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Allingham, Margery
Deadly Duo
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Deadly Duo presents two superb novellas of murder most mysterious, Wanted: Someone Innocent and Last Act.
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Andreae, Christine
A Small Target
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Lee Squires loves the idea of a quiet summer in the Montana high country -- until members of her hiking group start killing each other....Professor, poet and trail cook Lee Squires is drawn to the mountains, and she cannot pass up the opportunity of concocting vegetarian dishes for a llama-riding, ecofriendly excursion to Lost Pipe Lake in Montana's high country. But things turn decidedly unfriendly when hotshot Los Angeles land developer Charlie Herron joins the group. A tribal council sends one of their own, Roland Redhawk, to watch over the newest member of the group, but Roland ends up shooting Charlie in what he claims to be self-defense. But before he can be questioned, Roland is murdered by a young, wild-looking woman with a bow and arrow who escapes into the woods. And it's Lee's job to find out who she is -- before she strikes again....
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Bacus, Kathleen
Calamity Jayne Heads West
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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE BLONDE COYOTE? IT GOT STUCK IN A TRAP, CHEWED OFF THREE LEGS AND WAS STILL STUCK.Tressa Jayne Turner, Grandville Iowa's own little "Calamity," is headed for the Grand Canyon State -- and a wedding! No, not her own. She hasn't said yes to the roguish Ranger Rick yet, but after the past year, some downtime in a sweat lodge is just what the shaman ordered.Unfortunately, it's her goofy granny gettin' hitched, and Tressa's sunny little siesta is about to have more strings attached than a dream catcher. Her cousin's keeping secrets, Rick's sending signals -- more of the smokin' than smoke variety -- and it seems Tressa's not the only person with an attachment to "Kookamunga", the butt-ugly fertility figurine she picked up at a roadside stand as a wedding gift. The wacky wedding's about to become a southwestern scavenger hunt, an amazing race cum Da Vinci Code-intrigue, featuring a washed-up actress out to kick-start her career, a suspect spiritual advisor, locals with a cause, and a ten-year-old who's a chip off a certain ranger's blockhead. It'll be a vision quest to make Thelma and Louise's southwestern spree seem like amateur night at the OK Corral. May the best spirit guide win.
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Barnes, Linda
Steel Guitar
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Carlotta Carlyle and Dee Willis once sang in harmony. Now Dee has a skyrocketing music career, while Carlotta drives a cab, dates a mafia scion, and looks for missing persons in Boston. But the miles they've traveled can't change what they once had, or keep it from coming back to haunt them........MURDERING BLUES.....Dee wants Carlotta to find the man who once worked magic with a guitar, but now dabbles in blackmail -- claiming to be the author of three of Dee's hit songs. When Carlotta starts searching Boston's backwaters she finds a pattern of corruption that leads back to Dee's entourage... And then to a dead body in Dee's swank hotel room. Carlotta knows that this gig isn't just about song titles, money, or even murder. Instead, this is the kind of stuff the saddest songs are made of: the past, and what happens when the innocence dies forever.
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Barr, Nevada
Blood Lure
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Anna Pigeon returns to the West, where she is sent on a training assignment to study grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park, straddling the border between Montana and Canada. But back in her beloved mountains, where the air is pure and cool, Anna fails to experience the spiritual renewal she expected. Instead, nature seems to have become twisted, carrying a malevolence almost human in its focus. Along with a bear researcher, Joan Rand, and a volatile and unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of the bears. On their second night out, the tables are turned: one of the bears comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing and a camper dead, her neck snapped, the flesh of her face cut away. Feeling betrayed by nature and humanity, Anna must find the beast stalking the trails -- and enter deep into a gripping wilderness life-or-death mystery.
