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Kate Ryan Mysteries #8
It's Not Always Murder
The 8th installment of the Kate Ryan Mystery Things are quiet at Ryan, Costello, and Winfield Investigations. Too quiet. So naturally, Hannah has time to arrange their Chicago neighborhood office; it now looks like a 1940s newsroom, equipped with retro candlestick phones. Kate Ryan can do nothing but watch any control she foolishly thought she had slip away. She tries to concentrate on their first real client, well, clients—a small group who owns businesses down the street from Kate. Toni O’Hara and Alana Sanders own The Rising Sun Café and recently had a break-in. Roxanne Dubois had a similar problem with her tattoo parlor. Oh, and so had Mrs. and Mrs. Chen, who own the Chinese restaurant. And not to be left out, Marty Vincent, another business owner, had the same vandalism problem. With no sign of a forced entry and nothing missing, the police write it off as a prank, but Toni O’Hara is not so sure. Perhaps it’s the frightening pumpkin left in their shop windows. Someone is definitely terrorizing her and the others. While Kate wonders how to handle this, Hannah invites everyone to a benefit dinner at the swanky Drake Hotel. It’s Halloween. It’s rainy, it’s foggy, it’s eerie and creepy; a dead body is all they need. But Hannah, ever the adorable optimist, reminds Kate—it’s not always murder.
238 pages, Paperback
First published December 29, 2012
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About the author
Kate Sweeney
63 books172 followersKate Sweeney was the 2007 recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Society award for Debut Author for She Waits, the first in the Kate Ryan Mystery series, which was also nominated for the Lambda Literary Society award for Lesbian Mystery.
The second in the series, A Nice Clean Murder, was nominated the Lambda this year for Lesbian Mystery, and is a nominee for GCLS award in the Mystery category. Her novel Away from the Dawn released in August 2007 is also nominated for the GCLS award for Speculative Fiction. She is also a contributing author for the anthology Wild Nights: (Mostly) True Stories of Women Loving Women, published by Bella Books.
Born in Chicago, Kate resides in Villa Park, Illinois, where she works as an office manager—no glamour here, folks; it pays the bills. Humor is deeply embedded in Kate’s DNA. She sincerely hopes you will see this when you read her novels, short stories, and other works.
The second in the series, A Nice Clean Murder, was nominated the Lambda this year for Lesbian Mystery, and is a nominee for GCLS award in the Mystery category. Her novel Away from the Dawn released in August 2007 is also nominated for the GCLS award for Speculative Fiction. She is also a contributing author for the anthology Wild Nights: (Mostly) True Stories of Women Loving Women, published by Bella Books.
Born in Chicago, Kate resides in Villa Park, Illinois, where she works as an office manager—no glamour here, folks; it pays the bills. Humor is deeply embedded in Kate’s DNA. She sincerely hopes you will see this when you read her novels, short stories, and other works.
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April 21, 2019
The Lesbian Mystery Series I've always wanted
This series just gets better and better. The more time I spend with Kate, Maggie, and Hannah, well, the more time I want to spend with them. If you're reading this review and you haven't read the first book in the series "She Waits", put this down and go read it. You will be sucked into an amazing story.
This series just gets better and better. The more time I spend with Kate, Maggie, and Hannah, well, the more time I want to spend with them. If you're reading this review and you haven't read the first book in the series "She Waits", put this down and go read it. You will be sucked into an amazing story.
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