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Calamity at the Continental Club: a Washington whodunit (A Washington Whodunnit #3)
By Colleen J. Shogan. 2017
Congressional chief of staff Kit Marshall is reluctantly spending two precious vacation days with her future in-laws attending a meeting…
of the Mayflower Society at D. C.'s Continental Club, while fending off attempts to arrange a posh wedding. Then Kit finds the leader of the society dead, and begins sleuthing. Some strong language. 2017Mira James mysteries summer bundle: Books 1-4
By Jess Lourey. 2018
Mira James fled her small town for college. Now she reluctantly moves to tiny Battle Lake, Minnesota, where she housesits,…
works at the library and the newspaper, and solves murders. Includes May Day, June Bug, Knee High by the Fourth of July, and August Moon. Descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. 2018Homicide in the house (A Washington Whodunit #2)
By Colleen J. Shogan. 2016
After the murder of her senator boss in Stabbing in the Senate (DB 83491), staffer Kit Marshall landed a job…
with freshman congresswoman Maeve Dixon. But when Dixon is found standing over the corpse of the Speaker of the House's top staffer--after their public argument--Kit must investigate again. Some strong language. 2016Saving Sin City
By Crystal V. Rhodes, L. Barnett Evans, Lillie Barnett Evans. 2011
When amateur sleuths Hattie Collier, Bea Bell and Connie Palmer, win a trip to Las Vegas, they decide that crime…
solving can take a holiday. It's fun in the sun for the adventurous widows, and Hattie's cantankerous mother-law, Miss Fanny that is until the devils playground proves too much for Hattie. She is sure that her friends are headed straight to hell and with her mother-in-law hitting the Veg casinos like a pro, what is a God-fearing grandmother to do? In the process of saving her friends and Sin City from the gates of hell, she raids a strip joint, causes a street riot, is tossed in jail and becomes the infamous Bible Bomber. UnratedGhost busting mystery: Shady Hoosier Detective Agency Series: Book 1
By Daisy Pettles. 2018
When Dode Schneider, rattle-brained Indiana farmer, insists an abandoned mansion is haunted by ghosts with big butts who dance in…
the apple orchard, Pawpaw County Sheriff Boots Gibson happily off-loads the crazy complaint to Ruby Jane Waskom and Veenie Goens, senior sleuths in training with the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong languageRuby, the rabbi's widow, knows she's in trouble when her longtime nemesis, Essie Sue, talks her into housing Essie Sue's…
twin cousins, Lester and Larry. The boys are in town for pre-Bar Mitzvah schooling from Rabbi Kevin Kapstein. Essie Sue's plans to orchestrate the grandest Bar Mitzvah feast in Temple Rita's history. The star attraction is sure to be Herman Guenther, master lox cutter. But when he meets an untimely death, Ruby investigates, tracing the victim's roots back to Nazi-era Denmark. Her investigation takes her from Eternal, Texas to Alaska to New YorkMira James mysteries winter bundle: Books 8-10
By Jess Lourey. 2018
PI-in-training Mira James has more murders to solve, while juggling her jobs at the library and the newspaper in Battle…
Lake, Minnesota. Includes December Dread, January Thaw, and February Fever, which has Mira looking for a killer on a snowed-in Valentine train. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2018Mira James mysteries fall bundle: Books 5-7
By Jess Lourey. 2018
Three mysteries feature amateur sleuth Mira James, who has seen a gravedigger's share of dead bodies since moving to small-town…
Battle Lake, Minnesota, and taking part-time jobs at the library and the newspaper. Includes September Mourn, October Fest, and November Hunt. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2018Uncivil liberties: a novel
By Bernie Lambek. 2018
Collection of fifty of the author's humorous and satirical columns first appearing in the "Nation" magazine between 1978 and 1981.…
Pokes fun at diverse subjects ranging from First Family antics to contemporary mores and considers important questions of the day, such as why employees of health food stores always look so unhealthy. Adult. UnratedJim Ugly
By Sid Fleischman, Jos. A. Smith. 1992
1894. Twelve-year-old Jake Bannock assumes that he is an orphan after he sees his actor-father's coffin lowered into the ground…
at Blow- fly, Nevada. If one discounts the rumor that Sam Bannock had con- cealed a cache of diamonds, Jake's only inheritance is his father's part-wolf mongrel dog. His father called the dog Amigo; Jake calls him Jim Ugly. Together they set out to learn the truth about Sam's supposed demise--and the diamonds. For grades 4-7. 1992Nasty stinky sneakers
By Eve Bunting. 1994
The Slam Dunkers sneakers company is having a contest, and the person with the stinkiest sneakers will win three pairs…
of its popular brand. Ten-year-old Colin knows he has a great chance of winning. After careful handling, his sneakers are so foul his mother makes him leave them in the hall outside their apartment. Then, the day before the contest, someone steals Colin's shoes! For grades 4-7April fools: a Mira James mystery (Murder-by-month mystery #12)
By Jess Lourey. 2019
"Librarian and aspiring PI Mira James has discovered one corpse a month for each of the eleven months she's lived…
in Battle Lake, Minnesota. She'd give her left foot to break that streak this April. Then she stumbles across that disturbing note, and a Battle Lake girl vanishes. She follows the note's trail and is horrified to discover that it leads to her father, who died 13 years earlier. It's a race against the clock to crack the secret he carried to his grave in time to save the girl. Meanwhile, chiseled police chief Gary Wohnt is scrutinizing her every move, aching to finally put her behind bars, and Johnny, her sweet and sexy boyfriend, is planning a surprise for her. Problem is, she doesn't know if it's a marriage proposal or an intervention. As Mrs. Berns and Mira take on their final case together, Mira discovers it's more personal than she could have imagined, and that she holds not only the life of the vanished girl but the fate of all Battle Lake in her hands." -- Provided by publisher