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One of Maine kennel owner Jack Field's favoritepastimes is spending quality time with a fun-lovingpooch -- which is why he's playing fetch with a corginamed Tipper instead of mingling at a July 4th shindig. But when Tipper returns with a bloodstained boating cap in her teeth, the ex-New York cop decides to investigate ... and finds an anonymous dead man clutching Tipper's tennis ball.The local law thinks Jack's the killer, since he had the opportunity and, as it turns out, a motive. Even his loyal and lovely fiancée, assistant state medical examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter, is troubled by evidence that seems to contradict Jack's tale. Someone's trying awfully hard to frame the dog-savvy ex-detective, and he's determined to find out why -- even though everyone, from a billionaire inventor to a San Diego drug lord to a whole passel of professional killers, is equally determined to stop him and his doggie pals dead in their tracks.
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Three disparate women are the focus of this humorous novel, as their lives interlock on several levels and the point of view switches from one complex life to another. Gemma's wacky emails about her parents' midlife crisis make their way from Dublin to the office of a literary agent in London, JoJo, who wants to publish them but is distracted by the troubles of one of her clients, Lily. Lily has writer's block because she is tortured by the fact that her husband is having an affair with Gemma, who used to be Lily's friend....
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A thriller...a novel...a fun thing, an entertainment and good reading.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEWWho would want to kill Clarence Sutherland, a bright and handsome young man? The answer: practically everybody.
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A missing mummy and harpooned museum curator lead Eskimo and State Trooper Nathan Active deep into the Alaskan wilds in this, his second outing. Raised in the city and not treated as an equal among his peers, he is up against everything from prejudice to cultural differences between his bosses and his suspects. Active is caught between the past and the present as he travels the tundra tracking his quarry.
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It is 1901 and Buffalo, New York, stands at the center of the nation`s attention as a place of immense wealth and sophistication. The massive hydroelectric power development at nearby Niagara Falls and the grand Pan-American Exposition promise to bring the Great Lakes
city of light
even more repute.Against this rich historical backdrop lives Louisa Barrett, the attractive, articulate headmistress of the Macaulay School for Girls. Protected by its powerful all-male board,
Miss Barrett
is treated as an equal by the men who control the life of the city. Lulled by her unique relationship with these titans of business, Louisa feels secure in her position, until a mysterious death at the power plant triggers a sequence of events that forces her to return to a past she has struggled to conceal, and to question everything and everyone she holds dear.Both observer and participant, Louisa Barrett guides the reader through the culture and conflicts of a time and place where immigrant factory workers and nature conservationists protest violently against industrialists, where presidents broker politics, where wealthy
Negroes
fight for recognition and equality, and where women struggle to thrive in a system that allows them little freedom.Wrought with remarkable depth and intelligence, City of Light remains a work completely of its own era, and of ours as well. A stirring literary accomplishment, Lauren Belfer`s first novel marks the debut of a fresh voice for the new millennium and heralds a major publishing event.From the Hardcover edition.
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