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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Critics and readers alike agreed that Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter was a bona fide cozy hit. Its follow-up, Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund, won its author a whole new set of fans in the US and Europe. Now, Floridian pet-sitting sleuth Dixie Hemingway is back for the third installment of this much-loved series. Caught in a rainstorm, Dixie takes cover in the gatehouse of a mysterious mansion only to make a terrible discovery: the guard has been...
Author
Series
Lew Fonesca volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died and wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida.
He now makes his way amid bail jumpers and lost wives, people who want to be found and those who will do anything...
Author
Series
Lew Fonesca volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Description
The third title in Edgar Award-winning author Stuart Kaminsky's Lew Fonesca mystery series, Midnight Pass
Lew Fonesca is a guy just trying to get along. When his wife died in a senseless auto wreck, he got up and left his old life--and when his car gave out in sunny Sarasota, Florida, he stayed. He takes small process-serving gigs and various odd jobs helping people out, and he tries, although maybe not as hard as he should, to fix the gaping hole...
Author
Series
Lew Fonesca volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up and up.
Now Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience...and another that may break his heart.
The first involves an elderly woman who swears she's witnessed a murder in her old age home despite the...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Blaize Clement, author of the critically acclaimed Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter, delivers a compelling cozy in which pet sitter Dixie Hemingway must befriend numerous dogs and circus animals to find a deadly felon. When a dachshund she's walking digs up a dead body, she realizes the person she's just waved to-the one speeding away in the dead man's car-may be the murderer. Although Dixie can't ID this mysterious driver, the killer got a good look...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Description
Lovable everyman Lew Fonesca, the man who makes things work in Sarasota, takes on the cases of seventeen-year-old Ronnie Graeill accused of bludgeoning to death a local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding and a semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs who is being blackmailed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Description
When ex-deputy, Florida pet sitter Dixie Hemingway meets Laura Halston, she believes she's found a new friend and then Laura is stabbed to death in her shower. With the help of her new boyfriend homicide detective Lt. Jean-Pierre Guidry, Dixie investigates everything there is to know about Laura and her sadistic ex-husband.
Author
Series
Lew Fonesca volume 1
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Three years ago Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the States Attorneys office in Cook County, Illinois, and drove his rattling Toyota south to escape the memories of his beloved late wife. The Toyota broke down in Sarasota, Florida. Buoyed by the friendship of a few trustworthy souls, Lew settled there, making ends meet by doing some investigative work. Now Lew is hired by Carl Sebastian, to find his missing wife Melanie. Following...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"After being laid off from his job as a newspaper reporter in a coastal Florida town, Dexter Vega meets a wealthy retiree who hires him to find his daughter who is supposed to be attending the local college. When Vega visits his client to inform him that his daughter is in Mexico, he discovers the man has been murdered. And Vega's prints are all over the murder weapon. As the police build a case against him, Vega flies to Mexico City to locate his...
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