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Susan P. Baker
Full Series List in Order
A Mavis Davis Mystery
1 - My First Murder (Jun-1989)2 - The Sweet Scent of Murder (Feb-2007)
3 - Murder and Madness ()
Book List in Order: 13 titles
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My First Murder
- Jun-1989
- / Suspense
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Former parole officer Mavis Davis, now a rookie private investigator, becomes embroiled in deceit, violence, and scandal while investigating the murder of Doris Jones, a woman with many disturbing secrets...
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Death Of A Prince
- Apr-2005
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Criminal Defense Attorney Sandra Salinsky is hired to defend the alleged murderer of plaintiffs' attorney Phillip Parker, her mother's best friend.Salinsky and her mother, Erma Townley, are law partners as well as sparing partners and different as ni...
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The Sweet Scent of Murder
- Feb-2007
- / Mystery
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A teenage girl from a well-to-do family disappears. Was she kidnapped or did she runaway? P.I. Mavis Davis' high school worker, Candy, brings in the girl's older brother to hire Mavis. Mavis doesn't work for kids, she says. Kids have no authority to ...
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Suggestion of Death
- Jul-2013
- / Mystery
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Jim Dorman, a laid off newspaperman in the Texas hill country, can’t pay his child support. He is summoned to court for nonsupport and the first thing the judge does is read a Suggestion of Death into the record for a man who was supposed to appear...
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Ledbetter Street
- Apr-2015
- / Women's Fiction
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LEDBETTER STREET Though there are few circumstances where a mother might be able to regain custody of a child she surrendered for adoption, Marian Reid, the proprietor of Reid's Ritzy Rags, a pre-owned clothing shop on Ledbetter Street in Galveston, ...
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Murdered Judges
- Nov-2016
- / Suspense
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"...a spectacular compilation of stories of American judges who were tragically killed..." Jason Walker, Historian, Texas State Cemetery
42 True Stories of Judges who were assassinated by strangers, knocked off by family members, or other...
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Texas Style Justice
- May-2018
- / Thriller
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Devastated by a divorce and death of a child, Torie Van Fleet rebuilds her life around succeeding in the justice system. Her goal is to work her way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Vowing to do whatever it takes, she risks her relationship with her new hu...
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Death of a Rancher's Daughter
- Apr-2021
- / Women's Fiction
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In the midst of a midlife crisis, lawyer Sandra Salinsky finds herself coerced into defending a ranch's Latina señora, who has been accused in the shooting death of one of the rancher's twin daughters. Set in a small town deep in the Texas Hill ...
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Fly Catching
- Jul-2021
- / General Fiction
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In this eclectic collection of personal essays, short fiction, and nonfiction, retired Texas District Court Judge Susan P. Baker writes about what she knows. That Susan's parents instilled a sense of empathy in her is reflected in her writings as she...
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Defensible Murder
- Dec-2022
- / Women's Fiction
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Six-week-old twins are kidnapped from a church during a Wednesday night service. The parents, not trusting the attitude and advice of the HPD officers, hire Mavis to rescue their babies. Despite cops ordering her to butt out, as usual, Mavis and her...
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Not Murder
In Southeast Texas, Mavis hunts down the killer of an antiques dealer--Fiercely independent, though struggling, Texas P.I. Mavis Davis rates missing persons cases high on her list, second only to murder. After being hired by a Galveston att...
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Murder and Madness
When P.I. Mavis Davis takes on the grisly ax murder of a cruise ship captain in Galveston, Texas, she wades right into the middle of an open investigation, navigating the island from one end to the other, searching for answers to five-year-old questi...
