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Off the Books
By Lucy Arlington. 2016
Literary agent and amateur sleuth Lila Wilkins is back to seal the deal in the New York Times bestselling Novel…
Idea Mystery series. Lila is showcasing some of her biggest authors at a bridal expo. But when the joyous event turns deadly, she'll have to figure out who penned the perfect crime... The Novel Idea Literary Agency has planned a wedding-themed week for Inspiration Valley, celebrating not only North Carolina's best vendors but also some of the agency's most popular bridal books. The fact that Lila can use the event to plan her own impending nuptials is just the icing on the cake. But wedding bells turn to warning bells when Lila finds a dead man facedown in the frosting. Soon it's discovered that the victim was connected to several Novel Idea authors, all of whom quickly become suspects in the case. It's up to Lila and her fellow agents to find the real killer before one of their clients winds up scribbling stories from behind bars...Town in a Cinnamon Toast Candy Holliday Mystery #7)
By B. B. Haywood. 2010
The author of Town in a Sweet Pickle brings back Candy Holliday, a blueberry farmer with a green thumb for…
sleuthing...The much-anticipated wedding of local resident Maggie Tremont and popular baker Herr Georg has stirred up the usually quiet coastal town of Cape Willington. To make sure the wedding of the year goes off without a hitch, the participants gather at a pre-wedding dinner--everyone, that is, except the best man... Worried, Candy, the maid of honor, goes looking for him, finally tracking him down to the upstairs archive rooms at the English Point Lighthouse and Museum. There's only one problem: he's dead, struck over the head with a bottle of champagne, the same exclusive brand that was ordered for the dinner. Before the wedding plans fall flat, Candy rushes to find the murderer, unearthing a conspiracy that could spill over into the whole town... INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!A Turn for the Bad
By Sheila Connolly. 2016
The New York Times bestselling author of An Early Wake returns to Ireland where Sullivan's Pub owner Maura Donovan gets…
mixed up with smugglers.After calling Ireland home for six months, Boston expat Maura Donovan still has a lot to learn about Irish ways--and Sullivan's Pub is her classroom. Maura didn't only inherit a business, she inherited a tight-knit community. And when a tragedy strikes, it's the talk of the pub. A local farmer, out for a stroll on the beach with his young son, has mysteriously disappeared. Did he drown? Kill himself? The child can say only that he saw a boat. Everyone from the local gardai to the Coast Guard is scouring the Cork coast, but when a body is finally brought ashore, it's the wrong man. An accidental drowning or something more sinister? Trusting the words of the boy and listening to the suspicions of her employee Mick that the missing farmer might have run afoul of smugglers, Maura decides to investigate the deserted coves and isolated inlets for herself. But this time she may be getting in over her head...The Ape Who Guards the Balance
By Elizabeth Peters. 2000
After eluding a kidnapper in London, an unperturbed Amelia Peabody accompanies her unconventional family to Cairo once more--only to be…
ensnared almost immediately in a web of stolen treasures and bloodthirsty cults. Villainy is running rampant in Egypt this 1907 archaeological season, but the members of the intrepid Peabody-Emerson clan have already proven themselves to be formidable adversaries. However, when a mint-condition papyrus of the Book of the Dead falls into their hands, and the corpse of an unscrupulous dealer in stolen antiquities is found floating in the Nile, the Emersons' prospects for surviving this excavation season unscathed appear increasingly dim.Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch (Murder, She Wrote #12)
By Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher. 2000
While visiting an old friend's ranch in Colorado, bestselling mystery author Jessica Fletcher is caught in a fiendish plot of…
revenge when one of the guests is found stabbed to death. Soon after, the victim's wife is also discovered murdered in a gruesome fashion. With the police at a loss, and the rest of the ranch guests on edge, Jessica decides to do some research into the past of some of the less than cordial guests. What she discovers may help her crack the case...if it doesn't get her killed first!Death at the Door
By Carolyn Hart. 2014
Annie Darling--owner of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand--prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one…
tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward's Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband's sculpting mallet. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide, the doctor's sister turns to Annie and her husband, Max, for help. She has found a cryptic sketch her brother drew, linking him with the murdered woman. Did someone want them both out of the picture? With the police considering both cases as good as closed, it's up to Annie and Max to sort through a rogues' gallery of suspects to see if someone is trying to frame the artist. But if Annie isn't careful, she may find herself having her own brush with death...Stiff Competition (A Mattie Winston Mystery #7)
By Annelise Ryan. 2016
Every fall, hunting season in Sorenson, Wisconsin, leads to some accidental injuries. Deputy coroner Mattie Winston just hopes the hunters…
