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On the way to a lunch meeting of her local book discussion group, the Uppity Women, small-town Southern librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is shocked and dismayed to find her sister-in-law, Poppy, lying bloody and dead right outside her own back door. Poppy had her flaws, certainly - she and her husband were having trouble staying faithful to each other - but she didn't deserve to be so brutally murdered." Investigating a case like this is never easy,...
2) Artifacts
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Faye Longchamp is doing something she hates, finding and selling artifacts. But she's doing it to save something she loves. Joyeuse, the plantation manor held by the women in her family ever since her great-great-grandmother inherited it. Faye makes a little money on the legitimate dig on a nearby island until that work is interrupted by the murder of two young members of the crew. Then bones of a much older murder are uncovered, and clues lead Faye...
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Biggie is delighted when her old friend Rex Barnwell and his wife return to Job's Crossing to convert the local ranch to a retreat for overweight teenage girls, but it also means that Biggie must reveal to her thirteen-year-old grandson that Rex is his biological grandfather. Sadly, the reunion is short-lived when Rex is murdered, and Biggie becomes involved in the ensuing investigation.
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Charlie is on vacation. A cozy cabin, a diner that serves delicious guilty-pleasures, and Drake--all Charlie needs to relax and enjoy herself. But the town of Watson's Lake has a little unsolved mystery. Four years ago, a showplace home--beautiful and serene and tucked away on the mountain--blew sky high, due to an apparent gas leak. A young woman died. The owner disappeared. His gold-digging wife wants the insurance money, and his daughter wants...
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Nearly two decades ago, sixteen year old Catherine DeMarco took a scandalous secret to her grave - a secret that only now has come under the unorthodox scrutiny of Sergeant Samantha Casey, currently on suspension from the force. The teenager's boyfriend was convicted of the crime and his execution date is approaching, unless Sam can nail the true killer before the wrong man dies ... the closer Sam gets to the deception at the heart of the crime, the...
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You can waste a lot of time looking... Or you can pay me to find it for you.
Brodie Farrell is a busy woman, what with running her one-woman firm Looking for Something? and raising her daughter. So on her night off, all she wants is to spend a relaxing evening teaching her friend Daniel Hood to drive. But the evening takes a disturbing turn when Daniel hits a young woman who seems to appear out of nowhere. The girl, Alison Barker, is mostly uninjured,...
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Interior decorator Deva Dunne is thrilled to have a client with two Monets until she finds one of the paintings missing and the client's cook murdered. Shortly afterward, she finds a second victim, clutching a strange set of clues. Desperate to save her business amid the negative publicity, Deva helps police lieutenant Victor Rossi investigate.
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A film star begs Croft to find his missing wife and daughter Hollywood icon Roy Alonzo has just learned that in Los Angeles there is no such thing as a simple divorce. After years of bitterness and jealousy, his wife Melissa leaves him, taking most of his money, property, and five days a week with their only child. When Roy begins dating again, Melissa accuses him of sexually abusing their daughter, and disappears with her. Alonzo asks Santa Fe detective...
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"'Pants on Fire Detective Agency: We catch liars and cheats.' Burned by her run-around ex-husband Johnnie Ricco, Caterina DeLuca took the skills she mastered during marriage and opened her own private eye agency. Now she's a second-story woman, armed with a camera, ready to print 8x10 glossies for use in divorce court. The men in her big, whacko family, all Chicago cops--one a crook--aren't sure what to make of Cat's career choice. But hey, it's serve...
19) Over and under
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The annual cricket match between the Comedians and the Writers is a little more eventful than usual when Bruce Lester is murdered with a baseball bat. Detective Inspector Don Packham interrogates the many suspects. Murder is a serious business. But bringing a baseball bat into a cricket pavilion--that is one unspeakable crime.