Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Mass Market Paperback, 261 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 1998-10-31


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    MEET ALLIE BABCOCK--
AN INTREPID DOG THERAPIST WITH A KNACK FOR SLEUTHING

After Allie Babcock sets up shop in Boulder, her first client is a despondent collie whose previous owner apparently took her own life. But Allie soon suspects murder--and figures her canine client was a witness to the crime.

Allie is quickly on the case when a second murder stops her investigation. Before making another move, she counts her enemies: several suspicious dog owners, a violent boyfriend demanding vengeance, and a mysterious door-to-door salesman with a bizarre story to tell. One thing's for certain: All of them deserve a serious once-over--or Allie's own life may be brought to a heel. . . ....

Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 2002-03-26
Edition: 1

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    NO MERE MURDER IS GOING TO MAKE DOG THERAPIST ALLIE BABCOCK ROLL OVER AND PLAY DEAD.

As canine shrink Allie Babcock knows, behind every neurotic dog stands a neurotic human. But the rambunctious golden retriever named Maggie can’t even begin to compete with the nuttiness of her owner. Befuddled millionaire Ken Culberson insists that he killed his wife and that Maggie is channeling her spirit. He talks Allie into becoming the dog’s legal guardian in case he, too, should die—which he promptly does, thanks to a murderer.

Friends and relatives immediately gather to sniff after the fortune that will go to whomever Allie picks to be Maggie’s new owner. Wondering who in the pack did the deed, sleuthhound Allie vows that Maggie and her millions will only go to a killer over her own dead body. . . ....

Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Hardcover, 216 pages
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Publication Date: 1996-01
Edition: 1st

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    While visiting her childhood home in upstate New York, cartoonist Molly Masters receives an ominous letter from her least-favorite high-school teacher, who then dies mysteriously, a communication that leads to death threats, revelations of old secrets, and murder....

Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 2000-02-01


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    DOG THERAPIST ALLIE BABCOCK IS BACK--
AND SHE HAS A BONE TO PICK WITH A KILLER

Allie's dog therapy practice is booming. Her divorcing neighbors Edith and Travor have hired her to choose which one should have custody of Shogun, their silky terrier. Another neighborhood pair, Cassandra and Paul, need help with a fostered Siberian husky and her pups. Everything's great until Allie finds Cassandra's bludgeoned body on Edith's deck with a bloody pawprint beside it--and Shogun long gone.

Who murdered Cassandra? Where's Shogun? What makes the old couple down the block so hostile? Hounded by the police and in the doghouse with just about everybody else, sleuthhound Allie cuts to the chase--and unleashes a close encounter with a cold-hearted killer. . . ....

Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 2000-06-06


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    Funding for sports or funding for the arts? There's not enough money for both, and a ruthless battle is raging among the seven members of the Carlton school board. Sylvia Greene, the board's unbalanced president, is even threatening to expose the members' most private secrets if they don't vote her way.

But a sudden dose of poison takes care of Sylvia . . . permanently. The bad news is that Molly Master's dad, the board member who was Sylvia's first blackmail target, is now the prime suspect for her murder. Shocked and furious, Molly hits the warpath, determined to find the real killer. A deadly field trip tells her almost all she needs to know--except her own perilous fate. . . ....

Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Mass Market Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 1999-05-01


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    Violets are blue.
Roses are red.
One of you bitches
Will soon be dead.

Those lines weren't quite what greeting-card entrepreneur Molly Masters had in mind when she encouraged her weekend workshop students to write a bit of verse, anonymously. Eerily, within hours, one of her aspiring writers is murdered, apparently without rhyme or reason.

Or so Molly thinks until a storm and a blackout isolate the group in their mountain retreat. Katherine the professor, Nancy the shrink, Lois the doting mom, Julie the dog breeder, and Celia the big pest. Behind each one's suburban facade lurk passions unfit for family greeting cards, and a rage for life--and death. . . ....

Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Hardcover, 232 pages
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Publication Date: 1996-09
Edition: 1st

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    When cartoonist Molly Masters has one of her cartoons submitted to a porn magazine by her archrival's husband, the husband turns up dead and Molly must solve the murder by posing as a high-school student....

Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 2002-10-01


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    Everybody agrees that talented mom Patty Birch is the perfect president to lead the Carlton Central School PTA to new accomplishments. Under her steady stewardship, the organization verges on winning a prestigious award. Her skills, however, are sorely tested when angry board members assemble to discuss a secret video that reveals their pettiness and ineptitude. Not long after the meeting adjourns, Patty’s tenure is cut short by a knife-wielding killer.

When Molly Masters, the town’s unofficial sleuth, gets on the case, Perfect Patty turns out to be not so perfect after all. She not only instigated the notorious video but also some of its most humiliating episodes, many of which remain on the cutting-room floor. It’s no wonder someone in PTA-land is ready to kill—and Molly is destined to be the next victim. . . ....

Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Mass Market Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 2001-04-03


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Dress rehearsal for the PTA fundraiser is at its chaotic peak when one of the seven identical clowns cavorting on stage pulls out a gun and shoots the director, Corrinne Buldock. Molly Masters, also dressed as a clown, is a stunned and baffled witness to the killing. She wonders: which of her fellow performers, all of them respectable parents and teachers, can conceivably be a murderer?

The rumor is that Corrinne and her old boyfriend split up . . . and that she had just confessed to a sexual involvement with a student. Soon Molly knows more dirty little school secrets than she would care to–and more than enough to send a desperate killer back into action. . . .
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Authors: Leslie O'Kane.
Hardcover, 381 pages
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Publication Date: 2000-10
Edition: Largeprint

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    Gardening is not usually considered a blood sport, but whenever cartoonist Molly Masters is out in the yard she must contend with the harassing comments of her neighbor, Helen Raleigh, who once owned Molly's house. Then, after a particularly unpleasant confrontation, Helen is shot dead on Molly's property--and a shocking secret is revealed.

When Molly shoves her trowel into the dirt of the murder investigation, she starts receiving some threatening faxes--and realizes that one determined killer could quiet her questions forever. . . ....