don't bring any more business to her office. But somebody seems to have declared open season on land developers. One real estate developer who's recently come to town has been found dead in the woods with an arrow through his neck. Now it's up to Mattie to get to the bottom of the killing. That might be easier if she wasn't also hunting for Detective Hurley's teenage daughter, Emily, who has suddenly disappeared. With a homicidal William Tell out on the loose, Mattie is desperate to find Emily before the killer notches another arrow...A Dollhouse to Die For
By Cate Price. 2014
Daisy Buchanan thinks of her shop, Sometimes a Great Notion, as more than just a business. For her, it's a…
haven of vintage sewing notions and other treasures, excellent coffee, and camaraderie. But when an antique dollhouse provokes some bizarre behavior on the part of a customer, Daisy makes it her business to find out what secrets are hidden behind its tiny doors... At an estate auction, Daisy is delighted to find the perfect present for a young girl she knows--a charming dollhouse in need of restoration. But when local collector Harriet Kunes tries to strong-arm Daisy into selling it, she's in for a shocking--and deadly--surprise. After an intruder breaks in and tries to steal the dollhouse, Daisy wonders why everyone has developed such an obsession over it. As she builds her collection of clues, she suspects that the miniature Victorian holds the key to a second unsolved murder, and soon she stumbles across much more than she bid on... Includes creative tips for vintage notions!A Tiger's Tale
By Laura Morrigan. 2014
When a normally mellow tiger at a rescue facility trees a terrified vet, animal behaviorist Grace Wilde needs to use…
her psychic ability to get to the root of the problem... A tiger can't change his stripes--but if his behavior changes suddenly, there's a reason. So when even-tempered Boris the Siberian tiger goes into attack mode, Grace knows there's more to the story. Something is agitating the big cat. As she uses her telepathic ability to calm the tiger, she realizes he has witnessed a theft--not of something but of someone. A teenaged volunteer at the animal rescue facility has been taken...kidnapped. The problem is Brooke Ligner's parents believe their troubled daughter ran away and Grace can't exactly reveal her source. Even though sexy cop Kai Duncan is aware of Grace's secret ability, he can't initiate an investigation based on the word of a tiger. Now, as Grace searches for solid clues to rescue the missing teen, it's the human predators she'll need to watch out for...The Beige Man
By Marlaine Delargy, Helene Tursten. 2007
Göteborg, Sweden: The high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness…
a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar.As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues struggle to put the pieces together, they discover the man whose car was stolen--a retired police officer--is none other than the victim in the hit-and-run. Could it be a strange coincidence? Or is something larger at play? Meanwhile, the hunt for the girl's killer leads Irene into the dark world of sex trafficking. An international criminal has arrived in Göteborg, and he'll stop at nothing to expand his sinister operation.From the Hardcover edition.Dead Boogie
By Victoria Houston. 2014
Doc Osborne knows there are plenty of fish in the sea, but only police chief Lew Ferris qualifies as his…
catch of the day.Just as the summer is heating up, the town gets turned upside down by the bizarre triple homicide discovered on a backcountry road... Peg Garmin was not Loon Lake's most beloved citizen. Considering her "calling" in life, no one was completely surprised when she was found murdered in the company of two exotic dancers...no one, that is, except for Ray Pradt, Peg's dearest friend.As the team digs into the mystery of her past, they discover some startling connections to one of the wealthiest families in Chicago and to the buried secret that could destroy them. Now Lew, Osborne, and Ray must root the skeletons out of the Garmin family closet before Peg's killer becomes the one who got away...The Goodbye Witch (A Wishcraft Mystery #4)
By Heather Blake. 2014
As Enchanted Village's resident Wishcrafter, Darcy Merriweather has the power to make other people's wishes come true, but what she…
really wishes is that she had the power to uncloak the invisible man who's stalking her best friend.... Darcy's closest friend and fellow witch, Starla Sullivan, hoped she'd never see her ex-husband, Kyle, again. Two years ago he tried to kill her, and he has been a fugitive ever since. Now Starla claims to have seen him back in Enchanted Village, but it seems she's the only one who can see him. To everyone else, her ex is invisible. Darcy only wishes his motives were as transparent as the rest of him. Since the police can't arrest someone they can't see, it's up to Darcy to find the secret behind Kyle's latest disappearing act--before he does something they can't see coming....Murder, She Wrote: Gin and Daggers
By Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher. 1989
Jessica Fletcher is off to London to deliver the keynote address at a mystery writers convention. She's also looking forward…
to seeing her mentor, Marjorie Ainsworth, who's hosting a party on her estate to celebrate her latest book. But a routine business trip becomes murderous business--when Jessica discovers Marjorie stabbed to death in her own bedroom...The Thanksgiving Day Murder (Christine Bennett Mystery #6)
