title: Quick Study: A Murder 101 Mystery
author:  Maggie Barbieri 
description: In Barbieri's witty third cozy to feature English professor Alison Bergeron (after 2007's <i>Extracurricular Activities</i>), Alison befriends Hernan Escalante and his extended family from Ecuador at the soup kitchen where she's doing community service north of New York City. When the beaten body of Jose Tomasso, one of Hernan's relatives and an illegal immigrant, surfaces in the Hudson near Riviera Pointe, a luxury condo development in the Bronx where Jose was a construction worker, Alison offers to help Hernan find out what happened. After a second murder at Riviera Pointe, Hernan disappears. Alison's investigation leads her and her sidekicks, including her faithful canine companion, Trixie, into all sorts of nail-biting danger. An offer of assistance from former sweetie Jack McManus, marketing director for the New York Rangers, tests Alison's relationship with her main squeeze, NYPD detective Bobby Crawford. Barbieri scores again with this high-octane blend of romance, laughs and chills. <i>(Dec.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  THE APPEARANCE  
  OF MURDER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  JOHN NIGHTINGALE
  
  
  THE  
  APPEARANCE  
  OF MURDER
  
  
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  First published in Great Britain in 2015  
  by Spider Monkey Books  
  82 Wroughton Road  
  London SW11 6BG  
  [spidermonkeybooks.com](http://spidermonkeybooks.com)
  
  
  ISBN: 978-0-9933788-0-5
  
  
  Also available as an ebook  
  Mobi ISBN: 978-0-9933788-1-2  
  Epub ISBN: 978-0-9933788-2-9
  
  
  Copyright © John Nightingale 2015
  
  
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  1988.
  
  
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