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Billy Boyle World War II mystery volume 4
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Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. His “uncle” Ike Eisenhower sends Billy to recover the weapons, which might be used in a German-sponsored IRA uprising. Bodies begin to accumulate as Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and IRA sympathies. There are rogues on both sides, he learns.
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Mr. December: Duncan Patrick, CEO Scrooge
His Objective: Lose the "bah humbug" attitude
His Plan: Find the right (temporary) mistress
A powerful businessman, Duncan didn't like ultimatums, unless he was making them. But the board demanded his public image change. When he encountered sweet kindergarten teacher Annie McCoy, he knew she'd make him look like a perfect angel, though it would take some devilish manipulation.
Once he had Annie playing...
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When young fiber artist Willow Adams visits Izzy Chambers's knitting studio, she's immediately embraced by the Seaside knitters, and they see the monthly arts event at Canary Cove as a perfect place to showcase Willow's work. But the idyllic summer in Sea Harbor turns somber when the body of Nick Peabody-owner of a popular gallery-is found in a community garden. Soon all Nick's secrets begin to surface, and the residents of Sea Harbor realize they...
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"In the cutthroat world of television journalism, seasoned reporter Charlotte McNally knows that she'd better pull out all the stops or kiss her job goodbye. But it's her life that might be on the line when she learns that an innocent-looking e-mail offer resulted in murder, mayhem and a multimillion-dollar fraud ring. All too soon her investigation leads her straight to Josh Gelston, who is a little too helpful and a lot too handsome. Charlie might...
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"Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived--but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry, his hatred has one tight focus: his half-sister, Maggie Lockwood. Nineteen-year-old Maggie spent a year in prison for the acts that led up to the fire. Now she's back home. But her release cannot...
47) Tragic magic
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Carmela, owner of the Memory Mine scrapbook shop, and her best friend, who owns JujuVoodoo, have a big project. Melody Mayfeldyt needs their help converting an old mansion in theFaubourg-Marigny district into an unforgettable haunted house for New Orleans' upcoming horror convention. But the haunting turns serious when Melody's flaming body comes crashing through a tower window to "welcome" them to the job. Somebody wanted Carmela's client dead, and...
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Bunco Babes mystery volume 1
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"The Bunco Babes are not your average retirees. When they're not throwing the dice, they like to throw themselves into juicy mysteries. But murder itself is a dicey business, and in this game, luck can run out for good. The sixty set at Serenity Cove Estates in South Carolina certainly knows how to keep active. When not playing bunco or putting the greens, they are gossiping--and where there's gossip, there's a party. So it's no surprise that when...
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Maggie Messina, beloved owner of the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, is thrilled to be hosting a workshop for one of her former students, now a celebrity in the knitting world. But the celebration is upstaged when Amanda Goran, the owner of the rival Knitting Nest, is found dead in her shop on the other side of town.
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Tasked with heading a missionary guest house in the Belgian Congo in 1958, Amanda Brown must set things right when a plane passenger goes missing, a giant diamond that should not exist turns up, and she finds out a witch doctor and his wife are working as her yardman and housekeeper, respectively.
52) Bedeviled eggs
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The ladies at the Cackleberry Club cafae are busy preparing for Halloween. But someone's jumped the gun on the tricks. As mayoral candidate Chuck Peebler leaves the cafae, he gets struck with a crossbow arrow and is killed instantly. And when another murder occurs on the historical society's Quilt Trail, the Cackleberry Club needs to sniff out the bad egg-before he strikes again. --from goodreads.com
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"Veteran TV reporter Charlotte McNally fights for justice, journalism— and the battle against on-the air aging. (And for that dishy professor she met on the job.) The good news: she's got explosive evidence to free an innocent woman from prison. The bad news: that makes Charlotte— and someone she loves— the killer's next target." -- from author's web site.
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It's Halloween in New Orleans. Ava and Carmela overhear an argument between Jekyl Hardy and Brett Fowler just minutes before they find Fowler's dead body. After another victim is discovered--who also had an unfriendly relationship with Jekyl--Carmela is convinced someone is framing her friend
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Seaside knitters mystery volume 4
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With the Seaside Knitters' help, Mary Pisano converts her charming inherited home into a B&B. Her first week is booked by her very own family, in town to discuss their grandfather's will. She's hoping the tranquility of the setting will smooth over ill feelings among family members. But when her cousin Pam-a Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, native-is found murdered, she realizes she was dead wrong...
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"Former Navy SEAL Sax Douchett returns to his home town and is hailed as a local hero. But starting over is difficult when he unearths a long- buried secret that reunites him with a past he's never forgotten. She's Sheriff Kara Conway, a girl who's always held a special place in his heart. But as he cautiously reconnects with Kara and bonds with her young son, another long-held secret in Shelter Bar threatens their second chance at a life together..."...
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"Sable--Her bestselling novels have made her a star, but the woman who has everything, in fact, has nothing but a past she is desperate to hide. Elly--The intellectual who has hidden herself within the walls of academia, afraid to admit she is tired of being alone. Barbara Ann--The talent behind twenty-six romance novels wakes up one day to discover she's lost control of her career, her sanity and her family. Beth--Her popular mysteries have become...