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With a new job and a new life, middle-aged Izzy Abbott finds herself lonely and terribly bored.Each evening, to spice up her life, she disguises herself in an entirely new identity and visits a different bar, looking for fun, men, and her version of a dirty dry martini - her perfect martini.Even though she is having a blast on her nightly outings, the recent unsolved murder of a woman in the city lingers in her mind while she party's. Should she feel secure or watch out for her safety with a killer on the loose?Meet the quirky patrons and peculiar bartenders she encounters in the eclectic drinking establishments she visits.Come join Izzy in her zany adventures ... in the hunt for ... the perfect martini.
Nitra Zupan faces the one crisis all writers' fear most, losing their entire hand written manuscript weeks before a looming deadline. Worse, she is unable to recapture the essences of her first page, the one she considers to be the most significant page of the entire book. After losing her manuscript to Mother Nature's wrath, she places an ad in the local newspaper offering a reward to have her pages returned to her. Follow their tense adventure as they encounter the assortment of people who return the pages of her work, only to find them all, except for one. Neither, Nitra nor her house keeper, Wallace McPhee, is aware that the other has feelings that run deeper than their employer, employee relationship. That is, until they encounter the mysterious woman wearing gaudy red lipstick. The comedic banter between Nitra and Wallace, along with the fast paced adventure, will bring you to the dramatic end of their search for Nitra's first page, the last page.
Constantly on the run, Gabriel Carr was already exhausted when his headlights fell upon the neon sign that would dictate the next leg of his grueling escape. Through the heavy rain, he read, The Last Motel for 99 Miles. Finally able to elude the two mobsters hunting him down, he paid for a room to rest both his body and his mind. Depressed and drained of all energy to live, he took refuge inside the room, locking himself away from the world. Gord, the motel's owner, knew right from the start that Gabriel would bring trouble to his peaceful motel. And when the stranger began spending time with Maizie, the secret love of Gord's life, he didn't like it one damned bit. Even so, he promised himself he would protect her and the others when that trouble did arrive.It was Maizie, the housekeeper, that drew Gabriel out of his room and introduced him to her little town in Northern Ontario. His time spent with the beautiful and optimistic Maizie changed his mind about ending his life. Instead, he switched his focus on the mission started by his slain girlfriend, Heather. Gabriel's new plans were going well - until the two hit men appeared, both prepared to eliminate Gabriel Carr, the only witness to the murder they committed. The end result being a dramatic gunfight and ending, no one could have predicted.
This is the story of four, lifelong, best friends - Fran, Pearl, Ruby and Violet, who attend the auction of Henry Phillips, the husband of their late-friend, Virginia. Henry, no longer able to take care of himself, is forced to leave the farm life behind and retire to a nursing home. With his unwanted transition, comes the selling of his remaining possessions in a simple country auction. Treasures and heirlooms that his greedy children do not care to inherit.As the sale proceeds, these elderly Southern ladies share with each other the memories and adventures that are connected to many of the items up for auction. Tales of apple pies, lost lovers, and murder. Many of the local folk and neighbours gather to bid on the household items at hand, but it's Emmett, the worldly auctioneer, who is downright curious about the quiet outsider. Why is someone as sophisticated as him, at a small-town auction? Who is this unknown wealthy Frenchman? And why is he watching the four ladies so intently? This is the story of one simple day, at a not so simple auction.
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