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Paty Jager

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Mystery, Western, Romance

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Agatha Christie, Dorothy Gilman, Nora Roberts, LaVyrle Spencer, Sue Gr ...more

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Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 55+ novels, novellas, and short stories of murder mystery, western romance, and action adventure.
All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Paty and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.

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	Double Duplicity (Shandra Higheagle Mystery #1) 4.16 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder of Ravens (Gabriel Hawke #1) 4.14 avg rating — 665 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rattlesnake Brother (Gabriel Hawke, #3) 4.38 avg rating — 500 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mouse Trail Ends (Gabriel Hawke, #2) 4.41 avg rating — 438 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stolen Butterfly (Gabriel Hawke #7) 4.67 avg rating — 408 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chattering Blue Jay (Gabriel Hawke, #4) 4.41 avg rating — 429 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bear Stalker (Gabriel Hawke #10) 4.54 avg rating — 372 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fox Goes Hunting (Gabriel Hawke, #5) 4.25 avg rating — 378 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turkey's Fiery Demise (Gabriel Hawke, #6) 4.35 avg rating — 346 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Owl's Silent Strike (Gabriel Hawke, #9) 4.53 avg rating — 295 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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July is here!

We are rocketing through this year! It seemed like just yesterday that we were moving into the house in Baker City, and now it’s July. I have pots of flowers on my deck and we are working on landscaping. We also found a contractor to help us make a larger kitchen. I love to bake, and the galley kitchen in the house does not work well with my spread-out method.

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A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2)

by Nevada Barr

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The Shadow Catcher (A Sheriff Lansing Mystery Book 3)

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Paradise Valley (Highway Quartet #4; Cassie Dewell, #3)

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