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2025.
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When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake...
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Sometimes a workplace isn't just a workplace but a place of safety, understanding, and acceptance. When two patrons die after a themed game night, four Austin librarians--each guarding painful secrets--must overcome mistrust and unite to protect their beloved library, unraveling a mystery that threatens the refuge they’ve built and the fragile peace they’ve found. "-- Provided by publisher.
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2026.
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"Carol is delighted to be leaving her tiny prison cell behind to take her place in a luxury retirement home. She's hoping her past as a serial killer won't come to light so she can make a few friends and find some murder-free hobbies. But it's not long before a fellow resident--who happens to be a former police commissioner--drops dead, and Carol's true identity is leaked--making catching up over daily activities of bingo and baking rather awkward....
4) All my bones
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Old Juniper Bookstore mysteries volume 2
Publication Date
2025.
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336 pages ; 25 cm
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"Madeline Brimley, new owner of a bookstore in a small Georgia town, finds herself playing sleuth when a friend is charged with the murder of a much-disliked woman. Madeline Brimley recently inherited a bookstore in Enigma, Georgia, is embarking on her second career, after her first one (acting) founders upon the metaphorical rocks. Settling in, Madeline recruits her friend Gloria Coleman, the local Episcopal priest, to help her plant azaleas in the...
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"A murder in the science lab shatters a woman's quiet and ordered life when she decides she must solve the crime herself in this entertaining and uplifting mystery. Plenty of people consider Margaret Finch odd. Six-feet-tall and big-boned, she lives alone in a small cabin in the woods, drives a 20-year-old truck, and schedules her life so precisely you can tell the time and day of the week by the chore she is doing and what she is wearing. But the...
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Secret, book & scone society volume 8
Publication Date
2025.
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"As the residents of Miracle Springs, North Carolina, select their costumes, plan parties, and get excited for a night of tricks or treats, Nora joins in on the festivities by hosting medium memoirist Lara Luz at the bookstore. Struck by a bolt of lightning as a child, she was pronounced dead only to be resurrected with the ability to connect with those on the other side. Lara performs a reading for a select group of bookstore patrons when the encroaching...
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Murder, She Wrote mysteries volume 62
Publication Date
2025.
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259 pages ; 22 cm.
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"It's leaf-peeping season in Cabot Cove, but for someone, it's killing season! A quartet of friends from Florida have come to Maine to experience a colorful New England autumn, complete with hiking in the woods and fishing for haddock and crabs. When one of the tourists goes missing, the town rallies to find Wendy Lu Shaffer, who must simply be lost in the woods. After all, crime is rare in Cabot Cove, if you discount the so-called Bicycle Bandit...
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Cozy Capers book group mysteries volume 7
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"Just in time for Halloween, a new costume shop has opened on Main Street in Westham, Massachusetts. Cape Costumers is a cut above the usual seasonal pop-up stores with their flimsy mass-produced outfits and cheap plastic masks, mostly due to co-owner Shelly, a former Broadway costume designer. But when Shelly discovers her elderly boyfriend Enzo--a Broadway star who retired to Westham--dead of unnatural causes, Halloween suddenly gets a lot scarier....
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Publication Date
2025.
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320 pages ; 20 cm.
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The sixth book in the utterly charming Maisie Cooper Mystery Series. Amateur sleuth Maisie Cooper is busy planning her wedding to police officer Jack Wingard. After a tumultuous six months solving various murder investigations, she is excited to finally marry her childhood sweetheart. But not everyone is happy for the bride-to-be. Maisie dismisses a few strange 'accidents' targeting her and Jack as pure coincidences. But when she receives a threatening...
10) A spirited blend
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Crystals and CuriosiTEAS volume 3
Publication Date
2025.
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"With Halloween around the corner, Shay Myers is brewing witchy seasonal sips at Crystals and CuriosiTEAS--while simultaneously steaming over pub owner Liam Madigan's decision to take anybody but her to the town's Monster Mash dance. Her romantic premonitions have missed the mark since she settled into coastal Bray Harbor, opening the door to questions about whether she's really the gifted seer her late mother imagined. It's why she second guesses...
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Savvy Summers mysteries volume 1
Publication Date
2025.
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326 pages ; 22 cm.
