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![]() While escorting Bryn Derwyn Academy's most infamous student downtown to be scared straight by a Federal judge, Ginger Barnes is shocked to find her childhood babysitter, textile professor Charlie Finnemeyer, on trial for fraudulently aging an Oriental rug. Even more alarming, Gin learns that two witnesses against her beloved "Uncle Wunk" suffered suspiciously convenient heart attacks. Eager to assist the professor's attorney, [...] |
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![]() Overdue bills and constant mother vs. mother-in-law battles at home are bad enough. But crafts editor Anastasia Pollack's stress level is maxed out when she and her fellow American Woman editors get roped into unpaid gigs for a revamped morning TV show. Before the glue is dry on Anastasia's mop dolls, morning TV turns crime drama when the studio is trashed and the producer is murdered. Former co-hosts Vince and Monica sleazy [...] |
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![]() A vicar with a taste for sweets. A nun with a knack for trouble. A deliciously diabolical crime... Reverend Annabelle Dixon is not your typical vicar. Her passion and dedication to her calling are matched only by her weakness for cakes and sweets. Her unorthodox methods baffle her mentor, Father John. But even he can't deny her popularity with the parishioners of St. Clement's Church. When Annabelle makes plans to sample some [...] |
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![]() Fierce competitor Iffy Bigelow gets herself strangled at the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show, and if Ginger Barnes ever wants to hear the end of it, she must sift through hundreds of suspects to unearth whoever killed her mother's dear old friend. |
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![]() When Anastasia Pollack's gambling-addicted husband permanently cashes in his chips in Vegas, her life craps out. She's left with two teenage sons, a mountain of debt, and her nasty, cane-wielding Communist mother-in-law. Not to mention a loan shark demanding fifty thousand dollars. Anastasia's job as crafts editor at American Woman magazine makes life even stickier when she discovers the dead body of uber-ambitious fashion [...] |
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![]() A madcap lady vicar. A mansion of mayhem. And a murder more diabolical than devil's food cake... Meet Reverend Annabelle Dixon... Charming, slightly gauche, very tall, this thirty-something vicar has just been appointed to the pastoral St. Mary's Church, in the picturesque village of Upton St. Mary, Cornwall, England. Annabelle is beloved by her parishioners for dispensing holy wisdom with humor and charm. She spends her days [...] |
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![]() Super sleuth, Lee Alvarez, finds a dead man wearing a tuxedo in a friend's bathtub during a soiree for San Francisco's VIPs. And not just any friend, but an internationally acclaimed actress who recently came to live in San Francisco. And not just any bathtub, but a bathtub residing inside one of Alamo Square's famed Painted Ladies, recently bought by said actress. The police believe it's the actress friend who done the man [...] |
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![]() FINALLY back to her spunky self after the loss of her husband, men have once again become an issue for amateur sleuth Ginger Barnes--men who mistreat their wives, men suspected of murder, and men who ask her out. WHILE WORKING on a DIY project at her newlywed daughter's house, a bag of bricks is thrown from the neighbor's third-story window. Next, pops that sound like muffled gunshots have Gin racing for her phone. Eric, who [...] |
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![]() A daylight burglary turns to murder when Ginger Barnes's neighborhood friend returns home at the worst possible time. Thefts and threats and wild accusations swiftly follow, tightening tensions on previously peaceful Beech Tree Lane. When elderly eccentric Letty MacNair is mugged on her doorstep, the message is clear anyone could be next. Gin's discreet inquiries sped investigations along in the past, but this time crime is [...] |
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![]() Forty-sevem-year-old Marge Christensen finds her husband, Gene, dead in their garage, slumped over the steering wheel of his still running BMW. The police rule the death a suicide. Marge does not believe Gene killed himself. Althought likely suspects for murder and fraud do not abound in the suburban community of Bellevue, Washington, with perseverance and basic sleuthing, Marge discovers the truth -- in spite of the doubts [...] |
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![]() What has happened to Robert Roberts, the new actor in town? Clarissa, Paw, and their friend, Shelbee, discover the back door of his house wide open. It is evident that a struggle has occurred in his kitchen. Where is he? Where is his cat, Kathleen? And why does his parrot keep yelling, "No! John! No!" As they canvass the neighborhood for Kathleen, Paw sniffs out a clue to the missing actor. Sleuthing noses to the ground, the [...] |
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![]() When struggling freelance writer, Clarissa Hayes, and her trouble-making Saint Bernard, Paw, visit their relatives in Upstate New York, they are saddened to find the family in mourning. Clarissa's amateur sleuth uncle has died, evidently from a heart attack. But was the death truly an accident? An anonymous note hints that her uncle was murdered, and now Clarissa and Paw are determined to sniff out the truth. Soon the duo [...] |
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Think Murder (Adina Donati, Accidental Sleuth Book 1) by Cassidy Salem Good friends, wine and conversation... Great fun - until somebody turns up dead. Adina Donati came to Washington D.C. to find excitement, not a dead body. When a friend is murdered, Adina is drawn into the middle of the police investigation. Tensions rise as the suspect list expands to include Adina, her friends, and colleagues at the prestigious think tank where she works. But every cloud has a silver lining. Between the [...] |
