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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...
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Mark MacFarland, former Denver Police Detective, lost everything-his job, his home, his hope for the future--after the man who killed MacFarland's wife was acquitted of the crime. Now, after three years living homeless and drunk on the streets of Denver, he sells hot dogs from a cart located a block from where he used to work. He's putting his life back together, until he is asked to solve a murder that pits him against the man who had wronged him...
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Young Tom Flannery thought he had it all. A great job helping out the Maintenance crews at the Pepsi Center-especially during hockey season, the best time of the year, a great girlfriend, a new car, and lots of money. But his good fortune comes to an end when he is killed and his body is dumped in a pile of snow in one of the Arena's parking lots. Sydney Morgan, and then Felicity Davenport, both come to Mark MacFarland, a former disgraced Denver detective...
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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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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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A dose of religion! MacFarland's sister-in-law wants to improve MacFarland's life, and what better way to do that than to get him involved with a church? Not just any church...the Church of Blessed Grace which promises you not only spiritual happiness but economic success. How could one go wrong with that combination?
Being a rather cynical and suspicious person, MacFarland is a bit dubious about this church. When he discovers that the girl he has...
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Football is back!
For those of us who enjoy seeing twenty-two huge muscular men mash it up on a large field, this time of year is a welcome one. Especially for those of us whose baseball team has not fared as well as we had hoped, the prospect of football, where the agony of a loss comes usually only once a week, is a inspiring.
MacFarland, alas, is not a football fan. Several years on the streets, with no access to television or even radio broadcasts,...
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MacFarland knew in his heart that Scott Porter really was guilty...
The problem was, he had promised his sister-in-law that he would find a way to prove the man innocent. All he had to do was find out who really killed the man's wife, Amanda.
But as every cop knew, it usually was the husband. Then, when the first of several homeless men were discovered killed in the same way as Amanda had been, MacFarland realized he was dealing with a serial killer.
What...
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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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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 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...
12) The Lazy Lawyer
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Most of the time, Defense Attorney Jerry Baker asked MacFarland to find the evidence he needs to get one of his usually guilty clients a lesser sentence or even off the hook. Most of the time, MacFarland does so because he trusts Baker's judgment about people. But this time, it's different. This time it's Jerry Baker who is accused of murder.
Jerry Baker is the prime suspect in the murder of his co-counsel. The evidence looks bad: a gun that had...
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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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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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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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MacFarland knows what it's like to live on the streets. Although he now has a place to live, he still keeps an eye out for the homeless community. He's overjoyed when he learns that one of the "invisible people" he's helped, Teena, a runaway teenager, has gotten a job in a mountain camp for homeless youth. But when one of her friends goes missing, she turns to MacFarland for help.
MacFarland soon discovers that the girl's friend has been killed and...
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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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Mark MacFarland, a former detective with the Denver Police Department, always knew that the Mile High City had a seamier side, but it had never been his particular playground. After all, despite its lurid reputation, Denver's kink community was relatively peaceful and unobtrusive.
That all changes when Thorne Rose, a submissive participating in a BDSM "scene" dies. At first the death is ruled accidental…but that all changes when the ME discovers...
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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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