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When a terminally ill woman dies much earlier than expected, Lord Peter Wimsey suspects murder: “First-rate detection” (The Cincinnati Enquirer).
Though never quick-witted, Agatha Dawson had an iron constitution and a will to fight that never abated in her old age. Even after three operations failed to rid her of her cancer, she refused to give in. But as her body began to weaken, she accused lawyers,
...Though never quick-witted, Agatha Dawson had an iron constitution and a will to fight that never abated in her old age. Even after three operations failed to rid her of her cancer, she refused to give in. But as her body began to weaken, she accused lawyers,
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Austin Ward, thinks she's learned to live with her fear of the dark. She's put the past behind her and there's even a new man in her life. But when people she cares about are brutally murdered Austin realizes she can no longer pretend.
To find the truth behind the deaths she must face and overcome her fear. But who is the killer? Is it someone out to get her? Has a serial killer come to her small Pacific Northwest town? Or, has something sinister...
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---The hometown everyone wants to call their own gets a spotlight-Even with all her experience, Gloria Bachman, retired banker and candy entrepreneur, didn't see this coming.Sweeties, the beloved Comfort chocolate shop, was ready for its cameo in Jazzy Mezcal's famous travel and food show-advertising extraordinaire! Comfort town folks had worked hard all summer to get their shops "Hallmark movie ready." On the eve of TV crews taking over the town,...
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Secrets are revealed. Lies are exposed. And in order to have a future, William and Eva will have to delve into the past.
William Templeton, widower and police chief of Eden, North Carolina is working the scene of a local woman's drowning when the body is found with an old gold coin in her pocket – identical to a coin that was discovered on Catherine's body, his estranged wife, over a year ago. Catherine's case, originally deemed a tragic accident,...
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During a lucid moment, an Alzheimer's patient tells amateur sleuth BIodina d'Angelo that 40 years ago he killed his lumberyard partner in the Cascades of Washington state. Biodina begins searching historical records, and a clever fraud scheme is uncovered, along with news articles about a missing lumberyard owner. Along the way, her intuitive nature and nosiness helps her uncover another murder of a well-respected record producer. Will the murderess...
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Wyatt Antone's life as a gig-to-gig jazz musician folds back upon itself when he meets a mysterious young woman we eventually come to know as 'Jazmine'. After a series of 'coincidental' encounters, Wyatt begins to suspect there is a cunning design behind the meetings. With the help of his jazz mate and would be lover, Elise Marchant, Wyatt attempts to unravel the puzzle of the woman's true identity and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation...
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A party to die for!
After personal and professional disasters, event planner Emma Cassidy just wants to rebuild her life in her sleepy hometown. Organizing a housewarming party for the brash and arrogant Tony Barnet is a step in the right direction. But when food poisoning ruins the party, Tony instantly blames Emma, and the bad publicity spells doom for her business.
At least she still has the job of planning Sean and Madison's wedding. Sean, one...
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Emma Cassidy is doing what she does best-organizing a wedding. But there's tension in the atmosphere, and Emma can't shake an uneasy feeling about this match.
Trent Chalmers leads a charmed life-handsome and wealthy, heir to the famous Maravilla winery, and about to tie the knot with Alice Bartolo, his high school sweetheart. Trent is a man who has it all. Until he jilts his fiancée in front of everyone at their rehearsal dinner...and turns up dead...
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Event planner Emma Cassidy moves into a cottage in the woods, where she soon discovers her new neighbor Isadora is more than just an herbalist, but also a self-styled witch, albeit a rather chaotic one.
Isadora has become more scatterbrained of late, with muddled spells and a failing memory. But the situation turns dire when her long-time friend and New Age millionaire Marshall dies after drinking one of her potions, a potion that turns out to be...
10) Bottled Up
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A weekend getaway to a beautiful beachside town with an old friend should have been a relaxing change of pace for Dell Powers.But then, when is her life ever relaxing?While walking on the beach Dell discovers a quite unique, antique bottle complete with a note inside. Thinking it would make a great addition to her Inn, she digs it out of the sand.Her weekend takes a turn for the dangerous shortly after, so Dell packs up and heads home early, where...
