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    A Dead Sister
    A Dead Daughter
    A Dead Husband
    Audiobook series4 titles

    Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mysteries Series

    Written by Anna Celeste Burke

    Narrated by Rebecca Mitchell

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    About this series

    Jessica Huntington is back in the fourth Desert Cities Mystery by USA Today bestselling author Anna Celeste Burke.

    Jessica's ex-husband, James Harper, and her mother, Alexis, are in big trouble in A Dead Mother. Family dysfunction, infidelity, murder, and mayhem-what else can you expect from members of the rich and famous who move in Jessica Huntington's circles?

    An arraignment in court goes off the rails after Jim Harper's Bel Air mansion is trashed and a man is left fighting for his life. Jessica's love life almost veers off track, too, as she struggles to balance job, family, sleuthing, and her attraction to Attorney Paul Worthington and Detective Frank Fontana. When a prominent member of the Palm Desert community is found dead on the side of the road, Jessica gives up hope that this year will be better than the last. It's a three-ring-circus of calamities as Jessica and her friends get pulled into another whirlwind whodunit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 1, 2000
    A Dead Sister
    A Dead Daughter
    A Dead Husband

    Titles in the series (4)

    • 1

      A Dead Husband
      A Dead Husband

      A Dead Husband

      Anna Celeste Burke
      5/5 - 3 ratings
      5/5 - 3 ratings

      Meet Jessica Huntington, an amateur sleuth with a shopping jones and a black AMEX card. She soon finds out that money can't buy happiness or save your neck. Her well-planned life in shambles, she's hiding out near Palm Springs, California. When her best friend's husband is murdered, Jessica and her friends are soon stalked by scoundrels in pantyhose, stilettos, Bruno Maglis, and Armani suits. Roger Stone had something that got him killed. What was it and what will they do to get it back?

      Meet Jessica Huntington, an amateur sleuth with a shopping jones and a black AMEX card. She soon finds out that money can't buy happiness or save your neck. Her well-planned life in shambles, she's hiding out near Palm Springs, California. When her best friend's husband is murdered, Jessica and her friends are soon stalked by scoundrels in pantyhose, stilettos, Bruno Maglis, and Armani suits. Roger Stone had something that got him killed. What was it and what will they do to get it back?

    • 2

      A Dead Sister
      A Dead Sister

      A Dead Sister

      Anna Celeste Burke
      5/5
      5/5

      Jessica Huntington is back in her second mystery by USA Today bestselling author Anna Celeste Burke. A cold case heats up when the handsome detective, Frank Fontana, asks for Jessica Huntington's help. Who killed his cousin Kelly? Does Jessica want to know the truth about her high school friend's tragic death? "The worst kind of truth is better than the best lie, Jessica." Jessica hopes Bernadette's right as she races headlong into Kelly's troubled past. Believed to be the victim of a hit-and-run accident in Palm Springs, the investigation into Kelly's death had quickly grown cold. Now more than a decade later, a lowlife meth addict claims to have witnessed her death and swears: "It weren't no accident! It was on purpose." Why would anyone have done such a thing to the nineteen-year-old, auburn-haired beauty with a voice like an angel and a streak of wild? Join Jessica and her friends as they try to figure out whodunit and why!

      Jessica Huntington is back in her second mystery by USA Today bestselling author Anna Celeste Burke. A cold case heats up when the handsome detective, Frank Fontana, asks for Jessica Huntington's help. Who killed his cousin Kelly? Does Jessica want to know the truth about her high school friend's tragic death? "The worst kind of truth is better than the best lie, Jessica." Jessica hopes Bernadette's right as she races headlong into Kelly's troubled past. Believed to be the victim of a hit-and-run accident in Palm Springs, the investigation into Kelly's death had quickly grown cold. Now more than a decade later, a lowlife meth addict claims to have witnessed her death and swears: "It weren't no accident! It was on purpose." Why would anyone have done such a thing to the nineteen-year-old, auburn-haired beauty with a voice like an angel and a streak of wild? Join Jessica and her friends as they try to figure out whodunit and why!

