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1241) Murder checks out
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When the chair of Taylorsford's first Winterfest is murdered and her brother-in-law is the prime suspect, library director Amy Muir must race against time to prove his innocence before another life is claimed by a killer who's on Santa's naughty list
1242) Booked up
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Village library mysteries volume 10
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Dr. Victor Wilson was one of the most popular physicians in the small town of Whitby, North Carolina. He wrote a prescription for trust with his attentive care and compassionate bedside manner. But when the doctor's own story takes a deadly twist, librarian Ann Beckett finds herself in the center of a medical mystery that's anything but routine. As Ann steps into the investigation, she uncovers hidden chapters in Dr. Wilson's life that cast a shadow...
1243) A twisted skein
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One of the Seaside Knitters who also is also an avid birdwatcher enlists the help of her crafting crew when a fellow birder is murdered
1244) Death in the details
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Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging precariously in his own barn. Something about the supposed...
1245) The Secret at No.4
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One street, ten doors, who's the killer? The street that contains No.4 is a dark place, secrets linger and whispers of a murder haunt it. The residents have learnt to live with its sinister past, but when one of their own returns to hunt for the truth, their welcome is far from warm… Fifteen years ago, 35-year-old Henry Carr vanished outside his parents' house on a run-down street in Manchester. Today, a cold case podcast has brought the disappearance...
1246) The Watersplash
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A gardener's death sends a country house into a frenzy, and Miss Silver swoops in to set things right Edward Random returns to Deeping a forgotten man. Although raised in the village's manor house, he is no longer wealthy-the result of a quarrel with an uncle, which left him out of the old man's will. For years Edward's name has not been spoken in the town, save for wild rumors that he had gone to prison for dueling, decamped to the Orient, or had...
1247) This Spells Trouble
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I'm Harper, a natural-born witch. My bookstore, Enchanted Editions, is the heart of our small town. I sell books, spells, and potions to customers who seek the power of the supernatural. When a woman asks for a deadly spell to use against my old friend, Damien Caine, I refuse. He may have hurt me in the past, but I have no interest in revenge. Unfortunately, Damien doesn't see it that way. He thinks I'm out to get him and I have no idea why.With the...
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Why did Chelsea have to die on the most important night of Dani Sites' culinary career?If her gown weren't enough to die for, the truffles would surely do the trick.______Working for the most affluent family in Raglan, New Zealand, Dani was about to make a name for herself in the community as the most prestigious chef on the North Shore.On the night of the highly anticipated Spring Equinox Soirée, fate would have it that the moment billionaire Bennett...
1249) A Dangerous Secret
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Dear Readers: Note New Cover & Title! - Formerly called: Amulet of Death A woman's search for a new life lures danger to their small town… Forty-one-year-old widow, Natalie Wasson needs money – now - for an operation that will radically change her son's quality of life. When she discovers forgotten WWI letters in Bindarra Creek's oldest home, she seizes the chance to write the family's history - and unknowingly invites danger to this small country...
1250) The Alington Inheritance
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 31
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When a question of inheritance turns fatal, Miss Silver searches for the killer Jenny has never been one to feel sorry for herself. The illegitimate child of a wealthy man and a statureless woman, she has been an orphan since before she can remember. It is a hard life made bearable only by the kindness of her guardian, an old woman named Miss Garstone, who has always treated Jenny as her own. Struck down by a motorist, "Garsty" dies, whispering to...
1251) The Girl in the Cellar
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 32
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Miss Silver helps a woman with no memory reconstruct a terrible crime She awakes in a dark place. A young woman with a shattered memory, she knows neither who she is nor how she came to be in this abandoned house. All she possesses is a faint sense that someone is lying dead at the foot of the stairs. Horrifyingly, she is correct. In the cellar lies a young woman, her body broken, her head split, her life undone by a revolver's shell. The amnesiac...
1252) The Fingerprint
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 29
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Miss Silver joins a friend from Scotland Yard to investigate a suspicious suicide Frank Abbott's vacations never last very long, and his trip to Field End is no exception. He has hardly enjoyed a moment of Jonathan Field's hospitality before tragedy strikes. A niece ventures into old Jonathan's study at night to ask him a question, and finds him stone cold with a revolver by his hand. An obvious suicide, it seems, but Inspector Abbott is not so sure....
1253) Vanishing Point
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Miss Silver mysteries volume 25
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Miss Silver investigates a disappearance in a village near a top-secret government research facility Jenny Maxwell is a bright young child. After an automobile accident leaves her barely able to walk, she retreats into a world of fantasy, devouring novel after novel of steamy romance. Now she has begun to write, and for a twelve-year-old she shows great promise. After she sends her work off to a publisher, the house sends a representative to meet...
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A Scottish detective investigates a suspicious death with ties to a wind farm in this mystery by the author of Blood in the Water.
When the body of a retired sheriff is discovered in his grand house in the New Town of Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Alice Rice finds herself hunting his killer. The search leads her to an unfamiliar world where wind-farm developers with millions of pounds at stake and protesters face each other with daggers drawn....
1255) Unmasked
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Veterinarian Milly Smith works in a zoo populated with resurrected megafauna-mammoths, woolly rhinos, giant short-faced bears, enormous apes-brought back to life by dedicated de-extinction geneticists. They may be fine playing god, but Milly cares deeply for each and every animal living in the Pleistocene BioPark.
When a series of murders threaten her flock, Milly is drawn into the investigations. Except the murders are only pieces of a deadly game....
1256) The Du Rose Prophecy
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A prophecy in the making. History for the taking. And disaster beckons the sons of an ancient family. Decades ago on a mountain in New Zealand, a rich landowner sat with her grandson and told him the stories of his people. She prophesied he would be the one to rebuild their legacy.Thirty-five years later and Logan Du Rose is trying to make it happen, but history will not make it easy for him. Each time he believes the prophecy fulfilled, circumstance...
1257) Double the Lies
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In the cold and dangerous spring of 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain races the clock to solve the murder of a white barnstorming pilot before the clever Black theologian-a target of the ruthless Colorado Klan-is framed for the crime, and before she is lured by the risky flirtations of the victim's dashing twin brother.
As this second installment of Patricia Raybon's critically acclaimed mystery series opens, Annalee Spain offers her fancy...
1258) A Pen Dipped in Poison
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Retired schoolteachers Liz, Pat and Thelma are back at their usual table at the Thirsk Garden Centre café with a brand-new mystery to solve… Curious white envelopes have been delivered to friends and neighbours. Inside are letters revealing the deepest secrets they have tried to hide. As one by one, careers are ended, marriages destroyed and no one is beyond suspicion, the three friends decide enough is enough. They must take matters into their...
1259) Smoke and Mirrors
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An idealistic young woman finds working a political campaign can be murder in this romantic suspense novel by "a master storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark).
Young Erin Hartsock arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition-and little interest in politics. However, when she's offered a position on a congresswoman's campaign for the Senate, she's more than happy to flee her dead-end job to take on what she expects will be boring administrative work...
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Perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich and Jana DeLeon, Elise Sax's wickedly funny Matchmaker Mysteries series proves that the road to love comes with a few dead ends. The Books 1-4 Boxed Set is a page-turning beach read and a small town mystery romance and includes the books An Affair to Dismember, Citizen Pain, The Wizard of Saws, and Field of Screams."Elise Sax will win your heart."--New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis *"Sax will make you...
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