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Murder of a Real Bad Boy (Scumble River Mysteries, Book 8) Mass Market Paperback – August 1, 2006

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Still recovering from breaking up with her boyfriend and alienating half the people in town, Skye Denison has sworn off men—but she hires sexy contractor Beau Hamilton to renovate the old house she inherited. After all, who can ignore his qualifications? Golden hair, bronzed chest, muscular thighs—he’s just too good to be true.

Sure enough, he has a reputation for conning the ladies. But before the not so naïve Skye can fire the hunk, he turns up dead. Since even bad boys deserve justice, Skye has to juggle more than a passionate police chief, a cagey brother with a secret, and a possibly haunted house. She’s got a killer to catch.

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  1. Book 8 of 18
    Scumble River Mysteries
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    272 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Berkley
  5. Publication date
    August 1, 2006
  6. Dimensions
    4.23 x 0.7 x 6.7 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0451218280
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0451218285
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“DENISE SWANSON HAS IT ALL.”—CrimeSpree Magazine

“DENISE SWANSON’S TONGUE-IN-CHEEK HUMOR IS PRICELESS.”—Mystery News

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Denise Swanson worked as a school psychologist for more than twenty-two years. She lives in Illinois with her husband, Dave, who is a classical music composer, and their cool black cat, Boomerang. For more information, visit her website: www.deniseswanson.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley; First Edition (August 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0451218280
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0451218285
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.23 x 0.7 x 6.7 inches
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Denise Swanson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Scumble River Mysteries, the Devereaux’s Dime Store Mysteries, the Change of Heart romances, and the Delicious romances She worked as a school psychologist for twenty-two years before quitting to write full-time. She lives in Illinois with her husband, classical music composer David Stybr.

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TundraBee
5.0 out of 5 stars Vote Early - Vote Often!
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2006
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Here's another fun and witty little lite cozy murder mystery featuring Skye Dennison and her friends and family. This time, our hapless heroine Skye is having problems, big bad problems, with the contractor she hired to renovate and repair the house she inherited in the last installment. And then he winds up dead. Now what to do?

Author Denise Swanson, herself a School Psychologist in Illinois, was paying attention in writing class when the teacher told them to "Write what you know!" The results work. The reader need not read all the books in this series in order - Swanson artfully gives new readers the background and returning readers a refresher course - but why miss all the fun back down on the farm? The plot and pace are perky. The style's bright and breezy.
In my review of the previous book, I warned you to "expect a `What's it gonna be? Him or Me?'" in this book and, as foretold, Skye's dilemma is Now. Because the fictional Scumble River is close to very, often too, real Chicago, I urge all readers of this series to do what old (not Richie! I mean "King") Mayor Richard J. Daley The First would urge you to do:
Vote early!
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for Wally (as long as he, too, doesn't have a crazier-than-bat-guano Momma)
right here. Tell Denise who you wanna see!

If you live in a small town, or used to, you KNOW some of these characters, or some characters just like `em. Maybe you CAN go home again - at least within the friendly confines of this smart series. /TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer
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4fabfelines
4.0 out of 5 stars Good cute Cozy mystery
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2006
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This book is the further adventures of Sky Dennison. She is having a hard time with her hunky contracter and her cat has come up missing. Plus her brother is just acting weird. She finds her contracter dead before she can fire him and now she is the suspect.

She investigates and finds out he is not the nice guy people have said. He is hiding something, and more than one person is releived he is dead.

What is going on? Why is her house being broken into? Why is the cat missing? Will Simon ever apologize? What is going on with her relatinoship with Wally??

Is her house Haunted??

Find out all these answers in the newest Scumble River mystery.
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Tooth Sleuth
5.0 out of 5 stars Love Scumble River and Skye
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2014
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As always a nice cozy mystery to get me going while I clean house or cook. I listen to the audio version and it feels like an old friend when Christine Leto begins reading. Love this whole series.
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drabsharpe
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2014
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Another Scumble River great book. The plot was really good the murder plot had turns and twists that made you put your thinking cap
on to come up with the guilty one in this. Great novel Ms.Swanson
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Violet VisionsPhyllis von Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars A FUN READ
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2013
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HOW DO THESE REVIEWS GET LOTS? AND YOU TELL ME I HAVE 117 UNREVIEWED ITEMS? COLOR ME CONFUSED!!!!! WHAT'S A MOTHER TO DO? DO YOU REJECT THEM IF YOU DON'T LIKE THEM?
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ITZME
4.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER FUN SCUMBLE RIVER READ
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2010
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Another fun read. Skye discovers the wounded body of her contractor in a boat docked at the back of her property. After a tense time getting the boat and the victim to shore, the contractor dies. Again she is at the scene of a murder. She is still battling her inner feelings for Wally - who has really stepped up the dating pressures - and Simon - who won't explain why he didn't tell her that Spike is a female. Skye and Trixxie go looking for the real murder to get the suspicion off of Skye.
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judith w bohall
5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF MY FAVORITES
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2013
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I LOVED HOW THE AUTHOR IS DEVELOPING THE LOVE STORY BETWEEN WALLY AND SKYE. IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SERIES AND I LOVE THE DIRECTION SHE IS GOING WITH IT.
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SJ
3.0 out of 5 stars NOT A BOOK, BUT A BRIDGE---
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2009
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This is what I consider a bridge book, not a complete entity unto itself, just a link from the previous book to the future one. Most of the elements in the story were left in limbo with no feeling of closure and the characters were not really fleshed out this time. Sort of a ghost of a story.
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Keith Kelly
3.0 out of 5 stars It is a very short read.
Reviewed in Canada on August 12, 2022
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The writing is good, but disappointing in its brevity.
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alison1958
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this series of books about Skye....
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2014
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What is Skye up to now you will find out in this new book by Denise Swanson , the series gets better and better with each one....
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