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A New Marriage... A Desperate Granddaughter... And An Old Mystery...When a man caught breaking and entering claims to have new information in a decades old mystery, Cookie can't help but get involved.The new information seems to indicate that one of the town's residents was involved all those years ago and Cookie is having a difficult time believing it.If that isn't enough to deal with Cookie's granddaughter, Clarissa, arrives unexpectedly on her...
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No Ordinary Murder!When Miranda and Jack (and Kyle) decide to take a mini vacation they can't believe their bad luck. From almost the moment they arrive at their destination they find themselves entangled in yet another murder investigation.Jack Travis is shocked to discover that the victim, a fellow police officer, is a man he knows and respects. Was he there on vacation or was he working undercover?No one seems to know and were not even aware that...
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Stop by for some comfortable visits to Stewart's Crossing, where reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan and his crime-sniffing golden retriever Rochester are nose to the ground in this collection of mystery short stories that take place between novels. In the first of these stories, Steve is learning to love the big, goofy golden he has inherited on the death of his neighbor, and Rochester shows him how to open his heart and his home to his sweetheart...
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The Theft of a Valuable Chalice... Another Mystery... And a Baby (or Two)!!!Legend tells the story of the priceless Van Diemen's Land Chalice. Believed to be hundreds of years old the myth says that whoever holds it has possession of Tasmania!When a local celebrity claims the Chalice has been stolen from his property, Dell Powers gets drawn into the mystery.Was the Chalice really stolen and is it even real? Or is this just an elaborate publicity stunt?If...
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A Murder at the Retirement Home... A Missing Woman... And Missing Money!Cookie can't believe it when Jerry tells her that her friend Sheila Tucker is dead. Everybody loved Sheila and she didn't have an enemy in the world... or so Cookie thought.Sheila must have had at least one. So who could have hated her enough to throw her from the balcony of her room at the retirement home where she lived? If murder wasn't bad enough... Sheila's daughter is also...
16) Catch and Kill
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In Hollywood, deadly secrets lurk just behind the scenes.
Scarlett Norris is Hollywood's darling, an award-winning actress on her way to the top. To her younger sister, Angie, she is all that and more-beautiful, loving, fearless, and a guiding light-things Angie believes she herself could never be. When Scarlett suddenly commits suicide, Angie is devastated, but something keeps nagging at her. Scarlett would never do such a thing. Would she?
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17) Litany of Lies
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In 21st century San Francisco many things have stayed the same; old money, old-boys clubs, old grievances. But some are changing; relationships, legacies, and secrets. Kestral Jonas is perfectly situated to observe the old and the new and is happy to disclose it all on her anonymous blog, SFUndertheRug.com. The suspicious death of socialite Greta Gardner puts one of Kestrel's dear friends in danger and Kestrel gets sucked into the drama. A number...
18) Little Moments
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Mystery, murder, and a penguin... it's just an ordinary day in the life of Dell Powers!Dell loves summertime in Tasmania. With it's heat and insects and the tourists... especially the tourists... she wouldn't have it any other way. But when a prominent politician is murdered right inside his room the Pine Lake Inn is about to be thrust into the limelight once again. And not in a good way. Who would want to kill the man? And why? With just two possible...
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A belated Honeymoon... New friends... and another Murder!Cookie and Jerry, along with Cream, are motor-homing their way around the country for their honeymoon. Along the way, they've made a lot of new friends. The trip is going great as they spend endless hours alone together seeing the sights, away from the worries of Widow's Rest.But the fun ends when one of those new friends is found dead and they find themselves in the middle of another murder...
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Third in the multiple-award-winning Evan Wycliff Mystery series.
Guest preacher and part-time investigator Evan Wycliff reluctantly takes on the role of full-time minister and walks straight into more responsibility and trouble than he can handle. He attends to near-death experience, late-stage dementia, long-term coma, and consequences of the pandemic. His old nemesis investment banker Stuart Shackleton is back - and claims to be converted! Shackleton's...
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