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Sins & Needles

Karina Halle · 359 pages

Ellie Watt is used to starting over. The daughter of a grifting team, Ellie spent her childhood being used as a pawn in her parents' latest scam. Now she's much older, wiser and ready to give her con artist life a rest. But returning to the dry desert town of Palm Valley, Callifornia means one more temptation than she bargained for-Camden McQueen.

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Hot Ink

Ranae Rose · 156 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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Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos

Donna Andrews · 293 pages

Every year, Yorktown, Virginia, relives its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. This year, plans include a re-enactment of the original battle and a colonial craft fair. Meg Langslow has returned to her home town for the festivities--and to sell her wrought-iron works of art. Except, of course, for the pink-painted flamingos she reluctantl

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All of You

Christina Lee · 304 pages

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High Strung

Janice Peacock · 228 pages

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Miss Seeton Draws the Line

Heron Carvic · 254 pages

Fans of Dorothy Gilman's Mrs Pollifax or E.F. Benson's Mapp & Lucia will love Carvic’s classic humorous cozies. Retired art teacher Miss Seeton steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles. Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, she is every inch an eccentric English spinster and the most lovable and unlikely master of detection . . . When Miss Seeton walks out of a performance of Carmen and

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Brush With Death

Juliet Blackwell · 336 pages

Former-forger turned faux-finisher Annie Kincaid hopes that if she can help return an alleged masterpiece to Italy, her sketchy reputation will finally be redeemed. But when a sexy art thief-and murder-enter the picture, Annie realizes that it won't be so easy to put things to rest.

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A Brush with Death

Elizabeth J. Duncan · 281 pages

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Twice As Dead

Sue Ann Jaffarian · 295 pages

"Corpse magnet Odelia Grey is at it again--stumbling across a dead body at a wedding reception while 'Achy Breaky Heart' plays in the background. Bodies are turning up so fast that Odelia enlists the help of her family and friends--Greg, Seth, Zee, Detective Frye, her half brother Clark, even her pompous boss Michael Steele. But solving a mystery is twice as hard when the victims have more secrets

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Drawn Together

Lauren Dane · 290 pages

Tattoo artist Raven Smith is blunt and hard, broken and jaded. She's free sexually-- but no one gets to the real Raven beneath the prickly exterior. Jonah Warner is a smooth-talking, highly successful attorney, with a body that should never be hidden by a suit. He never takes no for an answer and always gets what he wants. And what he wants is Raven. He makes her break all her rules-- until a figu

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Pane and Suffering

Cheryl Hollon · 320 pages

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Weapons of Mass Distraction

Camilla Chafer · 316 pages

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The Boy with the Painful Tattoo

Josh Lanyon · 275 pages

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Portrait of a Dead Guy

Larissa Reinhart · 280 pages

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Through a Glass, Deadly

Sarah Atwell · 288 pages

Glassblower Emmeline Dowell has made a home for herself among the artists of Tucson's Warehouse District. But her friendship with troubled newcomer Allison McBride takes a dangerous turn when Allison's husband turns up dead in Em's studio.Now Emmeline is involved in a murder investigation that reaches beyond the sunny Southwest. And when the killer acts again, it's up to her to pick up the shards

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Stuck on Murder

Jenn McKinlay · 276 pages

In the small New England town of Morse Point, Brenna Miller glosses over her painful past by watching her decoupage students create eye-catching projects out of cutouts, glue, and varnish. But when the mayor's body is found stuffed in a trunk at Morse Point Lake, it's up to Brenna to clear her enigmatic landlord's name of murder—before his fate is signed, sealed and delivered.

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Photo, Snap, Shot

Joanna Campbell Slan

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Mama Gets Hitched

Deborah Sharp · 377 pages

According to Mama, a Gone with the Wind-themed wedding - including a ring-bearing Pomeranian - is just fine for her fifth trip down the aisle. But what's a bridezilla to do when the caterer is murdered? Mama's gator-wrestling daughter Mace is getting the dirt on who did it, but the suspect list is longer than the gift registry. Now Mace must track down the killer before Mama's Special Day turns es

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Hell Hath No Curry

Tamar Myers · 280 pages

National bestselling author Tamar Myers turns up the spicePraise for the Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries:Includes tasty curry recipes!Three days before he's due to tie the knot with Priscilla Livengood, eligible bachelor Cornelious Weaver suffers a massive heart attack-in another woman's bed. The scandal is about as good as television for the insular citizens of Hernia, Pennsylvania, and it gets even

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Unleashed

Laurien Berenson · 284 pages

"Summer means two things to Melanie Travis; a break from her teaching duties at Connecticut's elite Howard Academy and a chance to plan the perfect wedding to her fiancé, Sam. She certainly doesn't need the unwelcome arrival of a dinner invitation "peace offering" from Sam's ex-wife, Sheila Vaughn."--Jacket.

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Death Comes eCalling

Leslie O'Kane · 267 pages

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A Familiar Tail

Delia James · 328 pages

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