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Stone the crows—Aussie Kylie Kendall returns!Kylie’s relationship with paramour Ariana Creeling has reached a new level—until she disappears. There’s no sign of violence, no ransom demand—she simply vanishes. Kylie is distraught, not knowing whether she’s alive or dead. Convinced there’s a link to the prestigious Clarice Turner Evenstar Home, where aged show business stars fade not-so-gently away, Kylie disguises herself as a volunteer and finds herself on the trail of the culprit—but will she be too late to save the woman she loves?Claire McNab is a transplanted Aussie who has written many mysteries for both children and adults.

“We can’t help loving sleuth Kylie Kendall. . . . We’ll follow her wherever her brunette ambitions take her.”— GirlfriendsKylie may still be a private eye in training, and she may still be reeling by the secret her business partner finally revealed to her. But nothing can compare to her family’s interference, even from far-away Australia. When her mother asks Kylie to check in on “distant” relative Doug “Dingo” O’Rourke, who has landed a TV gig in Los Angeles, Kylie realizes she has no choice but to do so. Dingo, though, wants nothing to do with an interfering private investigator, despite the fact that something dreadful is worrying him.

Undercover agent Denise Cleever faces a daunting assignment - infiltrate the shadowy terrorist group who has found a unique method to produce widespread panic. How? By paying amateur contract killers a considerable bounty for every successful murder at random. The method of murder is up to the contract killer - but it's mandatory that each death be brutally violent and attract the maximum publicity. National exposure gets a substantial bonus; making the international media network doubles the original fee. As Denise follows the elusive trail, she discovers an unholy alliance between members of the media and the perpetrator of the tide of fear that is engulfing the nation. Deeply undercover, with no back-up if things go wrong, Denise faces her most challenging assignment as she realizes the fate of thousands is in her hands. This is the sixth installment of the Denise Cleever Thriller series.

Frustrated, transplanted Aussie Kylie Kendall mostly hangs out with her secretary and samples LA nightlife. Owning half a detective agency is boring when your partner won’t let you detect. But twins Alf and Chica Hartnidge, hosts of Australian hit children TV show The Oz Mob ask who smuggles opals into the U.S. inside their Kelvin Kookaburra plush toys, and murder follows.

Kylie Kendall is hired for a routine security detail to prevent an academic rival from disrupting Dr. Oscar Braithwaite’s keynote address at UCLA’s Global Marsupial Symposium. Sounds easy enough to be downright dull, but then Dr. Braithwaite is murdered, and his sister, the sexually voracious and irresistibly attractive Dr. Penelope Braithwaite, hires Kylie to investigate his death. Can Kylie keep from mixing business with oh-so-much pleasure? Can she remain true to her barely requited love for her ice-queen business partner, Arianna Creeling? Oh yes, and can she figure out who killed Oscar? All of these questions and more are answered in this latest installment of Claire McNab’s Kylie Kendall mystery series.Transplanted Australian Claire McNab is the author of two other Kylie Kendall mysteries, The Wombat Strategy and The Kookaburra Gambit. She has also written 18 best-selling mystery novels, 14 featuring the popular Detective Inspector Carol Ashton and four featuring undercover agent Denise Cleever. She has served as the president of Sisters in Crime and is a member of both the Mystery Writers of America and the Science Fiction Writers of America. She lives in Los Angeles.

Wenig Spaß hat auch Claire McNabs Serienheldin Carol Ashton mit ihrem neuesten Fall. Vor der schönen Kulisse Australiens vergnügt sich ein Millionär damit, seinen Mitmenschen böse Streiche zu spielen. Bis eines seiner Opfer den Spieß umdreht und der Spaßmacher selbst grausam zu Tode kommt. In Spaß muß sein schickt McNab das übliche Ermittlungsteam ins Rennen, viel Altbekanntes, wenig Neues, ein bisschen Herzschmerz ist auch dabei.

For most people, to know Milton Ryce is to loathe him. Now in his mid-forties, the practical joker has never outgrown the adolescent behavior that amused him so much as a teenager. Embarrassing others has been his favorite past time, and he delights in coming up with elaborate schemes for setting up his 'friends' as fall guys. Extremely generous with his money, Milton has bought influence in high places and a circle of well-connected friends and business acquaintances. When he plunges to his death while sky diving, no one seems particularly surprised to find that he was murdered. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton finds a long list of possible murderers--a list that includes family members who are positively jostling for position to be at the top of the list. Then an elaborate practical joke is played out at Milton's funeral by his son, Ted, and more evidence begins piling up against him. Carol must act quickly to find out if Ted is indeed his father's killer--or if he is simply being set up as yet another 'fall guy'... Fall Guy is the 16th book in the Carol Ashton mystery series.

