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After being discharged from the United States Marine Corps, Stan ends up
in Dallas where he intends to finish law school. In the spring of 1976, while
attending SMU, he is recruited into the republican party, elected county
chairman, and finds himself helping President Gerald Ford in his campaign
against Jimmy Carter. The campaign is marred, however by an untimely FBI
investigation into the financial dealings of a major party contributor, Brad
Thornton. The investigation unleashes an avalanche of misfortune
beginning with the alleged murder-suicide of Stan’s friend, Ron Shepard, his
wife Cindy and their three children and culminating in the resignation of two
republican candidates for the 67th District’s state representative seat.
Stan, who can’t believe his best friend could have murdered his family,
launches his own personal investigation to clear Rob’s name. When the
investigation turns up new evidence that threatens members of a powerful
Mexican drug cartel, Stan is kidnaped and taken to a secluded place called
“the dump” where he is to be murdered and his body burned to prevent
identification.
Los Angeles, the City of Angels, home to Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
Where everyone is auditioning for a part, and where lies and deceit come
veiled as glitz and glamour. Join us, if you dare: view a vampire movie in
our Forever Hollywood Cemetery, or take a walk along the concrete banks
of the L.A. River. But watch your step. Murder brews within the micro-
cosmic homeless communes that call it home and sometimes riffs on
melodic waves from the jazz street musicians just down the block. Twelve
stories of mystery, murder, and mayhem, from the authors of Sisters In
Crime/Los Angeles, that will send you scrambling for a bus ticket home.
But watch your back. As they say… “Nobody leaves L.A.”
Videl Lai is dead and Tarizon’s cataclysmic civil war is over, or so most
people think, until Tarizon’s Intergalactic Fleet refuses to surrender. Then
Videl Lai’s adopted son, Evohn Cystrom, masterminds the escape of Rupra
Bruda, recognized to be the father of the Purist movement. As the Fleet
defiantly leaves it’s moon base on Clarion, Cystrom informs Chancellor
Lorin Boskie that they intend to travel to Earth, conquer it, and someday
come back and destroy Tarizon. The Chancellor, at great personal political
risk, puts together a rag-tag armada of Earth Shuttles to try and beat the
Purists to Earth and warn the American government of the impending
invasion. The odds of the Loyalist armada reaching earth before the Purists,
or even surviving the trip against the powerful Purist Fleet, are long but
Commander General, Leek Lanzia, is determined to save Earth and destroy
the Purists once and for all.
MURDER IN LA-LA LAND BY Michael Mallory Paul D. Marks Terri Nolan Pam Ripling Jack Maeby Jane DiLucchio Gabriela Vazquez Jude McGee Patricia Morin Kathy Kingston Donna May Kathleen Piche Lenore Carlson
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Houston PI Corie McKenna knows how nasty divorces can get, but even
Corie is caught off-guard when her latest investigation requires the
feuding spouses to decide who will lay claim to murder. As Corie
investigates a philandering husband and a murder at his wife’s swanky
spa, Serenity in the City, one victim leads to another. When the husband
vanishes with more than his share of the community property, Corie
becomes a target herself. More than a marriage will die unless Corie can
identify the greedy, vicious killer before it’s too late.


Piper O’Donnell finds herself embroiled in a suburban nightmare when her
wealthy older husband is mysteriously murdered and she is implicated.
Although golfing with the ladies is the hottest game in town, Piper finds her
own “hottie” Rusty O’Brien to help soothe her broken heart. When a
scandalous affair is revealed and the suspect list begins to grow, romance
kicks into overdrive as Piper and Rusty team up to find the murderer before
he or she strikes again. Will this match made in the cornfields solve this
mystery or has Piper just taken her very last swing?