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Louise Pearlie mysteries volume 2
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Young widow Louise Pearlie becomes embroiled in a perilous game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies and banished royalty in this wartime novel of suspense. It's 1942 in Washington, DC. Louise Pearlie is now a chief file clerk at the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA, and enjoying being an independent, working woman despite wartime privations. But a casual friendship struck up with Alessa di Luca, a secretive war refugee, sucks Louise into a dangerous...
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Louise Pearlie mysteries volume 3
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Young widow Louise Pearlie seizes a chance to escape the typewriters and files of the Office of Strategic Services, the United States' World War II spy agency, when she's asked to investigate a puzzling postcard referred to OSS by the US Censor. She and FBI agent Gray Williams head off to St. Leonard, Maryland, to talk to the postcard's recipient, one Leroy Martin. But what seemed like a straightforward mission to Louise soon becomes complicated....
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New England's lesbian senior sleuths return in "this winning second entry in a thriller series you simply must try" (Library Journal).
Widows Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss are exploring their newfound romance when they are woken early by the sound of sirens. The local nursing home in their quaint Connecticut town is ablaze. Thankfully, the residents are safe and sound, including Ada's mother. Administrative director Delia...
Widows Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss are exploring their newfound romance when they are woken early by the sound of sirens. The local nursing home in their quaint Connecticut town is ablaze. Thankfully, the residents are safe and sound, including Ada's mother. Administrative director Delia...
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Gourmet pet chef Kitty Karlyle must once again draw on her sleuthing skills when her best friend is suspected of murder. Kitty Karlyle is skeptical when a pet psychologist tells her that her cat and dog are suffering from depression and recommends a pet-centric vacation. Her producer, however, thinks it's a great idea, and seizes the opportunity to shoot the next episode of Kitty's TV cooking show, The Pampered Pet, on location at the luxurious Little...
5) Empty Houses
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Mystery series debut: Newly arrived in Arizona, Kate finds her hideaway shattered by the murder of two tourists-and Kate fears she may be next. Dudley, Arizona, is an isolated desert town that attracts people who need to escape: Kate Waters flees there following an abusive relationship and Phoenix cop Malcolm MacGregor comes to recover from the death of his wife. No one knows why Carrie and Wes Cooper arrived. But when they are shot dead, the police...
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Kit Doyle novels volume 1
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A California talk radio host turns amateur sleuth to solve her mother's murder-and prevent her own-in this mystery series debut. When Kit Doyle's near-perfect mother tells her about the letter she's written and locked away-a letter to be read only "if anything should happen" to her-Kit thinks she's being melodramatic. But the next day Kit's mother is dead-and what she reads in that letter will change Kit's life forever. Armed with nothing but the...
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Hannah can't resist a leading role in a historical reality show, but she never expected murder to be the main theme. Lights, camera, murder... It doesn't take much arm-twisting to persuade Hannah Ives to join the twelve-strong cast of Patriot House, 1774, a reality show recreating eighteenth-century colonial life during the turbulent days leading up to the American Revolution. But when a member of the production crew is found murdered, it's up to...
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Kit Doyle novels volume 2
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Talk radio host Kit Doyle goes undercover as a teenaged runaway in this mystery series. Seventeen-year-old Jessica is missing. There are no clues as to why she disappeared-apart from the note she left behind: "I love you. Goodbye forever." It turns out that Jessica is not the first teenager to have gone missing, nor the first to have left exactly the same note. With a family connection to the missing girl, crime blogger and radio host Kit Doyle is...
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A retired teacher and her friend are caught up in a mystery when they visit Glastonbury, one of Britain's most fascinating historical sites… Hilary is a recently retired teacher, and with time on her hands-and her husband away doing volunteer work in war-torn Gaza-she needs a distraction. So she invites her good friend Veronica, a recent widow, to accompany her on a trip to Glastonbury, to see the ancient sights. The pair is saddened to discover...
10) Dark Passage
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When a family cruise ship vacation goes from overjoyed to overboard, amateur sleuth Hannah Ives dives in to solve a mystery. Hannah, her sisters, and fourteen-year-old niece Julie set sail from Baltimore on a bonding cruise, and have a dramatic first night when Pia Fanucci, a bubbly bartender magician's assistant whom Hannah befriends, narrowly escapes injury during an illusion. But while Pia may make light of the incident, it's no laughing matter...
