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Also by Cathi Stoler:

The Hard Way, April 2014
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Keeping Secrets, November 2013
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The Hard Way
Cathi Stoler

Laurel & Helen New York Mysteries #3
Camel Press
April 2014
On Sale: April 15, 2014
Featuring: Helen McCorkendale; JImmy Scanlan
280 pages
ISBN: 1603819495
EAN: 9781603819497
Kindle: B00JJZLWPO
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Mystery

PI Helen McCorkendale's childhood friend, Jimmy Scanlan, has just opened January, the most lavish casino and hotel resort in Vegas. After attending the grand opening, Helen returns to New York and encourages her magazine editor friend, Laurel Imperiole to create a get-away contest for readers offering a weekend at the hotel as the grand prize. The winner, Dawn Chapman, a jewelry store employee from Cincinnati, denies entering the contest and initially refuses the trip. Finally persuaded by Laurel to accept, she arrives at the hotel and nearly faints when she passes the hotel's elite meeting rooms where the International Diamond Dealers Consortium is holding its annual meeting. She insists on returning home immediately.

Suspicious of her behavior, Jimmy visits her suite to encourage her to attend the Saturday afternoon pool party, saying she can leave on his private jet the next day. Later in the afternoon, he finds Chapman's dead body by the pool. She's been murdered--an unusual double poisoning by cyanide and diamond dust.

Dawn Chapman was not who she appeared to be, and therein lies a mystery. But to Helen and Laurel, the main task is to take Jimmy Scanlon off the suspect list and clear his name. Will their luck hold? Or will it be a cr*ap shoot, as they roll the dice and do it 'the hard way,' going for doubles when the odds are against them. Losing may mean losing their lives.

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