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Samantha Adams
Series · 7 books · 1988-1998

Books in series

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#1

First Kill All the Lawyers

1988

Writing as Alice Storey, Shankman first introduced Atlanta journalist/detective Samantha Adams in this critically acclaimed mystery. When a distinguished attorney is found murdered, Sam delves into a scandal of dirty money and adultry that stretches from Atlanta's society salons to the saloons of the "good old boys".
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#2

Then Hang All The Liars

1989

Randolph Percy was a true southern gentleman whose lucrative game was beautiful, rich ladies of a certain age. But when the elderly bon vivant is found murdered, unstoppable Atlanta journalist Samantha Adams uncovers a dangerous scandal that has exploded into murder!
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#3

Now Let's Talk of Graves

1990

Atlanta reporter Sam Adams attends New Orleans' Mardi Gras with her friend Kitty Lee, but the festivities turn ugly when Kitty's brother Church is mysteriously killed and Sam must investigate
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#4

She Walks In Beauty

1991

This book has some wear but in good condition otherwise.
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#5

The King is Dead

1992

While at a barbecue cookoff in Tupelo, Mississippi, the birthplace of Elvis, crime reporter Samantha Adams and her boyfriend Harry Zack encounter some eccentric southern mayhem.
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#6

He Was Her Man

1993

Distraught over her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend, Samantha Adams is eager to forget her troubles at a friend's blowout engagement party, but finds them multiplying when the prospective groom is kidnapped and held for ransom
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#7

Digging Up Momma

1998

Receiving a convincing letter from her mother, whom she had believed died thirty years ago in a plane crash, Samantha Adams is baffled and travels to Santa Fe, the source of the letter, to investigate. Reprint.

Author

Sarah Shankman
Sarah Shankman
Author · 10 books

Nashville-based mystery writer Sarah Shankman is the author of the popular title I Still Miss My Man, But My Aim is Getting Better (1996), and the equally popular Samantha Adams series, the latest of which is Digging Up Momma. a.k.a. Alice Storey Some of her books republished under Shankman.

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