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Beck, Jessica
Sinister Sprinkles
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Welcome Back to Donut Hearts -- where the coffee is hot, the donuts are fresh, and the weather outside is frightful...JUST IN TIME FOR THE WINTER FESTIVAL, a glistening layer of snow has covered the streets of April Springs, North Carolina. Of course, it reminds donut shop owner Suzanne Hart of sweet delicious frosting. But her visions of sugar plums plummet when her ex's ex-girlfriend gets iced ...Suzanne could never understand why her ex-husband and actor Max cheated on her with Darlene Higgins. Why Darlene's body was found wearing another woman's clothes is an even bigger mystery. Now Max is suspected of murder -- and Suzanne is sifting through her mixed-up love life looking for clues. If she can't sprinkle evidence on her half-baked theories of whodunit, Max is as good as fried....; A Donut Shop Mystery
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Bliss, Miranda
Cooking Up Murder
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TOO MANY MURDERS SPOIL THE BROTH...Annie and Eve are life-long best friends who have absolutely nothing in common -- except a lack of skill in the kitchen. So when they sign up for a cooking class at the local gourmet shop, they figure the only things at risk are a few innocent fruits and vegetables. But on the first night, Annie and Eve see their fellow student Beyla arguing with a man -- a man who later turns up dead in the parking lot. Now the friends feel bound to uncover whatever secrets she's hiding, before someone else's goose -- perhaps one of their own -- gets cooked.
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Bliss, Miranda
Murder Has a Sweet Tooth
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Annie Capshaw has found that the way to a man's heart is through his cooking class. But just as she and her best friend, Eve, are planning Annie's big day with Jim, her former cooking instructor turned boss, murder takes the cake -- make that the wedding cake...Determined not to be a bridezilla, Annie is trying to keep the nuptial nuisances to a minimum. If only Eve could control her maid-of-honor mania! And if only the groom's cousin, Alex, who flew in from Scotland, could stay out of trouble.But then ladies' man Alex meets a lovely American lass -- only to become a prime suspect when she turns up murdered. Instead of handling the details of her wedding, Annie is investigating the details of a killing. The victim seemed to be living the perfect life of a suburban wife -- the life Annie's always dreamed of. Now Annie has to wonder: Is married life a recipe for murder?
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Bowen, Rhys
Her Royal Spyness
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HER ROYAL SPYNESSsolves her first case.The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family.Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch. And she is flat broke. As the thirty-fourth in line for the throne, she has been taught only a few things, among them, the perfect curtsey. But when her brother cuts off her allowance, she leaves Scotland, and her fiancι Fish-Face, for London, where she has:A.) worked behind a cosmetics counter -- and gotten sacked after five hours B.) started to fall for a quite unsuitable minor royal C.) made some money housekeeping (incognita, of course), and D.) been summoned by the Queen to spy on her playboy son.Then an arrogant Frenchman, who wants her family's 800-year-old estate for himself, winds up dead in her bathtub. Now her most important job is to clear her very long family name.
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Braun, Lilian Jackson
The Cat Who Brought Down the House
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Twenty-five years ago, Jim Qwilleran was huffing into his large moustache, spelling his name oddly, drinking black coffee at the Press Club bar. He was tall but seemed world-weary. His entire earthly possessions fit into two suitcases. He was a down-and-out crime reporter willing to cover any minor beat if it could get him back into newspapering. Then, almost overnight, peculiar circumstances made him the richest man in northeast central United States. All that money made Qwilleran nervous, until he remembered the old saying: Money is like muck; it doesn't do any good unless you spread it around. He established a foundation to spread it around. Now Qwilleran lives in a small town, 400 miles north of everywhere, and writes for a small newspaper. He stands tall and straight. He dates a librarian. His roommates are two abandoned cats that he adopted along the way, one of them quite remarkable. Despite his fame and fortune, Qwilleran's popularity really stems from his sense of humor, individuality, and willingness to listen. He has a writer's talent for sympathetic listening -- half compassion, half curiosity -- and it draws confidences from men and women, old and young. Qwilleran has a secret of his own that he shares with no one -- or hardly anyone. His male cat, Koko, has an uncanny intuition that can tell right from wrong and frequently sniffs out the evil-doer. Together, he and Qwilleran have solved several cases.
