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Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd1954: When her former novice's dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows. Haunted by a line in Frieda's letter, Nora arrives at Gulls Nest, a charming hotel in Gore-on-Sea in Kent. Nora hides her identity, and pries into the lives of her fellow guests. But when a series of bizarre murders rattles the occupants of Gulls Nest it's time to ask if a dark past can ever really be left behind.
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by Rachel Ekstrom-Courage
When Dorothy's obnoxious date is found dead in a hotel freezer, it not only ruins a gorgeous cheesecake but threatens the elaborate St. Olaf-themed wedding Rose is hosting.
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by Kristen Perrin
Annie Adams investigates the murder of a local fortune teller, revealing dark secrets tied to a 1967 tragedy that haunted her late Aunt Frances, in the second novel of the series following How to Solve Your Own Murder.
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by Laura Childs
While catering an elegant wedding, tea shop owner Theodosia Browning investigates a murder after a suspicious greenhouse collapse turns deadly during the celebration, in the latest addition to long-running the series following Peach Tea Smash.
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A Midsummer's Equation by Keigo Higashino (A Detective Galileo Mystery) Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. The night after the tense panel discussion, one of the resort's guests is found dead on the seashore at the base of the local cliffs. The local police at first believe it was a simple accident-that he wandered over the edge while walking on unfamiliar territory in the middle of the night. But when they discover that the victim was a former policeman and that the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin to suspect he was murdered
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Next Meeting Wednesday April 9th @ 5pm In person AND on Zoom! Zoom Link: If you'd like more information about the Mystery Lover's Book Club, please e-mail me! at bhomrighausen@losgatosca.gov
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April 2025 Meeting A Deck Stacked for Murder by Aliza Levine (#1 in the Cafe Aracana series) Ava Goldberg’s life in suburban Chicago was perfect—until it wasn’t. Eager to leave her cheating ex-husband behind and reclaim her independence, Ava opens a tarot cafe in the tiny, cornfield-laced town of Shiloh. Although finding her place in Shiloh as a tarot reader—and the only Jewish person—brings more tsuris than Ava bargained for, she hopes that with the support of her childhood friend, Rose, she can pull through. But when a body winds up in the Main Street fountain and Rose’s husband, Joel, is the primary suspect, the whole town is thrown into chaos.
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