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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.Amateur baker and part-time sleuth Claire Walker is looking forward to a vacation with her boyfriend, Jonathan Ainsley. The happy couple boards the famed Scottish train, the Mallaig Steam Express--temporarily renamed The Marzipan Express in honor of chef Alan Gables, who is hosting an exclusive culinary experience for his most devoted fans. The trip has barely begun when Claire and Jonny discover a dead body, and though it appears to be an accident, Claire can sense something is wrong as easily as she can sense an overbaked soufflé. All clues point to Alan as the culprit: He doesn't have an alibi, his assistant is oddly nervous around him, and a shadowy figure keeps appearing at all the wrong times. Is someone from Alan's past trying to frame him? Or could Alan be trying to cover his tracks? Claire had hoped for a delicious, romantic getaway, not investigating a mysterious death while stress-eating trifle in the kitchen car and trying to not be jealous of a magazine reporter who is flirting with Jonny. It's mayhem in more ways than one.
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Natural Barn Killer
by Amanda Flower
It's Thanksgiving in Cherry Glen, and Shiloh Bellamy has a lot to be thankful for. The dispute over the inheritance with her grandmother's money is over, and she was able to buy back the second half of Bellamy Farm that had been sold years ago. She's in a solid relationship with Sheriff Milan Penbrook, and at the moment, she is not fighting with her father or cousin Stacey. She thinks it's a perfect time to have her friends and family on the farm for Thanksgiving. But when her pug Huckleberry chases the farm's flock of diva chickens through the Thanksgiving celebration and stumbles up the remains of a long-dead skeleton on the farm, Shiloh knows her happy holiday is about to be ruined. The police determine that the victim was murdered decades ago, and the murder casts a poor light on Shiloh's beloved late grandmother. Shiloh won't let anyone speak ill of the woman who raised her and who she loved most, so she is determined to solve this cold case even if police and many in the town would like the truth to stay dead and buried.
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Revenge Prey
by John Sandford
Leonard Summers--not his real name--is on the run. A former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. after providing critical information about Russian spies in U.S. government service, Leonard, his wife Martha, and son Bernard have spent the past year holed up in a CIA facility near Washington. After the CIA makes a deal with the U.S. Marshal Service's Witness Protection Program (WPP), Leonard's family is transported to Minneapolis. The plan is to hide them in a wooded Minneapolis suburb that resembles their former home and dacha near Moscow. The Summers are received at their destination by Lucas Davenport and fellow marshal Shelly White. Unbeknownst to them, the WPP group has been tracked by a Russian hit team. And while nobody in the WPP has ever been attacked...Leonard might be the first victim. As shots are fired and enemies dodged, Lucas must move quickly to uncover where the leak is coming from, before the hit team can strike again.
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Dead Ringer
by Chris Hauty
Set in present-day, a disgraced former Secret Service officer and a Jesuit professor join forces to delve into the mysteries surrounding the events of November 22, 1963. Fixated on deciphering the conspiracies behind the history-changing assassination, they are oblivious to the fact that the cabal is still active--and may face an end as bloody as the carnage in Dealey Plaza. Will they be able to uncover the truth in time? Or will they become two more footnotes in history?--
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The Dead We Honor
by William W. Johnstone
Welcome to Maverick, Iowa. Once a thriving farm community, the peaceful little town is now a bristling hotbed of drugs, crime, and homelessness. Thanks to the misguided policies of a new state governor, the floodgates have been opened to a devastating and very unwelcome wave of newcomers, grifters, fentanyl dealers, thieves, and roving gangs of smash-and-grabbers--and one powerful billionaire who's buying up the farmland. Lifelong residents watch helplessly as their beloved Main Street becomes a bloody battleground in a divided America. This is more than a culture war; it's a hostile takeover. But one group of veterans is fighting back--
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Wreck Your Heart: A Mystery
by Lori Rader-Day
Dahlia Doll Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now she's the star of her own stage at McPhee's Tavern. As part of Chicago's--yes, Chicago's--country music scene, Dahlia is an up-and-coming singer in spangles and boots of classic country tunes. Up and coming, that is, until her boyfriend Joey up and went, taking the rent money with him. So Dahlia is back to square one, relying on Alex McPhee--again. Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother. Now he's part landlord, part band booster, all-around rescuer. It's just that Dahlia wishes she didn't keep giving him reasons to have to do it. Just as Dahlia suspects she's scraped rock bottom, the mother she hasn't spoken to in twenty years shows up with something to say. The next morning, a distraught young woman arrives at the bar, asking after her missing mother--Dahlia's mother, too, even if the missing suburban PTA mom the girl describes sounds pretty different from the one who let Dahlia down all those years ago. Though no one is using the word sister any time soon, Dahlia lets herself be drawn into reuniting the family that might have been hers. But when a body is discovered outside McPhee's Tavern, the crime threatens not just the place Dahlia has made into a home, but everything she's believed about her past, her dreams for the future, and the people she was just, maybe, beginning to let into her heart.
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Nearly Beloved
by Kendra Broekhuis
Dylan Turner works hard to keep her life predictable, though she would never call it that--she loves her routine, two guinea pigs, and minding her own business. But when her dad dies and the DNA test results in her inbox say he's not her biological father, the life she's so carefully built starts to unravel. Craving answers and getting none from her mother, Dylan follows a sparse trail of clues across the country to where she grew up. It's a journey full of unexpected encounters, including a friendly co-worker and another familiar face from her past--one she isn't sure is a solace or an obstacle. As Dylan digs deeper into her family's secrets, she can't help but wonder, Is a comfortable lie better than the pain of knowing the truth?--
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