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Cockatiels at Seven

Donna Andrews · 320 pages

When her old friend Karen drops by with two-year-old son Timmy, Meg Langslow reluctantly agrees to babysit just for a little while. But when nightfall comes, the toddler is still in residence and Karen isn't answering any phone calls. Meg decides she must find out what's happening, so the next morning, with Timmy in tow, she retraces her friend's footsteps--and begins to suspect that Karen's disap

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Thirty-One and a Half Regrets

Denise Grover Swank · 358 pages

While Rose recovers from a broken heart, she finds herself at odds with her sister -and business partner- Violet. Rose buries herself in her landscaping work, but becomes worried when her employee and friend, Bruce Wayne Decker, goes missing. In the meantime, Fenton County assistant D.A., Mason Deveraux has been patiently waiting to begin a relationship with Rose, but she realizes she needs to con

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Portrait of a Dead Guy

Larissa Reinhart · 280 pages

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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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Strangled Prose

Joan Hess · 187 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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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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Sweet Tea and Spirits

Angie Fox · 246 pages

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Pretty is as Pretty Dies

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 210 pages

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Them Bones

Carolyn Haines · 327 pages

If only I hadn't kidnapped the dog...but the ransom paid the mortgage....Now I seem to be a private eye....I shouldn't have listened to that ghost....Meet Sarah Booth Delaney...an unconventional Southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi...if it doesn't make her the deadest.No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end

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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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Southern Fried

Cathy Pickens · 352 pages

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Real Murders

Charlaine Harris

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Dixie Divas

Virginia Brown · 307 pages

"... Eureka "Trinket" Truevine, the newest Diva, gets more than she bargained for when she finds her best Diva girlfriend Bitty Hollandale's ex-husband in Bitty's hall closet. He's dead. Very dead. Now Trinket and the Divas have to help Bitty finger the murderer and clear her name..."--p. [4] of cover.

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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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Bubba and the Dead Woman

C.L. Bevill · 300 pages

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Remnants of Murder

Elizabeth Lynn Casey · 335 pages

When a cantankerous Sweet Briar resident ends up six feet under, the ladies of the sewing circle have to deal with a town full of suspects . . . With the library's budget dwindling, Tori Sinclair is forced to let go of her predecessor, and fellow sewing circle member, Dixie Dunn. After losing her job a second time, Dixie decides to volunteer for Home Fare, delivering meals to the homebound. (less)

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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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Cat on the Scent

Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown · 321 pages

It takes a cat to write the purr-fect mystery.Things have been pretty exciting lately in Crozet, Virginia--a little too exciting if you ask resident feline investigator Mrs. Murphy. Just as the town starts to buzz over its Civil War reenactment, a popular local man disappears. No one's seen Tommy Van Allen's single-engine plane, either--except for Mrs. Murphy, who spotted it during a foggy evening

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Body on the Bayou

Ellen Byron · 324 pages

"Just days before a big wedding at the Crozat Plantation B & B, the bride's cousin is found murdered, and Maggie Crozat has another murder to unravel"--Book jacket flap. In Pelican, Louisiana, the upcoming nuptials between Maggie Crozat's nemesis, Police Chief Rufus Durand, and her co-worker, Vanessa Fleer, is the big story. Maggie was dragged into being the maid of honor, and one of her jobs is

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Whiskey for Breakfast

Liliana Hart · 312 pages

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Double Whammy

Gretchen Archer · 299 pages

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The Calamity Café

Gayle Leeson · 304 pages

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Peaches and Scream

Susan Furlong, Susan Furlong-Bolliger · 304 pages

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