By Lee Harris. 1995
A celebration of abundance becomes a day of loss. More than a year ago Natalie Gordon vanished at the Thanksgiving…
Day Parade. The police and a private investigator still have no leads. When Natalie's despairing husband pleads with ex-nun Christine Bennett to help, she can't say no. Not only are Natalie's present whereabouts a mystery, but so is her past. Someone has stripped her personnel file in her old office. Starting with a cardboard box of Natalie's belongings--a few books, keys, some cosmetics--Christine searches for a life someone has tried very hard to erase and finds a cast of characters so chilling that murder seems not only inevitable but likely to happen again. ... Now that Christine has discovered her talent for investigation in #1 The Good Friday murder, her crime solving has just begun. Follow her further adventures in the rest of the books in this series, most in the Bookshare collection, including: #2 The Yom Kippur Murder, #3 The Christening Day Murder, #4 The St. Patrick's Day Murder, #5 The Christmas Night Murder, #7 The Passover Murder, #8 The Valentine's Day Murder, #9 The New Year's Day Murder, #11 The Father's Day Murder, #12 The Mother's Day Murder, #13 The April Fool's Day Murder, #16 The Silver Anniversary Murder and #17 The Cinco de Mayo Murder. The two remaining books will be added to complete this series soon. In addition to taking on complex mysteries and meeting interesting characters, Christine confronts moral and legal issues, and matters of the human heart.The Devil's Muse: A Maureen Coughlin Novel (Maureen Coughlin Series #5)
By Bill Loehfelm. 2017
A Southern Indie Bookseller Alliance 2017 Summer OKRA pick One of Kirkus Review s …
11 Thrillers That Will Keep You Awake This Summer Watch the trailer for The Devil s Muse here https vimeo com 224000865 In the thrilling fifth book in the critically acclaimed series that s edgy dangerous but pulsing with life Bill Ott Booklist a Mardi Gras parade turns deadly It s Mardi Gras in New Orleans and rookie cop Maureen Coughlin has no idea what she s in for Her night working the parades begins calmly enough until a half-naked man careens through the crowd and throws himself onto the hood of an oncoming SUV As she tries to deal with the incident amid the pulsing chaos of the parade Maureen hears gunshots Moments later with three wounded and a handful of drunken witnesses Maureen has a full-fledged investigation on her hands Who was the shooter Who was he after Who s the next target City bigwigs begin pressuring Maureen and her crew for quick answers And with an amateur camera crew intent on capturing the real Mardi Gras for their YouTube channel an incompetent supervising detective and tense race relations in a city more likely to mistrust cops than ever it s going to be a very long night and a memorable first Mardi Gras for Maureen With The Devil s Muse the acclaimed crime writer Bill Loehfelm conjures rowdy New Orleans in all its mess and marvel and sends Maureen deep into the city on another wild high-octane adventureSurvival Instincts
By Marissa Piesman. 1997
This is the latest mystery featuring Nina Fischman, that witty Upper West Side lawyer who's slipping out of her thirties,…
still on a diet and without a boyfriend. Just three months after Nina gave up everything to follow her boyfriend Jonathan to California, she is back in New York--single, jobless, living with her mother and ready to start all over again. But the doldrums quickly subside when her brother-in-law, the dermatologist, becomes a murder suspect. Ken was involved in a real estate deal with Andy, the dead man, a scientist whose researches involved animal experimentation, and he seems to have been poisoned--just what Nina needed. She and her equally irrepressible mother Ida can't keep their noses out of trouble and start their own investigation. Whodunit? The dead man's striking wife? Andy's lab colleagues? The animal activist? Ken? And can Nina figure it all out as the clues fall into place? You bet.Death at Rottingdean
By Robin Paige. 1999
For Kathryn Ardleigh and her newly Lorded husband Charles, a seaside holiday in Rottingdean is a needed rest. The cozy…
hamlet is built on a labyrinth of hundred-year-old tunnels that once were used by smugglers. But when a coast guard's body is found on the beach, the town is suspected to plying its illicit trades of the past. And with the help of a young writer named Rudyard Kipling, they're about to discover something rotten in Rottingdean...Death Hits the Fan (The Kate Jasper Mysteries #9)
By Jaqueline Girdner. 1998
Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own organically grown amateur sleuth, returns in this ninth mystery in the series.Kate and her…
sweetie visit Ivan Nakagawa's bookstore for an author signing in Death Hits the Fan. The event features three authors and only a few more audience members, but the small audience does not stop Yvette Cassell from reading on and on as fellow author S. X. (Shayla) Greenfree's eyelids droop and she slumps forward. Kate is shocked by Shayla's novel approach to boredom. But it turns out that Shayla is not just dozing, she is dead. Is the murderer's unique signature the bracelet that Shayla snapped on before falling over? The police read an accusation into Shayla's last utterance of "Kate, I . . . " before Shayla slumped. But Kate did not even know Shayla. Or did she? The handwriting is on the wall. Can Kate read it before the murderer plots a sequel?Blacklist
By Sara Paretsky. 2003
Heading Uptown
By Marissa Piesman. 1993