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Country club murders volume 9
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"Ellison Russell is planning the event of the season - and she's stressed. Why not yoga? Because the yoga instructor gets murdered during class - and Ellison's stress level rises exponentially. Now, in addition to raising a ridiculous amount of money, she's babysitting a deranged cat (named after the devil himself), taking ten million phone calls (most of them from Mother), and finding more bodies (they're popping up like dandelions after a spring...
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"Libby Day tenía siete años cuando su madre y sus dos hermanas fueron victimas de lo que los medios llamaron la masacre de la granja de Kinnakee, Kansas. Ella salvo la vida y testificó contra su hermano Ben, a quien señaló como el culpable. Veinticinco años después, el Kill Club--una sociedad secreta obsesionada con crimenes célebres--localiza a una Libby en franca decadencia y pretende que les ayude a escarbar en los cabos sueltos de aquella...
3) Mrs. Bridge
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Bridge series (Evan S. Connell) volume 1
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National Book Award Finalist
The basis for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
“A perfect novel . . . economical, piquant, beautiful, true” that chronicles the lives of a wealthy family in 1930s Kansas through the eyes of its matriarch (Meg Wolitzer, New York Times–bestselling author).
In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate...
The basis for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
“A perfect novel . . . economical, piquant, beautiful, true” that chronicles the lives of a wealthy family in 1930s Kansas through the eyes of its matriarch (Meg Wolitzer, New York Times–bestselling author).
In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate...
4) Killer queen
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Country club murders volume 11
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Another day, another dead woman in Ellison Russell's study. Only this one claimed to be Mrs. Anarchy Jones. As Ellison juggles mothers, daughter, unhappy wives, and near-miss murder attempts, one thing is clear--someone will go to any lengths to hide the truth. Can Ellison and Anarchy catch a killer before the body count rises? Or will Ellison be the next corpse in the study?
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Country club murders volume 10
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"Springtime. Love is in the air. So is murder. When Ellison Russell, reluctant finder of bodies, chairs a gala in conjunction with the museum's Chinese funerary exhibit, she expects disaster. So, she's not remotely surprised when a body turns up. Ellison is willing to leave the investigation to the police till an attempt is made on her life. Now she's juggling evading a killer, her aunt's overly-amorous beau, her dog's new love interest, and Mother's...
6) Evil woman
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Country club murders volume 14
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"When Ellison Russell Jones returns from her honeymoon, she's ready for a restful summer. But while she was away, an older woman was murdered in her bed. And the police have questions only Ellison and her friends can answer. She gets to be a sleuth. A real one! But with a new husband, her mother in the hospital (targeted by the murderer?), her sister as a house guest, one too many animals, and a full social calendar, Ellison can't catch a break, much...
7) Night moves
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Country club murders volume 12
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"Spring is in the air, and Ellison Russell has places to go, people to see, bodies to find. Strike that. For once, Ellison doesn't discover the body. When Detective Anarchy Jones investigates a friend's husband's murder, Ellison can't help but get involved. Now she's waist-deep in toxic gossip, struggling with the soaring heights and nocuous lows of her teenager's mood swings, fending off the advances of her first love, planning a wedding, and (of...
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Country club murders volume 16
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"Ellison Jones is used to sirens in the night (unfortunately, they're usually coming to her house). So, it's a surprise when the sirens that wake her from the dead come from across the street. Nosy neighbor Marian Dixon's house is on fire. Luckily, the Dixons are out of town. Unluckily, there's a body found in the ashes--a body not killed by the fire. With Ellison's husband, Detective Anarchy Jones, investigating, the neighbors are eager for a quick...
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Morning sickness used to be Sarah Cartwright's biggestproblem-;until she became the only witness to a murder. Now, newly pregnant, she had a killer on her trail-;andCooper Bellamy, KCPD's finest, by her side. Her brother'sbest friend and her sworn protector, it was impossible tokeep Coop at arm's length. Yet the mother-to-be discoveredthe safest place to hide was in his strong arms. They foundout soon enough they each needed the other-;but would itbe...
11) Jam on the vine
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Ivoe gets a scholarship to college and eventually flees the Jim Crow South to settle in Kansas City, where she helps found the first female-run African-American newspaper.
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Harlequin Historical volume 1604
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Nights at the speakeasy...Spark a dangerous romance. Evelyn Laroque's performances at Lorenzo De Luca's Kansas City blues club draw even bigger crowds than his bootleg whiskey. And every time he hears her voice, Lorenzo falls a little harder for the achingly beautiful blues singer. When Evelyn becomes a target for the KKK, Lorenzo faces an impossible choice. Will this son of a gangster turn to the mob if it's the only way to protect the woman he loves?...
13) Mroczny zakątek
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Libby Day była małą dziewczynką, gdy zamordowano jej matkę i dwie starsze siostry. To jej zeznania doprowadziły do skazania jej piętnastoletniego brata Bena na dożywocie. Dziś, po dwudziestu pięciu latach, Ben nadal siedzi w więzieniu, a Libby desperacko potrzebuje pieniędzy. Kiedy więc członkowie Klubu Zbrodni, stowarzyszenia, które fascynuje się tajemniczymi zabójstwami uznają, że Ben został niesłusznie skazany i proponują...
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"Katharine Wright embodied the worldly, independent, and self-fulfilled New Woman of the early twentieth century, yet she remained in many ways a Victorian. Torn between duty and love, she agonized for months before making a devastating break with her world-famous and intensely possessive older brother Orville to marry newspaper editor Harry Haskell, the man she loved. Written by the grandson of Harry Haskell, Maiden Flight is imaginatively reconstructed...
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Six years ago Rosie March's fiancé was murdered. Now someone is stalking her, intent on stopping her memories of the murder from being revealed. And Detective Max Krolikowski, her protector, only wants her alive for the truth she might be hiding. But Max is hiding his own secrets, such as the acute PTSD the ex-solder lives with. As part of Kansas City's Cold Case Squad, the officer's work should have been simply investigative. But with his potential...
17) Back stabbers
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Country club murders volume 8
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All Ellison Russell wanted was an update on her stock portfolio. Instead, she found her broker dead. With an unexpected out-of-town guest at her house, Ellison is too busy for a murder investigation. Only this time, Detective Anarchy Jones wants her help, and she can't deny the handsome detective. Can Mr. Coffee supply her with enough caffeine to keep her brain sharp and everyone else happy? Juggling bodies (one, two, three, four), two-faced friends,...
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