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Dog Therapist Allie Babcock is back…and she has a bone to pick with a killer… Allie's dog therapy practice in Boulder, Colorado is thriving. Her divorcing neighbors, Edith and Trevor, hire Allie to decide which one gets custody of Shogun, their silky terrier. And another neighborhood pair, Cassandra and Paul, need help with a fostered Siberian husky and her puppies. Life seems to be ambling along quite nicely for Allie…until she finds Cassandra's...
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Dress rehearsal for the PTA fundraiser is at its chaotic peak when one of the seven identical clowns cavorting on stage pulls out a gun and shoots the director, Corrinne Buldock. Molly Masters, also dressed as a clown, is a stunned and baffled witness to the killing. She wonders: which of her fellow performers, all of them respectable parents and teachers, can conceivably be a murderer?The rumor is that Corrinne and her old boyfriend split up . ....
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In this gripping tale that introduces THE BODY SHIFTERS TRILOGY, Jake Greyland is a brilliant-but-nerdy scientist who earned his PhD when he was in his early teens. He has now invented a cure for Alzheimer's and dreams of impressing the young college co-ed who applied for an internship at his research center. While leaving his lab late one night, Jake is in a hideous accident and awakens in a sexy, athletic young-man's body. Jake alone realizes...
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Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do….Lisa Henderson's return trip to Denver after dropping off her youngest child at college in Texas has just hit a life-changing detour. With her adorable Westie in tow, Lisa is waiting at Delia's Diner in Humble, Texas, while her engine is repaired, unaware that the mechanics are crooks. As she sits missing her daughter, despairing over her shaky marriage, and mourning her abandoned career as a jazz pianist,...
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Tera Westbrook, a skilled yoga instructor, is burdened by knowing she could have prevented the accident that took her beloved mother's life. When she returns to work, she believes she is losing her mind when Peggy, her translucent mother, appears. Only Tera can see or hear her. Peggy convinces Tera that she is indeed a ghost. The "accident" was staged by a masked murderer. Daughter and ghost-mother are determined to get the murderer behind bars. So...
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Funding for sports or funding for the arts? There's not enough money for both, and a ruthless battle is raging among the seven members of the Carlton school board. Sylvia Greene, the board's unbalanced president, is even threatening to expose the members' most private secrets if they don't vote her way.But a sudden dose of poison takes care of Sylvia . . . permanently. The bad news is that Molly Master's dad, the board member who was Sylvia's first...
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What can possibly go wrong at the annual dog show?
Allie Babcock and her life partner, Baxter McClelland, get more than they bargained for when they accept jobs at the Fort Collins, Colorado, annual dog show. Allie is training dogs in the agility competition. Her dear friend, Tracy Truitt, enrolls her stubborn, untrained Beagle in the competition and recruits Allie as his handler. Baxter is hired as a last-minute replacement to manage the Terrier...
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They've got one another, and now they're going to find the one that got away if it kills them-which it very well might. WOMEN'S NIGHT OUT, the second book in the Life's Second Chances Series, is about the long-lasting friendships among three women forged when, as young mothers, two of them saved the third's life. Fifteen years later, things have changed. All three of them are now single moms with teenage children, and they've all built new careers...
9) Play Dead
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Meet Allie Babcock – The Audacious Dog Therapist with a Flair for Sleuthing At her brand new shop in Boulder, Allie's very first client is a dejected collie whose previous owner allegedly took her own life. But with a natural nose for crime, Allie soon suspects murder – leaving her dejected canine client as possibly the sole witness to the crime. With the scent fresh, Allie is quickly on the case – but a second murder curtails her investigation....
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Gardening is not usually considered a blood sport, but whenever cartoonist Molly Masters is out in the yard she must contend with the harassing comments of her neighbor, Helen Raleigh, who once owned Molly's house. Then, after a particularly unpleasant confrontation, Helen is shot dead on Molly's property--and a shocking secret is revealed.When Molly shoves her trowel into the dirt of the murder investigation, she starts receiving threats--and realizes...