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When Savvy Summers first opened Essie's soul food café, she never expected her customer-favorite sweet potato pie to become the center of a murder investigation. But when Grandy Jaspers, the 75-year-old neighborhood womanizer, drops dead at table two she finds herself and her café swamped by bad press, so Savvy and her snooping assistant manager, Penny Lopés, take it upon themselves to find who really killed Grandy.
12) One sharp stitch
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Nimble needle mysteries volume 1
Publication Date
2025.
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249 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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When Shelby Phillips reluctantly takes over her mother's Nimble Needle needlepoint shop outside of Asheville, North Carolina, and scissor entrepreneur Kat Katsaros is found dead, Shelby is aided by a new friend, a crush, her sister and the Nimble Needle stitchers to find the crafty culprit.
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Mrs. Pargeter mysteries volume 10
Publication Date
2025.
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184 pages ; 23 cm
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Mrs Pargeter's friends know two important details about her marriage to her late husband. First, that it was blissfully happy. And second, that Mr Pargeter was not a man to bring his work home with him. So, while the chance of her ever being asked by the police what he did for a living is, naturally, remote, Mrs Pargeter would be able to reply, in all honesty, that she doesn't know. What she does know is that Mr Pargeter's former associates are all...
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"Having recently moved from London to a small Cornish seaside village, Nova Davies started a book club at the local community center, but so far it's a disaster. The five members disagree on everything, and to make matters worse, a significant sum of money is stolen during one of the meetings, putting the much-loved community center at risk. Suspicion for the theft falls on book club member Michael, especially when he disappears and a dead body turns...
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Tea Shop mysteries (Laura Childs) volume 30
Publication Date
2026.
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"As fireflies dazzle like tiny glowing lanterns, tea maven Theodosia hosts an elegant evening tea on the patio of the Tangled Rose B and B. But in this gentle darkness an intruder has made their way in and slipped deadly drugs into the baked Alaska of Mrs. Van Courtland, one of Charleston's local grande dames. Shocked by this brazen act, urged on by Mrs. V's grieving son, Theodosia begins her own shadow investigation. Soon, she finds herself at odds...
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Tea by the Sea mysteries volume 6
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Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts leaves New England for old England to attend a party for an aristocratic centenarian—but what goes on there is anything but noble. The icing on the cake comes when the jewels suddenly vanish—and things really go nuts when a party guest dies from an allergic reaction to almonds that someone smuggled into Lily’s coronation chicken sandwiches. Now she’ll have to scour the property to find out who would commit...
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House-flipper mysteries volume 7
Publication Date
2025.
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292 pages ; 18 cm.
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Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck are no strangers to murder. After all, they’ve encountered corpses on their properties before. But this is the first time they’d decided to take a chance on a property where two suspicious deaths have already occurred. Most buildings on the former boarding school property will be repurposed for an upscale retirement community, but the developer has no use for the headmaster’s house given its violent...
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2025.
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388 pages : map ; 21 cm
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"When a minor criminal is murdered in the smallest residential square in London, elderly heiress and landlady Celeste van Duren recruits two of her tenants to investigate. Her cleaner, Audrey, knows everyone and is liked by all, while failed writer Lewis is known by no one. He hates his job, hates his life, and he's not that fond of Audrey either--but Celeste is persuasive. As they hunt for clues in and around the Square, they discover everyone has...
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Beyond the page bookstore mysteries volume 11
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"There's no place like the seaside Massachusetts town of Greyborne Harbor for the holidays, and there's no better feeling for Addie than donating to the lighthouse museum's Twelve Days of Christmas charity fundraiser. Of the dozen books she'll be offering as prizes from her Beyond the Page Books and Curios shop, the most special volume is a first edition of 'The gift of the magi' imported from England--signed by O. Henry! Addie receives an unexpected...
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2025
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"After her mother's passing, Katie Chambers returns to Cedar Bay, a serene enclave nestled in the southwest corner of Washington State's Whidbey Island to support her newly widowed father, Jim Chambers. Stepping into her mother's footsteps, Katie takes on the role of graphic designer at Cedar Bay Puzzles. With the help of her father, she resurrects her mom's cherished initiative, the South Island Jigsaw crew, a group of puzzle enthusiasts who gather...




