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A Pedigree to Die For

Laurien Berenson · 288 pages

Win, Place...Or Die. The apparent heart attack that killed kennel owner Max Turnbull has left seven pups in mourning, and his wife Peg suspecting foul play. But the only evidence is their missing prize pooch--a pedigreed poodle named Beau. Enter Melanie Travis. With her young son happily ensconced in day damp, the thirty-something teacher and single mother is talked into investigating her uncl

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A Really Cute Corpse

Joan Hess · 256 pages

When Claire Malloy's best friend Luanne Bradshaw goes down with a badly sprained ankle, someone must fill in her shoes as Thurberfest beauty Pageant coordinator and usher a bevy of aspiring beauty queen through the two-day event. Enter Claire Malloy to the rescue. But this is one job Claire would gladly be fired from. Now, already fending off a hostile theater owner, and overly-agressive personal

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Photo, Snap, Shot

Joanna Campbell Slan

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Murder at the PTA

Laura Alden

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Catering to Nobody

Diane Mott Davidson · 266 pages

Catering a wake is not Goldy’s idea of fun. Yet the Colorado caterer throws herself into preparing a savory feast including Poached Salmon and Strawberry Shortcake Buffet designed to soothe forty mourners. And her culinary efforts seem to be exactly what the doctor ordered...until her ex-father-in-law gynecologist Fritz Korman is struck down and Goldy is accused of adding poison to the menu. Now,

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Night of the Living Deed

E.J. Copperman

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Owls Well That Ends Well

Donna Andrews · 322 pages

Meg and Michael are having a garage sale to empty their new house of all the clutter gathered by the Sprocketts. The sale brings an influx of relatives and a horde of visitors. A bargain seeker wants to buy a chest but insists on seeing inside it first - when Meg unlocks it a body is found and a murder investigation begins with a vast array of suspects from the large crowd that just wants to shop

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Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials

Ovidia Yu · 360 pages

"Rosie "Aunty" Lee, the feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant, is back in another delectable, witty mystery involving scandal and murder among the city's elite. Few know more about what goes on in Singapore than Aunty Lee. When a scandal over illegal organ donation involving prominent citizens makes news, she already has a list of suspects.

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Better Homes and Corpses

Kathleen Bridge · 292 pages

"After Meg Barrett found her fiance still had designs on his ex-wife, she decided it was time to refurbish her life. Leaving her glamorous job at a top home and garden magazine, she fled Manhattan for Montauk, only to find decorating can sometimes lead to detecting...In between scouring estate sales for her new interior design business, Cottages by the Sea, Meg visits the swanky East Hampton home

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Close-up on Murder

Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain · 278 pages

Art imitates life when a movie crew filming an adaptation of a case solved by sleuth Jessica Fletcher in her hometown of Cabot Cove experiences a murder mystery of their own.

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If Walls Could Talk

Juliet Blackwell

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Mrs, Presumed Dead

Simon Brett · 248 pages

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Mrs. Jeffries on the Trail

Emily Brightwell

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Murder at the Lighthouse

Frances Evesham · 186 pages

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A Skeleton in the Family

Leigh Perry · 291 pages

Moving back into her parents' house with her teenage daughter had not been Georgia Thackery's "Plan A." But when she got a job at the local college, it seemed the sensible thing to do. So she settled in and began reconnecting with old friends. Including Sid. Sid is the Thackery family's skeleton. He's lived in the house as long as Georgia can remember, although no one, including Sid, knows exactly

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Eggs in Purgatory

Laura Childs · 289 pages

Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lose their husbands but find independence when they open the Cackleberry Club. Then their cozy cafe becomes the scene of a crime when a lawyer dies with a secret on his lips and egg on his face. What this all has to do with a religious cult and Suzanne's past could put her own life on the line.

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By Hook or by Crook

Betty Hechtman

Meet the happy crafter who believes every mystery should be unraveled. Meet the happy crafter who believes every mystery should be unraveled.Molly Pink’s crochet group has a new mystery on their hands when they find a paper bag that contains a note that speaks of remorse, a diary entry of the sorrow of parting, and a complicated piece of filet crochet that offers an obscure clue in pictures. Thing

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Goose in the Pond

Earlene Fowler · 305 pages

Benni Harper--spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk art expert--finds herself on the trail of killer in this brand-new mystery from Agatha Award-nominee Earlene Fowler...When Benni finds a dead woman lying facedown in the lake, dressed in a Mother Goose costume, her investigation takes her inside the Storyteller?s Guild.There she discovers that Mother Goose was telling more than fairy tales--she

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The Withdrawing Room

Charlotte MacLeod · 192 pages

Though the inheritance from her dearly departed Alexander was meant to set Sarah Kelling up for life, it vanishes quickly in the face of hounding from charitable organizations and the IRS. Facing the loss of her stately Beacon Hill brownstone, Sarah opens her home to lodgers—deciding she prefers a boardinghouse to the poorhouse. Soon she is cooking meals and serving tea for a cast of quirky reside

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We Solve Murders

Richard Osman · 460 pages

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life in the New Forest. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he likes his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he gets home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul: she doesn’t stay still long enough fo

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Murder, Plain and Simple

Isabella Alan · 368 pages

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A Crafty Killing

Lorraine Bartlett

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Murder, My Suite

Mary Daheim · 261 pages

Gossip columnist Dagmar Delacroix Chatsworth and her yappy lapdog Rover's recent stay at the Hillside manor left hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's nerves, and best bed linens, in tatters.So Judith joins cousin Renie for some well-earned off-season R&R at Canada's famous Bugler Ski Resort -- only to discover with horror that the swanky getaway is the next stop on detestable Dagmar's itinerary.But it

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