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Everybody agrees that talented mom Patty Birch is the perfect president to lead the Carlton Central School PTA to new accomplishments. Under her steady stewardship, the organization verges on winning a prestigious award. Her skills, however, are sorely tested when angry board members assemble to discuss a secret video that reveals their pettiness and ineptitude. Not long after the meeting adjourns, Patty's tenure is cut short by a knife-wielding killer.When...
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A bitter heart is no match for a moonlit bridge, an enormous dog, and a determined optimist from Ogalalla…Mary Johnson has recently left her home in Nebraska after her husband of thirty years dumped her for a younger woman. She is walking her St. Bernard when she sees a man on the jumper's side of the railing on the Golden Gate Bridge.Jack McGrandle, a widower, is trying to rescue his one set of keys from their precarious perch on a ledge of the...
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Book Club trilogy volume 1
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Take a zany road trip to Branson, Missouri, with Leslie O Kane s HOW MY BOOK CLUB GOT ARRESTED as a group of book lovers get involved in one story too many! A cross-country road trip with the Second Saturday Book Club goes afoul when the four women meet the author of a classic, beloved children s book at the Ball of Twine in Cawker, Kansas, and offer her a ride to Branson, Missouri. They are on their way to watch their youngest book-club member star...
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With mixed feelings, Tera Westbrook puts her mother's house on the market. No sooner does Tera's realtor assure her that she won't need to deal with potential buyers, than she is ambushed at a grocery store by a couple who want her house on their cable show. The top seller at the realty brokerage pressures Tera to sign with him. As mayhem continues, her mother's ghost appears. Minutes later, they find the body of the house inspector. Someone closer...
15) Ghost Mom
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Tera Westbrook, a skilled yoga instructor, is burdened by knowing she could have prevented the accident that took her beloved mother’s life. When she returns to work, she believes she is losing her mind when Peggy, her translucent mother, appears. Only Tera can see or hear her. Peggy convinces Tera that she is indeed a ghost. The “accident” was staged by a masked murderer. Daughter and ghost-mother are determined to get the murderer behind bars....
16) Dog Drama
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Welcome to Creede, a lovely little western town in the Colorado Rockies. This year's renowned theater production stars an Australian Shepherd with stage fright, two backstage love triangles, a shifty stagehand...and a real-life murder.Dog therapist Allie Babcock has grasped the brass ring of work assignments-stunning scenery, the love of her life at her side, and stage-training a brilliant Australian Shepherd and an adorable Pug. The dogs are starring...
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Learning that the man of your dreams loves you, too, is wonderful…unless he's a Hollywood legend who died years ago…. Heather Blackstone is on top of the world-happily married, adorable young son, co-owner of a rising Hollywood film-production company. Then her husband announces he's in love with a young starlet, and she loses her house. Now he is trying to wrest control of their company away from her, too. Is it any wonder she's going a little...
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New in 2015, book 5 in the dog therapist Allie Babcock mystery series!Dog therapist Allie Babcock is excited to give a presentation at the Pets! Pets! Pets! Expo in Denver. With the bring-your-own-pets policy of the expo, Allie's dog-phobic boyfriend is hyperventilating as soon as they enter the building. When he runs into his gorgeous-but-crazy ex-girlfriend and her parrot, Magoo, sparks are flying in all the wrong directions. Before Allie can take...
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Violets are blue.Roses are red.One of you bitchesWill soon be dead.Those lines weren't quite what greeting-card entrepreneur Molly Masters had in mind when she encouraged her weekend workshop students to write a bit of verse, anonymously. Eerily, within hours, one of her aspiring writers is murdered, apparently without rhyme or reason.Or so Molly thinks until a storm and a blackout isolate the group in their mountain retreat. Katherine the professor,...
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As canine shrink Allie Babcock knows, behind every neurotic dog stands a neurotic human. But the rambunctious golden retriever named Maggie can't even begin to compete with the nuttiness of her owner. Befuddled millionaire Ken Culberson insists that he killed his wife and that Maggie is channeling her spirit. He talks Allie into becoming the dog's legal guardian in case he, too, should die-which he promptly does, thanks to a murderer.Friends and relatives...