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Gavin Lewis mourned the death of his best friend, Bruce Parker. But when it turned out that Parker was actually a terrorist bomber, Gavin himself comes under suspicion. Did Parker plan and execute the act of terrorism alone or did he have help from Lewis? MacFarland is fairly certain that he can solve the case when he encounters a monkey wrench--Bruce Parker may have led a dual life and actually be the son of a wealthy East Coast investment broker.
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Everyone loved Ned Pendergast. He was personable, friendly, rich...and generous. Need money for a new house? Ask Ned. Need help with outstanding bills? Ned is always there, pen and checkbook in hand. Need someone to watch the kids while you take the little lady out for an anniversary dinner? Uncle Ned is the man to call.
Why then, did someone cut off Uncle Ned's head and leave it on the porch of the Pendergast family?
And where is the rest of Ned...
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About The Morose Mistress Mark MacFarland had no use for politics when he was homeless on the streets of Denver. Now that he is struggling to pull himself back into regular society, he still finds politics a necessary evil he'd rather avoid. But when his friend Jerry Baker asks him to find evidence that a restaurant waitress did not kill her boss, he finds himself right in the middle of political intrigue. It turns out that the restaurateur is running...
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MacFarland doesn't like it when one of the "invisible people" gets accused of a crime. Innocent or guilty, it doesn't matter, the system is weighted against them. MacFarland becomes suspicious that the police have the wrong man when he learns that the suspect-an old man named Isaac Dawes, a man who suffers with a bad skin condition-is accused of killing his best friend. When Lord Bozworth, the leader of the homeless community in Denver, asks for MacFarland's...
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When one of MacFarland's friends asks him to prove that a man accused of murder is innocent, MacFarland reluctantly agrees. He tells her that he will go where the facts take him, but if that means that the man is guilty, so be it.
But then MacFarland finds he is smack in the middle of a notorious hate crime. The victim is a transgendered woman who seems to have a lot of enemies. MacFarland suddenly finds himself in the middle of a crime where everyone...
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Mark MacFarland had no use for politics when he was homeless on the streets of Denver. Now that he is struggling to pull himself back into regular society, he still finds politics a necessary evil he'd rather avoid. But when his friend Jerry Baker asks him to find evidence that a restaurant waitress did not kill her boss, he finds himself right in the middle of political intrigue. It turns out that the restaurateur is running for the U.S. Senate....
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When Sally O'Brian is asked by her friend Alan Ripple to rid his boat of ghosts, she is caught off-guard. Of all people, she never expected Alan, a dedicated scientist and a no-nonsense kind of guy, to believe that she could see and talk to ghosts. Unfortunately, Sally has promised her daughter Jennifer and her son-in-law Jack that she will not get involved with any more ghosts or police investigations.Jennifer and Jack are not going to be happy with...
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Sally O'Brian is delighted when she is asked to help the children at the school where she had taught for most of her career to plant a vegetable garden. The portion of the school yard where the Principal wanted to place the garden was wasted space, a large mud pit that had filled with water after the recent winter rains.She and two friends work out the details of how to drain the water, then fill the pits with extra soil to level the area out. It's...
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About The Vacillating Vigilante There's a vigilante on the loose. He's killing people who have escaped justice or are in the process of committing heinous crimes. Former Denver detective Mark MacFarland thinks the police are going after the wrong suspects, but he is as much in the dark as they are. He is more interested in finding out who robbed a local bank and killed an innocent bystander when the robber attempted to escape. His interest in the...
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Before his death, Matthew O'Brian had a love of vineyards. His family owned a vineyard in Napa Valley, now run by Matt's sister Susan. So it was no surprise that Matt had helped his good friend Fred Ricci to purchase and establish a successful vineyard.
Now Fred is calling again, asking for Matt's help. Unfortunately, Matt is no longer alive, so Sally has to decide if she can help Fred.
"What do you need, Fred?"
"I need you to find my son. He's...
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All Sally O'Brian wants is a quiet Christmas. Yes, she wants to rent out her newly renovated and re-furnished Cliff House for the holiday season, but that goal is secondary to just spending some quiet family time with her daughter Jennifer, her son-in-law Jack, her delightful granddaughter Kiera...and her dead husband Matthew. But then she learns that her daughter has invited a whole host of family members to come and celebrate Christmas with them....
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Tomas Aleciades has a big handicap. He's nearly blind. That doesn't stop him from doing what he most loves...gardening. What will stop him, though, is being accused of murder.
MacFarland is asked by his good friend Jacinto Gomez to prove that Aleciades is innocent. To do that, MacFarland will have to contend with a deceptive thirteen-year old girl, an angry father, crooked cops, and his own doubts and uncertainty.
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Sally O'Brian sees ghosts. Not because she wants to. But when someone tried to kill her and her husband, she discovered that while his time had come, hers had not. Now she was back in this plane of existence, but this time with a mission. Her role in life was to help those who could not pass over to the other side to do so. And that mission included the plaintive voice of a young teenager who had witnessed the murder of a young man in the Cliff...
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The New Caldonia Quartet always had problems getting along with each other. Arguments over what music to play, how to interpret it, who should get the most center stage time, even what costumes to wear plagued them ever since the four members came together to form the group. At an attempt at a friendly meeting of some of the members of the group, Paula Gurley, a friend of the talented viola player Suzanne Cousins, dies. The group finds itself under...
15) The Absent Ally
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The last book and stunning conclusion of the Hot Dog Detective series! McFarland has finally got his life in order.Kicked his addiction and turned his life around? Check.New career as a Private Investigator? Check.And most importantly...The woman he's loved all along finally agreed to marry him? Check.But he also has gained one more thing... enemies. And his enemies know that the way to hurt him is to hurt his partner and fiancé, Cynthia Pierson.Now...
16) The Young Yogi
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"The case is simple, Mac," said Jerry Baker. "My client, Brian Adams, is accused of killing someone." "Who did he kill?" asked Mark MacFarland. Jerry Baker, one of Denver's more prominent defense lawyers, looked over at MacFarland, a former Denver Police Department detective who had been drummed off the force. After several years living on the streets, in a near constant state of insobriety, MacFarland had finally gotten his act together. He set up...
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There's a vigilante on the loose. He's killing people who have escaped justice or are in the process of committing heinous crimes. Former Denver detective Mark MacFarland thinks the police are going after the wrong suspects, but he is as much in the dark as they are.He is more interested in finding out who robbed a local bank and killed an innocent bystander when the robber attempted to escape. His interest in the case is piqued, however, when a former...
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