Debra Monk
2) Exit Wounds
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 11
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Description
The intense desert heat has brought a nightmare to a small corner of the Southwest. A body lies lifeless in an airless trailer, surrounded by seventeen others. It is a crime unspeakable in conception and execution-a horror strangely connected to a grisly slaughter in a neighboring state, where the corpses of two women are found gruesomely posed on a rancher's land. A day that started out hot has already turned blistering for Joanna Brady, the sheriff...
5) Orchid Beach
Author
Series
Holly Barker novels volume 1
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Description
Holly Barker, forced into early retirement from the army after losing a sexual harassment case, walks into a dangerous web of evil and deceit when she accepts the post of deputy police chief in Orchid Beach, Florida.
6) Vinegar Hill
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The hell on earth of living with one's inlaws. The protagonist is Ellen Grier whose husband decides for financial reasons that the whole family--there are two children--will live with his parents in a small town. In addition to the usual tensions such an arrangement creates, the wife has to watch her husband revert to mummy's little boy who behaves like a wimp before his domineering father
Author
Pub. Date
p2002
Description
When artist Rochelle Baxter is murdered in Cochise County, Ariz., Sheriff Joanna Brady is stunned to discover that Baxter was supposedly under government protection. J. P. Beaumont, now an investigator for the State of Washington, to discover if Baxter's cover had been revealed. Brady resents Beaumont's intrusion on her turf, but soon they realize they can only trust each other to solve this case...
9) Demolition
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Davis, a successful investment banker, begins to unravel after losing his wife in a tragic car accident. After forming an unlikely connection with a struggling single mother and her son, Davis reaches a turning point and with their help, starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of a lifetime.
"Gyllenhaal grounds Davis' wildly unraveling psyche, finding both the humor and heart in a man who admits to having spent the past 10 to 12 years incapable...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families...
11) Paradise Lost
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2001
Description
The New York Times bestselling J.A. Jance is back! Cochise County, Arizona, and Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most personal and dangerous case when her daughter discovers a body in the Arizona wilderness. When Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Joanna Brady′s daughter Jenny goes off on a Memorial Day weekend Girl Scout camp-out in nearby Apache Pass, Joanna trusts that her 12-year-old daughter will behave. But with boy-crazy Dora Matthews as a tentmate,...
12) Georgia bottoms
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Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative and discreet means of income. None of her six well-heeled lovers knows about the others--until the married preacher decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation......
13) Dead Wrong
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2006
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Description
Juggling a family and a career has never been easy for Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Now the impending birth of her second child only adds to her burden, especially when two brutal crimes fall under her jurisdiction. A corpse is discovered in the Arizona desert with the fingers severed from both hands-the body of an ex-con who served twenty years for a murder he claimed not to remember. Soon after, one of Joanna's female officers is savagely...
14) The Brass Teapot
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Description
A magical antique transforms a couple (Juno Temple, Michael Angarano) from hapless losers into instant winners. Each time they experience pain, the object fills with money.
16) The Producers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With this in mind, they decide to produce a musical called 'Springtime...
18) Nashville chrome
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Pub. Date
2011
Description
In 1959, Maxine, Bonnie and Jim Ed Brown were enjoying enormous show business success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. But the Browns' celebrity couldn't survive a changing world, and the bonds of family began to fray along with their fame.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The mother of best-selling memoirists Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, Margaret Robison offers her own version of the events so famously chronicled in her sons' much-talked about works. From one view, Margaret and her husband John's life together began with a sheen of normality: he a successful academic and she an artist, poet, and mother. But when John turns to the bottle, and Margaret sinks farther and farther into mental illness, the...
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