Midnight Louie mysteries

Ace freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr is 30-going-on-19 when she agrees to do homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina a big favor and go undercover as a contestant at Teen Idol, a TV reality show. The lieutenant is worried because someone is threatening the contestants- including her own 13-year-old daughter, by leaving mutilated Barbie dolls all over Las Vegas. Reliving the years of melodrama and teen angst while acting as a nanny-cum-diversion...

Temple Barr is a PR hotshot promoting a weeklong televised charity event, Dancing with the Celebs. She's got the perfect celebrity for the show: her fiance, Matt Devine. He's a little dubious but agrees to the scheme. But while Matt struggles to master the sexy moves of the tango, accidents cripples the production, and it becomes clear that a killer stalks the dance floor.--From publisher's description.

Temple Barr takes on a job for a B-movie actress as a ticket to escape the chaos of her private life, but investigating the death of the handyman of the actress's rich aunt forces Temple to encounter the hordes of greedy individuals hovering around the ailing woman who intends to leave her estate to her cats, and Temple and her own feline friend, Midnight Louis, are certain the death of the handyman will not be the last in this case.

"Carole Nelson Douglas takes the Las Vegas gang on a science-fictional roller-coaster ride, as Midnight Louie, feline PI, and company encounter UFO enthusiasts. An Area 51 attraction of the Strip threatens to bring more than starry-eyed enthusiasts to town, including conspiracy nuts who are too bizarre even for tin foil hat therapy. Once again it is up to that furballed PI Midnight Louie to keep his crew in line and save them from the attack of...