Aussie dyke Kylie Kendall leaves tiny Australian outback Wollegudgerie pub when unknown dad leaves her 51% of his LA detective agency. Lovely enigmatic Arianna Creeling offers to buy her out, but Dr Deer, celebrity psychiatrist to the stars, hires them to investigate his stolen records, and apparent suicide of successful reviled film director client.

Geheimdienstagentin Denise Cleever infiltriert ein extremistisches Trainingscamp in Australien, um einen Terroranschlag zu verhindern. Als sie den Auftrag erhält, einen Politiker zu ermorden, steht sie vor der schwersten Entscheidung ihres Lebens: einen Unschuldigen töten oder ihr eigenes Leben riskieren.

Kriminalkommissarin Carol Ashton untersucht eine Serie verdächtiger Unfälle in New South Wales, die alle ein ähnliches Muster aufweisen. Trotz fehlender Zeugen und wasserdichter Alibis der Begünstigten gelingt es ihr, den Täter in einem dramatischen Showdown zu überführen.

Undercover agent Denise Cleever is used to putting her life on the line—but now she's in a situation where her sanity is at risk. In Australia, a young British woman with a bomb strapped to her body embraces a visiting American senator--and activates the device. In Paris, a young woman stabs a leading French intellectual to death and then ritually disembowels herself. Is it a coincidence that both were patients of charismatic psychiatrist, Dr. Graeme Thorwell? Has Thorwell found a way to turn troubled young people into directed murderers who will kill on command? For Australian Security Intelligence Organization Agent Denise Cleever, this will prove to be the most perilous of assignments as she joins the staff of Dr. Thorwell's exclusive Easehaven Clinic…where it seems both body and mind are equally under threat.

Is Carol playing into a killer's plan? A series of random deaths suddenly fall into a pattern when reclusive, eccentric billionaire Thurmond Rule dies, leaving an immense estate, but no valid will. With no close relatives-Rule's son and only heir vanished mysteriously years before-the search begins to find more distant kin who may have a claim to the Rule billions. And there would be several more applicants vying for the money, but for the disturbing fact that many of them have recently died or been killed. Detective Inspector Carol Ashton speculates that one among the remaining would-be heirs could be responsible for thinning the field so drastically but is baffled that a killer would draw such oblivious attention to themselves. As the authorities contemplate protecting anyone with a blood link to Thurmond Rule, Carol fears she may be unwittingly shielding a killer and playing into a deadly plan... With another in the phenomenally successful Detective Carol Ashton Mystery series, Claire McNab again proves why she is the most popular writer of lesbian mysteries with this suspenseful story of cat and mouse.

Australian undercover agent Denise Cleever is the only member of the worldwide intelligence community who has seen the never-photographed international terrorist Red Wolf face-to-face . . . and lived. Now the fear is that Red Wolf is in the United States to coordinate a series of terrorist attacks -- and Denise is the only person who can recognize and stop him.

When people with no obvious connections to each other are dying in what appear to be legitimate accidents -- a fall down the stairs, a single-vehicle car crash, a drowning in a hot tub -- nothing seems amiss. Until, Detective Inspector Carol Ashton receives a call from a private investigator who works for a number of insurance companies. Recently, several large life insurance policy pay outs seem questionable but there is no proof of wrongdoing. As Carol begins an investigation of the completely unrelated deaths, she realizes this could be the toughest case of her career and perhaps, one impossible to solve.

A vicious terrorist group is operating deep within the wild reaches of Australia's remote Kimberley region, and even though the government is aware of their presence, the group's cat-and-mouse tactics make it impossible to stop. The only way to stop the threat is from an insider within the group, and there's no better under-cover agent Denise Cleever here in her third adventure

"Loaded with brains, style and megabucks, Australian fashion magnate Gussie Whitlew is used to getting everything she wants. And what she wants is the finest food, the fastest cars, and the most fabulous women. This time her bait is Whitlew Challenge, an exclusive golf tournament carefully designed to lure the world's top female athletes to her private clubhouse. With a lot more at stake than the $1.5 million purse, tension soon flares among players, fans, and just about everyone else. American star Toni Karstares (an out lesbian) and her homophobic rival, Englishwoman Fiona Hawk, are the first to go at it. Then Fiona gets caught up in a very public altercation with her larcenous manager. Before long, so much is going on off the course that even abrasive sports reporter Mandi Fiedler has a hard time keeping her eye on the ball. Until the fairway becomes a killing field and someone sets out to even the score"--Page 4 of cover

This is the first in a new series for author Claire McNab. It features Denise Cleever, an undercover agent for the Australian intelligence agency. She is placed at Hedwing Institute, which is run by one of Australia's most powerful families. She trying to gather evidence about the disappearance of the family patriarch and his sister seven years earlier in the Outback. As she gets closer and closer to the answer of whether the two met with a foul death or simply suffered an accident, she finds herself in increasing danger.

