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STRANGER IN VIENNA 2/1986 ISBN: 0445200758 An American researcher for a bestselling author of stage histories, Veronica Kent goes to Austria to dig up information on the Backhendlzeit in Viennese theater. Before she even recovers from jetlag, however, she is entangled in the murder of a prominent local lawyer. Frantic, she flees and adopts a series of disguises. A subplot involves Jason Foxe, a prime suspect (and total stranger) who falls in love with the missing Veronica, basing his attraction on a few photographs and diary entries uncovered during the investigation. Later he falls in love with Nicca Montcalm, one of Veronica's alter personas.
DARK PLACES 8/2007 ISBN: 078601718X A KILLER'S TRACKS. . . Missouri detective Claire Morgan is eager to get back to work after recuperating from injuries sustained on her last job. But the missing persons case that welcomes her home in the dead of winter soon turns more twisted and treacherous than Lake of the Ozarks’ icy mountain roads. . . CAN ONLY LEAD. . . The body is found suspended from a tree overlooking a local school. Bleeding from the head, still alive--but not for long. Someone wanted Professor Simon Classon to suffer as much as possible before he died, making sure the victim had a perfect view of his colleagues and students on the campus below as he succumbed to the slow-working poison in his veins. . . TO DARK PLACES. . . Frigid temperatures and punishing snows only make the investigation more difficult. And then the death threats begin--unnerving incidents orchestrated to send Claire a deadly message. Now, as she edges closer to the truth, Claire risks becoming entangled in a maniac's web--and the stuff of her own worst nightmares. . .
DIE SMILING 8/2008 ISBN: 0786018879 DIE YOUNG. . . Hilde Swenson is a beauty pageant queen with a face to die for and a body to kill for. But by the time Detective Claire Morgan finds her in a shower stall—posed like a grotesquely grinning doll—Hilde is anything but pretty. She’s the victim of a sick, deranged killer. And she won’t be the last… DIE BEAUTIFUL. . . Brianna Swenson is the beauty queen’s sister—and the girlfriend of Claire’s partner Bud. She tells Claire that Hilde had plenty of enemies, including a creepy stalker, an abusive ex-boyfriend, and a slew of jealous competitors. But what she doesn’t say is that they both shared a dark, disturbing secret. A secret that refuses to die… DIE SMILING. . . From the after-hours parties of a sinister funeral home to the underworld vendettas of the Miami mob, Claire follows the trail with her lover Nicholas Black, a psychiatrist with secrets of his own. But it’s not until she uncovers evidence of unspeakable acts of depravity that Claire realizes she’s just become a diabolical killer’s next target…
HEAD TO HEAD 3/2006 ISBN: 0786017171 Former L.A. homicide detective Claire Morgan finds her new life in a peaceful rural town shattered by a brutal celebrity murder at an ultra-exclusive "wellness" resort that leads her into the arms and into the bed of the prime suspect, wealthy Dr. Nicholas Black.
SHADOW HAVEN 2005 ISBN: 0743456149 All the mysteries of her heart were kept alive at Shadow Haven.... Newly widowed Gabriella Deveaux left Boston with her young daughter for an open-ended stay at Shadow Haven, her family's Louisiana bayou home. But the comfort she sought by returning to her Creole roots is absent from the start. The estate is in ruins. Her late husband's wealthy family is aggressively pursuing custody of her child. Her gift for contacting the spirit world, the Deveaux women's trait that has always guided her, seems to have vanished. And uncovering the true motivations of handsome lawyer Jarrod Landry has set her heart on a crash course of desire and fear. A cryptic message from beyond soon warns that a dark evil is closing in...someone near her is leading her to grave danger...and only Gabriella can turn the ominous shadows of fear into the light of trusting love.
THE SMUGGLER'S BRIDE 1975 ISBN: 038508997X The heroine marries an old retired smuggler out of pity, not knowing the secret of his terrible past.
