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Terri Reed
Terri Reed
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WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHTFALL
WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHTFALL
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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.

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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.

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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.

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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.

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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.

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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Dean James

Dean James

Pseudonym for Jimmie Ruth Evans.

Dean James is Manager of Murder by the Book in Houston, one of the nation's oldest and largest mystery bookstores. He has co-authored a number of works of mystery non-fiction and has won the Agatha and Macavity Awards and been twice nominated for the Edgar Award. To date he has published eight novels, with four more under contract. Though born and reared in Mississippi, he has lived in Texas for over half his life. He holds a Ph. D. in medieval history from Rice University.


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Series

Cat In the Stacks

Books:

Murder Past Due, August 2010
Cat in the Stacks #1
Paperback / e-Book
Baked to Death, April 2005
A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery
Hardcover
Death by Dissertation, May 2004
An Academic Mystery
Paperback (reprint)
Decorated to Death, April 2004
A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery
Hardcover
Faked to Death, March 2004
A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery
Paperback (reprint)
Posted to Death, March 2003
A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery
Paperback (reprint)
Closer Than the Bones, May 2001
A Southern Mystery
Paperback (reprint)
Cruel as the Grave, May 2000
A Southern Mystery
Trade Size (reprint)

 

 

 

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