"When a law enforcement officer dies under highly suspicious circumstances, it sounds like a perfect case for Australian Detective Inspector Carol Ashton... Too bad she's the suspect. Attending a rigorous F.B.I. training course in the United States, Aussie top cop Carol Ashton feels a little out of her element--but is she out of her league as well? After a bitter argument with an instructor, Carol is shocked to find herself accused of murder. Framed, friendless and far from home, Carol soon discovers that her only ally is a female F.B.I. agent with a not-so-hidden agenda. But will there be time to find the real killer as the evidence against Carol mounts and the clock ticks down on her career, her freedom... and her life?"-- Amazon.com

An agent with the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, Denise Cleever welcomes the prospect of a special assignment on an island paradise. Deep undercover at an exclusive resort off the Great Barrier Reef, Denise finds nothing unusual until she encounters the owner's rebellious -- and dangerously attractive -- daughter Roanna. Until the killing begins . . .

While tracking down a ruthless hired killer, Australian top cop Carol Ashton is tempted by the seductive charms of a mysterious stranger ... a woman whose shadowy secrets could be leading Carol to the dark side of desire.

Detective Inspector Carol Ashton is back, in the tenth installment of this riveting lesbian mystery series. When a reproductive specialist is found murdered, Ashton must follow the bloody trail down a slippery slope of greed, corruption, and murder.

Carol Ashtons neuester Fall: Ihr junger Kollege Steve York ist ermordet worden. Kurz vor seinem Tod erhielt er einen Kettenbrief: »Wer Wind sät, wird Sturm ernten.« Während die Kommissarin ermittelt, stößt sie auf eine Reihe nicht gelöster Mordfälle aus jüngster Zeit. In allen Fällen hatten die Opfer kurz vor ihrem Tod ebenfalls einen Kettenbrief erhalten, in dem den Empfängern ihr Ende prophezeit wird, wenn sie die Kette abreißen lassen. Und dann erhält Carols Freundin Sybil den Besuch des Mörders.

Kriminalkomissarin Carol Ashton muss einen Mord untersuchen, der einer Exekution teuflisch ähnlich sieht. Dabei kommt sie einer rechtsextremistischen Organisation auf die Spur, die sich inzwischen schon in den eigenen Reihen des Polizeiapparates ausdehnt.

Die australische Medienzarin Tala Orlando wird tot in ihrem Rolls Royce aufgefunden. Kriminalkommissarin Carol Ashton glaubt nicht an Selbstmord und ermittelt in dem Fall.

Als die ehrgeizige Australierin Alexandra die selbstbewusste lesbische Lee kennen- und lieben lernt, muss sie sich entscheiden, ob sie sich auch nach aussen hin zu ihrer sexuellen Neigung bekennen soll.

A lesbian romance-cum-mystery set in Australia. The protagonists are a woman police inspector and a visiting American feminist. The inspector is assigned to protect her because of threats from the conservative right. By the author of Under the Southern Cross

Convinced that the recent death of young Australian opera star Collis Raeburn was not a suicide, as widely believed, Detective Inspector Carol Ashton opens up an investigation, an act that makes her unpopular with the victim's next-of-kin

Third in a series featuring Australian Detective Inspector Carol Ashton.

Ein Telefonanruf - und die Vergangenheit holt die Kommissarin Carol Ashton ein. „Carol, ich brauche dich. mein Mann. er ist tot. Sie glauben, ich hätte ihn umgebracht!“ Vor drei Jahren hat Carol Christines Stimme zuletzt gehört, als sie die vernichtenden Sätze aussprach: „Ich liebe dich, Carol, aber ich kann nicht einfach alles aufgeben. Ich kann ihn nicht verlassen. Es ist aus. bitte versteh das.“ Jetzt sucht Christine verzweifelt ihre Hilfe, jene Frau, um deretwillen Carol alles riskiert und fast alles verloren hatte.

An einem heißen Sommertag wird an einer High-School in Sidney der Lehrer Bill Pagett tot aufgefunden. - Das Loch in seinem Kopf stammt vom fachkundigen Einsatz einer Black & Decker-Bohrmaschine. Die Kommissarin Carol Ashton übernimmt den Fall. Sehr bald entdeckt sie bei den Mitgliedern des Lehrerkollegiums reichlich Motive für einen Mord. Und dann findet man eine zweite Leiche. Carols Ermittlungen komplizieren sich noch zusätzlich durch die unwiderstehliche Attraktion zwischen ihr und der Hauptverdächtigen, Sybil Quade.