MaryJo Dawson
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A Sally Nimitz Mystery volume 2
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Sally Nimitz is in the middle of a family crisis when a local police detective turns up at her front door. David White and Sally are not strangers. She was the delivery nurse when his wife had a baby, and he was in charge of the investigation of the murder of Sally's neighbor, Amelia Marsh. Now Detective White has a personal request. Would Sally use the observation and deduction skills she displayed before to help find his missing brother? Has Douglas...
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When Sally is approached by a co-worker, who is terrified that her sister may be involved in a murder, her fifth adventure begins.Did Valerie Connors boyfriend kill his aunt because she refused to lend him money? Was Valerie herself involved?As always, Sally can count on her friends Anne Carey and George Thomas for assistance. Their search for answers will send them to northern Illinois, Chicago, and rural Wisconsin and Iowa. The more they discover,...
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2013
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The word is out; Sally Nimitz is very good at solving a mystery. Her third escapade begins when Sally is approached by a friend and co-worker, Emma Shultz. There are puzzling events taking place at the southern family estate of Emlee, home to the Bradshaw sisters, Emma's mother and maiden aunt. The two older ladies are being pressured to move so Emlee can be sold. When their mother died five years earlier, her will stipulated they could live out their...
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September 11, 2017
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Miss Anne Careys affluent brother Ira consults her for advice. Should he loan his son Craig thirty thousand dollars although he cannot say what the money is for? This isnt like Craig at all. Decidedly odd, agree Annes friends Sally Nimitz and George Thomas. Craig gets the loan, and what began as puzzling quickly turns deadly. The money disappears, Craig is fighting for his life, and the name of an elusive older brother crops up in connection with...
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2014
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Sally goes on an all expenses paid trip to Florida, and it isnt for investigative purposes, or to take a vacation. Her son and his wife have asked her to be their advocate when they are offered the opportunity to adopt a baby.Helping Everett and Judy decide if they should agree to the adoption turns out to be the easy part. And who could argue with spending a few days as a guest of a wealthy family in a tropical paradise?But when the biological father...
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A Sally Nimitz Mystery volume 1
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2014.
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In a cozy Midwestern little town such an act of violence is rare. Why would someone want to murder Sally Nimitz' charming eighty-year-old neighbor? But someone has. In The Death of Amelia Marsh, MaryJo Dawson presents Sally Nimitz, a lady still recovering from the early demise of her beloved husband. Sally leads a quiet, respectable life as a mother, grandmother, and nurse. But Sally seems to have instincts that have been dormant, and with the...
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Sally Nimitz is a widow living in a small mid-western town with a satisfying ordinary life. She is invited to visit her neighbor one afternoon, an elderly lady with a charming English accent. When she arrives for the appointment, the lady is lying on her kitchen floor, dead from a blow to the head. Sally finds herself drawn into the puzzling crime; why would anyone want to kill Mrs. Marsh? As she looks for answers, Sally discovers a talent dormant...
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A work crew for a telecommunications company is having a routine day digging ground to lay new cable - until the back hoe uncovers human remains. The supervisor of the crew is Sally Nimitz' fiancé, George Thomas. Three years earlier a rebellious seventeen year old girl ran away from home to go to California with her boyfriend. It doesn't take long to establish one of the two sets of bones unearthed are hers. Will the local authorities find out what...
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Sally is asked to assist in an on-going undercover operation investigating shipping magnate Jock Varney. All she has to do is slip away to Phoenix for a few days to fill in as caregiver to Varney's elder mother, Elizabeth. And while doing that, carry out her primary assignment. It all goes smoothly.So why, less than two weeks later, is Mrs. Varney's regular companion standing at Sally's front door with a suspicious mind and a lot of question? One...