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Summary: "On a culinary tour of the British Isles, retired Detective Superintendent Albert Smith and snarky former police dog Rex Harrison find something quite unexpected waiting for them at their B&B... it's the almost-dead body of their landlady. Refusing to believe in coincidence, Albert and Rex set out to discover why her 'accident' is the second terrible event there in two days. Something is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steve Higgs 2020
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Summary: "Neither Beryl nor Edwina are the least bit interested in attending events at their alma mater, Miss Dupont's Finishing School for Young Ladies. However, when a letter arrives from Miss Dupont herself requesting their help, they pack their bags. Upon arrival, they learn that students have reported items missing, damaged possessions, and strange noises in the night. Then a mother of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "When a crime on a beautiful Italian island stumps the police, locals locals turn to the nosy, elderly widow Nonna Maria in this transporting mystery from author Lorenzo Carcaterra. Nonna Maria has lived in Ischia, a little island in the Gulf of Naples, her entire life. Recognizable by the widow's black she's worn every day for decades, Maria always has pasta on the stove and espresso in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARBrightwell, Emily
Summary: "Jeremy Marks wasn't highly regarded by any of the members of the West London Archery Club. But everyone was stunned when the fellow was murdered during a lull in the club's annual archery competition. As Inspector Witherspoon investigates, he discovers the victim had real enemies among the assembled archery contestants. Marks was notorious for not paying his bills, cheating vendors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRIFrost, Jacqueline
Summary: For inn keeper Holly White, Christmas time in Mistletoe, Maine, is the ultimate holiday gift. Business at the Reindeer Games Inn is booming, her wedding to Sheriff Evan Gray is nearly here, and the annual parade is about to begin. The town is lucky to have another gift this year with the state's ballet company staying for several performances of The Nutcracker. But disaster strikes when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FROGerard, Anna
Summary: When her friend, Roxanna, a wedding planner, is found dead and her partner, Virgie, is accused of the crime, Nina Fleet, who is trying to tap into the destination wedding market, decides to do her own investigating before tying the knot takes on a whole new meaning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERGraves, Sarah
Summary: "Jake and Ellie are taking a break from perfecting their chocolate pizza recipe to cater a housewarming party hosted by movie icon Ingrid Merryfield. Miss Merryfield is famous for her old-Hollywood glamour. Her new home, Cliff House, has a reputation too-for being haunted. But she isn't concerned, and some of her guests even try to summon a spirit during the party, using a Ouija board. What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRABarrett, Lorna
Summary: "It's a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he's overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles's newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a stone mansion off Main Street that Angelica bought to be the world headquarters for Nigela Ricita Asssociates. It'll house office space where her marketing staff and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARLarsen, Samantha
Summary: "1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2023
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Summary: "Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow and her groom, police detective Nathan Bransford, chose Scotland for their long-delayed honeymoon, hoping to sightsee and enjoy some prize-winning scones. But their romantic duo swells to a crowd when they're joined by Nathan's family as well as octogenarian Miss Gloria. Nathan's sister Vera takes the women on a whirlwind tour of some of Scotland's iconic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Maddie James has finally given in to her friend Katrina's pleas to open up her cat cafe to more than ten felines: they're now up to fifteen purring friends. In fact, JJ's House of Purrs is making such a splash that she's getting national attention. The East Coast Animal Rescue League is quite interested in the cafe, and so Maddie accepts a request to meet with Jillian Allen, the executive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCambridge, Colleen
Summary: ""A murder will occur tonight at Beecham House . . ." Who could resist such a compelling invitation? Of course, the murder in question purports to be a party game, and Phyllida looks forward to using some of the deductive skills she has acquired thanks to her employer, Mrs. Agatha, who is unable to attend in person. The hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Wokesley, are new to the area, and Phyllida gladly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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Summary: "Returning to her role as an amateur detective is the last thing library director Amy Muir wants. She's already buried under an avalanche of responsibilities, including sharing the directorship of the local public library, parenting her holiday-obsessed five-year-old twins, and helping her choreographer husband, Richard, present The Nutcracker as part of the town's festivities. With her frosty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GILKelly, Sofie
Summary: "When a water leak repair results in a body being found behind the walls of the store run by the artists' co-op that Kathleen's friend, Maggie, is part of everyone is completely mystified as to whose body it is and who hid it there. But as the dust settles, Kathleen's boyfriend, Detective Marcus Gordon, begins to suspect that the body could belong to a young woman who disappeared more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: Everything is coming up rosé for innkeeper Jess Byrne until a murder on opening weekend gives her B&B's killer vibe a whole new meaning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2024
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Summary: "Este March runs the family-owned Lucky Pie Diner on Split Pine Island in Northern Michigan. The pies at Lucky Pie aren't just good, they're magical, with a family recipe that grants certain customers their greatest hopes and dreams when they eat the pie. The remote island is closed to outsiders over the winter months, but on the last day of the season, the unpopular new produce vendor, Jeff,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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Summary: "After a long, cold, and snowy winter, it seems as though spring may be arriving early in North Harbor. Sarah Grayson is particularly looking forward to tagging along to an open house with her friend Detective Michelle Andrews. But it turns out the house has a haunted history, and when a ghost hunter is found dead on the premises, Sarah knows the best way to arrive at a solution is by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RYAAdams, Ellery
Summary: "Even though the shop and her bibliotherapy sessions keep Nora Pennington busy during the day, her nights are a little too quiet--until Deputy Andrews and asks her to help him plan a wedding proposal. His bride-to-be, Hester Winthrop, loves Little Women, and Nora sets to work arranging a special screening at the town's new movie theater. But when a dead man is found on a hiking trail just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADABlackburn, Maggie
Summary: When Beach Reads bookshop hosts a Valentine’s Day event, “Romance by the Sea,” bookseller Summer Merriweather has no idea that the guest author is under investigation for her own husband’s murder. When that same author is found dead at the local bed and breakfast, nobody assumes it’s natural causes–there were plenty of people who wanted her dead. As Summer searches for the truth about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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Summary: "In the middle of a Christmas holiday in Dharma, Brooklyn and Derek receive a phone call from their friend Claire in Scotland. The laird of the castle has just proposed to her! They plan to be married on New Year's Day, and they want Derek and Brooklyn to be their witnesses. While they're visiting, Claire hopes that Brooklyn will be able to solve a mystery in the castle library--twelve rare...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned spending the last weeks of summer drifting around Passamaquoddy Bay searching for pirate's treasure--and a dead body. Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: A neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor, Jo Jones, taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing, and to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets--and her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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Summary: "Georgie's new chef, Pierre, has arrived from Paris, it's time for Georgie to throw her first house party to show him off. The dinner party is a smashing success. Sir Mortimer Mordred--famous author of Gothic horror novels--is one of the guests. After the dinner, Sir Mortimer approaches Georgie and asks to borrow her new chef for his upcoming party, .and Georgie and Darcy, her husband, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023