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Fixin' To Die

Tonya Kappes · 221 pages

Kenni Lowry likes to think the zero crime rate in Cottonwood, Kentucky is due to her being sheriff, but she quickly discovers the ghost of her grandfather, the town’s previous sheriff, has been scaring off any would-be criminals since she was elected. When the town’s most beloved doctor is found murdered on the very same day as a jewelry store robbery, and a mysterious symbol ties the crime sce

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Rose and Helena Save Christmas

Denise Grover Swank, Jana Deleon · 180 pages

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Merry, Merry Ghost

Carolyn G. Hart · 282 pages

Introduced in Agatha-winner Hart's Ghost at Work (2008), the late Bailey Ruth Raeburn returns to earth on a heavenly mission to help a four-year-old orphan in this delightful sequel. Susan Flynn, the matriarch of one of the leading families of Adelaide, Okla., who's dying from congestive heart failure, discovers she has a grandson after Keith, the child of Susan's soldier son killed in Iraq, shows

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Christmas Bliss

Mary Kay Andrews · 335 pages

"Christmas is coming, but Savannah antique dealer Weezie Foley is doubly distracted--both by her upcoming wedding to her longtime love, chef Daniel Stipanek and also by the fact that her best friend and maid-of-honor BeBe Loudermilk is due to give birth any day--and is still adamantly refusing to marry her live-in-love Harry. Readers have come to love these characters in Mary Kay Andrews' three pr

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Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble

M.C. Beaton · 71 pages

Agatha is spending Christmas at home in the Cotswolds - and in a fit of goodwill towards all men (and women) she invites six of Carsley's oldest residents to come around and share Christmas lunch with her. Christmas jollity soon turns to disaster as Agatha accidentally kills one of her guests with a gruesome homemade Christmas pudding ... so will it be Christmas in the cells for Agatha? Or can she

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Heart Trouble

Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Mary Kay Andrews · 278 pages

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Duck the Halls

Donna Andrews · 329 pages

"As the holidays draw near in Caerphilly, Mother volunteers to take part in a big Christmas-themed decorator show house--each room of a temporarily untenanted house is decorated to the hilt by a different decorator for the public to tour. Of course, Mother insists that Meg pitch in with the organization, and she finds herself surrounded by flamboyant personalities with massive egos clashing and fe

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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

Alan Bradley · 286 pages

It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a ragin

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Thirty-Six and a Half Motives

Denise Grover Swank · 428 pages

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Murder at Holly House

Denzil Meyrick · 410 pages

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Bone Appetit

Carolyn Haines · 328 pages

In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa in Mississippi, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder when the beauty contest/cook-off's top contender gets poisoned.

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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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December Dread

Jess Lourey

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Portrait of a Dead Guy

Larissa Reinhart · 280 pages

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Southern Fried

Cathy Pickens · 352 pages

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A Dyeing Shame

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 224 pages

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Soldiers of Fortune

Jana Deleon · 250 pages

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Real Murders

Charlaine Harris

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A Wee Christmas Homicide

Kaitlyn Dunnett · 278 pages

Tis the season to be jolly, but in Moosetookalook, Maine, Christmas cheer is in short supply due to a snowless winter that's keeping skiers and shoppers at a distance. Fortunately, Liss MacCrimmon of the Scottish Emporium has a plan...Liss's brainstorm focuses on Tiny Teddies, the new "hot" toy of the season. Every store across the country is out of stock--except a few wee establishments in good o

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Mistletoe Man

Susan Wittig Albert · 356 pages

In this "intelligently plotted and deliciously descriptive tale" (Publishers Weekly), national bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert tells the story of a woman's search for justice-and of her struggle to reconcile the demands of her business with the desires of her heart...Former big-city lawyer China Bayles worked hard to make her Texas herb shop, Thyme and Seasons, a success. Now business is bo

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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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The Skeleton in the Closet

Angie Fox · 250 pages

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