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Premeditated Peppermint

Amanda Flower

Someone's sweet on revenge . . .  Christmas is Bailey King's favorite time of year. For her first Yuletide in Harvest, Ohio, the former big-city chocolatier is recreating a cherished holiday treat: peppermint combined with molten whi...

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Published: Sep 2018

Fudge Cupcake Murder (A Hannah Swense...

Joanne Fluke

Bakery owner Hannah Swensen just can’t keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead, a deputy accused, and a killer on the loose . . .  For Hannah, life seems to be ...

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Published: Jun 2011

Lemon Meringue Pie Murder (A Hannah S...

Joanne Fluke

The residents of Lake Eden, Minnesota, are planning to paint the town red, white, and blue to celebrate the Fourth of July—but the fireworks are already going off at Hannah Swensen's bake shop, The Cookie Jar. . .Lemon Meringue Pie ...

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Published: Feb 2012

Death by Dumpling

Vivien Chien

Welcome to the Ho-Lee Noodle House, where the Chinese food is to die for. . .The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family’s restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, sh...

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Published: Mar 2018

Cherry Cheesecake Murder

Joanne Fluke

Hannah Swensen and her bakery, The Cookie Jar, bask in the glow of Hollywood glamour when Main Street becomes a movie set. And although tensions simmer as the cameras roll, no one expects the action to turn deadly . . . until it's too...

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Published: May 2011

Sugar Cookie Murder (A Hannah Swensen...

Joanne Fluke

The holidays are the icing on the cake for bakery owner Hannah Swensen. Surrounded by her loved ones, she has all the ingredients for a perfect Christmas—until murder is added to the mix . . .  When it comes to holidays, Minnesotan...

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Published: Jul 2012

Digging Up the Dirt: A Southern Ladie...

Miranda James

The New York Times bestselling author of Dead with the Wind and Bless Her Dead Little Heart is back with more of those sleuthing Southern belles, the Ducote sisters...An'gel and Dickce Ducote, busy with plans for the Athena Garden Clu...

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Published: Sep 2016

Turkey Trot Murder (A Lucy Stone Myst...

Leslie Meier

It's late autumn in Tinker's Cove, Maine, and the last surviving flowers on Lucy Stone's porch have fallen victim to the first frost of the season. But as the part-time reporter learns, this cold November morning will claim more than ...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Bookshop Murder: An absolutely gr...

Merryn Allingham

Bookshop owner Flora Steele escapes the sleepy English village of Abbeymead through the adventures in the stories she sells. Until one morning, everything changes when she discovers a body amongst her own bookshelves... The young m...

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Published: Jul 2021

Crazy Like a Fox: A Novel ("Sister" J...

Rita Mae Brown

In this thrilling new foxhunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, an investigation into a missing and valuable object flushes out murder, ghosts, and old family rivalries. Now "Sister" Jane Arno...

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Published: Oct 2018

A Justified Murder (A Medlar Mystery)...

Jude Deveraux

The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was recently rocked 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...

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Published: Jan 2020

Toxic Toffee

Amanda Flower

A sweet tooth for murder . . .    Bailey King’s in New York wrapping up a six-week shoot on her first cable TV show, Bailey’s Amish Sweets, when she gets a call from her Ohio town’s resident busybody. With Easter around the co...

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Published: Jun 2019

Rotten to the Core (A Lady Hardcastle...

T. E. Kinsey

Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, ...

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Published: Jun 2022

The Ugly Truth: A Riley Ellison Myste...

Jill Orr

There's been a shocking double murder in Tuttle Corner, Virginia, involving high-profile players from Washington D.C. This brings national attention―and big-city competition for the story―to junior reporter Riley Ellison's little ...

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Published: Jun 2019

The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (A ...

Richard Osman

“Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal   “Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” —Pa...

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Published: Aug 2021

'tis the Season Murder

Leslie Meier

Christmas has come to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and sleuthing skills are at the top of Lucy’s Stone’s wish list in these two beloved mysteries—now collected in one festive volume for the very first time! . . . NEW YEAR’S EVE MU...

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Published: Oct 2019

Wedding Bell Blues (A Tourist Trap My...

Lynn Cahoon

In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More, becomes more engaged in sleuthing than wedding preparations when there’s a murder in a dress shop . . . Jill couldn’t love poli...

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Published: Mar 2022

Murder Lo Mein

Vivien Chien

The third in a tasty series, Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien is a delight!Everyone agrees that the food at Ho-Lee Noodle House is delicious―unless it happens to be deadly. Lana Lee's stake in her family's Chinese restaurant is higher...

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Published: Mar 2019

The Case of the Rolling Bones (Perry ...

Erle Stanley Gardner

Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to grow his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Millicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, the...

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Published: Apr 2016

Saguaro Sanction (National Park Myste...

Scott Graham

Janelle Ortega and Chuck Bender are drawn deep into a threatening web of hostility and deceit in Saguaro National Park in this page-turner of a mystery. "A winning blend of archaeology and intrigue, Graham's series turns our ...

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Published: Mar 2023

A Line to Kill: A Novel (A Hawthorne ...

Anthony Horowitz

TheNew York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz. "Horowitz is a master ...

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Published: Oct 2022

The Sentence Is Death: A Novel (Detec...

Anthony Horowitz

New York Times-bestselling author Anthony Horowitz and eccentric detective Daniel Hawthorne team up again in a new mystery, the sequel to the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder, to delve deep into the killing of a high-profile d...

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Published: May 2020

The Burning Issue of the Day

T. E. Kinsey

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent.When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her ...

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Published: May 2019

Fletch

Gregory McDonald

Book One in the bestselling mystery series that brought to life an iconic literary antihero of subversion and schemes. Fletch, investigative reporter extraordinaire, can't be bothered with deadlines or expense-account budgets when it ...

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Published: Aug 2018

Irish Parade Murder (A Lucy Stone Mys...

Leslie Meier

When a local corrections officer is sent to a fiery death during the St. Patrick’s Day parade, part-time reporter (and sometimes sleuth) Lucy Stone is tasked with clearing the name of her professional rivalin New York Timesbests...

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Published: Jan 2022

The Body in the Wardrobe: A Faith Fai...

Katherine Hall Page

Minster's wife, caterer, and part-time sleuth Faith Fairchild pairs up with Sophie Maxwell, last seen in Body in the Birches and now a newlywed living in historic Savannah, Georgia, where Sophie crosses paths with murder. Another deli...

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Published: Dec 2016

Curses, Boiled Again!

Shari Randall

"Delightful! A fun whodunit full of New England coastal charm and characters who feel like friends. Warm humor, a delectable plot, and clever sleuthing will keep you turning the pages." ―Krista Davis, New York Times bestselling auth...

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Published: Jan 2018

Iced in Paradise: A Leilani Santiago ...

Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was bein...

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Published: Sep 2019

Antiques Ho-Ho-Homicides: A Trash 'n'...

Barbara Allan

Deck the halls with murder . . .  To Brandy Borne and her ditzy diva mother, homicide in small-town Serenity is the gift that keeps on taking. But murder turns merry as Brandy and Vivian gather collectible clues in a wintry w...

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Published: Sep 2018

Saddled with Murder

Eileen Brady

First in a new vet books mystery series, perfect for fans of cozy mysteries by Miranda James and Leann Sweeney!\n\nVeterinarian and amateur sleuth Kate Turner has her hands full trying to juggle two boyfriends, a thriving practice, an...

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Published: Oct 2020
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