Jane Rubino

Cat Austen & Victor Cardenas

1 - Death of a DJ (Sep-1995)
2 - Fruitcake (Jun-1997)
3 - Cheat the Devil (Aug-1998)
4 - Plot Twist (Jun-2000)
5 - Deadly Morsels: Cake Job (Apr-2003)

A Jane Austen Novel

Lady Vernon and Her Daughter (Oct-2009)

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  Death of a DJ
  

  • Sep-1995
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Cat Austen & Victor Cardenas - 1
  

  Shock jock Jerry Dudek is the self-professed teacher of what makes people tick--and what ticks them off. Everyone who owns a radio wants to kill him, including South Jersey magazine's entertainment writer Cat Austen (nee Fortunati). Her loathing for ...

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  Fruitcake
  

  • Jun-1997
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Cat Austen & Victor Cardenas - 2
  Worldwide Mysteries - 362
  

  Jane Rubino brings back Atlantic City-based journalist/sleuth Cat Austen, now busy writing a holiday fluff piece on a casino magnate and his celebrity wife. When Cat stumbles upon a corpse dressed in a Santa suit in the parking garage of a luxury cas...

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  Cheat the Devil
  

  • Aug-1998
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Cat Austen & Victor Cardenas - 3
  

  Entertainment writer Cat Austin is relieved to find her four-day weekend in San Juan with Lt. Victor Cardenas cancelled when he is called to investigate what looks to be number three in a serial murder case...

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  Plot Twist
  

  • Jun-2000
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Cat Austen & Victor Cardenas - 4
  

  "Reality is what we make of it."

  The motto of screen goddess Tommi Ann Butler becomes the mantra for entertainment reporter Cat Austen, when Cat is attached to Tommi Ann's latest project: the Oscar nominee is Cat's Alter-ego, amateur sleuth Kate A...

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  Deadly Morsels: Cake Job
  

  • Apr-2003
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Cat Austen & Victor Cardenas - 5
  Worldwide Mysteries - 452
  

  Reporter Cat Austen is covering a lush bridal expo in Atlantic City and helping her future sister-in-law pick out a wedding cake. Cat soon finds herself in the middle of a mafia shakedown involving pastry chef Patty Cake, a hired killer and the disco...

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  Raise The Dead
  

  • Jun-2004
  • / Horror
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  Lady Vernon and Her Daughter
  

  • Oct-2009
  • / Historical
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  A Jane Austen Novel
  

  LOVE LOST AND FOUND -- AND THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WOMEN, MEN, AND MONEY IN REGENCY ENGLAND Jane Austen's novella Lady Susan was written during the same period as another novella called Elinor and Marianne -- which later became Sense and S...

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  Hidden Fires
  

  • Oct-2022
  • / Mystery
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  "I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money." Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in The Sign of Four. Early 1902 - On the eve of Newgate Prison's demolition, Watson spies H...

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