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| The Case of the Murdered Muckraker by Rob OslerIn 1898, 21-year-old detective agency junior field operative Harriet Morrow investigates when a journalist who'd been looking into corrupt government officials is fatally stabbed in a Chicago tenement house. Going undercover, Harriet dons a variety of guises to get to the truth in her richly detailed 2nd outing, which also sees her find a girlfriend. |
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| Wreck Your Heart by Lori Rader-DayChicago's Doll Devine hopes to make it as a country singer, but for now she's singing at a tavern owned by Alex McPhee, who's helped her since she was a kid. When her estranged mom briefly shows up after 20 years, followed by a woman claiming to be Doll's half-sister, Doll doesn't know what to think, and then her ex is found dead outside the bar. |
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Newlyweds Can Be Knocked Off
by Amanda Flower
After two decades as a widow, Millie Fisher, Amish matchmaker, quilter, goat tender, and sleuth is now a 60-something newlywed! But when she adds snowbird to her list amid the chill of an Ohio winter, murder finds a way to follow.
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Definitely Maybe Not a Detective
by Sarah Fox
With her bestie's help, jobless Emersyn Gray creates a fake detective agency to scare her ex into giving back the money he stole from her, money that she needs to care for her orphaned seven-year-old niece. Then her Bronx building superintendent is killed and the other residents find her fake business card, leading her to team up with a hunky guy to solve the case.
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Mayhem on the Marzipan Express
by Rebecca Connolly
A romantic getaway turns deadly when a passenger on the train is murdered--and a famous chef is the prime suspect.
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The Murder at World's End
by Ross Montgomery
On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparations for the apocalypse that he believes will accompany the passing of Halley's Comet. The Hall must be sealed from top to bottom—every window, chimney, and keyhole closed off before night falls. But what the pompous, dishonest Viscount has failed to take into account is the danger that lies within... By morning, he will be dead in his sealed study, murdered by his own ancestral crossbow.
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Death and Other Occupational Hazards
by Veronika Dapunt
When most people think of Death, they picture a skeleton in a black potato sack. Maybe with a scythe. Truth is, she's just a woman doing a job, and she's very good at it. Still, even Death needs a break. But when she finally takes some time off to live on earth, things start to go terribly wrong. Someone is killing people not on her list (well, not yet anyway) and it's up to her to find the killer before it's too late.
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The Snow Lies Deep: A Mercy Carr Mystery
by Paula Munier
Mercy Carr and her retired bomb-sniffing Belgian shepherd, Elvis, Mercy tackles a string of murders that hit uncomfortably close to home. At the outset, the sleepy town of Northshire, Vt., is gearing up for its annual Winter Solstice Soiree.
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At Midnight Comes the Cry: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery
by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Upstate New York Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson and her husband, Russ Van Alstyne, observe the four Sundays of Advent by hunting for missing persons, seeking justice for a murder, and neutralizing an unusually well-planned example of domestic terrorism.
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All Spooked Up
by E. J. Copperman
Paint store owner Laura Meehan makes the discovery of a lifetime in her shop when she stumbles upon a body and . . . her dead father's ghost!
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