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2601) Blue as Blue Jeans
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Sam returns to Martinsville after an absence of several decades, just in time for the annual Halloween celebration at the town library. Biscuit, the town librarian, is the only one who's not in on the joke as long-time residents recall some of Sam's antics as a kid-antics apparently shared with Biscuit's relatively new husband Bob. When a grisly murder is discovered the next day, with a body tangled in the storm wreckage of the town dock, Bob and...
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The first three novels in the classic Miss Silver Mysteries introduce Patricia Wentworth's beloved British governess-turned-sleuth. In The Grey Mask, Miss Maud Silver investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. Strangely, he finds his family estate unlocked and sees a light in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping,...
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Retired governess and teacher Maud Silver has a new profession: private detective. And though she may seem a kindly and demure pensioner, she can solve crimes right alongside the best Scotland Yard has to offer in this charming series.
Out of the Past: Alan Field is a charming, handsome young man with a predilection for causing trouble and breaking hearts. But when he learns that an author is writing a biography of his late father, it's up to Alan...
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Who'd have thought mulch could cause such a stink?
Low Country dog walker Andi Grace Scott is happy to score some free mulch from one of her brother's landscaping jobs--until she discovers the dead body buried beneath the bark.
Worse, her brother's landscaping tools were used to commit the murder. Once the police arrest her brother and seem happy to have "caught their man," Andi Grace has no choice but to track down the real killer. She'll risk...
2605) Ghost Stories
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When Laurel's mother, Thelma, hosts a group of writers in the belief they are writing about the Holy Ghost, she is horrified to find they are, in fact, writing ghost stories. Thelma decides to go on a road trip. Her GPS cannot get her there, so she hires an escort to show her the way. This turns out to be a grave mistake. Things are at rock bottom when the escort's naked body is found in Thelma's bedroom.Will Laurel be able to steer the police in...
2606) Come and Get Me
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Beneath a heavy cocoon of blankets, Raine Andrews tossed restlessly, the ever-occurring nightmare drawing her deeper into its fog-shrouded grasp. There was a face, too, that kept fading in and out of the swirling fog. It belonged to her evil husband. She'd survived the worst night of her life and bested the monster. But the monster is on the loose again. Will Raine be able to get away and find peace, or will he find her and continue the abuse?
2607) Security Squad
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"I couldn't stop laughing . . ." – Bookhimdanno, reviewer The ladies are at it again. They've switched gears to become Madison's Security Squad. The uniforms? Hideous. The job? An arcade that pays in tokens. Figuring that it's a low-key job, Mars hopes that the ladies will stay out of trouble. Wrong. So very wrong. When the arcade wall is vandalized repeatedly, Mrs. Janowski calls the squad for immediate action. With help, they decode the message...
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Samantha Kidd has gotten the swing of sleuthing, but she's an absolute beginner when it comes to being a spy... When Samantha Kidd places the winning bid on a mystery trunk from the estate of a sixties pop star, she's over the moon-until she opens it and discovers more than mod fashions: top secret papers that suggest something more menacing than miniskirts. Repeated attempts to steal the trunk motivate Samantha to sell it-but not until after she's...
2609) Goodnight Moo
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Welcome to Shenandoah Springs, Virginia, the bucolic small town where Brynn MacAlister keeps cows, churns cheeses-and is sharper than the ripest cheddar when it comes to solving mysteries ... With a foster cow in her corral and a new calf on the way, Brynn MacAlister has a lot on her plate. Especially since her micro-dairy farm is hosting the first annual cheesemakers contest at this year's summer fair. A relative newcomer, Brynn's hoping the contest...
2610) Groomed for Death
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Yorkdale Weekly editor, Darcy Dillon, was supposed to report the news not become the news.A killer in the affluent equestrian community changed those plans.Thinking her new job meant stability for her family, Darcy's nose for news leads her to body after body at the barn where her daughter rides.Now, every aspect of her life is jeopardized. With the coach behaving beyond suspicious, teenage angst, a meddling ex, ex in-laws, and increasingly violent...
