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---The hometown everyone wants to call their own gets a spotlight-Even with all her experience, Gloria Bachman, retired banker and candy entrepreneur, didn't see this coming.Sweeties, the beloved Comfort chocolate shop, was ready for its cameo in Jazzy Mezcal's famous travel and food show-advertising extraordinaire! Comfort town folks had worked hard all summer to get their shops "Hallmark movie ready." On the eve of TV crews taking over the town,...
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Secrets are revealed. Lies are exposed. And in order to have a future, William and Eva will have to delve into the past.
William Templeton, widower and police chief of Eden, North Carolina is working the scene of a local woman's drowning when the body is found with an old gold coin in her pocket – identical to a coin that was discovered on Catherine's body, his estranged wife, over a year ago. Catherine's case, originally deemed a tragic accident,...
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During a lucid moment, an Alzheimer's patient tells amateur sleuth BIodina d'Angelo that 40 years ago he killed his lumberyard partner in the Cascades of Washington state. Biodina begins searching historical records, and a clever fraud scheme is uncovered, along with news articles about a missing lumberyard owner. Along the way, her intuitive nature and nosiness helps her uncover another murder of a well-respected record producer. Will the murderess...
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Wyatt Antone's life as a gig-to-gig jazz musician folds back upon itself when he meets a mysterious young woman we eventually come to know as 'Jazmine'. After a series of 'coincidental' encounters, Wyatt begins to suspect there is a cunning design behind the meetings. With the help of his jazz mate and would be lover, Elise Marchant, Wyatt attempts to unravel the puzzle of the woman's true identity and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation...
5) Bottled Up
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A weekend getaway to a beautiful beachside town with an old friend should have been a relaxing change of pace for Dell Powers.But then, when is her life ever relaxing?While walking on the beach Dell discovers a quite unique, antique bottle complete with a note inside. Thinking it would make a great addition to her Inn, she digs it out of the sand.Her weekend takes a turn for the dangerous shortly after, so Dell packs up and heads home early, where...
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A Murder at the Retirement Home... A Missing Woman... And Missing Money!Cookie can't believe it when Jerry tells her that her friend Sheila Tucker is dead. Everybody loved Sheila and she didn't have an enemy in the world... or so Cookie thought.Sheila must have had at least one. So who could have hated her enough to throw her from the balcony of her room at the retirement home where she lived? If murder wasn't bad enough... Sheila's daughter is also...
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No Ordinary Murder!When Miranda and Jack (and Kyle) decide to take a mini vacation they can't believe their bad luck. From almost the moment they arrive at their destination they find themselves entangled in yet another murder investigation.Jack Travis is shocked to discover that the victim, a fellow police officer, is a man he knows and respects. Was he there on vacation or was he working undercover?No one seems to know and were not even aware that...
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Stop by for some comfortable visits to Stewart's Crossing, where reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan and his crime-sniffing golden retriever Rochester are nose to the ground in this collection of mystery short stories that take place between novels. In the first of these stories, Steve is learning to love the big, goofy golden he has inherited on the death of his neighbor, and Rochester shows him how to open his heart and his home to his sweetheart...
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In Hollywood, deadly secrets lurk just behind the scenes.
Scarlett Norris is Hollywood's darling, an award-winning actress on her way to the top. To her younger sister, Angie, she is all that and more-beautiful, loving, fearless, and a guiding light-things Angie believes she herself could never be. When Scarlett suddenly commits suicide, Angie is devastated, but something keeps nagging at her. Scarlett would never do such a thing. Would she?
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The Theft of a Valuable Chalice... Another Mystery... And a Baby (or Two)!!!Legend tells the story of the priceless Van Diemen's Land Chalice. Believed to be hundreds of years old the myth says that whoever holds it has possession of Tasmania!When a local celebrity claims the Chalice has been stolen from his property, Dell Powers gets drawn into the mystery.Was the Chalice really stolen and is it even real? Or is this just an elaborate publicity stunt?If...
