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Gloria White's Books

Cry Baby
May.31.2007
A missing friend, two abandoned tykes, Argentinians, liars, SUV-driving suburbanites, and a floater. Ronnie figures it out, but it's not what you think. "A welcome return for a series that should please fans of Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone."Booklist on Cry Baby
Death Notes
Apr.01.2005
When Ronnie invites her friend and mentor Blackie Coogan to join her at the comeback concert of Match Margolis, the greatest tenor sax and jazz composer alive, she is not expecting a final very final performance. Match seems to owe money all round town, but some very powerful figures illogically don't seem to want to call in the debt. Much to the annoyance of Lieutenant Philly Post...
Sunset and Santiago
Jan.01.1997
In every life there's a turning point. For Ronnie Ventana, it came at the corner of Sunset and Santiago, the San Francisco intersection where her parents died in a car crash twenty years before. Now, at two a.m. on the same corner, Ronnie has witnessed two men dumping a body in the shrubs--and suddenly she's in the middle of a case that will take her through a tunnel of...
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Jan.23.1995
EDGAR AWARD Finalist Best Paperback Original SHAMUS AWARD Finalist Best Paperback Original ANTHONY AWARD Finalist Best Paperback Original She should have taken a check. She should have had it in writing. And she should have gotten away before the cops entered the picture and charged her with murder. But P.I. and B&E speciallist Ronnie Ventana had gone ahead and done the...
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This is the German edition of Charged With Guilt.  
Money to Burn
A Ronnie Ventana Mystery She's a burglar's daughter and a first-rate private investigator. And if the tools of Veronica Ventana's trade include a Ph.D. in lockpicking, thank her parents, the infamous Vintners, who made cat burglary a class act. It's 3:30 A.M. when Bink Hanover bursts into Ronnie's apartment reeking of liquor and fear. Outside are four Uzi-toting thugs and a...
Murder on the Run
          A Ronnie Ventana Mystery Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award Meet Veronica "Ronnie" Ventana, daughter of the infamous Ventana's, the couple who made cat burglary classy. But Ronnie, with her special expertise in burglar alarm systems — getting past them, that is — and her best friend, Blackie Coogan, shamus emeritus of San Francisico,...