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Congressional staffer and amateur sleuth Kit Marshall hopes to reconnect with her hippie-turned-techie brother, but the reunion gets complicated, when the body of a high-ranking government official is found at the United States Botanic Garden. Solving the crime becomes a family affair as Kit and her posse set out to identify the killer and unravel the complicated motive behind the murder.
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Washington whodunit volume 3
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The Mayflower Society is about to hold its annual meeting at Washington D.C.'s swanky gathering place for the elite, the Continental Club. That means Kit Marshall's upper-crust future in-laws, Buffy and Winston Hollingsworth, are coming for a visit. Annoyed that Kit has not set a date to marry Doug, Buffy wants her to commit to a high society wedding at the club. Kit, though chief of staff for a congresswoman, feels uncomfortable with Buffy and Winston's...
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Lucien Grey, Viscount Ware, returns to London from his family's country estate to discover his friend and fellow spy Andrew Sherbourne is a fugitive from a charge of murder.
And Sherry is hiding in Lucien's townhouse with Fanny, a small child of two or three. The mother--and murder victim--abandoned the child on Sherry's doorstep, claiming Fanny was his daughter and needed protection from a Frenchman chasing them.
An over-zealous Bow Street...
4) Spiked Punch
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On the other side of seventy, Maddie Sparks decides to spice up her life by changing her writing interests from cozy mysteries to romance. She also determines her appearance should reflect this transformation in her writing career. A sassy new haircut and more fashionable clothes complete the newer Maddie Sparks. Before she can begin this new chapter in her life, a stabbing death in the quiet country village she has made her home shocks the town's...
5) In the Frame
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Rosedale Investigations team has two cases this time: a missing woman and a client who wants a provenance created for an antique painting. The missing woman dies in an accident but the team doubts it was accidental. Researching the century-old painting reveals that it's considered cursed and then it's stolen.
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A woman approaches Rosedale Investigations to report her husband missing. Then another woman arrives to report her husband is missing. When the team sees the photographs of James Browning, they realize it's the same guy; they have a bigamist on their hands. Detective Wayne Nichols locates Browning's car at the local airport and learns the man's been subpoenaed to provide evidence in the trial of a decade-old murder of a police officer-a shooting Browning...
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Home bakery owner and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Kayla Jeffries has been hired for the Gourmet and Stay Valentine's Weekend at the historic Countryside Inn in Los Robles, CA. When one of her fellow cooks is murdered during dinner service, she becomes a person of interest-and a possible suspect.
10) Denied
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PI Kelly Pruett's search to locate a former classmate's missing father ends in what appears to be a tragic accident. Kelly will play a high-risk game of chance with a killer willing to gamble everything to win.
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Wyoming private investigator Reese Golden has been hired by a distraught mother to find her missing 4-year-old daughter. This is no small task, considering that the child has been missing for weeks and has seemingly vanished into thin air.
Unfortunately, the police and the FBI haven't been able to come up with any leads. Reese, a former police detective, was shot on the job, which lead to her departure from the force. She is still rebuilding confidence...
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The fiery festivities of the Symphony's annual Fourth of July extravaganza feature cannons, liberty bells, and fireworks. But the noise covers gunshots which leave a shifty Board member dead and Emily Wilson's friend, KC, the prime suspect. Can Emily face down blackmail, danger, and a threat to her loyal companion to find the killer
13) Rough Ride
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Darcy Moreland is thrilled to be back in her old home town of Cheyenne, Wyoming and working as a reporter for the local TV station, KCWY. As a bonus, Zach Horton, an old college friend is station manager and now her boss. On her first assignment covering the carnival midway of Cheyenne Rodeo Days, a body drops from the top of the Ferris wheel inches from her videographer who was lying on the asphalt to get a special shot. Darcy knew the girl and her...
14) The Blind Split
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Detective Wayne Nichols and Investigator Dory Clarkson have recently joined the staff at Rosedale Investigations, a PI business run by former Detective PD Pascoe and his young side-kick Billy Jo Bradley.
Their first case begins when Cara Summerfield engages Rosedale Investigations to find Danny insisting on complete confidentiality. She's received a letter from her son Danny's girlfriend saying he's been assaulted for unpaid gambling debts. She wants...
15) Look Twice
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Genealogists can uncover more than family trees. Johanna Hudson, with her archeologist business partner and astute office assistant take on a client who claims to witness a high-profile murder and wants the reward, but it becomes a race to stay alive to collect.
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Would you buy a "cursed" diamond? New York diamond dealer Max Rosen would. He doesn't believe in curses. But that was before the wife of the famous jeweler who sold him a supposedly "cursed" gem ended up dead. Soon, Max's daughter-journalist-turned-amateur-sleuth Mimi Rosen-and her policeman boyfriend are drawn into the dark history of the jeweler's powerful family. The trail leads Mimi to their opulent mansion, where she uncovers long-buried scandals,...
17) Renewal
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The glamorous wife of Timbergate's billionaire philanthropist runs for mayor but dies of a suspicious opioid overdose just before election day. When hospital librarian Aimee Machado uses her forensic research, she encounters a web of secrets that puts her life at risk.
18) Dead as a Duck
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Congressional staffer Kit Marshall is looking forward to a much-deserved summer vacation in the Outer Banks. When the mayor of the beach town turns up dead, Kit and her friends need to put their fun on hold to help solve the crime.
19) K Street Killing
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Washington whodunit volume 4
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It's the height of campaign season,
and instead of relishing newlywed bliss
with her husband Doug Hollingsworth,
Capitol Hill staff er Kit Marshall is busy
with a tough reelection fi ght for her
boss, member of Congress Maeve
Dixon. Before Maeve and her staff -
Kit included-leave Washington, D.C.
to campaign full time in North Carolina,
they have one last fundraising
engagement.
On the iconic rooftop of a restaurant
overlooking the Capitol...
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Chocolate should not be associated with sudden death. Claire is only guiding readers to the sites of mystery books; she isn't responsible for the body in the chocolate factory. She doesn't want to discover murder in the city of York or any part of Yorkshire where she takes her curious tourists.
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