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Southern Fried

Cathy Pickens · 352 pages

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Rosemary and Crime

Gail Oust · 318 pages

"Piper Prescott, a transplanted Yankee living in the South, has got her sass back. She might be down, but don't count her out. "Change of life?" she asks. Bring it on. Recently divorced, Piper decides to pursue a dream she's secretly harbored: owning her own business, Spice it Up!, a spice shop in her adopted hometown, Brandywine Creek, Georgia. But Piper's grand opening goes awry when the local c

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Portrait of a Dead Guy

Larissa Reinhart · 280 pages

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The Skeleton in the Closet

Angie Fox · 250 pages

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A Ghostly Undertaking

Tonya Kappes · 304 pages

Bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she’s suffering from "funeral trauma." It’s trauma all right, because the not-so-dearly departed keep talking to her. Take Ruthie Sue Payne, innkeeper, gossip queen, and arch-nemesis of Emma Lee’s granny, she’s adamant that she didn’t just fall down those stairs. She was pushed. Ruthie has no idea who want

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Peaches and Scream

Susan Furlong, Susan Furlong-Bolliger · 304 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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The Calamity Café

Gayle Leeson · 304 pages

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Lowcountry Boil

Susan M. Boyer · 316 pages

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Quilt or Innocence

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 296 pages

Retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman knows everything there is to know about quilts, except how to make them. But with her recent move to Dappled Hills, North Carolina, she's learning all sorts of new things--including how to solve a murder. Includes quilting tips.

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A Killer Read

Erika Chase

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In For a Penny

Kelsey Browning, Nancy Naigle · 342 pages

"When Lillian Summer Fairview's husband up and dies on her, it leaves the last living member of the most prestigious family in Summer Shoals, Georgia, in a hot mess. While Lil was busy being a proper Southern lady, Harlan squandered dang near the whole family fortune on lottery tickets. To keep her financial skeletons in the closet and give him a decent burial, Lil made a deal that has now landed

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Later Gator

Jana Deleon · 250 pages

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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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Pecan Pies and Homicides

Ellery Adams · 293 pages

Her Charmed Pie Shoppe is open for business, but baker Ella Mae LeFaye is about to discover solving a murder is not as easy as pie?

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Oolong Dead

Laura Childs

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Real Murders

Charlaine Harris

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Deadly Notions

Elizabeth Lynn Casey · 292 pages

When one of the town's most insufferable moms is murdered, the Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle finds itself fraying at the seams.

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Strangled Prose

Joan Hess · 187 pages

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Rock-a-Bye Bones

Carolyn Haines · 368 pages

"Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are still recovering from the attack on Scott Hampton's blues club in Zinnia, Missippia, and Sarah Booth herself is still overcoming her grief at ending things with her fiancé. One bitterly cold night at her family's ancestral home in Zinnia, Sarah Booth hears what sounds like a kitten as she passes the front door. She opens the door to find a newborn baby in a

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Center Stage

Denise Grover Swank · 396 pages

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Miss Julia Lays Down the Law

Ann B. Ross · 307 pages

"It's up to Miss Julia to sort out the murder of a hoity-toity newcomer in the latest addition to the New York Times bestselling series Ann B. Ross's most recent addition to the series, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover, was the first to hit the printed New York Times bestseller list, so Miss Julia fans both new and old will be especially keen to get their hands on the next one. The sixteenth in the

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