Jean Heller

A Deuce Mora Thriller

1 - The Someday File (Dec-2014)
2 - The Hunting Ground (Sep-2016)
3 - Burning Rage (Oct-2018)
4 - Ill Wind (Mar-2020)

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  Maximum Impact
  

  • Sep-1993
  • / Suspense
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  Steven Pace, investigative reporter, has done it all--broken scandals, made headlines, won the Pulitzer Prize. Now he's burnt-out, an exhausted, alcoholic wreck struggling to hold onto the remnants of his life: a job he can't stand, a bitter ex-wife,...

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  Handyman
  

  • Nov-1995
  • / Suspense
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  The press calls him the Heartbreak Killer because of his apparent compulsion to mutilate the hearts of his victims, but he thinks of himself as the Handyman. At first he targeted prostitutes, but lately he's been going upscale--a teacher, a doctor--s...

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  The Someday File
  

  • Dec-2014
  • / Mystery
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  A Deuce Mora Thriller - 1
  

  Deuce Mora, a columnist for the struggling Chicago Journal, thinks she is searching for a human-interest story when she walks into a seedy neighborhood bar in suburban Cicero. What she finds is Vinnie Colangelo, an aging mobster living on bad beer, c...

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  The Hunting Ground
  

  • Sep-2016
  • / Mystery
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  A Deuce Mora Thriller - 2
  

  A mild mid-winter day draws Chicago newspaper columnist Deuce Mora to a South Side nature preserve where she plans a simple outing to get some fresh air and exercise. But a shocking discovery hurls her into a personal and professional train wreck.Som...

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  Burning Rage
  

  • Oct-2018
  • / Mystery
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  A Deuce Mora Thriller - 3
  

  It's already been a rough year for the Chicago Journal's first-rate journalistic sleuth, Deuce Mora. After two agonizing investigations - one of which won her a Pulitzer Prize, the other of which forced her to kill a man - she claims she's sworn ...

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  Ill Wind
  

  • Mar-2020
  • / Mystery
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  A Deuce Mora Thriller - 4
  

  Hard-hitting veteran reporter Deuce Mora is awakened in the pre-dawn hours and called to the scene of a gruesome hanging to identify the body of a dear friend, an FBI agent on the verge of taking down one of Chicago's biggest Mob operations. Deuce...

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  Black Marsh
  

  • May-2023
  • / General Fiction
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  Investigative reporter Deuce Mora's seen it all, been there, done everything, but waking up in a swamp next to a plane crash with no memory of how she got there is a whole other order of scary. She's so disoriented she actually considers trusting the...

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