Jaqueline Girdner
Bio: Jaqueline Girdner is the author of twelve mysteries in the Kate Jasper series and four books written under the pseudonym "Claire Daniels" in the Cally Lazar series. Jaqueline chaired the Mystery Writers of America committee to choose the Best Mystery Novel of 2005. She lives and does tai chi with her husband, Greg, in Marin County, California. To find out more, visit Jaqueline at her website: www.jaquelinegirdner.com
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A Cry For Self-Help [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this eighth mystery in the series. ("A cultural anthropologist of the laughing gas variety."--Don Herron, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN.) In A CRY FOR SELF-HELP, Kate Jasper and her sweetie take the plunge and join a Wedding Ritual Class, hoping to find inspiration for their own possible nuptials. On a field trip to observe a scuba-diving marriage ceremony, Sam Skyler, the man who has become a living legend as... more info>> (Published: 1997)
Words: 78152 - Reading Time: 223-312 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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A Sensitive Kind of Murder [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this twelfth mystery in the series. ("Smart, compassionate and intuitive, Kate has her own place among amateur sleuths."--FT. LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL.) Kate Jasper has sworn off groups, tired of her role as the Typhoid Mary of Murder. In A SENSITIVE KIND OF MURDER, it's her sweetheart, and now husband, who attends the Heartlink Men's Group. Kate is on her way to meet him afterward when a familiar car roars ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 79817 - Reading Time: 228-319 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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A Stiff Critique [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this sixth mystery in the series. ("Kate Jasper is a delightful sleuth."--Margaret Lucke, author of A RELATIVE STRANGER.) Kate is considering writing something besides jokes on the sides of coffee mugs for her gag gift company, Jest Gifts. To her own embarrassment, the stuff she's writing is poetry. In A STIFF CRITIQUE, she joins a writers' critique group with her friend Carrie, hoping for sensitive support... more info>> (Published: 1995)
Words: 75725 - Reading Time: 216-302 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Adjusted To Death [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Meet Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth. ("She's smart, funny, vulnerable, and unpretentious."--Marilyn Wallace, editor of the SISTERS IN CRIME series.) In this first Kate Jasper mystery, Kate visits her chiropractor for a simple spinal adjustment, but instead finds a dead man on one of the tables...dead of a broken neck. And it seems everyone in the chiropractor's office knew the victim, Scott Younger, in one way or another, except for Kate herself. M... more info>> (Published: 1991)
Words: 73698 - Reading Time: 210-294 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Death Hits The Fan [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this ninth mystery in the series. ("Kate is a savvy investigator, skilled at finding and interpreting clues, and she isn't bad at Tai Chi either...you are in for a treat."--I LOVE A MYSTERY.) Kate and her sweetie visit Ivan Nakagawa's bookstore for an author signing in DEATH HITS THE FAN. The event features three authors, and only a few more audience members, but the small audience doesn't stop Yvette Casse... more info>> (Published: 1998)
Words: 78682 - Reading Time: 224-314 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Fat-Free and Fatal [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this fourth mystery in the series. ("One of the most appealing and believable heroines in the current mystery field."--Phyllis Brown, owner of Grounds for Murder Book Store.) Kate and her new sweetie have finally moved in together in FAT-FREE AND FATAL. But her sweetie's venomous mother has moved in too, and she's working hard at destroying the relationship. Kate signs up for a vegetarian cooking class to g... more info>> (Published: 1993)
Words: 80636 - Reading Time: 230-322 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Most Likely To Die [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this seventh mystery in the series. ("A very likable, feisty and compassionate protagonist ... a superior sleuth."--Frances Werner, owner of The River Reader.) Kate's twenty-fifth high school reunion was bad enough, but the post-reunion barbecue for the old gang was a real shock. Kate lends her own pinball machine, "Hot Flash," to Sid Semling the week before his barbecue party. Sid, master prankster and liv... more info>> (Published: 1996)
Words: 79613 - Reading Time: 227-318 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Murder Most Mellow [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this third mystery in the series. ("Kate Jasper, mistress of the trenchant verbal double-take."--Janet LaPierre, author of THE CRUEL MOTHER.) Everyone in Marin County has a hot tub, or so it seems. In MURDER MOST MELLOW, Kate hosts a "human potential" group meeting in her hot tub. It goes swimmingly for at least one of the members, the belligerently optimistic computer programmer, Sarah Quinn. But Sarah spo... more info>> (Published: 1992)
Words: 80358 - Reading Time: 229-321 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Murder on the Astral Plane [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this tenth mystery in the series. ("The great Kate is at her lovable best."--MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW.) Kate Jasper is feeling "karmically impaired" in MURDER ON THE ASTRAL PLANE. In her view, she carries an astral virus to any group she joins, always leaving someone just plain dead. Kate's best friend, Barbara Chu, says Kate's simply thinking negatively. Barbara practices a little metaphysical shock therapy by ... more info>> (Published: 1999)
Words: 77830 - Reading Time: 222-311 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Murder, My Deer [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this eleventh mystery in the series. ("Kate Jasper is a keeper!"--MERITORIOUS MYSTERIES.) In MURDER, MY DEER, Kate and her sweetie's budding romance has finally flowered into a full-fledged marriage. But no one ever promised them a rose garden. Deer have gate-crashed their yard to munch every bud, blossom, and petal. Instead of happily honeymooning, Kate and her sweetie attend the Deer-Abused support group ... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 77024 - Reading Time: 220-308 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Tea-Totally Dead [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this fifth mystery in the series. ("Kate...is funny and smart, and seems like a best friend."--Cheri Jung, editor of OVER MY DEAD BODY!) Kate's sweetie has finally moved his malevolent mother, Vesta, out of their house and into her own condo in TEA-TOTALLY DEAD. But Vesta uses her new home to host a family reunion for each and every member of her extended family. Attendance is compulsory, even for Kate. Ves... more info>> (Published: 1994)
Words: 75514 - Reading Time: 215-302 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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The Last Resort [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth is back in this second mystery in the series. ("Kate is quick and clever and fun to read about."--SUE FEDER'S MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR.) The good news in THE LAST RESORT is that Kate has finally divorced her husband, Craig, and is enjoying a platonic friendship with her now ex-husband, happy in her own new love life. The bad news is that Craig has been dating his divorce attorney, Suzanne Sorenson. Suzanne is everything K... more info>> (Published: 1991)
Words: 81543 - Reading Time: 232-326 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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What's Sex Got to do With It [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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There's nothing like a couple's counselor hearing her new fiancee might be her half-brother to ruin their engagement party. And now our counselor has to find out if the hereditary allegations are true.... (Published: 2008)
Words: 86893 - Reading Time: 248-347 min.
Category: Mainstream
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