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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
417 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After schlepping all over New York City, senior PI Gladdy Gold is happy to be back on Florida turf. Especially now that she and Jack Langford are officially an item. But no sooner has the yenta brigade gotten back to their favorite routines, such as poolside stretching and kvetching-than the notorious outlaw, the "Grandpa Bandit," issues Gladdy's detective agency a direct challenge: Catch me if you can. The dapper thief has hit six Fort Lauderdate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are reunited with a distant relative who wants them to cater a New Year's Eve event--and help find a guilty party. It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family--though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner, which...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Fethering! Carole has a bad hair day when a haircut leads to murder in this quirky, cozy, British village mystery.
The last thing Carole expects when she goes to Connie's Clip Joint for a trim is to find the body of Kyra, Connie's assistant, in the back room.
Kyra's boyfriend, Nathan, has vanished, but his family, an eccentric, controlling bunch, don't seem overly concerned. Instead, they are bizarrely obsessed with a family board game...
404) Mean and shellfish
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The annual Billy Goat Gruff Festival is the undisputed highlight of Hernia's social calendar. But when Magdalena Yoder, village mayor and owner of the PennDutch Inn, had the brainwave four years ago, little did she realize that it would soon attract visitors from far and wide - even Australia, as the unexpected arrival of Gabe's long-lost cousin, Miriam, at the inn confirms. Unfortunately, the shock of Miriam's one-legged appearance is soon usurped...
Author
Series
Domestic diva mystery volume 13
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington Trade Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sophie never considered ghostwriting as a side gig, until former actress and aspiring lifestyle guru, Tilly Stratford, trophy wife of Wesley Winthrope, needs someone to write her celebrity cookbook. Sophie agrees, hoping she'll earn enough bread on this assignment to finish her bathroom renovations. But as it turns out, Sophie isn't the first foodie to get a taste for recipe ghostwriting, and if the marginalia are any indication, this project could...
406) Thread and buried
Author
Series
Mainely needlepoint mystery volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Haven Harbor is an authentic coastal Maine town, which makes it the perfect location for a new film production. But now it's become the scene of a crime when the director is killed. Meanwhile, a local woman's tragic story about a true love lost at sea, which originally inspired the film, may lead to murderous revelations from long ago.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
427 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jude wanders into Fethering's local bookies she has no idea that she will shortly be investigating the murder of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski. With her partner in crime, friend and next-door-neighbour Carole Seddon, she's determined to discover who killed him - and why? There are several favorites in the running: A mysterious woman in the bookies? The charming lecturer at the university? Or the mysterious attacker from whom Jude only narrowly...
408) S'more murders
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Since catering themed events is a good way to make extra cash, Val agrees to board the Titanic--or at least cater a re-creation of the doomed journey on a yacht. The owner of the yacht, who collects memorabilia related to the disaster, wants Val to serve the last meal the Titanic passengers ate . . . while his guests play a murder-mystery game. But it is the final feast for one passenger who disappears from the ship.
409) Getaway with murder
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"As if hitting the half-century mark wasn't enough, Misty Murphy celebrated her landmark birthday by amicably ending her marriage and investing her settlement in a dilapidated mountain lodge at the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With the old inn teetering on both a bluff and bankruptcy, she must have lost her ever-loving mind. Luckily, handyman Rocky Crowder has a knack for rehabbing virtual ruins and for doing it on a dime, and to Misty's delight,...
410) A spirited tail
Author
Series
Mystic Notch cozy mystery volume 02
Publisher
Leighann Dobbs
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bookstore owner finds a dead body in the backyard of a home and the previous home owner's ghost while appraising a library of books at the home. Her cat helps her decipher clues to the mystery.
Author
Series
Aurora Teagarden volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008, c1992
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After attending three weddings in less than a year, including her ex-boyfriend's, Aurora Teagarden feels stuck in a rut. Then Jane Engle, an elderly member of the recently disbanded Real Murders club, dies and unexpectedly leaves her house and considerable estate to Roe But Roe soon realizes that her inheritance includes a tangled mystery in need of unravelling. Her new home comes with a surprise: a human skull concealed inside a window seat. Was...
412) Murder most fowl
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a fellow chicken farmer is killed, Cam and her on-again, off-again beau detective Pete Pappas have to untangle a web of murder, blackmail, and cover-ups to figure out who killed Cam's friend and why.
413) An untidy death
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the body of a prospective client is discovered in her burned-out home, declutterer Ellen Curtis is drawn into a baffling investigation where nothing is as it first appears"--
414) The clutter corpse
Author
Series
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered is a dead body. When Ellen stumbles across the body of a young woman in an over-cluttered flat, suspicion immediately falls on the deceased homeowner's son, who has recently absconded from prison. No doubt Nate Ogden is...
415) How secrets die
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
**As Laurel Ridge embraces a stranger hungry for answers, a sinister truth is awakened** A hard-hitting reporter, Kate Beaumont unearths the deepest lies and brings harsh truths to light. But the story that lures her to the gentle town of Laurel Ridge, Pennsylvania, is closer to her heart than anyone knows. The details of her half-brother’s sudden death have never made sense. She owes him justice, yet the one man who can help her is the stubborn...
Author
Series
Irish Village volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington Hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages Hardcover ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The O'Sullivan clan of County Cork, Ireland, are thrilled to be catering the matrimonial affairs of a celebrity couple--until a cunning killer turns an Irish wedding into an Irish wake . . . Any wedding is a big deal in the small village of Kilbane--even more so when the bride is a famous fashion model. It's also good for business. Not only has customer traffic picked up at Naomi's Bistro, Siobhan's O'Sullivan and her five siblings have a full plate...