All I could think while reading this book was that the police department was made up of people who wanted to play cop but never bothered to actually train to be one. And they were the homicide detectives. It really reminded me of the Steve Martin movie Roxanne when he's talking to the fire depar...
Will with this back from beginning of this book till the middle of the book was interesting but not much thrill in this book i love thriller books this one was a page turner till after the middle of the book really lost interest in reading it but i wanted to find out what happened in the end whic...
Electric BlueNancy BushKensington PublishingHardcoverISBN: 0-7582-0907-XElectric Blue is the second novel in the Jane Kelly mysteries. Jane Kelly is training to be a private investigator or information specialist. She prefers to do research or serving process papers for local lawyers. She is relu...
For process server-turned-private investigator, Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but for newly minted P.I. Jane Kelly, it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter's society...
Jane Kelly is through following men. She left Southern California for the murky quaintness of Lake Chinook, Oregon, apparently so she could trade her bartending skills for much more glamorous work process serving. And the boyfriend, of course, is long gone. But things have been looking a little b...
L.A. film production manager Ginny Blue has had quite a few--exes, that is. And the latest one--Nate the Nearly Normal--was next on her list to dump, until she walked into the apartment they shared to find him moving out. The nerve! As if something were wrong with her...which Ginny secretly suspe...
So Samantha Whalen figured the only way to save her mortgaged-to-the-hilt spread was to find herself a husband, huh? But who'd marry a spitfire like her? Sure, she was a fine-lookin' woman--but everybody for miles around knew she was the orneriest filly west of the Rockies ....Then Cooper Ryan ca...
It was more a light drizzle, really—regular Oregon rain—but it was still wet and dark, and he wore a gray hoodie that obscured his face. A few moments later he slid open the door from the back patio, a flurry of wind and rain following him inside. “Almost done,” he said, p...
Patrice Beckett called from her sitting room, her voice dry from years of bitterness. It rubbed against Jake’s flesh like sandpaper, a near-physical sensation.He stood just inside the front door, in the circular entryway beneath the crystal teardrop chandelier. Before him was the sweeping stairca...
Every woman he‘d ever slept with was bound to speak up and try for her moment in the spotlight; they‘d all learned from the Tiger Woods debacle. Everyone except Webber, that is. ―He‘s not the type to listen,‖ Coby told Nicholette. ―Ever.‖ Nicholette sighed, nodded, and ostensibly went back to the...
Detective Langdon Stone was following close behind her. She was pretty sure she’d taken complete leave of her senses. “Is that a professional opinion?” she asked herself grimly. The answer was yes. She shouldn’t be doing this. Sure, she was trying to learn more about her patient, but rashly telli...
“Dance!” she cried. “Dance!”“What? I’m in the living room.”She ran to him, damn near threw herself into his arms though he was standing without the aid of crutches. Her momentum nearly dropped them both to the couch, but he managed to stay upright, wrapping her in his arms as if he already unders...
Gemma groaned internally as she watched Will work his way through his dessert. She was hovering by the kitchen even though she’d been officially relieved of duty for the day. Macie gazed at her indulgently. “He’s real cute.” “I told him I read his m...
“There’s the bus!” April called loudly from the bottom of the stairs. “Eden, are you ready?”“Yeah!” Eden sang out. Seconds later she tore down the steps, blond hair flying out behind her. Dressed in a long-distressed T-shirt, black stretch pants and a jean jacket, she paused long enough to grab h...
Jessica was dead? “Oh, my God . . . oh, my God . . .” Once again Liv felt her knees struggle to hold her and she placed a palm against the Jeep’s hot back fender for support, feeling her skin burn. Auggie automatically moved toward her but she jerked away. He stopped short. “I believe someone’s a...
He kept a pot going all day when he was in the office and generally managed to make it to the bottom before quitting time, which tended to vary dramatically, depending how many cases he was working on. He also had a bottle of rum stored in a bottom desk drawer, but he was a beer man, so he only b...
. . if you could . . .” Marilyn Cheevers took a shuddering breath. “If you could stay here with her, just for a while.”Loni’s mother was shaking all over. This had been a close one. He put his arm around her shoulders and she turned into him and started bawling, clinging to him.“This isn’t someth...
Delilah said to Nell the following day as she examined one of the bows she’d tied to the railing, trimming it with a fat pair of clippers. “It could go up in a puff of smoke with the slightest spark.” “When’s Pilar getting back?” Nell asked. “This evening, I think.” “Guess what I found.” Delilah ...
She wasn’t in charge of all hospital meal planning; she had a separate office on the west side of the hospital’s sprawling grounds for individual patient care. But honestly, the institution manager could really use some help. In fact, given the chance, Maggie thought –She saw the two men outside ...
Hellfire and damnation, but the beast was slow! If she escaped from Blue and Harrison it would only be by the luck of the gods. That thought turned her mood so black that she scowled at the swaybacked gelding. “Giddyap, you.” She kicked him in the sides – sides that were s...
As Connor pulled his bag from the plane’s overhead compartment, he reminded himself that he was wasting time. Carolyn Lenton’s address was a long shot. One Derek Sather had dimly remembered only after Connor had used near bullying tactics. Derek Sather was a tired story. Quick track to stardom. H...