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Portrait of a Dead Guy

Larissa Reinhart · 280 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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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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Die Like an Eagle

Donna Andrews · 320 pages

"The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The twentieth book in her New York Times best-selling series continues to surprise and delight in this next knee slapping adventure featuring Meg Langslow and all the eccentric characters that make up her world. Meg is Team Mom and Michael is coach of their twin

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Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

Tamar Myers · 323 pages

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A Dead and Stormy Night

Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages

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Picture Miss Seeton

Heron Carvic · 209 pages

When Miss Seeton walks out of a performance of Carmen and witnesses a real-life stabbing, all she can recall is a shadowy figure. But how could even she have guessed that her latest artistic endeavour is a picture-perfect portrait of the killer? Her caricature, however, puts her in a perilous position, for back at her rustic cottage in Plummergen, she’s fated to be a sitting duck . . . for murder

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Something Borrowed, Someone Dead

M.C. Beaton · 291 pages

Hired by the Parish councilor of a small community in the Cotswold Hills to investigate the murder of a jolly widow, Agatha Raisin learns about the victim's penchant for keeping borrowed items in a case that is complicated by village secrets and a killer who would make Agatha a next target.

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Murder Grins and Bears It

Deb Baker · 280 pages

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The White Magic Five and Dime

Steve Hockensmith, Lisa Falco · 332 pages

Much to Alanis McLachlan's surprise, her estranged con-woman mother has left her an inheritance: The White Magic Five & Dime, a shop in tiny Berdache, Arizona. Reluctantly traveling to Berdache to claim her new property, Alanis decides to stay and pick up her mother's tarot business in an attempt to find out how she died. With help from a hunky cop and her mother's live-in teenage apprentice, Ala

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Antiques Bizarre

Barbara Allan · 240 pages

Spring has sprung a major leak in small town Serenity, as the Mississippi River drops in for an extended stay. With hundreds of homes and dozens of business flooded, how better to help the cozy town get back to normal than staging a city-wide church bazaar?Brandy Borne knows the outcome of her mother Vivian's plan, however, is more likely to lean toward bizarre, especially when she hears Mother wh

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Liver Let Die

Liz Lipperman · 278 pages

Jordan McAllister dreams of being a sports columnist, not a food critic. But here she is in the small town of Ranchero, Texas, critiquing local fare when the only thing she knows how to cook up is trouble...

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A Root Awakening

Kate Collins · 324 pages

Abby Knight's marriage may be in full bloom, but house hunting is no bed of roses in latest novel in the "New York Times" bestselling Flower Shop Mystery series... Now that they've tied the knot, flower shop owner Abby Knight and her husband, Marco, want to put down roots. When it comes to picking a house, Marco can't wait to get his hands dirty, while Abby isn't ready for a fixer-upper. But confl

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A Dyeing Shame

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 224 pages

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Senior Snoops

Madison Johns · 244 pages

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The Skeleton in the Closet

Angie Fox · 250 pages

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Hook, Line and Blinker

Jana Deleon · 258 pages

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Murder of a Smart Cookie

Denise Swanson · 260 pages

Yard sales bring out the worst in people. Nobody knows this better than Scumble River school psychologist Skye Denison, organizer of the First Annual Route 66 Yard Sale. Neighborly folk get downright nasty, fighting over plastic knickknacks--even pulling rocking chairs right out from under little old ladies.s.

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It's Just a Little Crush

Caroline Fardig · 263 pages

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Hex Marks the Spot

Madelyn Alt · 256 pages

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Recipes for Love and Murder

Sally Andrew · 419 pages

"A bright new talent makes her fiction debut with this first novel in a delicious crime series set in rural South Africa: a flavorful blend of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and Goldy Schulz, full of humor, romance, and recipes, and featuring a charming cast of characters. Tannie Maria ("tannie" meaning auntie, the respectful Afrikaans address for a woman older than you) is a middle-aged widow

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Scoop to Kill

Wendy Lyn Watson · 236 pages

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Old Haunts

E.J. Copperman

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Gone With the Witch

Heather Blake · 328 pages

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