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Braun, Lilian Jackson
The Cat Who Sang for the Birds
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Spring has come early to Moose County. The flowers are blooming and the birds are singing, but all is not well four hundred miles north of everywhere. On the surface, things appear tranquil -- Jim Qwilleran, newspaper columnist and the county's richest resident, has moved back into the remodeled apple barn with his two remarkable felines, Koko and Yum Yum. And the newly built gazebo is providing an idyllic opportunity for all three to commune with nature. But then an elderly woman dies in a suspicious fire, and the newly opened art center falls victim to a mysterious break-in. Throw in a scandal involving an unscrupulous local politician and an anticomputer uprising at the town library and suddenly life in Pickax is anything but peaceful. In addition, a young artist disappears and Qwill, Koko, and Yum Yum have some serious sleuthing to do.
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Braun, Lilian Jackson
The Cat Who Smelled a Rat
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October arrives in Moose County on the heels of a long drought, and the citizens of Pickax worry about wildfires. Their fears are realized in an unexpected manner, with a case of arson -- and the shooting of a volunteer fire-watcher as he is reporting the blaze. The crime wave continues as the president of the curling club is pushed to his death down a flight of stairs, and it's up to Qwilleran & Co. To sniff out the rat who is responsible for it all.
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Braun, Lilian Jackson
The Cat Who Wasn't There
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Qwill's on his way to Scotland--and on his way to solving another purr-plexing mystery. But this time Kokds nowhere near the scene of the crime. He and Yum Yum are back in Pickax being coddled by a catsitter..but Koko wont sit still once Qwill's traveling party returnsminus one member. He's behaving oddly, and Qwill knows what that means: Koko may have been miles away from the murder scene-but he's just a whisker away from cracking the case! Qwilleran--a prizewinning reporter with a nose for crime. Koko--a Siamese cat with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery Yum Yum--a lovable Siamese adored by her two male companions. The most unlikely most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction!
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Brown, Rita Mae
Claws and Effect
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In a small town, everyone knows each other's secrets--or do they? When a Crozet Hospital staff member is found murdered in the boiler room, everyone in the bucolic Virginia burg is puzzled and none more so than postmistress Harry Haristeen. With the help of her two curious kitties, Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and her corgi, Tucker (who find human perception maddeningly slow) , Harry soon finds herself entangled in the strange web of misdoings at the hospital.
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Brown, Rita Mae
Hotspur
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Jane Sister Arnold may be in her seventies, but she shows no signs of losing her love for the Hunt. As Master of the prestigious Jefferson Hunt Club in a well-heeled Virginia Blue Ridge Mountain town, she is the most powerful and revered woman in the county. She can assess the true merits of a man or a horse with uncanny skill. In short, Sister Jane is not easily duped. When the skeleton of Nola Bancroft, still wearing an exquisite sapphire ring on her finger, is unearthed, it brings back a twenty-one-year-old mystery. Beautiful Nola was a girl who had more male admirers than her family had money, which was certainly quite a feat. In a world where a woman's ability to ride was considered one of her most important social graces, Nola was queen of the stable. She had a weakness for men, and her tastes often ventured towards the inappropriate, like the sheriff's striking son, Guy Ramy. But even Guy couldn't keep her eyes from wandering. When Nola and Guy disappeared on the Hunt's ceremonial first day of cubbing more than two decades ago, everyone assumed one of two things: Guy and Nola eloped to escape her family's disapproval; or Guy killed Nola in a jealous rage and vanished. But Sister Jane had never bought either of those theories. Sister knows that all the players are probably still in place, the old feuds haven't died, and the sparks that led to a long-ago murder could flare up at any time.