MIDNIGHT DESTINY 5/2007 ISBN: 9781934475089 Each minute brings the killer closer to Rick and Mele. The danger intensifies when the unpredictable spirit, Akua Lapu, captures Rick in her sights. This spirit, at midnight on misty nights, leaves Makapuu lighthouse to wander the road to seduce male drivers into changing their lives—or she ends them. Mele, an island lawyer, is powerless to resist the spirit or Rick, the desperate man driven to save his daughter at any cost. But even fear can't quench her growing attraction for this sexy stranger who tempts her with forbidden fiery kisses. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
CAUGHT IN THE ACT 7/2003 ISBN: 0786253355 Jessie Rhodes moved to Florida to start a new, simple life. But things get very complication when the newspaper where she is an editor publishes a huge story that turns out to be a hoax. On top of that, freelance reporter Clay Christopher is snooping around her professional and personal lives. When two of the story's main sources turn up dead, everything is on the line--hearts, lives and careers--as Jessie and Clay race to uncover the truth before anyone else dies.
FOUND WANTING 9/2004 ISBN: 1594141800 Detective Mitch Kane is hired by millionaire Layton Keller to find the son he's never known and Jonah's mother, who took the boy fourteen years ago. But when Mitch finds them, he discovers that Alaina Chancellor isn't anything like he expected. Before he knows it, Jonah has been kidnapped and Mitch is protecting Alaina from determined hit men while trying to help her get her son back. But Alaina has been terribly hurt by a man in the past, and she doesn't trust anyone easily, especially a detective hired by her son's father. Unfortunately, she has no choice but to rely on Mitch, and as they race to save Jonah, they discover that both their lives have been found wanting.
RELATIVE STRANGERS 3/2002 ISBN: 0786237309 When Meg Grant moves to Florida, all she wants is a fresh start and to find the family she never knew. Ryan Kama wants justice for his murdered brother. And Margot Rhinehart wants to escape her life as a jewel thief. All three lives collide when Margot goes on the run, and Meg, who looks remarkably like her, ends up being stalked by a host of bad guys. Her only salvation is Ryan Kama, who doesn't know what to believe as the woman he thinks helped get his brother killed proclaims her innocence. Neither one of them expects to fall in love.
REINVENTING ROMEO 1/2001 ISBN: 0440235936 Anything can happen when the world's sexiest bachelor and a beautiful FBI agent become 'husband and wife'... In a normal world, they never would have met. Millionaire Alex Romero leads a fantasy life filled with money, women, and excitement. FBI Agent Kate Ellison puts her life on the line every day. But now Alex has something Kate needs: his testimony to help her put some very nasty criminals away. Sounds doable...until a hired killer comes after Romero, and Kate gets a new assignment. It's bad enough having to baby-sit the world's sexiest single man--does she have to 'marry' him, too...? Alex had given up hoping that the right woman would come along, but from the moment he and Kate moved into this sleepy midwestern neighborhood, he's been going through a sea change. Maybe it's the simple pleasures of life: nosy neighbors, bowling, or bingo. Or maybe it's Kate herself--a woman Alex could really get serious about. Now all he has to do is stay alive long enough to convince her that they're made for each other....
THE LEGEND MAKERS 1999 ISBN: 1551665174 The steamy jungles of the Amazon offer the perfect escape for geologist M. J. Callahan, a woman running from intimacy, love and her own haunted past. Accepting a position with Texan Oil, she embarks on a mission that will change her life. As part of the three-person survey team in search of oil, M.J. soon finds herself seduced by the exotic beauty of the land...and the heady sensuality of two very different men. But the jungle's green walls have a dangerous secret of their own - of a past expedition clouded in mystery, in which there were no survivors. As they approach the heart of the jungle, truths are revealed, betrayals uncovered, and M.J. is forced to confront her own demons before history repeats itself.
GUNS WILL KEEP US TOGETHER 2/2008 ISBN: 0843960361 Dakota Bombay prided himself on his blond Bond image—bad-guy killer by day, lady-killer by night. Then his life gets both shaken and stirred by an irate grandmother demanding a marketing plan for the family assassination business, a precocious six-year-old son Dak never knew he had, and a mysterious redhead who’s erased his decades-old preference for blondes. Suddenly the perennial playboy is knee deep in pie charts and thinking he may have found the perfect mom for his boy. She’s smart, funny, and directs a funeral home no less—what could be better? Now if he can just take out a team of rival assassins without getting killed himself, they can all live trigger-happily ever after. RR@H's Novel Thoughts
TENDER MALICE 3/1998 ISBN: 1551664208 Genius has its price...And this time it could be fatal. Blessed with brains and beauty, Karen has created Mastermind - a computer program that can change the world. It has already changed hers. Suddenly she has a life beyond the computer screen - and two men who want to share it. Life should be perfect, but it's not. Someone wants Mastermind and will kill to get it. No one is safe and everyone's a suspect - even the people Karen loves most.