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![]() Broke, friendless, and career in freefall--will solving a murder get her life back on track? An Uncollected Death introduces Charlotte Anthony, a forty-something divorcee, single mother and magazine editor who suddenly finds herself an empty-nester, unemployed, and on the verge of bankruptcy. She gratefully takes the job of editing the journals of Olivia Bernadin, a long-lost nouveau roman author. Things rapidly deteriorate, [...] |
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![]() When Rhetta McCarter's '79 Camaro is destroyed in a fire, her best friend and mechanic Victoria (Ricky) Lane, finds a replacement, a "barnfind" vintage Camaro in perfect condition, except for one major flaw: a body buried beneath it. Later, Ricky is arrested when a second victim is found murdered in the same barn. Rhetta is convinced not only that Ricky is innocent, but that the two murders are connected. The police don't [...] |
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![]() Clarissa and Paw are curled up by a cozy fire as Christmas nears. In this season of love and giving, their ideal holiday is shattered when Clarissa discovers a dead man in her elderly neighbor's shed. Who is he? Why was he killed? And who would dump a body at a senior citizen's house? When Clarissa's uncle, the local police chief, arrests the woman's grandson, she begs Clarissa to clear his name. With an eye for trouble and [...] |
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![]() When her husband becomes head of struggling Bryn Derwyn Academy, Ginger Barnes learns that murder on the campus can kill a school's reputation in a heartbeat. To move the scandal off the front page before the school goes under, Gin uses her Mop Squad job to nudge the investigation along. Will her amateur sleuthing save her husband's job and her family's new home, or will her good intentions backfire and land them all on the [...] |
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![]() Elizabeth Oliver is a travel writer who somehow gets drawn into a mystery each time she is researching an article for a travel magazine. Illegally Dead: Elizabeth happens upon the discovery of a skeleton in an old septic tank. Although she tells herself she doesn't have time to get involved, it isn't long before she is digging up long-buried secrets. When a second murder victim is found, Elizabeth's travel research provides [...] |
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![]() Small-town murder was never so calculated. On a peaceful morning in the English coastal town of St. Eves, a handsome stranger meets an untimely end. St. Eves is a town with real community spirit. It's the kind of town where people leave their doors open from sunrise to sunset, and friends and neighbours pop in for a chat and a nice cup of tea without waiting to be invited. No one's ever too busy for a chat and a nice cup of [...] |
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![]() When Amateur sleuth, Clarissa Hayes and her mischievous Saint Bernard, Paw, go on a relaxing vacation to the beach with their friends, they are surprised to find their hostess missing. Their friend's aunt has disappeared and the beach bungalow is locked. Where could she be? What could have happened to her? And what are those strange lights at sea? With Paw digging up clues, Clarissa and her friends search frantically for the [...] |
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![]() A murdered dancer. An attractive policeman. A tangled mystery. Newly settled in a quaint small town in the English Fens, Rory Cornwell knows no-one and is too shy to go out and make friends. When a local festival is marred by the murder of a morris dancer, his pretty house-mate Haley is distraught-her uncle is the prime suspect. Nervously investigating, and smitten by Zach, the attractive policeman on the case, will Rory [...] |
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![]() When Jolie Gentil goes to buy a cup of coffee the morning after a storm knocks out power at her house in Ocean Alley, she finds Java Jolt unlocked and minus its owner. A bigger surprise is seeing proprietor Joe Regan a few minutes later, badly injured. It seems a potential killer thinks Jolie has something Joe was hiding. The normal routine of appraising houses and volunteering at the Harvest for All food pantry is [...] |
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![]() What happens in Iowa doesn't necessary stay out of the news. This Midwestern state is the setting for the Lillian Dove Mystery Series. My family roots have grown deep in Iowa since the 1860s. The protagonist of the series Lillian Dove is a recovering alcoholic, but her addition is not the major theme of the series. Lillian is attempting to learn what she and life may have looked like before her first drink: "There is no [...] |
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![]() Bad enough that Jolie ends up in the emergency room because she tried to avoid hitting a deer. Worse to find a dead woman in the hospital restroom after Jolie gets patched up. As the chief budget cutter at the hospital, Tanya Weiss was unpopular, especially in the Radiology Department, where Scoobie works. In between appraising houses and feeding her pet skunk, Jolie's on the lookout for a runaway teenager and whoever planted [...] |
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![]() Everyone has secrets. Even a wine-making Zen Master. What could possibly go wrong at a beautiful Oregon vineyard overlooking the ocean? Could the White Cloud Retreat Center on the vineyard, run by a world famous Buddhist Zen Master hold a deep, dark secret? Murder, for one thing, but who could possibly have a motive for killing the beloved Zen Master? Solving the mystery is the job of Sheriff Mike, ably assisted by his [...] |
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