    • 3

      A Dead Daughter
      A Dead Daughter

      A Dead Daughter

      Anna Celeste Burke
      0 ratings
      0 ratings

      Murder and mayhem take Jessica Huntington to new heights when Libby Van Der Woert wants to meet at the top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. The disturbed daughter of Jessica's wealthy clients, Libby says she has information about her friend, Shannon Donnelly. Another mixed-up daughter of the rich and famous, no one has heard from Shannon Donnelly in over a week. Trouble begins the moment Jessica greets Libby in the Mt. San Jacinto Wilderness. Wild, manic, and sure she's being followed, Libby's got a gun. All hell breaks loose when Libby's Beverly Hills shrink shows up with a gun of his own. What's up with the missing and misguided daughters of wealth and privilege in Dr. Carr's care? Jessica and her friends go toe-to-toe with more well-heeled heels in A Dead Daughter. Getting to the bottom of things Jessica-Huntington-style sets off a whirlwind tour of fashionable enclaves, upscale rehab clinics, shops, restaurants and other haute hangouts. Behind all the glitz and glam: secrets, lies, corporate wheeling and dealing. How can Jessica and her friends outwit and outlive "la creme de la crud" wreaking havoc from Palm Springs to Beverly Hills?

      Murder and mayhem take Jessica Huntington to new heights when Libby Van Der Woert wants to meet at the top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. The disturbed daughter of Jessica's wealthy clients, Libby says she has information about her friend, Shannon Donnelly. Another mixed-up daughter of the rich and famous, no one has heard from Shannon Donnelly in over a week. Trouble begins the moment Jessica greets Libby in the Mt. San Jacinto Wilderness. Wild, manic, and sure she's being followed, Libby's got a gun. All hell breaks loose when Libby's Beverly Hills shrink shows up with a gun of his own. What's up with the missing and misguided daughters of wealth and privilege in Dr. Carr's care? Jessica and her friends go toe-to-toe with more well-heeled heels in A Dead Daughter. Getting to the bottom of things Jessica-Huntington-style sets off a whirlwind tour of fashionable enclaves, upscale rehab clinics, shops, restaurants and other haute hangouts. Behind all the glitz and glam: secrets, lies, corporate wheeling and dealing. How can Jessica and her friends outwit and outlive "la creme de la crud" wreaking havoc from Palm Springs to Beverly Hills?

    • 4

      A Dead Mother
      A Dead Mother

      A Dead Mother

      Anna Celeste Burke
      0 ratings
      0 ratings

      Jessica Huntington is back in the fourth Desert Cities Mystery by USA Today bestselling author Anna Celeste Burke. Jessica's ex-husband, James Harper, and her mother, Alexis, are in big trouble in A Dead Mother. Family dysfunction, infidelity, murder, and mayhem-what else can you expect from members of the rich and famous who move in Jessica Huntington's circles? An arraignment in court goes off the rails after Jim Harper's Bel Air mansion is trashed and a man is left fighting for his life. Jessica's love life almost veers off track, too, as she struggles to balance job, family, sleuthing, and her attraction to Attorney Paul Worthington and Detective Frank Fontana. When a prominent member of the Palm Desert community is found dead on the side of the road, Jessica gives up hope that this year will be better than the last. It's a three-ring-circus of calamities as Jessica and her friends get pulled into another whirlwind whodunit.

      Jessica Huntington is back in the fourth Desert Cities Mystery by USA Today bestselling author Anna Celeste Burke. Jessica's ex-husband, James Harper, and her mother, Alexis, are in big trouble in A Dead Mother. Family dysfunction, infidelity, murder, and mayhem-what else can you expect from members of the rich and famous who move in Jessica Huntington's circles? An arraignment in court goes off the rails after Jim Harper's Bel Air mansion is trashed and a man is left fighting for his life. Jessica's love life almost veers off track, too, as she struggles to balance job, family, sleuthing, and her attraction to Attorney Paul Worthington and Detective Frank Fontana. When a prominent member of the Palm Desert community is found dead on the side of the road, Jessica gives up hope that this year will be better than the last. It's a three-ring-circus of calamities as Jessica and her friends get pulled into another whirlwind whodunit.

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