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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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Thirty-Five and a Half Conspiracies

Denise Grover Swank · 472 pages

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Dead Over Heels

Charlaine Harris · 253 pages

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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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Fortune Hunter

Jana Deleon

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Bone to Be Wild

Carolyn Haines · 384 pages

"Sarah Booth Delaney is heartbroken: her fiancé Graf Milieu has decided to move to Hollywood permanently, leaving their relationship in shambles. Sarah Booth has a perfect distraction, however, in the form of the Black and Orange Halloween ball her best friends are throwing in New Orleans. Sarah Booth plans to dance the night away to the swinging tunes of her old flame Scott Hampton's blues band.

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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 Skeleton in the Closet

Angie Fox · 250 pages

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Strawberry Shortcake Murder

Joanne Fluke · 309 pages

In her debut mystery, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, intrepid amateur sleuth and bakery owner Hannah Swensen proved that when it comes to crime, nothing is sweeter than a woman who knows how to really mix it up. Now, the flame-haired, tart-talking (and baking) heroine is back, judging a contest where the competition is really murder. Strawberry Shortcake Murder When the president of Hartland Flour

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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

Alan Bradley · 368 pages

From Dagger Award--winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths--separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.

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Bubba and the Dead Woman

C.L. Bevill · 300 pages

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Heart Trouble

Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Mary Kay Andrews · 278 pages

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Progressive Dinner Deadly

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 214 pages

Retired octogenarian schoolteacher Myrtle Clover is fit to be tied when her book club votes to change to a supper club. Outrageous! The first supper club is a progressive dinner ... where Myrtle loses interest during the hors d'oeuvres. But when a body is discivered during the main course, the evening quickly gets interesting.

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Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

Ann B. Ross · 280 pages

Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself in the center of an unseemly scandal-and the guardian of

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Witches' Bane

Susan Wittig Albert · 272 pages

The second China Bayles mystery. Herb shop owner China is shocked when Halloween hijinks take a gruesome turn in Pecan Springs, ending in a brutal murder. And China is even more shocked when her friend Ruby, a New Age expert in tarot and astrology, becomes the prime suspect after a minister accuses her of witchcraft.

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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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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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Knee High by the Fourth of July

Jess Lourey · 231 pages

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The Alpine Pursuit

Mary Daheim · 288 pages

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Hex Marks the Spot

Madelyn Alt · 256 pages

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Southern Fried

Cathy Pickens · 352 pages

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Better Off Dead in Deadwood

Ann Charles · 397 pages

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Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

Tamar Myers · 323 pages

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