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The Circus... An Acrobat... And Murder... When a former student is accused of killing Hannah Brady, the Soaring Swan, Molly Wright gets involved against the wishes of her cop boyfriend. She believes without a shadow of a doubt that Opal Jennings is innocent. But the further into the investigation Molly gets the more the evidence points to Opal. Did she actually do it? Molly doesn't believe it for a moment and as she gets closer to discovering who...
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A New Marriage... A Desperate Granddaughter... And An Old Mystery...When a man caught breaking and entering claims to have new information in a decades old mystery, Cookie can't help but get involved.The new information seems to indicate that one of the town's residents was involved all those years ago and Cookie is having a difficult time believing it.If that isn't enough to deal with Cookie's granddaughter, Clarissa, arrives unexpectedly on her...
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A belated Honeymoon... New friends... and another Murder!Cookie and Jerry, along with Cream, are motor-homing their way around the country for their honeymoon. Along the way, they've made a lot of new friends. The trip is going great as they spend endless hours alone together seeing the sights, away from the worries of Widow's Rest.But the fun ends when one of those new friends is found dead and they find themselves in the middle of another murder...
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Criminology student Kaitlynn Dahl faces her toughest exam yet: solve a murder or become the next victim!
Still grieving the loss of a dear friend, Kaitlynn seeks refuge in the thrilling world of crime solving, and when she's offered the chance to take part in a murder mystery dinner hosted by her professor in a grand Victorian mansion, she jumps at the distraction. But what begins as a game of Clue soon turns into a deadly reality.
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15) Murder Runs Deep
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Another Body on the Beach... Another Mystery to Solve! Miranda Wylder is back in her first full length book. When a very agitated man comes banging on Ragged Rest's back door Miranda Wylder feels a sudden sense of foreboding. What could he possibly want? There's a body on the beach and he needs the police. Luckily Jack is there already and is straight onto the job. Miranda gets a sense of deja vu. This scene looks very similar to the murder that she...
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Third in the multiple-award-winning Evan Wycliff Mystery series.
Guest preacher and part-time investigator Evan Wycliff reluctantly takes on the role of full-time minister and walks straight into more responsibility and trouble than he can handle. He attends to near-death experience, late-stage dementia, long-term coma, and consequences of the pandemic. His old nemesis investment banker Stuart Shackleton is back - and claims to be converted! Shackleton's...
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Set against the backdrop of 1930s England, Miss Quinn and Miss Abbott arrive on a perfect little holiday spot, but when one of their hosts is found dead at the bottom of a cliff, they have to ask themselves, was it suicide or murder?
Now, trapped between love, jealousy, and a murder investigation, Miss Abbott and Miss Quinn will discover how far people are willing to go for love, and the lengths people will go to, to prove its worth.
18) The Imposter
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A vigilante prepared for war. Thirteen kidnapped criminals. One child still missing.Julian Lime has given his foster sister a baby, but when her dead body is discovered in the garage of a brothel, and the gangsters find Russel's crib is empty, the city descends into turmoil. The police cannot be involved, but the headquarters of bikers, the dens of drug dealers, and the safe houses of money launderers must be searched. Death is inevitable, and Julian...
19) Light Fiasco
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Rome in the early 2000's. Jeff Molan's life as a university professor in Rome is largely serene, if occasionally monotonous. But when a colleague he can't stand mysteriously goes missing, he is thrust into the spotlight as a suspect. The police are asking questions and shady figures loom, forcing Jeff to ignore his acid reflux and do something about the whole affair. Fighting nerves and an inbuilt cowardice, he must bumble his way towards the truth...
20) A Cup of Death
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A Break in at Ragged Rest... A Dead Man at the Door... Another Mystery to Solve... After returning home from her chaotic weekend away, Miranda Wylder discovers that her home has been burgled. But, the intruder did not steal any of her possessions... The only thing that was taken were a few pages from an old police report concerning her Aunt Connie's disappearance. Clearly, Miranda isn't the only one interested in what became of her aunt. But who...
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