Dating Is Murder

Dating Is Murder
Author: Harley Jane Kozak
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2006-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0767921240

Wollie Shelley, the plucky amateur sleuth Kirkus Reviews called “funny, brave, smart, and altogether the fetchingest crime heroine since the early Stephanie Plum,” returns to face suspect lovers and unlovable suspects in this hilarious sequel to Dating Dead Men. Wollie Shelley is a greeting card artist struggling to keep afloat financially and to pursue—despite a series of recent disasters—the search for the love of her life. She reluctantly agrees to be a contestant on the reality television show Biological Clock. The show’s premise: Six eligible singles date each other, and the audience votes on which couple would make the best parents. Alas, Wollie isn’t having much luck finding a man she’d like to date “off the air,” much less father her child. As her own biological clock ticks away, Wollie gets caught up in a much more pressing demand on her time. Her friend Annika has vanished into thin air, and Wollie is convinced that she’s in grave danger. When Wollie reports the disappearance to the Los Angeles Police Department, however, the detective assigned to the case seems more interested in dating Wollie than in finding her friend. So Wollie springs into action—and lands right in the middle of an FBI investigation into an international drug cartel. She soon finds herself being stalked by an assortment of threatening characters, including her fellow television contestants, who will stop at nothing to beat the clock. With Dating Is Murder, Kozak delivers another sparkling treasure, a laugh-out-loud-funny, literate mystery for readers of Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton and for Kozak’s own growing legion of fans.

Dating Is Murder

Dating Is Murder
Author: Patti Benning
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2018-04-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781987666380

Ever have an awkward date? Spring is a beautiful season in the small town of Asheville. Autumn Roth is looking forward to spending the morning in the park with her dog, but reality comes crashing down when a body is found along the riverbank. Faced with the death of a friend, Autumn struggles to figure out what happened. At first, she's not even certain that there was a crime, but when the police begin questioning the people she works with and one of her other friends starts acting strangely, she knows that something fishy is going on.

The Adventures of Cinema Dave in the Florida Motion Picture World

The Adventures of Cinema Dave in the Florida Motion Picture World
Author: Dave Montalbano
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2010-12-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1462836739

The Adventures of Cinema Dave is a celebration of films from the turn of the recent century. Dave Montalbano, alias Cinema Dave, wrote over 500 film reviews and interviewed Hollywood Legends such as Fay Wray, Louise Fletcher, Dyan Cannon and new talent like Josh Hutcherson, Jane Lynch and Courtney Ford. With South Florida as his home base, Cinema Dave details his growing involvement with the Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Delray Film Festivals, while covering local interest stories about individuals who contribute to the film culture. Featuring a fun introduction from Cindy Morgan, actress from Caddyshack and Tron fame, and an extensive appendix of Literary Cinema, The Adventures of Cinema Dave is a saga about one mans bibliomania and his pursuit of an entertaining story in the big cave known as cinema.

How to Murder a Millionaire

How to Murder a Millionaire
Author: Nancy Martin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451207241

Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place within Philadelphia's elite when she stumbles upon the murdered body of a millionaire art collector.

The Saucy Lucy Murders

The Saucy Lucy Murders
Author: Cindy Keen Reynders
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1605425281

Hometown and family beckon Lexie when she can no longer tolerate her husband’s wandering eye. Bereft, she moves with her teenage daughter Eva back to Moose Creek Junction, Wyoming, to be near her sister Lucy and open a business—The Saucy Lucy Café. Lexie’s sister is a churchgoing woman who believes her sister must remarry in order to enter the kingdom of heaven, and suddenly, Lexie finds herself back in the dating pool. The trouble is, all of her dates wind up at Stiffwell's Funeral Parlor—dead. Gossiping townspeople begin to mistrust the sisters while café customers and eligible men dwindle. Business is down the toilet and, according to Lexie, the police simply aren't getting the job done. She declares it's time to intervene.

Secret Agent Girl

Secret Agent Girl
Author: Rosemary Martin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451220912

During a party at Merryweathers' Toy Shoppe, a vicious clown called Mr. Skidoo, who can't keep his foul mouth shut, is murdered, and totally mod special agent Bebe Bennett, discovering that she is a suspect, must employ her keen skills of detection to clear her fabulous name. Original.

Gender, Dating and Violence in Urban China

Gender, Dating and Violence in Urban China
Author: Xiying Wang
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 135169166X

This book explores young people’s experiences of, and views on, dating, gender, sexuality, sexual hegemony and violence within dating relationships. Based on interviews and focus groups conducted in Beijing, and the book reveals insights on a wide range of issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary China.

Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too

Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too
Author: Nancy Martin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440624232

When the tycoon owner of a spectacularly tacky sports bar is killed, Nora Blackbird suspects a secretive politician, a shady former rock star doubling as a pastry chef, and a dangerous aristo-brat on the verge of stardom.

No Way to Kill a Lady

No Way to Kill a Lady
Author: Nancy Martin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 045141862X

Not much is going right these days for once rich, now impoverished Nora Blackbird—what with her lover under house arrest and her best friend in the slammer. Then Nora and her sisters receive word of a million-dollar inheritance.... Great-aunt Madeleine Blackbird has died in a volcanic eruption on an Indonesian island and left her fabulous Bucks County estate to the three Blackbird sisters. But when Nora and her scandal-ridden sisters, Libby and Emma, go to claim their windfall, they find the house in decay and all of their aunt’s to-die-for treasures gone. They also find a woman’s body.... Nora feels compelled to seek out the truth, but even with help from her mobster boyfriend, Mick Abruzzo, who provides distractions both dark and delightful, solving this case proves challenging. Relatives are circling to claim a share of Madeleine’s property, the suspect list is growing, and Nora’s wild and wacky sisters are adding one surprise after another. It’s enough to put Nora’s couture undies in a serious twist!