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Aspiring actress and single mother Rita Farmer has gone from struggling to find work to downright desperate. If she doesn't land a paying job soon-horror movie, soap commercial, anything-she's afraid her ex-husband will use her dire financial stra...

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Rita Farmer knows what it feels like to be flat broke. Even now, when studying to be a lawyer, Rita is so far in debt that she has to scrounge for acting jobs to keep herself and her son afloat. Decked out in police uniform as an extra on a low-bu...

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Rita Farmer knows exactly how hard it is to break into the movie business. Acting was the big dream that brought her out to L.A. in the first place. And while she never made the red carpet, that big dream did turn into a modest profession that kep...

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Lillian Byrd is a small-time reporter with a flair for making big-time mistakes-like getting fired for fending off the boss's son with an X-Acto knife and breaking up with her girlfriend for no good reason-so her investigation into the disappearan...

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After her narrow brush with death in HOLY HELL, you'd think Lillian Byrd would have learned to keep her head down, but when a friend in crisis calls from California, Lillian jumps on a plane and wings her way from Detroit to Palm Springs---and dan...

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Once again Lillian Byrd is down on her luck, strumming her mandolin for spare quarters alongside Blind Lonnie, Detroit's resident blues guitarist. But a chance encounter with her childhood friend Duane is about to completely turn her life upside-d...

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Lillian Byrd's battered Caprice is convulsing through the last of its death throes; her pet rabbit, Todd, ails; and as usual she's single-and flat broke. For a few extra bucks she signs on to help an old friend, retired police detective Erma Porro...

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"By far the best detective of the bunch."-Just Out Lillian Byrd has been searching her soul after the gut-wrenching experience of killing someone in self-defense. Scrabbling to make ends meet, she takes a job as a quasi detective, solving life's l...

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These four short stories by award-winning author Elizabeth Sims are her hand-picked favorites. Love stories? Happy endings? Tough breaks? We got 'em. If you're a fan of the Lillian Byrd crime novels, you'll be delighted to finally know what Calico...

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These four eclectic short stories by award-winning author Elizabeth Sims are her hand-picked favorites. Love stories? Happy endings? Tough breaks? We got 'em. If you're a fan of the Lillian Byrd crime novels, you'll be delighted to finally know wh...

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"Anyone assessing America's best short story writers needs to include Elizabeth Sims in their survey."-- New Pop Lit This twinpack comprises two volumes of short stories, with four in each one. GO-GO DAY If a story by Flannery O'Connor and a story...

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This is a collection of the first three Lillian Byrd Crime Novels by Elizabeth Sims. They're all here, full and complete! Reviewers are saying: "Elizabeth Sims offers readers a rare combination of a good mystery plot with solid writing, whole char...

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These are the collected Rita Farmer Mysteries by Elizabeth Sims: THE ACTRESS, THE EXTRA, and ON LOCATION. They're full and complete! This is a meaty volume and a great value. THE ACTRESS "Sims's wry commentary on life in Hollywood is dead-on."-- P...

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For once, life is good for Lillian Byrd: She's working as the media liaison for Detroit mayoral candidate Leon Sorrel, and getting paid for it, too! But she's courting danger by conducting a torrid affair with the married campaign manager, Marie C...

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This is a collection of the Lillian Byrd Crime Novels, books 4 through 6 by Elizabeth Sims. They're all here, full and complete! EASY STREET [Book 4] Lillian Byrd's battered Caprice is convulsing through the last of its death throes; her pet rabbi...

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