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"I need your help." Those were the last words Maddalena D'Angelo expected to hear from Chief Alvin DeRoche when he requested her presence at the police station. A young woman is missing and her mother wants Maddalena to do a spirit portrait of her daughter to see if it will reveal any clues as to her whereabouts. Maddalena, together with Max, follow one of the clues to a hotel in town. While investigating, they discover another woman dead in one of...
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It's Halloween in Verdant Falls and Evangeline Moon is reporting... This time, it's a puzzling art theft that has her attention.When a masterpiece depicting Ichabod Crane's harrowing escape from the Headless Horseman is stolen from the local art museum, Evangeline's curiosity is piqued. As she begins her investigation, a surprising twist emerges: buried secrets intertwine with the stolen artwork. As the tension mounts, Evangeline finds herself accompanied...
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An exploding kitchen... A theft... Another mystery to solve! When Dell Powers is ripped out of an interesting dream by the room shaking around her she is confused, dazed and in fight-or-flight mode. What on earth was that? A soufflé apparently. How on earth can a soufflé cause an explosion? Rosie Ryan holds the answer. Discovering a massive hole in the kitchen wall Dell resigns herself to the fact that there's another insurance claim in her immediate...
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Valeria Cosoi was always on the hunt for bargains to offer in her shop. So, while rummaging through items at an antique store closing sale she spotted a box of rings and grabbed a couple of nice ones that she thinks will sell well. Little did she know that one of the rings came with a little something extra attached. A ghost! Valeria discovers that this ghost was a victim of murder and once again, her help is needed to find out what really happened...
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A wedding... A murder... A missing bride... In a small town like Pine Lake, weddings are always big news so it's not surprising that the Pine Lake Inn is all abuzz with the impending nuptials. A wedding is supposed to be a wonderful, joyous occasion but when the bride-to-be goes missing just two days before the ceremony there is a race against the clock to find her. It soon becomes clear that this isn't just a case of cold feet when the ghost of a...
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Past mistakes lead to present problems and murder...Maddalena D'Angelo is no stranger to helping people, but when an early morning visitor comes to her door looking for help it's the last person she would expect... Chief Alvin DeRoche. He has made it clear in the past that he does not care for Maddalena's assistance, however, this time it's different. This time it's personal. An old friend of his has been murdered! Maddalena can't say no and agrees...
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Past trauma meets the present... When someone from Valeria Cosoi's past sends her a package in the mail, she is tempted to just send it right back. But when she sees the very personal contents inside, her world is tipped upside down, as she realizes what she has believed about the past isn't really true. Valeria reluctantly sets out to uncover the truth, only to quickly meet resistance. A threat is made, one that has been carried out before... Can...
8) 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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Darcy Sweet would like to think that she is just an ordinary woman, happy in her life running the Sweet Read bookstore. But she isn't ordinary. She has a connection to the other side that seems to draw her into mysterious situations more often than not. Add to the mix the antics of a rather naughty, slightly psychic cat and the eccentric ghost of her great-aunt Millie, and you have a recipe for anything but the ordinary. When Darcy's neighbor is murdered...
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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...
11) 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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An Old Love... A New Love... and Murder!Many years ago, Jack Travis was madly in love with Anya Westfield who broke his heart when she cheated on him. When she dies in suspicious circumstances Jack and Miranda (and Kyle) are drawn into the investigation. They discover that Anya had a secret which got her killed.The more they uncover about Anya's life the less Jack realizes he knew about her. The trio must keep their wits about them and use all of...
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It's not everyday that a writer gets offered ten thousand dollars to write a memoir. Which is why Miranda Wylder is surprised to receive an invitation to speak with a wealthy stock investor about immortalizing his life in print.But when one of the other guests at the manor dies, the deal of a lifetime goes out the window. Miranda works to discover what caused the woman to die and why did her ghost not rise from the body?The old man's family is troubled...
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Lights... Camera... Action!It's not every day that a film is premiered in the small town of Moonlight Bay. So when Miranda Wylder and her friend Sapphire are invited to take part, they are more than happy to accept the invitation. But things go terribly wrong when Miranda discovers the body of a murdered woman in the Ladies room. The victim was in a new relationship with Jean-Paul Deveraux, one of her new friends, and he blames himself for her death.Miranda...
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A wedding on a cruise ship! What could be better than that?Karen 'Cookie' Williams thought not too much. She was having the most wonderful romantic time until someone close to her was found murdered on board.With no real security team and endless miles of ocean between them and the nearest shore Cookie once again found herself in the middle of a murder mystery.Things become dire when another of her loved ones disappears and her own life is threatened....
16) 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...
17) Close to Home
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"Dell! You have to come back to the Inn, right now!"They're not the kind of words you want to hear when you answer your phone. Dell Powers knew that it was never a good sign when her friend and business partner, Rosie, was in such a panicked state about something.Dell's first reaction was to wonder what had blown up this time. With Rosie you just never knew. It could be the stove had caught fire again or any number of things that seem to happen spontaneously...
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Cookie could feel it in her bones... there's another mystery starting in Widow's Rest...Retirement had seemed like such a great idea but wasn't all it's cracked up to be. And Cookie is beginning to feel downright bored! Nothing ever happens on Peachtree street - where she and Jerry now live - at least, until Cookie sees a mysterious black car leaving the seemingly abandoned house across the road.She is certain that house is empty so, what's that all...
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Cookie's life should be problem free as she cooked for the Widow's Rest Centennial and planned her wedding to Jerry. There was this little flutter that she got in her belly every time she remembered how close her wedding actually was. Just two months away.But once again things don't go according to plan.A prophetic dream. A concealed door. Another murder in Cookie's bakery.Why did these things keep happening?
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The Secrets in Shadow Lake Run Deep... Nobody but a chosen few know the real history of the town, or what lies beneath the still surface of the lake... As members of the Kilorian Coven, Addie and her two sisters, Kiera and Willow, were born to the use of magic. Together the three are the sworn protectors of Shadow Lake, tasked with keeping evil at bay and the townsfolk safe. When a dead body is found on Luna Moth Trail Addie is forced to get involved...
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