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Crowned and Moldering

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Crawlspace

Sarah Graves Β· 278 pages

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree abandoned Wall Street to its bankruptcies and bailouts for a far more rewarding life fixing up an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But Jake discovers that no matter what your address, the most terrifying crimes always hit closest to home--Publisher's website.

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Spackled and Spooked

Jennie Bentley, Jenna Bennett Β· 309 pages

Avery Baker and her boyfriend, Derek Ellis, are flipping a seriously stigmatized house rumored to have ghosts. Soon they'll have even bigger problems--and this renovation project might haunt them forever--when a mystery surfaces behind the old walls.

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Deader Homes and Gardens

Joan Hess Β· 291 pages

Finding what she hopes will be an ideal house to share with her new husband and teenage daughter, Claire Malloy learns that the property's previous owner died under suspicious circumstances and that a real estate agent has gone missing.

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One Bad Apple

Sheila Connolly Β· 262 pages

When Meg Corey unexpectedly finds herself out of a job, an apartment, and a relationship, she seizes the opportunity to renovate the Massachusetts colonial house her mother has inherited from distant relations and to sell it quickly for a share of the profits. But Meg gets more than she bargained for when she learns that renovating a two-hundred-year-old house is no easy task and that the gorgeous

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All Roads Lead Home

Diane Greenwood Muir Β· 368 pages

Polly Giller returned to Iowa from Boston to start a new life; with her inheritance, she purchased an old school building in Bellingwood and is in the middle of renovating it when the bones of two bodies are pulled out of a ceiling. The whole town knows who those bones belong to, but when she also finds crates and crates of items from the sixties through the early nineties in the old root cellar,

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If Walls Could Talk

Juliet Blackwell

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Murder of a Real Bad Boy

Denise Swanson Β· 330 pages

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a blue Skye Denison cheers up when a sexy contractor renovates her house. He looks too good to be true. Sure enough, he has a reputation for conning the ladies. But before Skye can fire the hunk, he turns up with a bullet in his head. Even bad boys deserve justice, so Skye's got a killer to catch.

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Deadly Decor

Karen Rose Smith Β· 346 pages

"Quiet Kismet, Pennsylvania, may look like any other small town, but as a home stager; Caprice De Luca can see behind closed doors--and it seems someone has designs on murder. Life is full house for Caprice these days. She's dating, she's rescuing adorable cocker spaniels, and she's decorating the roomy interiors of Kismet's most well-heeled residents with fun fantasy themes. But she's worried abo

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Owls Well That Ends Well

Donna Andrews Β· 322 pages

Meg and Michael are having a garage sale to empty their new house of all the clutter gathered by the Sprocketts. The sale brings an influx of relatives and a horde of visitors. A bargain seeker wants to buy a chest but insists on seeing inside it first - when Meg unlocks it a body is found and a murder investigation begins with a vast array of suspects from the large crowd that just wants to shop

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Better Homes and Corpses

Kathleen Bridge Β· 292 pages

"After Meg Barrett found her fiance still had designs on his ex-wife, she decided it was time to refurbish her life. Leaving her glamorous job at a top home and garden magazine, she fled Manhattan for Montauk, only to find decorating can sometimes lead to detecting...In between scouring estate sales for her new interior design business, Cottages by the Sea, Meg visits the swanky East Hampton home

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The Tale of Castle Cottage

Susan Wittig Albert Β· 303 pages

Beatrix and William's impending nuptials are delayed when the remodeling of their future home, Castle Cottage, causes more problems than anticipated in the latest installment of a series that incorporates events from the life of Beatrix Potter and her beloved characters.

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Night of the Living Deed

E.J. Copperman

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Death by Inferior Design

Leslie Caine Β· 372 pages

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Easter Bunny Murder

Leslie Meier

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A Taste for Murder

Claudia Bishop Β· 240 pages

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Foul Play at the Fair

Shelley Freydont

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Pinned for Murder

Elizabeth Lynn Casey Β· 278 pages

"Tori Sinclair feels like she's known her new sewing sisters forever. That is until the richest and meanest woman in Sweet Briar turns up murdered--and Rose, the circle's feisty matriarch, refuses to believe her troubled former student and responsible. With suspicion and gossip spinning out of control, something worse than just ruffled feathers is threatening to tear the town apart... Now Tori mus

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Pouncing on Murder

Laurie Cass Β· 344 pages

Springtime in Chilson, Michigan, means it's librarian Minnie Hamilton's favorite time of year: maple syrup season! But her excitement fades when her favorite syrup provider, Henry Gill, dies in a sugaring accident. It's tough news to swallow...even if the old man wasn't as sweet as his product. On the bookmobile rounds with her trusty rescue cat Eddie, Minnie meets Adam, the old man's friend, w

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Town in a Wild Moose Chase

B.B. Haywood Β· 336 pages

Cape Willington's annual Winter Moose Fest is in full swing when the sightings of a mysterious white moose--and rumors of a dead body found in the woods--send Candy scrambling to separate fact from fiction before she finds herself in the bullseye of a ruthless killer.

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Murder, She Wrote: A Killing in Real Estate

Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran

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Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates

Kathy Aarons Β· 294 pages

The locals in charming West Riverdale, Maryland, are heading to Chocolates and Chapters, where everything sold is to die for ... Best friends Michelle Serrano and Erica Russell are celebrating the sweet rewards of their combined bookstore and chocolate shop by hosting the Great Fudge Cook-off during the town's Memorial Day weekend Arts Festival. But success turns bittersweet when Main Street's por

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Murder, She Barked

Krista Davis Β· 398 pages

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