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| Works by
Nancy Bush
(Aka Carolyn Keene, Ellen Ashley, Nancy Kelly, Natalie Bishop, Nicole
Brooks)
(Writer) |
Historical
Romance
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Candy Apple Red (2005)
Jane Kelly is through following men. She left
Southern California for the murky quaintness of Lake Chinook, Oregon,
apparently so she could trade her bartending skills for much more
glamorous work process serving. And the boyfriend, of course, is long
gone. But things have been looking a little brighter lately. Her hobby
doing PI work is kind of fun, especially when she lands a real case - that
pays real money. But the case is about Bobby Reynolds, best friend of Tim
Murphy, the only guy she's never gotten over. Everyone except Tim believed
Bobby murdered his young family - isn't that why he vanished? Now Tim's
coming home and Jane's on her way to talk to Bobby's father. Looks like
Jane'll be trailing men after all - this time with a tape recorder and a
camera. To top it off, she's being trailed by a homely pug named Binky,
left to her by a distant relative. With a job she's learning as she goes
along and her ex back in town, Jane's life just went from stress-free to
completely stressed-out. And then there's the dead body...
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Electric Blue
(2006)
Some days are just weird city.
Take today. Jane Kelly, thirtysomething ex-bartender, current process
server, and owner of The Binkster, a pug, is dutifully putting in
slave-labor hours working for Dwayne Durbin, local "information
specialist" (i.e., private investigator), and on the road to becoming a
P.I. herself. Next thing she knows she's socializing with the Purcells, a
rich, eccentric rich family with a penchant for going crazy and/or dying
in spectacularly mysterious ways.
From what Jane can tell, the Purcells all want Orchid Purcell's money. And
when Orchid turns up in a pool of blood, the free-for-all has just begun.
Then when Jane finds a second body, it seems weird city is about to get
even weirder...and a lot more deadly...
In her second smash outing, Nancy Bush's wickedly funny heroine, Jane
Kelly, proves herself a worthy successor to Stephanie Plum, but with a
wit, style, and dog that are definitely all her own.
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Ultraviolet
(2007)
For process server-turned-private investigator, Jane
Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but for newly
minted P.I. Jane Kelly, it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare.
Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just
before his daughter's society wedding. The weapon is a wedding gift: a
heavy, silver serving tray. The prime suspect is Roland's ex-wife #2:
Violet "Ultraviolet" Purcell, she of the eccentric-bordering-on-insane
Purcell clan.
Violet insists that she's completely innocent. After all, Roland was her
absolute favorite ex-husband. And she was nowhere NEAR him at the time of
the murder. Well, okay, technically she did meet him for a little pre-nup,
bedroom tête-à-tête just before. And they did have a huge fight. And she
did hit him with the tray. But just once. Honest. So could Jane just hurry
up and prove her innocence? Sure. That should be easy. Let's just file
this one under "12 Kinds of Crazy." But when Jane's boss, the temporarily
sidelined Dwayne, is convinced Violet's telling the truth, well, there's
nothing for Jane to do but take her lovable, misfit pug, Binky, and sniff
out a few clues.
Everywhere Jane and The Binkster look, there's a suspect odder than the
last, including two grown, very troubled kids, an ex-wife strung out on
Botox and a current wife who's a cross between Donna Reed and a sex
kitten--all of them eager to blame Roland's death on Violet. It doesn't
help that Violet's story keeps changing faster than a celebrity's hair
extensions. To make matters worse, Dwayne's convalescence is turning him
into Jimmy Stewart in "Rear Window," complete with binoculars, and he's
convinced there is something very bad going down in the private houses
across Lakewood Bay, something that needs Jane and Binky's close
attention. Faster than she can say, "I took criminology courses for
this?", Jane is up to her eyeballs in lies, secrets, Extreme Botox, New
Wave bands, truck-stop coffee kiosks (don't ask), very good scones, Junior
League, wedding bandits, high school sociopaths, Plastic Pet Cemetery
(don't ask, part II), a budding attraction to her boss, the Millionaire's
Club, and someone who would kill to keep the past buried.
The deeper Jane digs, the less she wants to know. Every truth leads her
deeper into danger, and soon, Jane wonders if her first official case
might also be her last...and if the client she's been asked to clear just
might be the coldest black widow of all...