2611) Killer Fashion Mysteries
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The Kidd is alright!Join amateur sleuth/fashionista Samantha Kidd as she takes on social media, a case involving a pretzel heiress, and the world of denim. It's fashion with a twist in this fourth omnibus of smart and stylish mysteries by national bestselling author Diane Vallere. SLAY RIDE - Book #10When fashion insider Samantha Kidd lands a temporary assignment as a social media influencer two weeks before Christmas, she dives into the world of...
2612) Murder in Montmartre
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Make new friends, but kill the old... After twenty years living in France, Maggie's proud of her language skills and her ability to adapt to a foreign culture, so when four women from her Atlanta high school invite her to get together for a mini reunion in Paris, Maggie can't wait to show them how she's changed. Unfortunately, after two awkward days and a miserable Seine River tour Maggie realizes what she should have remembered-three of the four...
2613) A Novel Thief
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Growing up in her family's bookstore, Lenore Ellis always dreamed about becoming an author. Her picturesque hometown, Winter Falls, Florida, was the perfect place to plot a story. While in the midst of writing her first full-length novel, she discovers some strange occurrences around her quiet town. A missing necklace, a cat that's following her everywhere, and town newcomer Sean Ryan are only the beginning and it's up to Lenore to figure out what's...
2614) The Cartagena Connection
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When Liz Maguire, youngest member of the faculty of the psychiatry department at the Bethsaida Medical Center (BMC) was asked by Dave Meyers, chair of the department to work with him on marriage therapy for Bruce Howard chair of cardiac surgery and his wife Patsy Murphy Howard, she was already feeling conflicted. Marriage therapy for the very wealthy was not why she had obtained her social work degree. Her own marriage was already on shaky grounds...
2615) Nick of Time
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When TIME takes everything Rowena Hembree loves, she calls on friends old and new to take it back.Raising a teenage daughter by herself and trying to rescue her handler is a lot for one witch, especially one grieving the loss of the love of her life, but Rowena Hembree is determined to undo the wrong from her past that has led to a domino effect of changes to her future.Nothing is easy and thanks to the TIME agency trying to smooth ripples in the...
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The year is 1934. While investigating the murder of a gypsy circus "freak" in Northwest Iowa, Sheriff Billy Rhett Kershaw and his deputy, Dwight Spooner, juggle slippery and tangled biases of their prejudiced constituents. But when bizarre forces trip up their investigation almost immediately, jeopardizing more lives in the process, they must step up their game.Holmes and Watson are imperfectly reincarnated as Billy and Dwight in the Midwestern Dust...
2617) Tropical Tragedy
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Paradise hides the deadliest secrets... Patricia McKay's latest travel assignment is a dream come true: a tropical getaway where she can soak up the sun and interview a local businesswoman who's determined to transform the island into a world-class family vacation destination. But trouble is brewing in paradise – and when a poison dart lands Patricia's interviewee in a body bag, her trip takes a sour turn... and everybody's favorite amateur sleuth...
2618) A Deadly Bouquet
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Janis Harrison's gardening mysteries combine a popular "cozy" pastime with a delightfully populated small Missouri town and juicy mysteries. In her fourth outing, Bretta Solomon has been hired along with a few other River City business owners to put together the town's wedding of the year. But when the landscaper responsible for the nuptial's setting and the bride's hairdresser both die suspiciously on the same day, Bretta can't help but think there's...
2619) The Murdered Matron
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Travel back to small-town America during the Roaring Twenties and join Doro Banyon, college librarian and amateur sleuth, as she sets her sights on solving another murder. As the fall semester ends, Doro's hands are full as a professor, librarian, and volunteer. She looks forward to planning and celebrating her hometown's annual Christmas festivities, but her enthusiasm is tested when the chairwoman's dictatorial ways create dissension among the committee...
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Small-time Crime, Big-time Danger Of all the crimes to plague the idyllic small town of Stirling Mills, Texas, Lexie Lincoln never expected jewelry theft. But thieves are breaking into local homes, stealing cheap costume jewelry and stirring up paranoia. When a ghost suggests that the jewelry may be more valuable than anyone realizes, Lexie finds herself delving into forgotten chapters of the town's strange history. It seems the jewelry might actually...