Jan Burke
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 7
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Reporter Irene Kelly is given permission to accompany a team of law enforcement experts on a grisly journey to the grave of Julia Sayre after serial murderer Nick Parrish agrees to lead them to the site in exchange for a reduction in his death sentence, but Irene soon comes to suspect Nick has other plans in mind and must think fast to keep from becoming his next victim.
2) Kidnapped
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 10
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"When Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children run in the Las Piernas Express, she anticipates the renewed public interest and the deluge of phone tips and remembered clues; she even anticipates the renewed pain of the anguished parents. What she doesn't expect is that the articles will set off a murderous chain reaction - and put her life in peril." "Perhaps one of the more tragic disappearances in recent Las Piernas history was that of...
3) Disturbance
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The sons of serial killer Nick Parrish are now master criminals in their own right. They have formulated a plan to spring their father from prison and murder the person who put him there, investigative journalist Irene Kelly.
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"Beneath the Caribbean Sea, a salvage diver hears an eerie voice calling to him from the wreckage of a nineteenth-century ship. In return for promised riches, the diver becomes the servant of Adrian deVille, Lord Varre, the creature who has called to him. It's a bargain the diver will come to regret. Varre enlists him in a hunt for a man named Tyler Hawthorne." "Ten years later, in a canyon in the foothills above Los Angeles, Amanda Clarke has become...
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 8
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Ten years ago, a homicide detective named Philip Lefebvre disappeared. When his corpse is found, detective Frank Harriman sets out to find the killer. Everyone suspects drug dealer Whitey Dane, but Frank knows that Lefebvre wasn't murdered by a vengeful dealer. His killer was a pathological murderer who is still on the loose.
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 9
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The year is 1958. O'Connor, a young reporter with the Las Piernas News Express, is desperate to discover who has perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan. In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have witnessed the burial of a bloodstained car on a farm, but his reputation as a heavy drinker calls his strange story into question. In a seemingly unrelated mystery, a yacht bearing four members of the wealthy Ducane family disappears...
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 6
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Sleuth/reporter Irene Kelly, shocked to find herself a suspect in the killing of her estranged aunt, must go into hiding from the law while she sorts through long-buried secrets in an effort to discover who holds a murderous grudge against her family.
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 1
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Intrepid reporter Irene Kelly returns to the streets of Las Piernas to investigate her former college professor--a once brilliant academic now destitute, missing, and the subject of pernicious rumors linking him to a lucrative and deadly blackmail ring.
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 4
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Best-selling, award-winning author Jan Burke presents Remember Me, Irene, a novel of "electric suspense" (Grand Rapids Press). Here, daring investigative reporter Irene Kelly encounters a most unexpected blast from the past. "I'm not who I used to be," whispers an apparent stranger on the street. This cryptic remark puts Irene on the path to uncovering the very core of the city's corruption.
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
c1997
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Reporter Irene Kelly is put to the test when her detective husband is taken hostage. Tension mounts from the first pages when Irene's detective husband, Frank Harriman, turns up missing, a bloodstain is found in the trunk of his car, and an ominous warning is left on the rearview mirror suggesting he's been kidnapped.
12) Dear Irene
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1995]
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Reporter Irene Kelly matches wits with a killer who is giving her advance notice of his kills with riddles from Greek mythology. He signs himself Thanatos, as the Greeks called death, addresses her as Cassandra, the woman who told the truth but whom no one believed, and warns that Clio will be the first to die, a reference to the muse of history. The very same night a woman professor is murdered. By the author of Sweet Dreams, Irene.
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
c1994
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Irene Kelly, a California newspaper reporter, investigates a satanic cult operating in a shelter for the homeless, scene of some gruesome murders. Irene is kidnaped and undergoes a beating.
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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 11
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2011
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Irene Kelly fights for her life in this blood-chilling sequel to Bones. Despite her reporter's nose for trouble, her life has almost returned to normal, the Las Piernas News Express wobbles along in defiance of its financial woes, and with the help of her husband, Frank, and a good therapist, she has recovered from the debilitating post traumatic stress disorder that haunted her after her near fatal encounter with notorious serial killer Nick Parrish....