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After buying a cemetery, Jake Wyler has been plagued by murders and dead bodies. Now he has a new problem, the Mob. It seems the former owner of the cemetery stole almost a million dollars in gambling funds from a Detroit Mob, and the Mob wants it back. They have threatened Jake and he has to turn to his Detective friend Mickey France to help. Mickey contacts another friend, Will Trapper, now in Las Vegas and Will talks to another friend, Angelo,...
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Jim Richards' dream of building a shelter for the homeless of Las Vegas has come true. The shelter is finally open and operating well, but Buck and Mac find something that may mar the good intentions. They find a murdered man in one of the rooms. Deacon comes in to investigate and Jim discovers the victim is a cousin of one of his friends. Why was the man murdered and what did the warning that was left mean. The mob is suddenly everywhere as a search...
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Dexter Nash was a killer. He murdered for money and it was a business to him. He came out of a bad marriage and decided with all the money he earned murdering people, that he had hidden away, he would retire. A visit to a bar he used to frequent to get his hits from the man who procured other hitmen was his first mistake. His misfortune was to meet the woman who would turn his world around and not in a good way. He then met a man who was looking for...
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DON'T READ THIS BOOK unless you have read all of the Classmate Murders! This book has many spoilers in it. Jim has returned from New York after tracking down his kidnapped client, when Hollywood comes into his life. Jim has finally published his novel about the Classmate Murders and the book is being optioned for a mini-series on television. All goes a bit askew while he is on the production team for the film and his story is being changed around...
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This book has been re-edited as of May 12, 2012
The senior citizen sleuth, Jim Richards, has survived the Classmate Murders along with his new girlfriend, Penny. This 2nd new book brings them, along with Buck and Deacon, across the country to Las Vegas, where Deacon's sister, a showgirl, narrowly escapes being poisoned, another showgirl took the poison possibly meant for her. Then a second showgirl is suddenly murdered and Jim and his crew must take...
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This new e-book box set contains the first six e-books of the Jim Richards Murder Novels series. Starting with the book that introduces the main characters, "Classmate Murders. " The next is "Vegas Showgirl Murders" - "Dominatrix Murders - "Mistress Murders" - "Bridezilla Murders" and "Magic Murders. " Follow Jim and Penny through all their adventures along with Buck, Trapper, Deacon, Lynn, and Becker. They go twice to Las Vegas to help fight crime...
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Jake Wyler owned a cemetery and now had new problems. It seems grave robbers were targeting graves in a nearby cemetery and Jake was informed to be on the watch for his cemetery. That was the start of numerous mysteries, such as hidden money being found in strange places along with jewelry and stolen goods. Seems the former owner of the cemetery was not an honest man, and Jake was inheriting his spoils. This is the third book of the Jake Wyler Mysteries....
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Tom Walters was an author of best-selling erotica romance novels. But he was unknown under his name since he wrote as a woman named Daphne Spenser. He finally revealed that he was a man and was now writing crime novels. Tom's love, Mary Breton, had an altercation with a rival, Cicely Winston, at a bar and threats were made. Two days later, Mary was arrested for the murder of Winston. Will Tom and his father, a retired police detective, find out who...
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Penny receives an early morning phone call from a cousin who says her husband was murdered in Las Vegas just before the Country Music Award show that was being presented in town. The dead cousin was a country singer who's songs were climbing up the charts and Jim takes the case to find the killer. Things get complicated when Jim and Penny find that the dead cousin was supposedly married to two women and his recording company was doing some double-dealing...
10) Fatal Rejection
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(This book is not part of the Jim Richards series - it is all new ) From the East coast to the West coast the NY Slasher carved his murderous spree on thirty women, and then just disappeared. Derek Harcourt wrote about the Slasher's crimes in his first book. Now writing a second book, Harcourt has ulterior motives for this novel and is following the Slasher's journey all the way from New York to Washington state. Sarah Keller is Harcourt's editor...
11) Doyle's Paradise
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Doyle decides to take a huge windfall of money from recovering Egyptian artifacts and take a vacation. His first in years from when he was a detective for the Detroit PD. Now a private investigator, he can set his own work schedule. He decides to close the business and go to Paradise. Hawaii. His new girlfriend, Poppy Drake has decided to go along, and Doyle's secretary, Marge is invited. Doyle's partner Oscar Drew decides to go visit relatives and...
12) Fatal Seance
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The carnival has rolled into Brinnon, Washington for the annual festival of autumn and it's just the start of bringing challenges into the lives of Sheriff Dave Chandler and his wife, Sarah. From a mysterious young boy who smuggled himself along with the carnival trucks, to the crazed killers coming to take him back. How will they protect the boy and will the fortune told by the old gypsy woman given to Sarah, bring a terrible revelation? Sarah discovers...
13) Kennel Murders
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Late night raids on two dog kennels results in stolen, expensive show dogs and a murder. Jim Richards is asked by one kennel owner to help find the dogs, but Jim is out of commission by a broken leg. He puts Buck on the case and then Penny gets involved with a big dog show at a hotel arena. Two more dogs are stolen at the dog show and Lynn gets involved on the case. Lynn and Penny end up tracking down more dog thefts, could this be a crime wave? Deacon...
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Gus Mackie was relaxing in his new office in a better part of Detroit when he saw the young girl in front of his building. She was reading the sign in the window telling the world that a private investigator worked there. Gus could see she was homeless and went to open the door as she stood looking apprehensive. She finally came in and told Gus about how she wanted to find her mother who gave her up for adoption when she was a child. The girl lived...
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Hank Walters is a retired Alexandria, Virginia police Detective who recently applied for his private investigator's license and has been chasing down a missing girl. He rescues the girl and is now asked by an attractive woman who owns a diner, to help protect her from thugs trying to run her out of business. The thugs are part of a Mob that wants her property to supposedly build a mall. But is it the real reason behind the threats? Hank has to go...
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Winner of Honorable Mention in the 2014 Halloween Book Festival. Halloween is approaching fast and Jim Richards is asked by his police friend Deacon to help figure out who is murdering one woman every year for the last fourteen Halloweens. They have given the suspect the name, "Trick-or-Treat Killer" but they have no idea who he is. Jim and Earl Daws go on a mission to track down the facts from the first murder that set up the rest of the kills. Could...
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Someone is taking and murdering lesbian women and then draining them of their blood. Could it be a vampire or someone using the blood to stay young. Detroit police detectives Scott Murphy and his partner Haddy McDougan are tasked with finding the killer before more women disappear only to be found dumped around the city of Detroit. Are the women being seduced into the lair of the killer or being grabbed off the streets. Murphy enlists the aid of a...
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Penny loves to shop, not so Jim Richards. He usually tags along to please his wife, but finally, Penny lets Jim off the hook and goes to the mall by herself. While there she comes across a grisly murder. A body is embalmed in a store mannequin and she discovers it. Las Vegas PD needs to get to the bottom of the crime and since Penny is now a licensed P. I., she wants to work with them. Jim enjoys seeing Penny all fired up over a murder case, since...
19) Doyle's Justice
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Art Doyle, a private eye, having solved his first case after opening up his business, is now hot after a serial killer. Along with his partner, Oscar Drew, they have to keep ahead of the killer since he's been dropping bodies at Doyle's cabin in the woods. What is the reason the killer is targeting Doyle to receive the bodies is still to be determined and the case takes Doyle and Oscar to the woods and then down to the back streets of Detroit. Is...
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