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Bittersweet Sixteen
(1984
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Dare to Love
(1982)
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Blindspot (July 2010 release)
"Look for Blindspot, my next thriller, release date July
2010. Many of you have asked about the excerpt for my next book, the one
unnamed at the back of Lisa Jackson's novel, Chose to Die. That's
Blindspot! It's another story featuring members of the secretive
cult known as the Colony, and it's a thrill-ride that follows both
Wicked Game, February 2009, my joint suspense novel with Lisa Jackson,
and Unseen, April 2009, my first stand-alone suspense novel. I've
added Blindspot's excerpt to my website. Check it out! I'm putting
the finishing touches on the manuscript right now!" -- Nancy Bush
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Unseen
(April 1, 2009)
In a shift from her Jane Kelly mystery series (Candy Apple Red,
etc.), Bush pens an eerie suspense novel woven with a compelling romance
and a touch of the supernatural. In rural Oregon, Gemma LaPorte wakes up
in a hospital with a fragmented memory. Det. Will Tanninger tells Gemma
that she’s a prime suspect in a hit and run that critically injured a
child molester. As Gemma's memories start to return and she finds notes
she had made about brain function, she wonders whether the concussion is
the only reason for her amnesia. Suspense builds as a subplot involving a
serial killer who burns his victims slowly merges with Gemma's story. As
Will and Gemma's relationship becomes increasingly intimate, the plot
takes a darker, more sinister turn, and the terrifying denouement will
have readers riveted.
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Wicked Game
(2009) with
Lisa Jackson
ONE BY ONE, THEY’LL DIE…
Twenty years ago, wild child Jessie Brentwood vanished from St.
Elizabeth’s high school. Most in Jessie’s tight circle of friends
believed she simply ran away. Few suspected that Jessie was hiding a
shocking secret—one that brought her into the crosshairs of a vicious
killer…
UNTIL THERE’S NO ONE LEFT…
Two decades pass before a body is unearthed on school grounds and
Jessie’s old friends reunite to talk. Most are sure that the body is
Jessie’s, that the mystery of what happened to her has finally been
solved. But soon, Jessie’s friends each begin to die in horrible, freak
accidents that defy explanation…
BUT HER…
Becca Sutcliff has been haunted for years by unsettling visions of
Jessie, certain her friend met with a grisly end. Now the latest deaths
have her rattled. Becca can sense that an evil force is shadowing her
too, waiting for just the right moment to strike. She feels like she’s
going crazy. Is it all a coincidence—or has Jessie’s killer finally
returned to finish what was started all those years ago?
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Wicked Lies (February 2010 release)
with
Lisa Jackson
Writing as
Nancy Kelly (Contemporary Romantic Fiction)
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Ginny Blue's Boyfriends
(2005)
It starts the morning that LA film production
manager Virginia "Ginny" Bluebell wakes up with her boyfriend Nate's arm
draped around her and realizes that the warning bells she's ignored for
months have become a deafening siren. Ginny knows that Nate is not the man
for her. Turns out, Nate knows it too, and moves out before Ginny can
deliver her well-practiced "maybe this isn't working" speech.Newly single
and not-so-newly confused about what went wrong this time, Ginny sets out
to reconnect with old boyfriends in an attempt to avoid repeating past
mistakes. Don the Devout, Hairy Larry, Mr Famous Actor, Jackson
Wright...well, Jackson doesn't really count, being more of a long time
friend than an official ex. And yet, the deeper Ginny delves into the
Ex-Files, the clearer it becomes that Jackson does count. A lot. In fact,
on a path designed to help her find the perfect relationship, Ginny is
starting to wonder if it's been hiding in plain sight all along...
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If You Believe
(1997)
Returning to her native Washington to find the son
she had been forced to give up at birth, child psychologist Liz Havers is
reunited with her old flame, Hawthorne Hart, who is raising their son, but
their rekindled relationship is threatened by a ruthless killer.
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Tangled
(1994)
Haunted by the past and by the violent murder of
their stepfather, three beautiful sisters--Dinah, a journalist; acclaimed
actress Denise; and Hayley--struggle to find love and build new lives for
themselves.
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Days Of Our Lives novels #8, #9, and #13
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General Hospital novels #1 & #3
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