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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 1
Savannah Reid Mystery

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Policewoman Savannah Reid of San Carmelita, California, is fired for being 30 pounds overweight. Which is true, she is overweight, but that is merely a pretext to get rid of her because she fingered the police chief's mistress as a murder suspect. Savannah, however, will get her revenge.

2) Sour grapes

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 6
Savannah Reid Mystery

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When it comes to sassy private detectives, no one's bigger than Savannah Reid. The feisty, full-figured, steel magnolia of G. A. McKevett's acclaimed mysteries knows how to turn every investigation into a delicious romp, even when she's dealing with a bunch of waif-like beauty queen hopefuls who will kill to be crowned. . . Sour Grapes Things finally seem to be calm and peaceful in Savannah's life, but before she can celebrate by biting into a mouthful...

3) Front desk

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Yang, Kelly

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Front desk volume 1

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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9

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"Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when...

4) Killer calories: a Savannah Reid mystery

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 3
Savannah Reid Mystery

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In California, a former discotheque dancer dies in a mud bath, in the spa which she owned and police rule it was an accident. But Savannah Reid, a former policewoman now running her own detective agency, receives information it was foul play. She proceeds to investigate, all the time battling her weight problem. By the author of Bitter Sweets.

5) Death by chocolate: a Savannah Reid mystery

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 8
Savannah Reid Mystery

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Business has been a little slow at the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency, but full-figured P.I. Savannah Reid doesn't have time to drown her sorrows in a box of double-chocolate truffles. She's too busy watching the Gourmet Network—and drooling over the sinfully scrumptious confections that Lady Eleanor ("The Queen of Chocolate") whips up on-air. But someone isn't sweet on the Queen's charming chatter—and wants her to hang up her oh-so-quaint...

6) Corpse Suzette: a Savannah Reid mystery

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 11
Savannah Reid Mystery

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When a plastic surgeon cuts and runs, a plus-sized PI takes on the case in this cozy mystery by the author of Murder à la Mode.

Despite New Year's resolutions to avoid irritating houseguests and nerve-wracking cases, California ex-cop-turned-private-detective Savannah Reid finds herself hosting her assistant's cranky cousin. And that's not all that stinks . . .

Voluptuous and proud of it, Savannah can't understand

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7) A body to die for: a Savannah Reid mystery

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 14
Savannah Reid Mystery

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Obnoxious diet guru Clarissa Jardin reports her womanizing, gambling husband, Bill, missing. When Bill turns up as a frozen corpse with a bullet in his skull, Bill's mother hires Savannah to prove Clarissa killed her son or hired someone to do it.

8) Sugar and spite: a Savannah Reid Mystery

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 5
Savannah Reid Mystery

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Private detective Savannah Reid isnít your average crime-fighting heroine. Middle-aged and overweightóat least by societyís skinny-winnie standardsóSavannah has the audacity to love herself anyway. If thereís anything the sassy Dixie belle enjoys more than cooking soul-satisfying food for her friends and family, itís nabbing bad guys and plopping them on the scales of Lady Justice. Having relocated to Southern California, this unconventional

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9) Cooked goose

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 4
Savannah Reid Mystery

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A man dressed as Santa Claus is raping and murdering women in the parking lot of a shopping mall in California. PI and cook Savannah Reid is hired to catch him. Recipes included.

10) Bitter sweets: a Savannah Reid mystery

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 2
Savannah Reid Mystery

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Newly established PI Savannah Reid of California, unjustly fired from the police force, lands her first client. A man is looking for his sister to share an inheritance. No sooner does Reid find the sister than she is murdered. Was the killer the brother, or is there another killer? By the author of Just Desserts.

11) Parable of the sower

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Butler, Octavia E

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Parable books volume 1
Earthseed

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"In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages." -- "When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another...

12) Fire and rain

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Chamberlain, Diane

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Into the drought-weary California town of Valle Rosa comes a stranger who promises he can make it rain. All he asks for is a place to stay and complete privacy. But he is too charismatic to maintain a low profile . . . and the adobe cottage he's given to live in is owned by an investigative TV reporter struggling to revive her career. Fire and Rain is a love story filled with mystery and heart.

13) Hank & Chloe

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Chloe Morgan is a thirty-three-year-old part-time waitress, small-time horse trainer, and full-time thoroughly toughened Western woman living in a corner of the dwindling Canyonlands of Southern California. Calloused and wary, Chloe allows herself to love with total abandon and complete faith only her horse and her dog. That is, until a quirk in the weather and a sunrise funeral service cause her to cross the path of Henry Oliver, a sedate professor...

14) Wicked craving

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 15
Kennebec Large Print superior collection
Savannah Reid Mystery

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Savannah Reid helps out her friend Detective Sergeant Dirk Coulter by investigating a shady weight loss therapist who tricked his patients into losing their money instead of their weight, and who supposedly killed his wife.

15) Sullivan's law

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Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor

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Carolyn Sullivan novels volume 1

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First Love
Avon Camelot book
[Morrow junior books]

In bestseller after bestseller, author Nancy Taylor Rosenberg has drawn on her experience as a cop and a probation officer, lending a crackling authenticity to the street-smart novels that have won her such high-profile fans as James Patterson, Lisa Scottoline, Nelson DeMille, and Tess Gerritsen. Now, she uses her insider's knowledge to create her most compelling heroine yet—probation officer Carolyn Sullivan of Ventura County, California.

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16) The luckiest girl

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Cleary, Beverly

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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10

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Shelley has high hopes for her junior year of high school. Everything is going to be different. This year she is going to California to live with family friends and she will be free to run her own life. Now she's about to discover the magic of falling in love - and a whole lot more!

17) Cereal killer: a Savannah Reid mystery

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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 9

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Full-figured fashionista and private eye Savannah Reid must catch a killer who is preying upon plus-sized models, all of whom had been working for Wentworth's Slenda Flakes, a secretly struggling cereal empire.

18) Beach View Lane

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Moran, Jan

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Crown Island volume 1

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When her long marriage suddenly ends in divorce, history teacher April Raines returns to Crown Island, determined to start over. Her two grown daughters join her in a cottage - and the sibling rivalry has never been stronger. Soon, April unearths long-buried island secrets at the historical society. Worse, she is unexpectedly attracted to Ryan Kingston, the mysterious, enigmatic new owner of the Majestic Hotel, a vintage beachfront resort. Can they...

19) "Q" is for quarry: a Kinsey Millhone mystery

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Grafton, Sue

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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 17

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19

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Eighteen years after the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered in a quarry off California's Highway 1, two police detectives nearing retirement enlist Kinsey Millhone's aid to help identify the long-ago murder victim.

20) The darkest evening of the year

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Koontz, Dean R

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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14

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