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Gourmet pet chef Kitty Karlyle must draw on more than her TV presenting skills when the producer of a new cooking show is found stabbed to death. Pet chef Kitty Karlyle serves gourmet meals to pampered canines, cats, birds, snakes (ugh), Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs and most any other pet belonging to her wealthy and quirky LA clientele. This is a town where pets have their own psychologists, psychics and masseuses, so why shouldn't they have their...
12) Purebred Dead
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Mary McGill's Christmas turns less than jolly when she gets wrapped up in a murder mystery in this debut cozy… A pillar of her small California town, retired schoolteacher Mary McGill has a finger in every pie and a place on every committee. Usually, everything Mary organizes runs smoothly. But this year, the town's annual Christmas pageant hits a snag with the discovery of a blood-stained corpse lying in the manger-and a cowering black-and-white...
13) Guilt Trip
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Lina Townend mysteries volume 5
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In this charming British mystery, antiques dealer Lina Townend must contend with a prankster takes things dangerously too far. Things in Lina Townend's life could be better. Her love life is in a holding pattern and her business is faltering now that a new antiques center with very reduced prices-and less attention to detail-has opened up nearby. Lina doesn't quite know what to do about her own problems, but when a local theater director asks her...
14) Dressed to Kill
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Kate O'Donnell novels volume 3
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Photographer Kate O'Donnell, fresh from her adventures in Death Trap, discovers that modeling can be murder in Swinging Sixties London.
It's 1963. A new band called the Rolling Stones is beginning to make its mark and the miniskirt is coming into fashion. For young Liverpudlian photographer Kate O'Donnell, it's an exciting time to be in the capital-especially as she's on secondment to an up-and-coming fashion photographer's studio. But there's a...
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Burren mysteries volume 9
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Mara the Brehon investigates the death of a clan leader in this historical mystery set in sixteenth-century Ireland by the acclaimed author of Laws in Conflict.
In the western Irish kingdom of Burren, Mara is an investigating magistrate charged with upholding the ancient laws. When the leader of clan MacNamara dies under suspicious circumstances, she is called upon to determine truth from lies among conflicting reports.
Garrett MacNamara's body...
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Burren mysteries volume 10
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When Mara attends the Feast of the Holy Cross at Kilnaboy Church, it is just another duty in her busy life as Brehon of the Burren, responsible for upholding the kingdom's ancient laws. But this special day has drawn the faithful of Ireland and pilgrims from across Europe, for Kilnaboy Church holds a prized relic-a piece of the true cross-inside its tower.
When the tower catches fire and the relic is destroyed, chaos breaks out, and Mara begins...
17) Done to Death
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New England's sexagenarian sleuths are back to solve a reality-show murder in this "fast-paced mystery with two unforgettable leading ladies" (Booklist). Desperate TV producer Barry Stromstein's career depends on his latest brainstorm: "Antiques Roadshow meets The Hunger Games on the set of Gilmore Girls." When he enlists Connecticut antiques columnist Lil Campbell for help, he unexpectedly hits pay dirt. Lil's undeniably charming lover Ada Strauss...
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Something wicked has come to Grenville, Connecticut, where high-end antique dealers are being murdered in gruesome-yet fitting-ways. It's shaking up the lives of Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss, best chums and neighbors in a gated community for seniors. Not only are they finally confronting long-held heart-felt feelings for each other, but Ada's been named executrix of a late friend's estate. And all her vintage valuables are drawing Ada and Lil into...
19) A Velvet Scream
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With her wedding day approaching, Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy doesn't need the stress of a disciplinary hearing-or the disapproval of her soon-to-be in-laws. She'd welcome nearly any distraction from her complicated life. But she takes no joy in the grim realities of her current case.
On a snowy December morning, fourteen-year-old Kayleigh Harrison is found outside Patches nightclub in Leek. Nearly naked and half-dead from the cold, she says...
20) World Enough
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A Boston music journalist-turned-corporate writer investigates the suspicious death of a friend from her punk past in this noir mystery.
The Boston club scene may be home to a cast of outsiders and misfits, but it's where Tara Winton belongs-the world she's been part of for the past twenty years. Now, one of the old gang is dead, having fallen down the basement stairs at his home.
With her journalist's instincts, Tara senses there's something not...
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