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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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Thirty-Two and a Half Complications

Denise Grover Swank · 374 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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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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Bubba and the Dead Woman

C.L. Bevill · 300 pages

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Strangled Prose

Joan Hess · 187 pages

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Weapons of Mass Distraction

Camilla Chafer · 316 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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The Skeleton in the Closet

Angie Fox · 250 pages

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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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Would-Be Witch

Kimberly Frost · 294 pages

The promising debut of a hot new voice in paranormal romance—and the first of the Southern Witch novels.The family magic seems to have skipped over Tammy Jo Trask. All she gets are a few untimely visits from long-dead, smart-mouthed family ghost Edie. But when her locket—an heirloom that happens to hold Edie's soul—is stolen in the midst of a town-wide crime spree, it's time for Tammy to find her

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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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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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Pretty is as Pretty Dies

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 210 pages

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Real Murders

Charlaine Harris

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Whiskey for Breakfast

Liliana Hart · 312 pages

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What Looks Like Crazy

Charlotte Hughes · 288 pages

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Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House

M.C. Beaton · 288 pages

Agatha Raisin tries to ignore the charms of her new neighbour, Paul Chatterton, but he soon lures her into an investigation. Paul has heard about Agatha's Cotswold sleuthing and wastes no time offering their services to the owner of a haunted house.

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A Dead and Stormy Night

Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages

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The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing

Sheila Turnage · 352 pages

"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"-- When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo auction, Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale set out to solve their second big case

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Double Whammy

Gretchen Archer · 299 pages

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Better Off Dead in Deadwood

Ann Charles · 397 pages

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Dixie Divas

Virginia Brown · 307 pages

"... Eureka "Trinket" Truevine, the newest Diva, gets more than she bargained for when she finds her best Diva girlfriend Bitty Hollandale's ex-husband in Bitty's hall closet. He's dead. Very dead. Now Trinket and the Divas have to help Bitty finger the murderer and clear her name..."--p. [4] of cover.

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