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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Kensington Hardcover Edition.
Physical Desc
279 p.
Language
English
Description
When her Aunt Peg lands a gig as judge at a Kentucky dog show, Melanie Travis welcomes the opportunity for a road trip. Too bad a killer has planned a deadly detour...
For a dog lover like Melanie, the opportunity to attend the Kentuckiana Dog Show Cluster is not to be missed. Fortunately, the timing coincides with her spring break from teaching, so she heads for central Kentucky with her sister-in-law Bertie and Aunt Peg, who's accepted a week-long...
Author
Series
A Hannah Swensen mystery with recipes volume 22
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Hannah has felt as bitter as November in Minnesota since Ross vanished without a trace and left their marriage in limbo. Still, she throws herself into a baking frenzy for the sake of pumpkin pie and Thanksgiving-themed treats while endless holiday orders pour into The Cookie Jar. Hannah even introduces a raspberry Danish pastry to the menu, and P.K., her husband's assistant at KCOW-TV, will be one of the first to sample it. But instead of taking...
Author
Series
A Faith Fairchild mystery volume 25
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a body with a mysterious tattoo appears in Lily Pond, caterer Faith Fairchild investigates, with help from her friend Sophie Maxwell.
Author
Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem
Pub. Date
c.1943, 2007
Language
English
Description
In the sticky summer of 1943, and with her husband out of town on war work, a secluded cottage in the Berkshires sounds just the ticket to the newly married Clara Gamadge. The resident ghost, a slender woman in a sunbonnet, merely adds to the local color, even with the news that the bonneted woman died just one year ago, in the cottage that Clara is now renting. It's all nothing more than a deliciously spooky game, until the woman's sister is strangled...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
198 p.
Language
English
Description
The latest installment of David Handler's Edgar Award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, set in 1990s' New York, sees the ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful basset hound Lulu inadvertently make a dangerous enemy.
After six glorious weeks of hard work on his long-overdue second novel, celebrity-ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has hit a crossroads in his plot. He thinks a change of scenery will do him good - and he knows just the place. His...
Author
Series
A death by chocolate mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As co-owners of Eastport's beloved waterfront bakery, The Chocolate Moose, Jake and Ellie know their customers expect them to cream the competition. But they're really just in it for fun, hoping to get Jake's daughter-in-law baking again. Those plans collapse when fearsome local curmudgeon Alvin Carter is murdered, and every crumb of evidence points to Tiptree family friend--and all-around sweet guy--Billy Breyer.
Billy's sisters beg Jake and Ellie...
28) Coyote
Author
Series
Jessica James mystery volume 2
Publisher
Koas Press
Pub. Date
2018, c2016
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
306 p.
Language
English
Description
She came back for vacation. If she's not careful, she might leave in a body bag...
"The Jessica James Mysteries are edgy, thrilling and simply captivating."-Chicago Tribune
Ivy League student Jessica James isn't thrilled to be back home in Montana. But, her boring summer break becomes a nightmare when her cousin dies at the local sawmill. Devastated by the death, she can't help but draw connections between the supposed accident and her own father's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 p.
Language
English
Description
They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library.
As they're packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy's former almost-fiancé and his overbearing mother Evangeline. Push comes to love when Evangeline makes...
30) Real murders
Author
Series
Aurora Teagarden mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Aurora Teagarden, small town librarian and true crime buff, is looking forward to the monthly meeting of the Real Murders Society, a group of fellow crime enthusiasts who share a unique interest in historical murders. The Society meetings are the highlight of Roe's social life in sleepy Lawrenceville, Georgia, and she's ready for a quiet night of discussion, coffee, and cookies. But after she finds the body of a Society member in a staged crime scene...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning home from Vietnam when his sister goes missing, soldier Ray Landsdale embarks on a relentless search that takes him from Montana to Hollywood to L.A. and beyond, forcing him to confront his worst nightmare.
32) Dead over heels
Author
Series
Aurora teagarden mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
Aurora Teagarden surprises even herself with how quickly she's settled in to domestic bliss with her new husband, Martin. But when the body of Roe's nemesis, Detective Jack Burns, drops from an airplane to land in her yard, Roe once more finds herself involved in a mysterious death. It isn't long before Roe realizes that strange things are happening to those around her, including anonymous gifts" appearing at her home. Suspecting that everything is...
Author
Series
A Lucy Stone mystery volume Book 24
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
An uneventful Thanksgiving season is shattered by the overdose-related death of a wealthy investor's daughter, a tragedy that Lucy Stone links to the possible schemes of the victim's pregnant stepmother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With her dream of opening The Cookie Jar taking shape, Hannah's life matches the hectic December hustle and bustle in Lake Eden--especially when she agrees to help recreate a spectacular Christmas Ball from the past in honor of Essie Granger, an elderly local in hospice care. But instead of poring over decadent dessert recipes for the merry festivities, she instantly becomes enthralled by Essie's old notebooks and the tale of a woman escaping danger...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Kensington Hardcover Edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kate returns to her home town to be a caregiver to her grandmother and decides to start an ice cream shop business. Soon she discovers that her frenemy, Ashley, from high school has been selling frozen treats at the bakery across the street. Shorty after exchanging some heated words with each other Ashley is found murdered in the bakery.
36) A cryptic clue
Author
Series
A Hunter and Clewe mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A retired librarian is hired by an eccentric collector who needs an archivist for his huge, expanding compendium of rare books, where she discovers the dead body of her new employer's ex-girlfriend, who was also the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Covering a polo match for the Observer, Emma's job is to take note of the real players off the field, Newport's well-bred elite. But the fashionable facade is breached when Emma is confronted with a crime scene. An intruder from the polo match lies dead at the foot of a grand staircase at Chateau sur Mer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Granny Reid Mystery volume 3
Language
English
Description
G.A. McKevett returns with the third installment in her spin-off series set in the 1980s--thirty years before her popular Savannah Reid series in the small Georgia town that Savannah grew up in, with her beloved--and much younger--Granny Reid as the sleuth! Stella "Granny" Reid's youth wasn't the only thing changed by time in tiny, nondescript McGill, Georgia. Except even in the Reagan era, the Southern town still had a way of attracting downright...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sabrina Salter traded a high-pressure job as a Boston meteorologist for life as an innkeeper on sun-soaked St. John. But storm clouds roll in when Sabrina finds Carter Johnson, her most attractive guest, tucked up in a hammock way past check-out time...and he's not just dead to the world, he's just plain dead, with a bullet hole in his chest.
This isn't the first time Sabrina has seen a dead body, and the island police are well aware of that. Thanks...