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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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Every Crooked Nanny

Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Mary Kay Andrews · 326 pages

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Whiskey Rebellion

Liliana Hart · 312 pages

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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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Southern Fried

Cathy Pickens · 352 pages

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Louisiana Longshot

Jana Deleon · 248 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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Portrait of a Dead Guy

Larissa Reinhart · 280 pages

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Trailer Trash

Denise Grover Swank · 272 pages

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Murder on the Rocks

Karen MacInerney · 334 pages

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Laughed 'Til He Died

Carolyn G. Hart · 282 pages

Return to Broward’s Rock in Laughed ’Til He Died, Carolyn Hart’s landmark 20th novel in her much loved and critically acclaimed Death on Demand mystery series. Island sleuths Annie and Max Darling must solve three related local murders in this wonderful new whodunit by the multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winner—a must for fans of Diane Mott Davidson and Lillian Jackson Braun.

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Aunt Bessie Assumes

Diana Xarissa · 226 pages

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Malice in Maggody

Joan Hess · 236 pages

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Pretty is as Pretty Dies

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 210 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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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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Plantation Shudders

Ellen Byron · 288 pages

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Peaches and Screams

G.A. McKevett · 301 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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Peaches and Scream

Susan Furlong, Susan Furlong-Bolliger · 304 pages

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Bubba and the Dead Woman

C.L. Bevill · 300 pages

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The Calamity Café

Gayle Leeson · 304 pages

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