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Brown, Rita Mae
Rest in Pieces
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Another mystery featuring postmistress Mary Minor Haristeen (Harry to her friends) and her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy. Because murder, it seems, is juicier the second time around.... Blazing foliage, frost on the pumpkins, a Harvest Ball, and the fall fox hunt make Crozet, Virginia, a Currier & Ives print of America in autumn. But it is the social aspects of this scene that really begin to glow when a new man moves into town. Blair Bainbridge is drop-dead gorgeous, single, and living right down the road from Harry. The local matchmakers think he is the perfect antidote for the pain of Harry's recent divorce... Even if whispers have it that the notorious society vamp, Boom Boom Craycroft, is plotting to snatch him up first. However, as a man of refinement and good taste, Blair seems to prefer Harry. Even Mrs. Murphy and Harry's Welsh corgi, Tee Tucker, believe he smells A-okay. Could his one little imperfection be that he's a killer? Blair, with a tragic secret in his past, becomes the most likely suspect when the pieces of a dismembered corpse begin turning up around town. No one knows who the dead man is, and when his missing head makes a spectacular appearance in a most inappropriate place, more than an early winter snow begins chilling the blood of Crozet's very best people. That's when Mrs. Murphy decides to investigate. What she finds, with a little help from her friend Tucker, a possum named Simon, and finally Harry herself, is a hair-raising encounter with the dark side of human nature.
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Browne, Hester
The Little Lady Agency
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When sweet, naive Melissa seeks a job with her old Home Economics teacher she is halfway through the interview before it dawns on her that Mrs. McKinnon isn't interested in her cookery skills, but is in fact running an escort agency. Melissa panics, but she needs the cash -- and what harm can providing lonely men with stimulating conversation over dinner do? More exciting still, she'll get to wear a disguise.... Enter her alter ego: Honey. As flirty and feminine as a Bond girl, as confident and sexy as Mary Poppins in silk stockings, Honey brings out a side to Melissa she never knew she had. A side that will get her into hot water, (and out of it) and that she'll never want to lose....
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Browne, Hester
The Little Lady Agency in the Big Apple
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SHE's A MANNERS COACH FOR MEN, AND SHE's WORKING HER MAGIC ON MANHATTAN!In Hester Browne's bestseller THE LITTLE LADY AGENCY, Melissa Romney-Jones transformed herself from doormat to diva as Honey, London's premier freelance girlfriend. Now, Melissa takes Manhattan, and its clueless bachelors, by storm!With the Little Lady Agency doing a booming business back home, Melissa joins her dashing American boyfriend, Jonathan Riley, for an extended holiday in Manhattan. But she's soon out of her depth among Jonathan's hard-charging friends and his interfering ex-wife. And while she's all for shopping and sightseeing, a covert work opportunity is an irresistible temptation -- a project that soon lands her in the tabloids! Now, a hilarious and heartbreaking chain of events may force Melissa to choose between the man she loves and the unique man-handling business into which she has poured her heart and soul....
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Bush, Nancy
Candy Apple Red
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Romance is thin on the ground in Lake Chinook. But the bodies are just beginning to pile up.. Jane Kelly is through with following men anywhere. Last time she did, she left Southern California for the dubious charms of Lake Chinook, Oregon, where she's traded in bartending for the much more glamorous trade of process serving. (Well, she can tell herself it's glamorous, anyway. ) And the boyfriend, of course, is long gone. So she's thirty, she's single, she's living in a town where fishing is more important than fashion, and one of her closest friends is an information specialist -- which is a fancy way of saying private detective. Odder still, she's been helping him out, which makes the criminology courses she took a few years back with her ex at least worth the tuition. She's not making any lifetime commitments, but when Portland divorce attorney Marta Cornell calls with a P. I. Job, the money involved sounds like the answer to her dwindling bank account -- until she learns Tess Bradbury wants her to investigate the disappearance of Bobby Reynolds. Four years ago, without warning, Bobby murdered his young family and promptly vanished. No one disputed that he'd slaughtered his own flesh and blood except Tim Murphy, his best friend -- and Jane's ex, the one guy she's never quite gotten over. The murders had driven a wedge between him and Jane, and finally drove him right out of town. Now he's on his way back, to attend a Lake Chinook Historical Society benefit that Cotton Reynolds, Bobby's father, is hosting. Every alarm bell in Jane's head is clanging, but before she can say Not on your life, Marta has convinced her to accept Tess's assignment -- an interview with Tess's ex-husband, Cotton, who she believes has been in contact with Bobby. It looks like Jane's going to be following men around again -- this time with a tape recorder and a camera. To top it off, an only vaguely remembered aunt has left her a homely pug named Binky and her mother is once again threatening to head north and settle in Oregon. With a brand-new job she's learning as she goes along and the man who broke her heart into a million pathetic little pieces back in town, Jane's life just went from stress-free to completely stressed-out. And that's before she finds the dead body in the lake..
