Elizabeth Sims

A Lillian Byrd Crime Story

1 - Holy Hell (Jan-2002)
2 - Damn Straight (Jun-2003)
3 - Lucky Stiff (Aug-2004)
4 - Easy Street (Nov-2005)

A Rita Farmer Mystery

1 - The Actress (Jun-2008)
2 - The Extra (Jul-2009)
3 - On Location (Aug-2010)

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  Holy Hell
  

  • Jan-2002
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Lillian Byrd Crime Story - 1
  

  Lillian Byrd is a small-time reporter with a flair for making big-time mistakes--so her investigation into the disappearances of women around the Detroit area might not be the best idea. But when one of the victims turns up dead and Lillian recognize...

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  Damn Straight
  

  • Jun-2003
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Lillian Byrd Crime Story - 2
  

  Lambda Literary Award WinnerAfter her narrow brush with death in Holy Hell, you would think Lillian Byrd would have learned to keep her head down, but when a friend in crisis calls from Palm Springs, Lillian jumps on a plane and wings her way from De...

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  Lucky Stiff
  

  • Aug-2004
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Lillian Byrd Crime Story - 3
  

  There is what you believe, and then there is the truth. For Lillian Byrd, a chance encounter with an old friend means that everything she thought she knew about her shattered childhood is about to be revealed as a lie. One summer day when she was 12 ...

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  Easy Street
  

  • Nov-2005
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Lillian Byrd Crime Story - 4
  

  Her old Caprice is convulsing through the last of its death throes, her pet rabbit and constant companion Todd ails, and as usual, Lillian Byrd is flat broke. For a few extra bucks she agrees to help an old friend renovate her house, but as fans of H...

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  The Actress
  

  • Jun-2008
  • / Mystery
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  A Rita Farmer Mystery - 1
  

  Aspiring actress and single mother Rita Farmer has gone from struggling to find work to downright desperate. If she doesn't land a paying job soon---horror movie, soap commercial, anything---she's afraid her ex-husband will use her dire financial str...

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  The Extra
  

  • Jul-2009
  • / Mystery
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  A Rita Farmer Mystery - 2
  

  Rita Farmer knows what it's like to be flat broke. Even now, when studying to be a lawyer, Rita is so far in debt that she has to scrounge for acting jobs to keep herself and her son afloat. Decked out in police uniform as an extra on a low-budget mo...

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  On Location
  

  • Aug-2010
  • / Mystery
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  A Rita Farmer Mystery - 3
  

  Sometime-actress and full-time single mom Rebecca Farmer chases her sister into the wilds of Washington state when she doesn't return from scouting for film sets in the latest in this spirited series....

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  Left Field
  

  • Dec-2014
  • / Romance
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  By far the best detective of the bunch.-Just OutLillian Byrd has been searching her soul after the gut-wrenching experience of killing someone in self-defense. Scrabbling to make ends meet, she takes a job as a quasi detective, solving life's little ...

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  Crimes in a Second Language
  

  • Jan-2017
  • / Women's Fiction
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  Elnice Coker and her husband Arthur, retired schoolteachers, move from Indiana to the Hollywood Hills in a last-ditch attempt at novelty and happiness. California alone can’t do the trick, but when Elnice befriends her housecleaner, Solita, her lif...

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  Elizabeth Sims Short Stories Twinpack
  

  • Apr-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  “Anyone assessing America’s best short story writers needs to include Elizabeth Sims in their survey.”-- New Pop Lit
  
  This twinpack comprises two volumes of short stories, with four in each one.
  
  GO-GO DAY
  If a story by Flannery ...

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  Go-Go Day
  

  • Apr-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  These four eclectic short stories by award-winning author Elizabeth Sims are her hand-picked favorites. Love stories? Happy endings? Tough breaks? We got ’em. If you’re a fan of the Lillian Byrd crime novels, you’ll be delighted to finally know...

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  I am Calico Jones
  

  • Apr-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  These four short stories by award-winning author Elizabeth Sims are her hand-picked favorites. Love stories? Happy endings? Tough breaks? We got 'em. If you're a fan of the Lillian Byrd crime novels, you'll be delighted to finally know what Calico Jo...

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  Tight Race
  

  • Jan-2022
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  For once, life is good for Lillian Byrd: She's working as the media liaison for Detroit mayoral candidate Leon Sorrel, and getting paid for it, too! But she's courting danger by conducting a torrid affair with the married campaign manager, Marie Cha...

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