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Eleanor Taylor Bland`s legion of fans, as well as new readers, will now be able to read the first highly acclaimed novel that launched one of the first-and now one of the best-mystery series written by an African-American writer about an African-American female cop. DEAD TIME will take you on an exhilarating ride through the streets of Chicago with one of the most unforgettable characters in mystery fiction today...Black, widowed, and mother of two, police detective Marti MacAlister has relocated from Chicago to Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, only to be confronted with small-town attitudes and a partner who`s not sure women belong in homicide. But Matthew
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Jessenovik`s old-fashioned thinking is far less compelling a problem than a brutal murder at the Cramer Hotel, home to the elderly, poor, and mentally ill. And when Marti and Vik discover that two abandoned children might have seen the killer leaving the crime scene, the case becomes even more urgent as Marti must step up her efforts and use all of her street smarts to find a killer who is desperate to eliminate any possible witnesses to his crime-even if it`s two innocent homeless kids...
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Talking cats Kit, Joe Gray, and Dulcie sniff out the links between a dead child buried in a garden, a runaway holed up in the local library, and the murder of a former movie star during a festival being held in her honor. This cozy is the 10th mystery in a series.
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When Terry Painter rents out the spare cottage on her property, hoping for a little extra income to help out with the bills, she soon befriends Alison, the young woman who rents the place. Alison, however, has other ideas and soon Terry finds herself in a deadly struggle with a foe who seems to be one step ahead of her all the time.
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Derace Kingsley, executive at a cosmetics company, ...can't stand scandal. But a month before he hired Marlowe, his wife went to Mexico for a divorce in order to marry a playboy named Lavery. However, the wife's car is discovered, abandoned, and Lavery doesn't know anything about the divorce scheme. Kinglsey hires Marlowe to find his wife and keep it all out of the papers. Set in an idyllic town, The Lady in the Lake explores the theme of an evil that escapes the cities and infects the countryside--an evil that is, in fact, an individual trait that we each carry with us. Once again, especially in the use of the Arthurian title, Chandler reminds the reader of Marlowe's resemblance to a questing knight.
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Lauren reluctantly participates in a seance--a situation which leads to the mysterious disappearance of one of her friends.
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