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The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was rocked last year when two bodies were uncovered in the roots of a fallen tree. Despite their lack of investigative experience, Sara Medlar; her niece, Kate; and Jack Wyatt found themselves at the center of the mystery, working together to reveal the truth behind a decades-old secret in the sleepy town. After a narrow escape, they vowed to never again involve themselves in something so dangerous - until Janet...
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Medlar mystery volume 1
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Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
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The brand-new, shiny Eiffel Tower is the pride and glory of the 1889 World Exposition. But, one sunny afternoon, as visitors are crowding the viewing platforms, a woman collapses and dies on this great Paris landmark. Can a bee sting really be the cause of death? Or, is there a more sinister explanation? Enter young bookseller Victor Legris. Present on the tower at the time of the incident, and appalled by the media coverage of the occurrence, he...
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This wasn't the way it was supposed to be. Once upon a time, Becky Weston had the life of her dreams-then the Volvo, the beach house, and the luxurious lunches disappeared when her husband went looking for a much younger trophy wife. To top that, her ex is now deceased, and the purse strings of the children's trust fund rest in the greedy hands of Number Two, leaving Becky truly out in the cold. Having put herself through six years of night law school,...
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Torie O'Shea investigates the tangled roots of an ancient family tree.
Torie O'Shea- genealogist and amateur sleuth- is having a killer of a day. The town gossip spreads the word that her sweet wheelchair-bound mother is having an affair-with the sheriff! Then quiet Marie Dijon is found dead at the foot of her basement stairs. Did she fall? Was she pushed? All Torie knows is that Marie had a family tree with royal roots completely foreign to a folksy...
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Is the "Holy Pail" cursed? Every owner of the vintage Chappy Wheeler lunchbox, a prototype based on the 1940s TV western, has died. And now, Sterling Price, business tycoon and a client of Odelia Grey's law firm, has been fatally poisoned. Is it a coincidence that Price's one-of-a-kind lunch pail, worth over thirty grand, has disappeared at the same time?
Treading cautiously since a recent run-in with a bullet, Odelia takes small bites of this juicy,...
10) The crows
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The crows are cawing when accountant P.J. Benson takes a walk in the woods with her four-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback. Next comes gun shots. Quickly she returns to her house, ready to call the police, only to find a man dying in her dining room. It's tax season, and she's just started her home-based business. She doesn't have time to devote to solving a murder, but when she becomes the prime suspect, she has no choice. Either someone is breaking...
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Traditionally, Old Philadelphians keep a low profile. They associate with one another and leave life as discreetly as they have lived it. So Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper, who thinks her only current problems are keeping her well-meaning family from hijacking her wedding, is understandably stunned to discover a perfect specimen of the species dying at the foot of the school's marble staircase. It is anybody's guess what led to Tomas Severin's...
12) Wild designs
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Althea Farraday is a thirty-eight-year-old divorced mother of three who's got a teenage son who's a Buddhist, a hypercritical sister who knows how to push all her buttons, a job on the endangered species list, and a love life to match. Just as she's settling in to a comfortable level of chaos, a near-perfect man enters her life. Equipped to steal her heart and help turn her passion for designing gardens into a new career, Patrick Donahugh may be too...
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"When Haley arrives at the Holt's employee luncheon and fashion show, she spies a sick server hiding in the stock room. Deciding to help out, Haley grabs a uniform. Besides she might score some points with her sort-of boyfriend and store owner Ty Cameron. The catered array of food and personalized fruit bouquets from Edible Elegance-- her mom's latest business venture-- is a hit until top fashion model and Ty's ex-girlfriend Claudia Gray is found...
14) To catch a cat
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Eleven-year-old Robin is pressured by a school gang to kidnap a neighborhood woman's prize-winning cat, and, when he does it, he gets more than he bargained for: he witnesses the woman's husband leaving their bedroom, covered in blood.
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"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
16) Too big to miss
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Too big to miss—that's Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-sized woman who makes no excuses for her weight, she's not super woman just a mere mortal standing on the precipice of menopause, trying to cruise in an ill-fitting bra. She struggles with her relationships, her crazy family, and her crazier boss. And then there's her knack for being in close proximity to dead people...When her close friend Sophie London commits suicide in front...
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In her debut mystery, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, intrepid amateur sleuth and bakery owner Hannah Swensen proved that when it comes to crime, nothing is sweeter than a woman who knows how to really mix it up. Now, the flame-haired, tart-talking (and baking) heroine is back, judging a contest where the competition is really murder.
Strawberry Shortcake Murder
When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cozy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot...
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Bakery owner Hannah Swensen is back--and the cookies are crumbling--as acclaimed author Joanne Fluke serves readers another helping of murder, mayhem, and mouthwatering mystery...
Blueberry Muffin Murder
Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota's annual Winter Carnival--and Hannah Swensen is set to bake up a storm at her popular shop, The Cookie Jar. Too bad the honor of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle...
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On a hot, muggy evening, the last thing Hannah Swensen wants to do is squeeze into pantyhose for the Grand Opening of the refurbished Albion Hotel. But with her famous Red Velvet cupcakes being served in the hotel's new Red Velvet lounge, she can't back out. The party starts off with a bang with the unexpected arrival of Doctor Bev on the arm of a wealthy investor - and comes to a screeching halt when a partygoer takes a dive off the rooftop garden....
20) Kilt dead
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Professional Scottish dancer Liss MacCrimmon returns to her hometown to help her aunt run a Scottish emporium and soon finds herself pulled into a murder investigation when one of the shop's customers is found dead.
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