When Jaine lands a job writing web copy and brochures for matchmaker Joy Amoroso, shes excited for a chance to help the lovelorn just in time for Valentines Day until she realizes what Dates of Joy is really all about. Joy is a ruthless taskmaster who screams at her employees for the smallest infractions, pads her website with pictures of professional models posing as clients, and offers up convincing but empty promises of love in exchange for inordinate...

When someone's passion for designer purses leads to murder, Haley goes shopping for a killer to clear her name.

In Branscombe, N.H., novelist Nora Regan Reilly and her PI daughter, Regan Reilly, and their close friends Alvirah and Will Meehan, track down a missing employee of Conklin's Market who is connected with a $160 million lottery and the winnings.

Amateur sleuth Haley Randolph, while starting a new job as a corporate events planner, must prove her innocence when the chief of security, who was performing a background check on her, is found bludgeoned to death in her office.

Wordsmith Jaine Austen's ship has finally come in. Her new teaching gig on a fancy cruise line nabs her a free vacation—and access to a 24-hour buffet! But sooner than you can say "bon voyage," Jaine's all-expenses-paid trip to the Mexican Riviera seems destined to be a wreck . . .

Things are already off to a rocky start when Jaine discovers a stowaway amidst her luggage—her persnickety cat Prozac. Jaine's sinking...

Jaine still hasn't found a good man - or a way to keep all those sugary snacks from going straight to her hips. But - with a little help from her best friend Kandi - she's finally landed a gig as a sitcom writer! True, Muffy 'n Me (aka "Bewitched with Tits") isn't going to win any Emmys. And her office at Miracle Studios needs a little sprucing up, and a few dozen rat traps. But it sure beats writing boring brochures and bad resumes, so Jaine's not...

HONEY WEST — FOR HIRE

I'm H. West, private eye. The H stands for Honey. I may be female, but I know my business. Hollywood's most beloved clown has been brutally murdered. The suspects are as treacherous a bunch of Tinsel Town weirdos as you'd never want to meet. As usual, the police are baffled. I've been hired to catch the killer. A trap has been set and I'm the bait.

"In her time (the 1950s) Honey was a rarity — an

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