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This wickedly funny English whodunit was a Mystery Guild Main Selection. Its spunky heroine, interior decorator Ellie Haskell, aspires to live a perfectly normal life with her husband and children in their lovely old house. But bizarre events and outlandish characters keep landing on her doorstep in Chitterton Fells, the charming little village by the sea. Just when Ellie means to escape her hectic life by taking a vacation in France, her long-lost...
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Minotaur Books
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c2009
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Lord Belfrey of Mucklesfeld Manor has decided to save his crumbling establishment by offering himself as the prize on a TV reality show, but after one of his potential brides is shot during an archery contest, Ellie Haskell begins to explore the dark passageways and hidden nooks of Belfrey's delightfully Gothic estate--unprepared for the secrets lurking behind closed doors.
4) Femmes Fatal
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Before her beautiful bouncing babies came along, Ellie Haskell's life was a fairy tale. Marriage to the gorgeous super-chef Ben was going swimmingly before every day was filled with nappies, bottles and laundry.
Determined to revive her love life, Ellie joins a new local ladies' group, Fully Female, which promises to restore some oomph back to her relationship by way of a Peach Melba Love Rub.
But before long, things start going fatally wrong in...
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Chitterton Fells is all of a flutter. Along with every female member of the village Library League, Ellie Haskell has developed a veritable obsession with novels of the romance variety. The steamier, the better . . .
But tragedy strikes when Miss Bunch the librarian is found dead between the non-fiction stacks. Then the local milkman collapses in broad daylight.
Ellie decides that two heart attacks in one week is more than a little bit suspicious,...
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Ellie Simons's delightful mother-in-law comes to visit for a simply lovely weekend of crocheted doilies, thinly-veiled insults, and passive-aggressive "suggestions."
It's enough to make anyone wish their mother-in-law was dead. But it turns out the ladies of Chitterton Fells should be more careful what they wish for. Only last night Ellie and her friends raised their gin and tonics to toast an end to mothers-in-law the world over...
The next day,...
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Award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a delectable English cozy murder mystery . . . to die for.
Married to the man of her dreams and expecting a darling little bundle of joy, Ellie Haskell is excited to put her feet up and play the part of pampered wife for the next nine months.
But handsome hubby Ben has other ideas. He whisks her off to America for an exclusive gourmet cooking competition in Mud Creek, Illinois. And worse, they're staying...
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Voted one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association of America
In this delectable debut that earned her instant acclaim, award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a cozy murder mystery to be savored...
Ellie Simons stands to inherit her Uncle Merlin's huge English country house. But on three utterly bizarre conditions. One: she must lose sixty-three pounds (rude!). Two: she must marry...
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Award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a delectable English cozy murder mystery.
The men of Chitterton Fells are dropping like flies. And the membership of the Widows Club is growing bigger every day...
Newlywed Ellie Haskell (nee Simons, thank you very much) is settling nicely into married bliss in the charming village of Chitterton Fells.
Until she receives an alarming visit from Misses Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, of Flowers Detective...
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