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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 5
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In Hawaii to help run a conference, Thea Kozak is determined to find time to relax--until the conference chairwoman is found dead. While struggling to keep the conference from descending into chaos, Thea discovers more motives and suspects than she can handle. Throw in hostile local cops, the victim's suspicious husband, and Thea's hopes for trading her business suit for a bikini and some sun are dashed. But with help from an observant little girl,...
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Join Author and Paranormal Investigator Alice Carpenter, Along With Her Cohorts, Twila, Granny, Trucker, and Miss Molly, on Their First Three Ghostly Murder Adventures, Plus a Bonus Novella
Novella: Dead Man Love (Series Prequel - Bonus Content)
It's Mardi Gras in party city where fate unites author and paranormal investigator Alice Carpenter and the gorgeous Cajun detective Jack Roucheau over a newly dead body. There are a couple of other murders...
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Amateur Sleuth, CiCi Winslow, Tackles Murder and Family Mayhem in Double Threat In Ripley Grove, a Murder Mystery from Shirley Worley.
Present Day, Ripley Grove, Kansas
Twenty-nine-year-old, appraisal researcher, CiCi Winslow, is evaluating her life choices in the wake of her mother's death and her father's abusive outbursts when she stumbles upon something even more troubling, a murder. Even worse, the intended victim may have been her.
Fearing...
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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 1
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Tragically widowed, Thea Kozak is tall, brave, and trying to rebuild her life. Then her little sister is murdered in a picturesque Maine town. The police have no leads. Her grieving parents are eager to put everything behind them, and Thea--"little mother" to her adopted sister--refuses to back down. Not when she can do one more thing for Carrie: find the killer and get justice for her little sister. But the truth behind Carrie and her adoption proves...
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Lexie Starr Arrested For Murder in A Rip-Roaring Good Time, a Cozy Mystery, by Jeanne Glidewell! Full-time RVers, Rip and Rapella Ripple, are headed to Rockdale, Missouri, in their old travel trailer (aka The Chartreuse Caboose) to attend a friend's surprise birthday party. But surprise quickly turns to shock when a party guest is found murdered and Lexie Starr, a friend of the Ripples, is hauled off to jail as suspect number one. Determined to exonerate...
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When a Woman Mysteriously Disappears From an Orange Grove Mansion, Daisy Gumm, Sam and the Ever Crotchety Lou Prophet, Launch A Search in Exercised Spirits, a Cozy Historical Mystery by Alice Duncan
1926, Pasadena, California
Already irked about having to participate in an exercise class with some church chums, Daisy is horrified when her beloved Aunt Vi, the greatest cook in Pasadena, goes missing from her place of employment-Mrs. Pinkerton's mansion...
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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 4
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When a student is found drowned in the campus pond of a prestigious New England boarding school, Thea Kozak is called in for crisis management. Cooperation abounds until Thea discovers that the young victim was pregnant and the death may not have been an accident. Then administration and students turn tight-lipped. When Thea digs deeper, she unearths a host of nasty secrets beneath the school's genteel facade. Now everyone wants her gone, everyone...
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The Tables Are Turned When Sleuthing Seniors, Rip and Rapella, Investigate a Doc's Mysterious Death in The Grim Ripper, A Cozy Mystery Adventure from Jeanne GlidewellWhen Rip experiences chest pain, Dr. Marco Moretti brings a new lease on life. But when the good doctor drops dead in the parking lot, Rip's wife, Rapella, dives head-first into investigating the doctor's mysterious demise.
When the doctor's death is ruled "by natural causes," the Ripples...
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Historical Society President Murdered, Lexie Starr Investigates in The Extinguished Guest, A Cozy Mystery by Jeanne Glidewell. At the Grand Opening of Stone Van Patten's new B&B, the local Historical Society's soon-to-be inaugurated new president, Horatio Prescott III, is found murdered in the inn's grandest suite. Much to Van Patten's chagrin, Lexie, a widowed library assistant, decides to aid in the investigation. Despite several foiled attempts...
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Join widowed library assistant and amateur sleuth Lexie Starr on her first three encounters with mayhem, murder, and a potential suitor. Book 1: Lexie Starr accidently discovers that her new son-in-law may be guilty of murdering his first wife. Then Lexie's daughter, Wendy, disappears. Book 2: At the Grand Opening of a local B&B, the Historical Society's president is found murdered in the inn's grandest suite, and Lexie, much to the owner's chagrin,...