A MATTER OF REVENGE 7/1985 ISBN: 0373220227
DO YOU BELIEVE? 5/2005 ISBN: 0765348888 DO YOU BELIEVE IN EVIL? Rose Early is searching for her missing sister Joan. The only clue she has is a horror novel with her sister's notes in the margins. The author of the book lives only a few minutes away and Rose can't resist seeking him out. She understands why his book affected her sister: the author creates an evil so palpable it shakes even skeptical Rose. Vic Drummond, the writer, knew Rose's sister, and agrees to help Rose find her; Rose expected him to be reclusive and strange, but she didn't expect him to be quite so . . . attractive. As their search intensifies, Rose finds herself inexorably drawn to Vic, but it seems to Rose that their feelings for each other are being influenced by some outside force-she knows love at first sight doesn't exist. As they come closer to finding Joan, Rose and Vic journey from the local church to a mysterious sex club whose members dress in demon costumes. The more they learn about what Joan was doing in the days before her disappearance, the more questions they have, until Rose must decide: Does she believe in real evil? And does she believe in real love?
STRIP POKER 2/2007 ISBN: 0385340737 For Teresa Knight, it is a game like no other. A game of bluff and chance whose stakes go far beyond erotic titillation. Where violence and voyeurism collide and sex is about to become the last line of defense. Hired to find out who’s blackmailing a prominent black politician who likes her sex on the wild side, Teresa becomes a player in an underground game of strip poker. It’s a quest that will tap into her own voracious sexual appetites and introduce her to some wildly uninhibited men and women, all of whom are leading secret lives. But as the reluctant sleuth descends deeper into a world of pleasure and fantasy, murder suddenly ups the ante. From smoky underground clubs to uptown mansions to a shadowy corporate entity whose tentacles reach into the highest levels of government, Teresa is on an increasingly obsessive search to expose a killer, unravel a mystery—and have a little fun along the way. . . .
SING CAROLS WITH THE ANGELS 12/1995 ISBN: 0803491484 When Lynn MacDougall regains consciousness after a serious traffic accident, she has no memory of her former life. Uncertain of her future, Lynn is relieved when she gets a live-in position as the assistant to Adam Stone, a famous economist. What she does not count on is her handsome employer's interest in her and her lost past. Can Adam help her answer the mystery of who she is? And, if so, can he make all her nightmares go away? Little does Lynn realize that her life with him will lead her into grave and unexpected peril.
AHEAD OF THE GAME 2004 ISBN: 0778320685 Life is easier withy a good pair of running shoes... After her life was downsized by a divorce and a pink slip, Zoey Jones moved back home to Blytheville, Missouri. Now tending bar at her uncle's watering hole, Zoey is working overtime to keep her rebellious teenage daughter and her eccentric parents out of trouble. Naturally, Blytheville's sexy top cop Hank Westlake picks this time to start rekindling old fires. But their tentative first date is a bust - literally - when hank is forced to book Zoey's own father for murder. Sure, Charlie has been acting strange lately, but could he really be the bumbling burglar behind three convenience-store robberies? Actually, yes. . .but he has a very good reason. And did he murder clerk Joe Donny in cold blood? No. Not a chance. Determined to find the real killer, Zoey begins her own investigation, knowing that in life, and in love, it's good to stay on your toes and ahead of the game.
EAST OF PECULIAR 5/2000 ISBN: 1551665972 Somewhere just east of Peculiar...Hannah Garvey is about to run smack into her new life.... One morning Hannah Garvey woke up and decided she'd had enough: of the fast track, the corporate ladder and chronic love-gone-wrong. So she traded in the rat race of Chicago to become the resident manager for Valhalla Springs, an exclusive retirement development nestled in the Missouri Ozarks. And she's more than ready to kick back, relax and enjoy the view. But Mondays happen even in Paradise. And in this community of delightful oddballs and endearing buttinskies, Hannah finds more than she bargained for. She certainly didn't expect murder...or a sexy lawman seven years her junior...or a mystery that puts her wits and wiles, not to mention her patience, to the test. Between wanna-be Miss Marples, headstrong Sheriff David Hendrickson and a killer on the loose, Hannah is learning to expect the unexpected.
