fans of Evelyn Waugh, William Trevor and William Boyd, all of whom have inspired author Bill.