Rogers Susan Cooper, Author, Susan Rogers Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-312-09815-5
When your sleuth is a stand-up comic, your story had better be drop-dead funny, but the routine here is only that. Cooper has been funny before--in Houston in the Rear View Mirror , for example--but then she was also laconic, playing on an effective
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13468-6
Moving from strength to strength, Cooper's Milt Kovak series sounds out small town life, touching on tragedies major and minor and getting all the notes right. Last encountered in Dead Moon on the Rise, Milt, now married to Jean, a psychiatrist who's
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Susan Rogers Cooper. Severn, $27.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8711-5
Cooper’s exuberant 13th E.J. Pugh mystery (after 2015’s Dead to the World) takes the romance writer and amateur sleuth from her home territory of Black Cat Ridge, Tex., to Austin, where her son, Graham, a student at the University of Texas, is in...
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Susan Rogers Cooper. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8458-9
In Cooper’s lightweight 12th E.J. Pugh mystery (after 2013’s Gone in a Flash), the romance writer and unlicensed PI books a surprise weekend at a quaint B&B, in a small town in the Texas hill country, to celebrate the 20th wedding anniversary of her
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Susan Rogers Cooper. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8395-7
Milt Kovak struggles to keep the peace while contending with forces of nature like tornadoes and his wife, Jean, in Cooper’s amiably folksy 13th mystery featuring the Prophesy County, Okla., sheriff (after 2013’s Dark Waters). The inbred, highly...
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Susan Rodgers Cooper. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8292-9
Cooper’s delightfully quirky 11th E.J. Pugh mystery (after 2012’s Dead Weight) finds E.J., a successful romance novelist and unlicensed PI in Black Cat Ridge, Tex., in the throes of an internal struggle between a rededication to her marriage and a...
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Susan Rogers Cooper. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8273-8
The plot of Cooper’s enjoyable 12th mystery featuring smalltown Oklahoma sheriff Milt Kovak splits neatly in two. Milt—along with his wife, their preteen son, and the son’s buddy—is on a cruise ship returning from Puerto Rico. The discovery of the...
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Susan Rogers Cooper. Severn, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8195-3
Near the start of Cooper’s engaging 10th E.J. Pugh mystery (after 2011’s Full Circle), E.J. attends the memorial service at the Episcopal church in Black Cat Ridge, Tex., for 30-something Berta Harris, a member of her weight-loss group who was...
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Susan Rogers Cooper. Severn, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8126-7
At the start of Cooper’s absorbing 11th mystery featuring Oklahoma sheriff Milt Kovak (after 2009’s Rude Awakening), a phone call from a hysterical teenage girl takes Milt to a gated community in “Prophesy County’s answer to Beverly Hills,” where he
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author Avon Books $5.5 (215p) ISBN 978-0-380-78155-3
In her second mystery featuring romance writer E.J. Pugh (after One, Two, What Did Daddy Do?), the suspense begins slowly when prank 911 calls are traced to E.J's home. But it doesn't stop there, and eventually her five-year-old daughter eats a...
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author Avon Books $5.5 (213p) ISBN 978-0-380-79468-3
E.J. Pugh is the first one to admit she's no Martha Stewart. What she is, is a sometime romance writer and an emotionally over-extended wife and mother. She's also a woman who can't walk away from trouble. In this fourth installment of her series (af
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-312-35603-3
In Cooper's amusing eighth Sheriff Milt Kovak mystery (after 2003's Lying Wonders
), the Oklahoma lawman arrives in Las Vegas, Nev., for an overdue vacation, only to get embroiled in an assault and battery case. His cousin, Maida Upshank, in
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-11438-1
Cajun cookery, colorful East Texas patois, dark family secrets and homicide provide material for pint-sized Texas stand-up comic Kimmey Kruse in her second appearance. During a family reunion in Port Arthur, Kimmey's black-sheep cousin Leticia dies...
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-312-10448-1
The fifth Milt Kovak cop caper (after Chasing Away the Devil ) finds the good ol' boy lawman newly married to pregnant psychiatrist Jean McDonnell and very surprised when his former co-worker and pal Wade Moon returns to Prophesy County, Okla....
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (166p) ISBN 978-0-312-05139-6
At first it seems self-evident to Milton Kovak of the Prophesy County, Okla., sheriff's department (last seen in Houston in the Rearview Mirror ) that bank teller Lois Bell committed suicide by turning on her car's engine in the closed garage. The...
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-312-06316-0
Head deputy of Prophesy County, Okla., Milt Kovak, seen last in Other People's Houses , is well into middle age and still proposing marriage to his divorced childhood sweetheart, Glenda Sue. One rodeo night she refuses him yet again and won't even...
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-312-03843-4
Milton Kovak of the Prophesy County, Okla., sheriff's department (introduced in The Man in the Green Chevy ) is summoned to Houston where his long-estranged sister, Jewel, lies in a coma, accused of murdering her husband, accountant Henry Hotchkiss,
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-29056-6
In Susan Rogers Cooper's (Home Again, Home Again) winning Lying Wonders: A Sheriff Milt Kovak Mystery, the Prophesy County, Okla., sheriff, last seen in Doctors and Lawyers and Such (1995), is pushing 60 and the father of a two-year-old boy. When
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Susan Rogers Cooper, Author Avon Books $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-380-80533-4
In Edgar Award-nominated Cooper's latest E.J. Pugh mystery (after Not in My Backyard), the sometime sleuth, her three sisters and their mates reluctantly come together for a family vacation in the Caribbean. E.J. has an unlucky knack for finding...
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