HALFWAY TO HALF WAY 5/2007 ISBN: 0778324508 Hannah Garvey, the resident manager of Valhalla Springs, an exclusive retirement community, thought she had this love thing all sewn up. She's engaged to David Hendrickson, the hunky Kinderhook County sheriff, and thinks the future looks pretty rosy - until one of Sanity, Missouri's most esteemed citizens becomes the county's latest homicide victim. Meanwhile, Delbert Bisbee and his gang of senior gumshoes are driving Hannah nuts, doling out advice, delving into an old missing-persons case and digging dirt where they don't belong. Literally. And no matter what they unearth, there's just no halfway about it - life has a funny way of happening when you're making other plans.
IN HOT PURSUIT 9/2003 ISBN: 1551666871 All roads eventually lead back to the truth... After the brutal murder of her husband, police officer Liz Rivas entered the witness protection program to save her young son. Today, twenty years later, she's Jenna MacArthur, shop owner in Pfister, Missouri. Jenna and her son, Sam, a rookie cop, have build new lives in a small town where everybody knows everybody's business. Or at least they think they do. Then a stranger arrives in Pfister, a men who remembers Liz Rivas. He is Paul Haggerty, a fellow cop from her past. There are memories here, sure. . .and a fierce attraction. But is he a connection to her former life - or a threat to the life Jenna has sacrificed so much to build?
NORTH OF CLEVER 12/2001 ISBN: 1551668483 Just another homicide to spice things up... Life is anything but dull for Hannah Garvey, the resident manager for Valhalla Springs, an exclusive retirement community in the Ozarks. She's helped clear Sheriff David Hendrickson of a manslaughter charge, been caught almost in the act with said sheriff by his parents, and been recruited into bridesmaid duty for a shotgun wedding - senior citizen style. Just a typical day in Sanity, Missouri. Then the circus comes to town . . . and Hannah gets a visit from a man she never knew: her father. At least, that's who magician Reilly Boone claims to be. Reilly's overjoyed by the reunion - until his lady illusionist wife, AnnaLeigh, catches a real bullet in the bullet-catch trick . . . and he's arrested for murder. The show must go on. Circus folk stick by their own, and no one's talking. And with David and Hannah in the middle of their own three-ring circus of romance, secrets and homicide, it's up to the gang of senior sleuths to get to the bottom of things under the big top.
ONCE A THIEF 5/2006 ISBN: 0778323005 Trouble. It's all relative. If there's anything Ramey Burke requires from life, it's harmony. But now her well-ordered existence is shot. Ramey's elderly uncles and aunt, Ed, Archie and Melba Jane Dillinger, are out of the slammer -- and the gang swears they've finished robbing banks for good. The geriatric felons have nowhere to go, so how could Ramey turn them away? Besides, what mischief could they possibly get themselves into now? But trouble soon arrives when a corpse turns up in Ramey's front yard. Now sexy detective Mike Constantine is sniffing around the scene and Ramey's uncle is looking more like a murderer by the minute. With her own suspicions and family secrets to keep, Ramey finds that her life is definitely more law than order these days. And at the end of the day, Ramey has to decide if she can trust her aged kin -- but she can't help thinking once a thief . . .
SOUTH OF SANITY 3/2001 ISBN: 1551667975 Hannah Garvey is back with the residents of the Missouri retirement community she manages. Sheriff David Hendrickson's career and reputation are at stake after he fatally wounds a depressed man who threatens him with a gun. When the police can't find the weapon, it appears the sheriff shot an unarmed man. Hannah and her senior sleuths are determined to clear his name.
WEST OF BLISS 7/2002 ISBN: 1551669250 When thoughts of marriage turn to murder... As resident manager for the exclusive retirement community of Valhalla Springs, Hannah Garvey is up to any challenge life throws her way - which, lately, is usually a corpse. But a marriage proposal from sexy lawman David Hendrickson has her completely flummoxed. Doesn't he realize the odds against a successful Aries-Libra match? Then, while attending a going-away party for Eulilly and Chet Thomlinson, even bigger questions erupt when the restaurant dishwasher suddenly opens fire. Chet, an ex-Secret Service agent, manages to shoot the gunman, and is hailed a hero. The tragedy is chalked up to a case of a disgruntled employee - with poor Eulilly caught in the cross fire. But David, Hannah and the erstwhile senior sleuths of Kinderhook County think the whole incident is just a little too cut-and-dry.
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