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• A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor

  Hannah, Darci,

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  First in a series. Starring in a new reality show combining culinary delights with the paranormal, chef Bunny MacBride, ghost hunter Brett Bloom and psychic medium Giff McGrady investigate when an episode in a haunted hotel results in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Come Shell or High Water

  MacRae, Molly,

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  As a professional storyteller, folklorist Maureen Nash can’t help but see the narrative cues woven through her life. Like the series of letters addressed to her late husband from a stranger—the proprietor of The Moon Shell, a shop on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Pose Before Dying

  Erickson, Alex,

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  First in a series. The owner of a new cat yoga studio, Ashley Branson, investigates after discovering a much-disliked college professor dead in her store in the first novel of a new series by the author of Bookshop Café series.

• The Expectant Detectives

  a Mystery

  Ailes, Kat,

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  First in a series. Can they solve the mother of all murders? 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Glory Be

  Arceneaux, Danielle,

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  First in a series. The first in a vivid and charming crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously uncensored amateur sleuth Glory Broussard. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club. It’s a hot and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Novel Disguise

  Larsen, Samantha,

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  First in a series. 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Half-baked Murder

  George, Emily,

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  First in a series. Formally trained pastry chef Chloe Barnes is opening a cannabis bakery. That’s not at all what the twenty-eight-year-old envisioned while living the dream in Paris with a hot fiancé and a Michelin star restaurant gig…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Most Agreeable Murder

  a Novel

  Seales, Julia,

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  A young woman growing up in a well-to-do family in Regency England hides her obsession with true crime from her etiquette-obsessed social circle joins forces with a detective when a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball.

• An American in Scotland

  Connelly, Lucy,

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  First in a series. Sea Isle was supposed to be the fresh start Dr. Emilia McRoy dreamed of. Far from the busy emergency room across the Atlantic in Seattle, she hoped to settle down and begin this new chapter as a small-town doctor to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

  Sutanto, Jesse Q.,

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  Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy ‘detective’ work on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wined and Died in New Orleans

  Byron, Ellen,

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  Part of the Vintage Cookbook mysteries series. It’s hurricane season in New Orleans and vintage cookbook fan Ricki James-Diaz is trying to shelve her weather-related fears and focus on her business, Miss Vee’s Vintage Cookbook and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fatal Fascinator

  McKinlay, Jenn,

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  Part of the Hat Shop mysteries series. Hip hip beret! Hatmakers Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont return and must collar a killer when a castle wedding goes awry in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay’s new Hat Shop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waste of a Life

  Brett, Simon,

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  Part of the Decluttering mysteries series. Declutterer Ellen Curtis has been working to bring order into the life of Cedric Waites, a recluse in his eighties who hasn't left his house or let anyone inside it since his wife died. On one of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bangalore Detectives Club

  Nagendra, Harini,

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  The first in a charming, joyful crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing detective Kaveri and her husband Ramu. Perfect for fans of Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. When clever, headstrong…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vinyl Resting Place

  Blacke, Olivia,

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  First in a series. When Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie put all their beans in one basket to open Sip & Spin Records, a record-slash-coffee shop in Cedar River, Texas, they knew there could be some scratches on the track, but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Devil's Delight

  Beaton, M. C.,

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  Part of the Agatha Raisin mysteries series. Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong’s long-awaited wedding, thinking of nothing more than what the beautiful bride will be wearing when a terrified young man…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Muffin but the Truth

  Alexander, Ellie,

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  Part of the Bakeshop Mysteries series. Hired to cater a weekend getaway on the mighty Rogue River for Bamboo, Jules Capshaw and the team at Torte find murder on the menu when a company executive is discovered floating face down in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Steeped in Secrets

  Elliott, Lauren,

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  Even with her life in ruins in New Mexico, Shay feels uneasy about settling into the small seaside town where she grew up on California’s Monterey Peninsula and taking over an estate bequeathed to her by Bridget Early, a woman she had…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buried in a Good Book

  Berry, Tamara,

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  Bestselling thriller writer Tess Harrow is almost at the end of her rope when she arrives with her teenage daughter at her grandfather's rustic cabin in the woods. She hopes this will be a time for them to heal and bond after Tess's recent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Peg and Rose Solve a Murder

  Berenson, Laurien,

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  Polar opposites and bridge partners, 60-something former nun Rose and her sister-in-law Peg, who knows how to push all of Rose's buttons, are drawn into a mystery--one they must work together to solve--when the bridge club's most…Read moreRead more of this annotation