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Pale as Death by Heather Graham

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I can always count on Heather Graham's Krewe of Hunters books to allow me to escape. Pale as Death , with its connection to a mysterious historical murder, is a fascinating romantic suspense novel. When Detective Sophie Manning and her partner Grant Vining respond to a crime scene in Hollywood, they know it will be an unusual one. Their team tends to handle the vicious and strange cases. But, this one, with a woman's body drained of blood, and dismembered, resembles one of the most famous unsolved murders in Hollywood, the Black Dahlia case. Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered and dismembered. Now, someone has killed a young actress who resembles Elizabeth Short, and the killing resembles the earlier death as well. It's Sophie herself, though, that catches the attention of the McFadden family. She's the spokesperson for the case, and Bryan McFadden and his fiancé, Marnie, worked with Sophie when Marnie was threatened. Now, Bryan is preparing to attend training at Quan...

Fade to Black by Heather Graham

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This time, I have in my possession all three books in Heather Graham's latest Krewe of Hunters trilogy. This series features three brothers, Bryan, Bruce, and Brodie McFadden, and the women they grow to love in the course of a paranormal crime investigation. Fade to Black , the first in the series, features the oldest brother, Bryan McFadden. Fade to Black opens in dramatic style. The cast of a popular older show, now in syndication, Dark Harbor , is participating in a Comic Con in West Hollywood. Four of the five stars desperately need the convention appearances. Marnie Davante, who had been the show's star, has moved on. Her true love is theater, but she appears at the conventions to help her former co-workers. But, Marnie's appearance doesn't exactly help this time when someone dressed as a popular comic villain confronts Marnie and slices her former TV mother, Cara Barton, to death. How does Bryan McFadden become involved in an LA case, when he's based in Virgi...

Hiding in Plain Sight by Mary Ellis

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Mary Ellis, author of the romantic suspense stories in the Secrets of the South series, spins that series off in the first in a new series.  Hiding in Plain Sight introduces the Marked for Retribution mysteries. Her sleuth is young, twenty-five, somewhat awkward at time, and makes some mistakes, but she's likable. Meet Kate Weller, also known as Jill Wyatt. Kate is on probation as a private detective for Price Investigations. If she makes it, she'll become their traveling detective because she has family problems, and she's always on the run. Before she can get off probation, she's run off the road by a couple men who have a warning for her brother, Liam. Liam's in prison in Florida, and for some reason, he's a threat. Despite the loss of a car, and Kate's past, her boss hires her and sends her to Charleston on a case, changing her name to Jill Wyatt. Her job is to find a woman whose sister was adopted, but now is dying, needing a liver transplant. As her b...