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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 2
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After surviving her husband's tragic death, then solving her sister's murder, Thea Kozak thought her amateur detective days were over, until she met a woman who had it all, and then some. Helene Streeter, the perfect wife, mother, and consummate professional, is brutally murdered, leaving friends and family with more questions than answers. Helene's daughter--Thea's old college roommate--begs for her help. Thea agrees, and is drawn into a web of deceit...
12) Fine Spirits
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Meet Daisy Gumm Majesty: spiritualist to folks with more money than sense. The 1920s may be roaring among Pasadena's wealthy, but Daisy must earn a living for her family. When Daisy is approached by Mrs. Bissel about exorcizing a ghost from her basement, Daisy is tempted to back out until Mrs. B puts up one of her famous dachshund puppies as payment. Hoping the basement ghost is not a skunk, Daisy begins snooping only to discover the matter is much...
13) No Big Rip
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When ex-lawman and senior citizen, Rip Ripple, is assaulted by a strung-out young man at a rest area outside Rockdale, Missouri, he assures his wife, Rapella, it's "no big rip." Aboard their travel-trailer, the "Chartreuse Caboose," the couple is destined to see their friends Lexie Starr and Stone Van Patten at their bed and breakfast, The Alexandria Inn.
Pressed by Rapella to report the crime, Rip meets with Det. Wyatt Johnson, who dutifully documents...
14) Liberty or Death
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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 6
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Thea Kozak's sometimes rocky relationship with Maine state police detective Andre Lemieux has flourished. Now, on the day of their wedding, Thea receives awful news: Andre has been taken hostage by a militant militia group. Their terms: release one of their members from jail. The State of Maine isn't interested in co-operating. Neither is the prisoner. Taking the situation in-hand, Thea goes undercover in the town where she suspects Andre is hidden,...
15) Haunted
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College Student Found Dead in Makeshift Coffin in the Lexie Starr Mystery, Haunted, by Jeanne Glidewell. Lexie Starr, a widowed library assistant, converts her boyfriend's B&B into a haunted house for Halloween. But when a young college student is found truly dead in the makeshift coffin in the parlor, the Alexandria Inn has a second murder on the books. Fearing for her boyfriend's business, Lexie sets out to solve the murder on her own. It seems...
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Thea Kozak mysteries volume 3
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Smart and funny, Thea Kozak is carving out a career for herself while trying to win her critical mother's approval. Home for Easter, Thea's mother introduces her to Julie Bass, a young widow whose husband died in a horrific accident at the local auto racetrack. Julie is the woman Thea's mother wants her to be--married to a suitable man and producing adorable children. While resisting her mother's insistence that she use her own experience of losing...
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Join newlywed library assistant and amateur sleuth Lexie Starr on her continuing encounters with mystery, mayhem, and murder.
With This Ring (A Lexie Starr Mystery, Book 4)
Lexie Starr, a 50-year-old widowed library assistant, fell in love with Stone Van Patten while helping him run his B&B. Ten days before their wedding, the pastor is found murdered. Not wanting to postpone the wedding, Lexie launches her own investigation, breaks her wrist, and...
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In 1920s Pasadena, CA, Daisy Gumm Majesty Matches Wits With Three Villains in this Box Set Filled With Light Humor and Period Charm.
Spirits Revived: Pasadena's beloved spiritualist to people with more money than sense gets her man when a real spirit seeks Daisy's help in catching his murderer.
Dark Spirits: When the Ku Klux Klan opens a chapter in Pasadena, California, Sam Rotundo, Daisy's new leading man, must keep Daisy from doing in the Klan...
19) Dead Silent
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Submerged secrets and a deadly affair greet Jett Jorgensen at her Navy homecoming in Dead Silent, a murder mystery from S.L. Menear.
-Banyan Isle, Florida, Present Day-
While on leave, Navy Intelligence Officer, Jettine Jorgensen, returns to Banyan Island to revisit the unsolved cold case of her parents' deaths, only to discover two bodies under her guest bed-the recently deceased Mayor Peabodyody, and his very-much-alive and panicked paramour.
Jett's...
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Bridal Bouquet Becomes Murder Weapon in Wedded Spirits, a Cozy Historical Mystery by Alice Duncan
-1925, Pasadena, California-
Daisy is the Matron of Honor for the wedding of Mr. Robert Browning and Miss Regina Petri, Daisy's favorite librarian, when she discovers the body of a young man on the floor of the dressing room. From the looks of the flower petals falling from his mouth, he'd chomped down Regina's bridal bouquet.
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