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Jacob Barrstein and his friend James Eaton have a $1000 bet going. James claims that a group of 21st Century people cannot last a week without smartphones, computers, tablets, GPS's etc., while Jacob aims to prove him wrong. They organize a camping trip with 12 people up in the Angeles National Forest Mountains, allowing no electronic devices. When they suffer severe hardship and are stranded on the mountain with no way out, Jacob goes for help on foot and never returns. Six months after his disappearance, hikers stumble onto his remains, and the case changes from a missing person's file to a full-blown police investigation. Once events are brought to the surface, another member of the group is killed. The unexpected ending of A BET TURNED DEADLY is something the reader will not easily forget.
The late Norma Davenport was an eccentric who poked a bit of fun at her heirs with her unconventional last will and testament of "finders keepers." She managed to send her family members on a scavenger hunt for jewelry throughout her estate in artsy, high-end Laguna Beach. The bulk of her assets, however, was not immediately revealed, leaving the family in turmoil. Although Norma meant no harm with her joke, it provoked two murders, which baffled Lieutenant Krop, the detective in charge of the investigation. Then he happened to overhear a fragment of a conversation by two strangers and he thought there might be a very different motive in this case.
The two women found dead in their beds had been executed. There was no robbery, no sexual motivation. The satanic writings and red candles found at the scene had been staged to throw investigators off track. The killer, or killers, just wanted the women dead! One of them, Betty Lou Gray, had been the primary target, while the other, a close friend, had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. From the beginning, the prime suspect had been Betty Lou's husband Bill. A dominating and controlling husband, he had kept his wife penniless and almost in bondage for 28 years until, finally, she'd had enough and asked for a divorce. The obvious motivation was money, a $250,000 life insurance policy, and with his wife dead there would be no splitting of assets in a divorce settlement. If he could succeed in hiding the insurance money and the pawnshop assets from his children, Bill Gray would become a rich man. It seemed an open and shut case, but it was not to be. In this true story, Dixie Murphy follows a trail of suspicion and intrigue, and reveals the virtually unprecedented means used to finally bring a murderer to justice.
Doubleblind is #6 in the Georgia Davis PI Series. With little work during the pandemic, Chicago PI Georgia Davis agrees to help the best friend of fellow sleuth, Ellie Foreman. Susan Siler’s aunt died suddenly after her Covid booster, and Susan’s distraught mother wants the death investigated. However, Georgia’s investigation is interrupted by a family trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, the one-time Mormon heartland. It’s there that her life unexpectedly intersects with the runaway spouse of a Mormon Fundamentalist. " Terrific scenes with Georgia's family and boyfriend add depth and layers to a memorable cast of characters." BookReporter Back in Evanston, after Georgia is almost killed by a hit and run driver, she discovers that she and the escaped woman look remarkably alike. Is someone trying to kill Georgia because of her death investigation? Or is it a case of mistaken identity? And how can Georgia find her doppelganger before whoever wants them both dead tries again? "Combining an up-to-the-minute tale of crime in the COVID era with fundamentalist Mormon noir (there's a phrase I never thought I'd find myself using!), Hellmann has put together an engrossing story that will appeal to her regular readers and win her new ones." Deadly Pleasures Magazine  If you like Tess Gerritsen, Karin Slaughter, and Lisa Gardener, you'll love Libby Hellmann's Compulsively Readable Thrillers.
What do you do when you meet someone who looks just like you? Sherry Rinaldi and her husband were on a vacation on Maui, Hawaii when she happened to see the reflection of another woman in a mirror who had her face. What else did they have in common? Returning to her home in California, Sherry does a little research, even though her husband tells her it might not be a good idea. Despite the warning, she tracks down her look-a-like and soon discovers there are things buried in both their lives that are deadly. A murder from forty years ago triggers another death as the truth slowly comes to the surface. This will change everybody's life.
The pandemic changed everything, so catching a killer will require new methods after Cecile Long-Horton is found strangled in her doorway and Lt. Claudia Campbell with the Monrovia City Police has to use modern technology to discover the murderer. Cecile was CEO of a small company. Her two sons and daughter worked for her. Right before she was killed she mentioned at a board meeting that there was a bad apple in their midst. Unfortunately, each of her children has a secret. So do a few others who were close to Cecile. But which one has the most to gain? And can Lt. Campbell unmask the killer using a computer screen and her skill as a detective?
Private investigator Andi is hired to look into the drowning accident of Kitty Ralph at Shore Haven. She sweet-talks R. A. Huber into coming out of retirement and reside undercover at the upscale senior community near the Ventura pier. Huber uncovers other suspicious deaths at the place. Only when Andi rides to Reno and Salt Lake City on her Harley-Davidson to interview relatives of recent victims, does the motive for the crime make sense. Andi and Huber confront the villain and barely escape being silenced.
Kurt Nobel, known as "The Real Estate King," invites a mixture of odd guests to his mansion on the Isle of Ease for a week of snorkeling, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, and general fun in the sun. The occasion is to celebrate the millionaire's recent marriage to his new young wife, singer Barbie. But all is not pure pleasure and merriment on the tropical island. One person plans an intriguing way to commit murder, and may get away with it, if not for the fortuitous eyewitness, eight-year-old Evie Frederique.
Contacted to investigate the gruesome murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of the crime, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is simultaneously drawn into another case that could be related to hers and must stop a dangerous killer from striking again.
Syndicated columnist Tara Blunt knows her track record with men hasn't been stellar and now she's faced with four men in her life... and one of them might be a murderer. But Tara figures her skill at sorting out facts for her news column will get her to the bottom of the unusual death of a brilliant scientist who was in the running to win a $5 million contest to create a new, environmentally friendly product that would replace all types of petroleum-based packaging. When he turns up dead on the day of her interview with him, her investigative-reporter mind goes on the hunt for an even better story, but the truth might kill her.