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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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One Bad Apple

Sheila Connolly · 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 · 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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Portrait of a Dead Guy

Larissa Reinhart · 280 pages

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The Quiche of Death

M.C. Beaton · 272 pages

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Sink Trap

Christy Evans · 244 pages

"When Georgiana Neverall's fast-paced, corporate lifestyle goes down the drain, she moves back home to Pine Ridge, Oregon, and makes an unconventional choice--to apprentice herself to Barry the Plumber. Her uptight, super-successful Realtor mother, Sandra, is disgusted. She never dreamed she'd see a Neverall in coveralls toiling under someone's sink. Georgiana loves her new occupation, but is a bi

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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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Southern Fried

Cathy Pickens · 352 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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The Calamity Café

Gayle Leeson · 304 pages

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Murder, Plain and Simple

Isabella Alan · 368 pages

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Buried in a Book

Lucy Arlington · 298 pages

First in a new series. After losing her job as a journalist at the age of 45, Lila Wilkins accepts an internship at A Novel Idea, a thriving literary agency in North Carolina. When a penniless aspiring author drops dead in the agency's waiting room--and Lila discovers a series of threatening letters--she's determined to find out who wrote him off.

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The Dead Cat Bounce

Sarah Graves · 336 pages

dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stock's trading price after a sharp drop.Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, there's the little matter of the dead man in Jake's storero

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Plantation Shudders

Ellen Byron · 288 pages

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A Crafty Killing

Lorraine Bartlett

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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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Trailer Trash

Denise Grover Swank · 272 pages

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Stamped Out

Terri Thayer · 263 pages

"Back in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, with a failed marriage and a sabotaged career in her wake, April Buchert is ready for a fresh start. Working alongside her father on the restoration of the town's famous Winchester mansion seems like the perfect project--until their efforts reveal a murderous motif..."--p. [4] of cover.

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Murder by the Book

Lauren Elliott · 305 pages

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Peaches and Scream

Susan Furlong, Susan Furlong-Bolliger · 304 pages

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A Killer Read

Erika Chase

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Pretty is as Pretty Dies

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 210 pages

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Real Murders

Charlaine Harris

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Malice in Maggody

Joan Hess · 236 pages

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