Alan Cook

• Mar-2005
• / Mystery
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"I like the characters...as well as the Hotline for the setting. This is a great mystery." Tony Schmidt joins the Central Hotline in sunny Bonita Beach, California to improve his listening skills. Shahla Lawton joins the Hotline to fulfill a voluntee...

• Jun-2006
• / Mystery
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Bobby sox, slowing dancing, bomb shelters, the communist conspiracy-and murder.Within two weeks after starting his senior year of high school in the 1950s, Gary Blanchard finds himself kicked out of one school and attending another-the school where h...

• Jun-2007
• / Mystery
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It is 1964, 10 years after Gary Blanchard's high school adventures in The Hayloft. He and his love, Penny, are going on the trip of their lives, and, oh yes, they're getting married along the way. What they don't know is that they're being stalked by...

• Jan-2009
• / Action Adventure
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"I really like books by this author. This is another great one. The characters are interesting, and the plot is well laid out...I often felt like I was out there running with them." -Dawn Dowdle for mysteryloverscorner.com Drake and Melody are teamed...

• Apr-2010
• / Mystery
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Karl Patterson, sometime baseball card dealer without visible means of support, doesn't get along all that well with his father, even though he lives in the guest house of his dad's estate on the Palos Verdes Peninsula near Los Angeles rent free. So ...

• Apr-2010
• / General Fiction
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When her granddaughter's boyfriend, Mark, is accused of sexual harassment soon after starting a teaching job at a small college, Lillian Morgan tries to help him and finds that the "harassment policy from hell" could end his career. Then a student is...

• Apr-2010
• / General Fiction
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Lillian Morgan is bored with life in a retirement community, but she gets more excitement than she hoped for when a fellow resident drops dead at the bridge table--while holding a perfect hand of thirteen diamonds. Intrigued by the astronomical odds ...

• Nov-2010
• / Science Fiction
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Carol Golden isn't her real name. She doesn't remember her real name or anything that happened before she was found in a Dumpster, naked and unconscious, on the beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California.
After helping her get some in...

• Aug-2012
• / Mystery
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Carol Golden has recovered her identity if not her memory (lost in Forget to Remember) and she would like to find more relatives. She discovers cousins with the last name of Boyd and finds they are apparently being targeted for murder. In addition...

• Mar-2013
• / Action Adventure
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Matthew and Mason are on vacation in Greece with their parents. While exploring the ruins at Knossos Palace on the island of Crete, they wander off and suddenly find themselves at Knossos in its prime, 4,000 years ago, when the Minoans were in power....

• Mar-2013
• / Thriller
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In the third Carol Golden novel, "Dangerous Wind," Carol is abducted from Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she lives with her grandmother and is thrown into an adventure that will take her to all seven continents. It involves a former boyfriend she ...

• Jan-2015
• / Mystery
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Carol Golden is now married and working part time as a volunteer listener on a crisis hotline in Southern California when she receives a call from a man who calls himself Danny, and who says he’s afraid he will be killed. He also talks about being ...

• Feb-2015
• / Action Adventure
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Matthew and Mason are intrigued by the painting on their wall, and with the help of Amy, a girl in the picture, they enter the land behind the painting. What they find there is a dystopian world far different from the idyllic picture, where people ha...

• Nov-2015
• / Thriller
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When Carol Golden’s husband, Rigo, disappears, she not only has to look for him but also elude the FBI at the same time since there is evidence she may have been involved in his disappearance. She doggedly follows a faint trail, keeping her locatio...

• Mar-2017
• / Mystery
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By the time Carol Golden is asked to help an old friend of her in-laws who lives on the beach in Southern California, it appears that the damage has already been done in the form of a scam that has separated retired business professor Peter Griffenha...

• Apr-2018
• / Mystery
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Somebody is killing people who work for subsidiaries of conglomerate Ault Enterprises and playing some kind of game while doing it. Carol Golden is called on to help identify the killer because she has experience in breaking codes and playing game...

• Jun-2019
• / General Fiction
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Charlie Ebersole is good at his job as a securities analyst for International Industries in Los Angeles in the year 1962, but he is also somewhat bored at being tied to a desk most of the time. He jumps at the chance to join the fraud section of II, ...

• Jun-2020
• / General Fiction
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In June 1963 the Berlin Wall has been up for almost two years. The CIA has had a rough time maintaining an intelligence operation in East Germany, known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), because of the Stasi—the East German secret police...

• Aug-2022
• / Police Procedural
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Liz Reid is persuaded to fly to London when Charlie Ebersole, her fellow worker in Los Angeles, sends her a poem from England about an ancient curse put on the estate of Monksrest by a monk, and tells her that the sister of his English friend, Reggie...

• Dec-2022
• / General Fiction
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Roger McAllister has always been a sensible person living a sensible life, but after his globe-trotting wife is killed in a plane crash in 1984, he wants to get away from his job as an accountant for a while, and agrees to participate in a walk from ...