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The Square Root of Murder

Ada Madison · 292 pages

While celebrating famous scholars of the past with her students, Dr. Sophie Knowles, a much loved math teacher at Henley College, must add up the clues to prove her assistant's innocence when she is accused of killing Dr. Keith Appleton, the most disliked professor on campus.

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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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Hula Done It?

Maddy Hunter · 323 pages

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Aunty Lee's Delights

Ovidia Yu · 264 pages

Occasional sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant, feisty widow Rosie "Aunty" Lee helps rookie Police Commissioner Raja investigate the murder of one of her wealthy patrons by using her connections and uncanny ability to track down clues.

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Murder Runs in the Family

Anne George · 265 pages

Mary Alice has spared nothing for her only daughter's wedding -- from seventy-five yards of bridal train to gourmet food for over three hundred guests and enough glittering elegance to make Mary Alice think about finding herself a fourth rich husband to pay for it all. Practical Patricia Anne has put away her aunt-of-the-bride blue chiffon and settled back into domesticity when fun-loving Mary Ali

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Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie · 256 pages

***Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie.*** Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard. His wife Anne admits newly arrived artist Lawrence Redding is an old flame, and both confess to murder. **The local inspector and Miss Marple sort

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Ghost at Work

Carolyn G. Hart · 290 pages

When the pastor's wife discovers a murdered body on her porch, ghost sleuth Bailey Ruth Raeburn applies her beyond-the-grave talents for solving puzzles to keep suspicion from falling on the innocent pastor.

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How to Seal Your Own Fate

Kristen Perrin · 320 pages

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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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Witch Miss Seeton

Heron Carvic · 192 pages

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Miss Julia to the Rescue

Ann B. Ross · 305 pages

"Can Miss Julia spring J.D. Pickens from a sheriff's clutches and investigate a cult--plus keep up appearances as a proper Southern lady?"--

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Mrs. Pargeter's Pound of Flesh

Simon Brett · 208 pages

Mrs Pargeter and her friend visit the exclusvie Brotherton Hall health spa, where she investigates a young woman's death

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Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump

Emily Brightwell · 256 pages

Mrs. Jeffries must swim upstream to catch a killer.Successful local Michael Provost had no enemies, yet he was found dead off the Chelsea Vestry Wharf. With the help of her staff, Mrs. Jeffries dives into an investigation that leads to an earlier crime—and even more questions.

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The Queen's Jewels

Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain

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Digging Up the Dirt

Miranda James · 354 pages

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Marriage Can Be Murder

Susan Santangelo · 237 pages

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The Tell-tale Horse

Rita Mae Brown · 304 pages

The hunt is on in this new installment of Rita Mae Brown's clever and engaging series. Only instead of chasing foxes into their dens, the locals must track down a killer and save the life of one of the most beloved folks in town. It's February, prime foxhunting season for the members of Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club. The girls at Custis Hall are finishing their last semester before heading off to

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Dying to Retire

Jessica Fletcher · 260 pages

Jessica Fletcher is in a Florida retirement community for the funeral of a dear old friend whose heart gave out-only to discover that the woman's death from natural causes may have been artificially induced.With the help of a feisty group of young-in-spirit retirees, Jessica must track down the clues and find out who prescribed the fatal treatment...

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Miss Zukas and the Island Murders

Jo Dereske · 288 pages

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Murder Grins and Bears It

Deb Baker · 280 pages

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Crewel Yule

Monica Ferris · 256 pages

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Death By Lotto

Abigail Keam · 172 pages

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The Secret Ingredient Murders

Nancy Pickard · 282 pages

While visiting the Rhode Island coast, cook/sleuth Eugenia Potter cohosts a tasting party with an old acquaintance--but he's late. Unfortunately, someone has murdered the would-be cookbook writer.

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