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The Last Chance Olive Ranch

Susan Wittig Albert · 360 pages

"In this exciting new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him ... Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of Huntsville Prison and appears to be headed for Pecan Springs. McQuaid knows there's only one way to stop the vengeful convict--set a trap with himself as bait. C

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Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree

Nancy Atherton · 229 pages

Lori Shepherd's debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. But once things get truly peculiar at Fairworth--moving furniture, strange sounds, and mysterious visitors--Lori calls on Aunt Dimity for her otherworldly guidance.

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Center Stage

Denise Grover Swank · 396 pages

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A Holly, Jolly Murder

Joan Hess · 265 pages

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How to Seal Your Own Fate

Kristen Perrin · 320 pages

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The Alpine Quilt

Mary Daheim · 320 pages

USA Today bestselling author Mary Daheim knows how to spin a mystery with a tight plot and captivatingly eccentric characters. And her vivid Pacific Northwest setting--a character in itself--has garnered her a plethora of devoted fans. Now her resourceful and resolute journalist Emma Lord is back with a new mystery to solve--and an even tougher deadline to meet.Members of the Burl Creek Thimble Cl

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A Quiet Life In The Country

T E Kinsey · 250 pages

"Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady H

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The White Magic Five and Dime

Steve Hockensmith, Lisa Falco · 332 pages

Much to Alanis McLachlan's surprise, her estranged con-woman mother has left her an inheritance: The White Magic Five & Dime, a shop in tiny Berdache, Arizona. Reluctantly traveling to Berdache to claim her new property, Alanis decides to stay and pick up her mother's tarot business in an attempt to find out how she died. With help from a hunky cop and her mother's live-in teenage apprentice, Ala

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The Real Macaw

Donna Andrews · 334 pages

When her home is turned into an impromptu animal rescue center by her father and grandfather after a local shelter repeals its no-kill policy, Meg is unwittingly embroiled in a murder case involving a volunteer animal caregiver.

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The Witch Is Dead

Shirley Damsgaard · 292 pages

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A Witch in Time

Madelyn Alt

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Tool and Die

Sarah Graves · 319 pages

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree traded her power-broker life for a run-down dream house in peaceful Eastport, Maine. But the do-it-yourself enthusiast is learning that no matter how carefully you build your home, murder has a way of slipping in through the cracks....It's a bright June afternoon and old-house-fixer-upper Jake Tiptree is driving through downeast Maine on an unusual errand. She's getting read

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Calamity Jayne Rides Again

Kathleen Bacus · 340 pages

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Fatal Fixer-Upper

Jennie Bentley, Jenna Bennett · 332 pages

With the help of a hunky handyman, Avery Baker, a former New York textile designer, begins fixing up her aunt's crumbling estate, until she discovers clues that lead to a missing local professor, in this first installment in a new mystery series that features home-renovation and design tips.

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Antiques to Die For

Jane K. Cleland · 320 pages

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A Tisket, A Tasket, A Fancy Stolen Casket

Fran Rizer · 288 pages

Bubbles meets Six Feet Under in the new Calamine Parrish mystery series. Mortuary cosmetologist Calamine Parrish stares death in the face every day. But when she finds a hypodermic needle in the neck of an "accidental" drowning victim, and the victim's fancy casket is stolen, Callie finds herself in over her head-and in the way of a killer.

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Antiques Flee Market

Barbara Allan · 216 pages

Moving back in with her mother, Vivian, Brandy Borne finds her life in the town of Serenity anything but serene, especially when their antiques booth at the mall is overwhelmed with holiday business and Vivian's former flame, an antiques dealer, is found murdered.

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Love Game

Elise Sax · 297 pages

Five months have passed since Gladie Burger came to Cannes, California, to join her eccentric Grandma Zelda in the family matchmaking business, and Gladie is quickly mastering the rules of attraction. Her latest fix-up is still going strong and Gladie's bank account is back in the black until a rival matchmaker arrives in town and has both Gladie and Zelda seeing red. Not only is self-proclaimed p

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Pleating for Mercy

Melissa Bourbon · 303 pages

Opening a custom dressmaking boutique in the old farmhouse she inherited from her late great-grandmother, Harlow Jane Cassidy gets more than she bargained for when her first client is accused of murder and she must help find the real killer--with a little help from beyond.

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Custard's Last Stand

Tamar Myers · 251 pages

Book 11 in the Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery with Recipes series. From the front and back flaps: *Kentucky Colonel George Custard thinks Magdalena's hometown of Hernia, Pennsylvania is perfect... so perfect, in fact, he has decided to build his new mega five-star hotel there. And if everything goes according to plan, roads will be widened and wealthy tourists will start pouring in by the thous

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Swamp Sniper

Jana Deleon · 266 pages

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Opal Fire

Barbra Annino · 291 pages

Stacy Justice did not expect to be set on fire that night but being raised by withes prepares one for life's little surprises. When a decades-old secret is discovered within the walls of her cousin's bar eve Stacy is rattled. Now someone wants her dead and she finds herself dodging angry motorists, exploding chickens and a creepy man who seems to lurk around every corner.

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley · 375 pages

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found

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