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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.

This Dog for Hire by Carol Lea Benjamin

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Also by Carol Lea Benjamin:

The Hard Way: A Rachel Alexander Mystery (Rachel Alexander & Dash Mysteries), August 2007
Mass Market Paperback
The Hard Way, October 2006
Hardcover
Without A Word, July 2006
Paperback
Lady Vanishes, September 2005
Paperback
Without A Word, September 2005
Hardcover
The Wrong Dog, August 2005
Paperback
Fall Guy, July 2005
Paperback
The Long Good Boy, October 2001
Hardcover
A Hell of A Dog, September 1999
Paperback
The Dog Who Knew Too Much, September 1998
Hardcover
This Dog for Hire, December 1997
Paperback (reprint)

THIS DOG FOR HIRE
By: Carol Lea Benjamin

Rachel Alexander Mystery #1
Dell
December 1997
Featuring: Rachel Alexander
304 pages
ISBN: 0440225205
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

She gets top billing. But he's the real teeth of the operation. In the search for a killer, they make the perfect team....

She's thirty-eight, too independent for most men's taste, and too suspicious for her own good. In her back-alley Greenwich Village cottage, private investigator Rachel Alexander has one ace in the hole: Dash, the devoted, barrel-chested pit bull terrier she once saved from certain death, and who is now about to return the favor.

Dash and Rachel are looking for a missing barkless champion basenji named Magritte, and for a killer. The basenji belonged to a struggling artist found dead on a downtown pier near a sign that said "don't be caught alone." As Rachel pursues a string of clues that take her from the SoHo art scene to the world of Manhattan's homeless to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, those words echo in her mind. For in an urban landscape where good friends are hard to come by and true lovers even harder, Rachel soon discovers how dangerous it can be to trust the wrong person. Unless, of course, that person is a dog...