Abigail Padgett

• Aug-2022
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The California desert hasn't changed, but everything else in Blue McCarron's life is about to. After the inevitable break-up with partner Roxie in Philadelphia, Blue drags herself home -- to the tumbleweeds, sidewinders, and emptiness.A part-time job...

• Apr-2019
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San Diego Child Abuse Investigator Bo Bradley agrees to accompany significant other Dr. Andrew LaMarche on a two-week business trip to France. Bo, who lives with a bipolar disorder, looks forward to relaxing in a tiny Alpine village, painting scenery...

• May-2018
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At the moment, Darcy Flannigan isn't thinking about love at all. At least not positively. Fleeing a relationship she calls "The Big Mistake," she's reciting mantras from self-help manuals as she heads to a forgotten little California beach village ...

• May-2018
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As Darcy Flannigan's relationship with ex-Marine Sal Hannan heats up much too soon for comfort. Secrets hidden in her own past coalesce in a deadly threat of which she is unaware despite obscure warnings from Santo, a prescient parrot who also lives...

• Jun-2015
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Only the flame from a curious candle holder illuminated the murdered corpse of Karl Knock on a bitterly cold Massachusetts night twenty years in the past. When the efforts of local, state and federal investigators failed to cast more light on the cri...

• Jun-2015
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By award-winning mystery author Abigail Padgett, The Paper Doll Museum stretches mystery one step further -- into that spooky and sometimes hilarious world you always suspected was possible. Retired, divorced and addicted to eggplant, Taylor Blake ...

• May-2015
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Danni Telfer, abandoned as a toddler, has no idea what the fading tattoo of a white rose on her left shoulder means. Nor does she want to remember the peculiar perceptions that disturbed her childhood. A talented historian, Danni's focus is on the ...

• Mar-2001
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Agatha Award-winning author, Abigail Padget returns with Book No.2 of the Blue McCarron Mystery series.When two prominent female politicians die in San Diego of cerebral hemorrhages within days of each other, social psychologist Blue McCarron knows t...

• Sep-1998
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Blue McCarron has a Ph.D. in social psychology. She teaches and writes while living reclusively in an abandoned motel in the middle of the California desert with her Doberman, Bronte. A minister's kid, she has an imprisoned felon for a twin and a bro...

• Feb-1997
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Fifth in the Bo Bradley series, in this psychological thriller Bo reaches out to 15-year-old Janny Malcolm, a foster child found frozen in terror at a popular Goth hangout. An exquisite but battered doll is chained to Janny's wrist. She keeps the dol...

• Apr-1996
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DEATH IN THE DESERT Baking under the desert sky, firmly rooted in Indian soil, Ghost Flower Lodge is a unique psychiatric healing center. Here, child abuse investigator Bo Bradley finds renewed strength after a bout with depression, and a warm friend...

• 1995
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ANCIENT TRADITION. MODERN MURDER. His hair is ebony. His skin is copper. Even at eight months, the baby is unmistakably Mayan. They call him Acito, or little turtle. And he is as hard-shelled as his animal-spirit namesake. In fact, he's just survi...

• Feb-1994
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The three-year-old girl had been raped; now she was dead. Number one on the cops' list is her stepfather, Paul Massieu, member of a controversial New Age group based in New York State. For child abuse investigator Bo Bradley, the consequences are dou...

• Jan-1993
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Investigating a case of child abuse, Bo Bradley discovers that the four-year-old boy classified as retarded is merely deaf, and when two men attempt to kill the boy, Bo is determined to solve the mystery of his background and save his life...