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Cannell, Dorothy
God Save the Queen!
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Sir Henry Gossinger scandalizes his family when he rewrites his will and leaves everything to his devoted butler, whose bizarre death places the butler's sweet young granddaughter in the middle of a murderously tangled web.
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Cannell, Dorothy
How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams
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Any day now, stay-at-home mum Ellie Haskell plans to slim down, kick the romance-reading habit, and resume her career. But not today, for when she arrives for the Chitterton Fells Library League meeting, she stumbles upon a corpse: Miss Bunch, the librarian, lies sprawled next to an open copy of The Dream Lover. Could she have been a victim of the library ghost, a man with a grudge against the romantic novels that kept his daughters forever holding out for the perfect suitor? It is a question that haunts Ellie--especially when a sexy male romance cover model hits town and strange goings-on begin. When a second mysterious death occurs, Ellie knows she must unmask the culprit...before she herself meets a sinister and decidedly unromantic fate!
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Childs, Laura
Chamomile Mourning (Tea Shop Mystery)
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At Charleston's Spoleto Festival, Theodosia Browning's Poet's Tea is forced indoors by rain--which is the least of her problems after a local auction house owner plummets from the balcony to his death. With a full kettle of suspects, Theodosia finds herself chasing a criminal who plans on showing her just how dangerous it is to stick her sensitive nose where it doesn't belong.
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Churchill, Jill
Silence of the Hams
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Pompous, pig-headed attorney Robert Stonecipher is a major pain in the ham hocks. So no one is terribly upset when he's fatally mashed by a falling rock of hams at the new deli where suburban single mom Jane Jeffry's son works part-time.But when Stonecipher's most obnoxious employee meets an equally appropriate end, Jane knows the fat's really in the fire. And though her homicide detective honey Mel VanDyne disapproves, Jane is determined to dive headfirst into this deadly daze of swine and neuroses -- and hunt a hog-wild murderer despite her own killer agenda as homemaker/PTA/church/community busyperson.
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Clark, Carol Higgins
Decked
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The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise.She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune hunter, a jewel thief and an assassin, Regan is sailing home -- and into the hands of a young girl's killer.With her blend of sophisticated wit and first-class suspense, Carol Higgins Clark has made her Regan Reilly mysteries the breeziest American detective series since that of Nick and Nora Charles. In DECKED, private eye Regan took a transatlantic cruise and solved a murder aboard a luxury liner.
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Clark, Mary Higgins and Various Authors
Malice Domestic 2
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A series of mystery short stories. Amanda Cross is in fine form as she describes an unpleasant panel discussion between a macho crime writer and a genteel romantic mystery writer that ends in violence: someone guns down the sweet old lady moderating the melee. Robert Barnard confirms pet owners' suspicions that we're only here to amuse our animals when he recounts a murder from the point of view of the one uninvolved witness: a dog. Ed Gorman's engaging sleuth, a policewoman in 1890 Cedar Rapids, uses logic to discover the invisible hand behind the sudden death of an evangelical minister's wife. When, in a story by M. D. Lake, a counselor is murdered at summer camp, it is no mystery to a young girl who, while living with her battling parents, has honed her abilities to notice the details of her environment and the nuances of adult behavior.
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Cleary, Melissa
In the Doghouse
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A Dog Lover's Mystery:Jackie Walsh is starting a new life with her son and an ex-police dog named Jake... teaching film classes and solving crimes!
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