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While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive – especially when it comes to solving crimes – in USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower's radiant new historical mystery series inspired by the real sister of the Wright Brothers.
December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina...
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Catering hall mysteries volume 5
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Mia Carina has steered her Italian-American family's Astoria, Queens, catering hall, Belle View Banquet Manor, into becoming the borough's premiere party site, and nothing could make her happier-except her boyfriend proposing. There's just one presumed-dead obstacle in the way . . .
A strong, independent woman and respected entrepreneur, Mia never imagined she'd pine for a marriage proposal. Yet lately, with her beloved Shane, she's on tenterhooks....
3) As a Favor
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Jill Smith mysteries volume 2
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A favor for her ex-husband leads Jill Smith to a blood-soaked crime scene Someone is stealing hubcaps from the Berkeley police department. An afternoon spent chasing the petty thief leaves beat cop Jill Smith exhausted, flustered, and in no mood to talk when her ex-husband Nat calls asking for a favor. A colleague of his at the county welfare department, Anne Spaulding, is missing. Jill doesn't care about her husband's new crush, but a note of fear...
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While the almost castle crumbles around them, Alicia desperately searches for the answers she wants and needs. Every creepy room demands a thorough search. Someone is trying to kill her, and she doesn't even know why, let alone, who. Each room she searches is a challenge and each is either fascinating or horrifying. The huge cat now follows her everywhere, even into closed rooms. If she can discover his secret before one of the murder attempts...
5) All In
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The third noir mystery featuring P.I. Lennox Cooper, a smart detective, a smart poker player, and one of today's boldest heroines in the sorority of lonesome gumshoes.
Flinty ex-cop, poker-playing, private detective, Lennox Cooper stands alone in championing Tomek Jagoda, darling son of a Portland crime family, accused of murdering his high-living girlfriend.
The cops have proof that will send Tomek to prison for life, and prosecuting the case...
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A murder on summer resort Nor'easter Island? Never, and especially not in the quiet season, when all the tourists have gone home and only 1000 or so year-round islanders stay through the winter. The death of Joel Berliner, an island fisherman whose body washed ashore on Laughing Gull Beach, was a surprise, but not totally unexpected. The island buzz was that Joel, who had had some mental health issues years back, committed suicide.
But Island...
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Hollywood columnist Meredith Ogden's home and life with L.A. Special Cases Detective T.K. Raymond and their three-year-old is uprooted when he investigates a decades-old murder of a young starlet whose desiccated body is discovered in California's high desert. In her purse is a crumbling note bearing Raymond's and another man's name. Investigating the murder, and how his name is connected, Raymond travels take him from the wind-swept desert to vintage...
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Lyrical Press
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2022
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Fans of female sleuth cozies will delight in New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon's latest installment in her long-running Tourist Trap Mystery series.
In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More, discovers that wedding planning can be murder . . .
Hustling her fiancé off to a neighboring tourist town might be the only way Jill Gardner can plan her nuptials...
In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More, discovers that wedding planning can be murder . . .
Hustling her fiancé off to a neighboring tourist town might be the only way Jill Gardner can plan her nuptials...
11) Death Unfiltered
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Ground Rules volume 4
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A fresh-voiced and witty cozy mystery series set in Portland, Oregon, from rising star Emmeline Duncan, starring twenty-something master barista Sage Caplin. Perfect for coffee-lovers, cozy readers, and fans of Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mysteries.
Ground Rules isn't the only newcomer set to open in Portland's grand new Button Building. Fortunately, most of the fellow micro-restaurant owners and patrons are great-with two exceptions. There's Rose,...
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Retired Miami Detective, Jenny Pickett, is loving life in the small Montana town of Forest Pines. That is until local businessman, Donald Sands, is found murdered on the local golf course.Young and inexperienced Sheriff, Steve Calder, needs help and turns to Jenny to assist him in his investigation. Suddenly Jenny is plunged into a mystery unlike any other she has encountered and faces a multitude of suspects who all have a reason to rejoice the victim's...
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Six months after the death of notorious serial killer The Slaughter Man, life for Jenny Pickett and the town of Forest Pines has returned to normal, that is until two decades-old skeletons are found buried in the grounds of a ramshackle house due for renovation. Once again, Jenny and her husband, Sheriff Steve Calder, are embroiled in a classic 'who done it mystery' involving a selection of suspects living in their small Montana town. As they spiral...
14) Murder in Miami
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An escaped serial killer forces retired detective Jenny Pickett to leave the idyllic town of Forest Pines and return to Miami. The FBI claim they need her expertise; but is she just the bait? Meanwhile, as the killings continue, Jenny finds herself embroiled in a mystery involving the board members of a run down condo building in Fort Lauderdale.
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For years, Ruth Carson and her friend Angie enjoyed being in the summer musical theatre productions of St. Paul's Como Pavilion Players, directed by Fritz Gerhardt. This year, however, something sinister is happening to the tight-knit amateur theatre group. A serial killer is targeting the cast. Who is the attacker? Why? And who will be next? Unfortunately, Ruth, Angie, and everyone else in the company is at risk because "the show must go on!"
16) Close to Home
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"Dell! You have to come back to the Inn, right now!"They're not the kind of words you want to hear when you answer your phone. Dell Powers knew that it was never a good sign when her friend and business partner, Rosie, was in such a panicked state about something.Dell's first reaction was to wonder what had blown up this time. With Rosie you just never knew. It could be the stove had caught fire again or any number of things that seem to happen spontaneously...
17) Bury the Lead
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A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder.
Cat Conway has recently returned to Port Ellis to work as a reporter at the Quill & Packet. She's fled the tattered remains of her high-profile career and bad divorce for the holiday town of her childhood, famous for its butter tarts, theatre, and a century-old feud.
One of Cat's first assignments is to interview...
18) Vesper
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Willow Darby hasn't stepped inside a church since her childhood. A recent pair of gruesome murders has shocked one religious community reopening its scandalous wounds. The high-profile crimes have caused the Vatican to send a mysterious emissary to assist Willow with her investigation. But now this has forced her into walking a diplomatic tight rope between church and state to catch a killer.
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The next vision of a dead person comes to AJ while she's researching the death of the ghost who haunts the inn. Now, she has not one, but two mysteries to solve. And they appear to be intertwined. While starting up her own psychic business. Plus, all the craziness that Halloween brings to a small town. If that wasn't enough, she's still dealing with midlife female issues. And the charming, smart, cute town historian might be interested in her. He...
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Minerva "Minnie" Little has a burning question: where are all the ghosts? When the powerful medium moves to Historic St. Charles, Missouri, the town purported to have the most haunted street in America, she anticipates the spirits inundating her with requests to help with their unfinished business. Instead, she finds no signs of haunting: not a specter, not an orb, not even a faint imprint from a departed soul. For Minnie, the absence of ghosts is...
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