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Summary: "When a community center opens in town, many embrace it as a space where locals of all ages can gather and create. Others view it as a waste of taxpayer dollars. The director, Darleen Busby-Platt, is no less controversial. Intense and showy, Darleen has huge plans for her new role. But Lucy believes the woman isn't exactly as warm hearted--or qualified--as she seems. That hunch deepens when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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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: "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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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: "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: "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: 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 FROGraves, Sarah
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: After a disastrous accident derails stage magician Tempest Raj's career, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather's Indian home-cooked meals. She resists working for her father's company. Secret Staircase Construction, which specializes in transforming clients' homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, and hidden reading nooks. When Tempest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PANChilds, Laura
Summary: "A movie director's death on set at a haunted manor launches Theodosia Browning into an electrifying investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia and Drayton were expecting a mellow break from the bustle at the Indigo Tea Shop while catering a film, until the director ropes Theodosia into a role as a fortune teller. At the haunted Brittleback...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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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: "A movie director's death on set at a haunted manor launches Theodosia Browning into an electrifying investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia and Drayton were expecting a mellow break from the bustle at the Indigo Tea Shop while catering a film, until the director ropes Theodosia into a role as a fortune teller. At the haunted Brittleback...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 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: "San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright and her hunky security-expert husband, Derek Stone, face a locked-room murder mystery during the holidays in Scotland. In the middle of a wonderful Christmas holiday in Dharma, Brooklyn and Derek receive a frantic phone call from their dear friend Claire in Loch Ness, Scotland. The laird of the castle, Cameron MacKinnon, has just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023
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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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Summary: "The annual crossword puzzle contest has drawn contestants from near and far to Crystal Cove, and Jenna watches in amazement as puzzle-themed books fly off the shelves at the Cookbook Nook. When the prominent puzzle constructor who's acting as master of ceremonies has his throat slit while he's out hiking, the police instantly peg Aunt Vera as the culprit. It's been clear since the victim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: A collection of Easter-themed mysteries set in coastal Maine features sleuths from three best-selling cozy mystery series: Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell and Julia Snowden, who investigate a deadly art theft and a body that mysteriously vanishes after being discovered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MEIBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals...will react to his new assistant officer..Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 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: ""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: "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
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOWBarrett, 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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Summary: For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she’ll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they’d hoped for doesn’t quite pan out when a dead body is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBurns, V. M.
Summary: "While Sam wraps up her first whirlwind book tour, Nana Jo has kept Market Street Mysteries running smoothly. The last stop is a prestigious book festival in Sam's hometown of North Harbor, Michigan. But not everyone thinks the guest of honor, bestselling author Judith Hunter, deserves stellar reviews. Sam witnesses nasty arguments between Judith and two different authors--who accuse her of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023