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Jaine Austen mystery volume 10
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Jaine Austen is looking forward to an indulgent spa getaway until she learns it is more about deprivation than relaxation. Between minuscule meals and a deadly brush with fame, surviving this vacation will be no piece of cake. When Jaine's friend Lance surprises her with a trip to The Haven, an uber-luxe health spa on the California coast, she and her feline pal Prozac are eager to hit the road and bask in a week of pampering and pedicures. But upon...
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PJ Sugar novel volume 2
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PJ Sugar has finally found something she's good at. Now she's trying not to mess it up. Her first official case as a private investigator ... well, technically a PI's assistant ... is house-sitting for a witness in protective custody. No danger involved, assures her boss Jeremy Kane. However, after a break-in by a late-night prowler it becomes clear that this witness is hiding something and it may cost PJ her life.
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Scottish bookshop mystery volume 1
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"In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine. She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into, other than that the work sounds exciting, and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime. Edwin has promised that she'll be working with "a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes, " and Delaney...
6) A single eye
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Darcy Lott mystery volume 1
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After a terrifying stunt gone wrong leaves her plummeting into the tops of forest trees, a shaken Darcy Lott is dispatched by her Zen master to a remote monastery in California's redwood forest to face her worst fear ? but also to deliver a message. This monastery has its own secrets. A student has disappeared and is feared dead. The leader of the monastery, Leo, Garson-roshi, is soon to leave under mysterious circumstances, and Darcy fears that trusting...
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Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who let love in the person of an unreliable screenwriter jettison her career, is now divorced, broke, and come to a "primitive, untamed northern forest" on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss Moira Madison of the fabulously rich Canadian family wishes to write her memoirs. Miss Madison isn't interested in a bestseller. She wants to leave a record of her life and most specifically of her years with...
9) Gray ghost
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Stoney Calhoun novel volume 2
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Seven years ago, Stoney Calhoun woke up in a VA hospital with no memories. He still remembers nothing from before then, except that he has a few unexplained skills--a gift for angling, an ability to read French--and recently it's been made clear to him that it would be best if he never does. Working as a guide on Casco Bay, Stoney is out with a client on an early morning fly fishing expedition when they find the charred remains of a recent corpse...
10) Knit, purl, die
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Black sheep knitting mystery volume 2
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Gloria Sterling had it all -- money, looks, and a new sexy young husband. So when she's found floating face down in her own swimming pool, shock waves ripple through tiny Plum Harbor. At the Black Sheep Knitting Shop, Maggie Messina and her circle are devastated to lose their dear friend -- a woman as colorful as her fabulous yarn creations. The police are quick to call it an accident, but sorting out Gloria's final hours leaves too many loose ends...
12) Black seconds
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Inspector Sejer mystery volume 6
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In this sixth Inspector Sejer mystery, a little girl has vanished without a trace and Sejer must find her before it's too late.
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Seaside knitters mystery volume 7
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Expecting her first child, Izzy is unsettled when a young acquaintance's death is connected to an abandoned baby car seat and a hand-knitted blanket and seeks assistance from the Seaside Knitters.
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Pete Benson was a big-city police detective. His job was intense, dangerous, and 24/7. He loved it. But he also had a loving wife and two young children he hardly saw. So he made a choice. Now Sheriff Pete Benson patrols Rhyolite County, Montana. His beat is bigger than some states, but it's beautiful country with tall mountains and broad valleys - and more cows than people. Of course, even in paradise trouble sometimes comes calling. Fortunately,...
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Mercy Gunderson mystery volume 3
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Newly minted agent Mercy Gunderson is back and ready for action, unfortunately, she's stuck doing paperwork in an overheated government office building. But she gets more than she bargained for when she's thrown into her first FBI murder case, working with the tribal police on the Eagle River Reservation, where the victim is the teenage niece of the recently elected tribal president. When another gruesome killing occurs during the early stages of...
17) Depraved heart
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Scarpetta volume 23
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip...
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Jackrabbit Junction mystery volume 3
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"Not since the Great Jackalope Stampede of '58 has tumbleweed-choked Jackrabbit Junction, Arizona seen so much action. Claire Morgan is determined to unravel the mystery behind a stolen treasure before goons come gunning for it--and her family. But all the strangers roaming around town have her anxiety red-lining. Then her mother shows up..."--P. [4] of cover.