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A Killing Cure
by Ellen Hart
ISBN: 0345391128
ISBN-13: 9780345391124
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Shortly after the distinguished director of the high-minded Gower Women's Club is strangled, the founder's granddaughter takes a fatal fall down a staircase. When Jane Lawless starts poking around, she discovers the Gower Fourndation has a secret agenda and her new lover is involved.
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"A great yarn exceptionally well told, full of wit, passion, suspense, and a menu of strong believable characters."
-- Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published date: 1995
Size: 4.25 x 7 inches
Weight: 0.35 pounds
Pages: 295
Publisher's Notes
When board members of the Amelia Gower Women's Club begin dying - one by one - lesbian restaurateur Jane Lawless once again exchanges the heat of the kitchen for the sweltering danger of part-time private investigation. On the eve of a crucial announcement, Charlotte Fortnum, chairwoman of the Board of Directors and prominent community figure, is murdered. Then another board member is found dead in the club's private chamber. Has infighting among the board gone as far as murder? Are the secrets and suspicions swirling around club members and their families worth killing for? Along with her theatrical sidekick Cordelia Thorn, Jane begins to uncover the dark secrets that linger in the corridors of Minneapolis' oldest women's club. But as Jane takes on a range of high-profile suspects and closes in on the murderer, her own life hangs in the balance....
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Killing Cure (Jane Lawless Mysteries)
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Hart, Ellen
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