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Colleen Collins

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Born

November 26

Website

http://colleencollinsbooks.com/

Genre

Romance, Mystery, Nonfiction

Member Since

January 2012

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Colleen Collins is an award-winning author who’s written several dozen novels for Harlequin and Dorchester, including two indie-published mysteries, The Ungrateful Dead and its sequel, The Zen Man, as well as three nonfiction indie books, Secrets of a Real-Life Female Private Eye, How Do Private Eyes Do That? and How to Write a Dick: A Guide for Writing Fictional Sleuths from a Couple of Real-Life Sleuths (the latter co-authored with Shaun Kaufman).

The second edition of the nonfiction book A LAWYER'S PRIMER: FROM CRIMES TO COURTROOMS, co-authored with defense attorney Shaun Kaufman, was released in March 2015. Her most recent fiction release is the romantic-mystery MISTLETOE AND MURDER IN LAS VEGAS, released December 2015.

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Murder on Raleigh Street

The Mob Forced a Man to Drink Poison

By McAleer, Andrew, Marks, Paul D., Collins, Colleen, DuBois, Brendan, Gaylin, Alison, MacDonald, Tom, Mallory, Michael, Palumbo, Dennis, Rogers, Stephen D., Shepphird, John

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Average rating: 3.52 · 1,205 ratings · 218 reviews · 83 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Zen Man 3.62 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mistletoe and Murder in Las Vegas 4.04 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleepless in Las Vegas 3.44 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ungrateful Dead (#1, prequel to The Zen Man) 3.65 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Write a Dick: A Guide for Writing Fictional Sleuths from a Couple of Real-Life Sleuths by Colleen Collins (Goodreads Author), Shaun Kaufman 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Do Private Eyes Do That? 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right Chapel, Wrong Couple - Salah Pasangan (Right, Wrong, #2) by Colleen Collins (Goodreads Author), Francisca Josephine S. 2.98 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shock Waves (Sex on the Beach, #2) 2.95 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hearts in Vegas 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Next Right Thing 3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself —Chinese proverb”
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“When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear —Zen proverb”
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“We have faith … Our music is never counting. For us the One is always Now. In time whether it’s 7/4 time, 4/4 time, or whatever—we’re always coming back to the One.”
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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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message 1: by Beth

Oct 31, 2013 08:00PM

Hi Colleen,
Thanks for the friend request, and for befriending me in real-life, too!

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