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Mysteries - Crafts/Hobbies/Shops Mysteries in this collection include amateur sleuth business or shop owners who are engaged in knitting, quilting, herbs, antiques, sculpting, tea shops, coffee houses, bookstores, etc. Click on the link in each series to find titles in publication order.
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Mysteries - Crafts/Hobbies/Shops
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Susan Wittig Albert Find Hinsdale materials here.
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China, a former big city lawyer turned small town herb shop owner, solves murders through a combination of botanical know-how, deductive skills, and legal reasoning. Each mystery will expand your plant knowledge while providing an entertaining escape.
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Barbara Allan (Husband/wife team of Max Allan Collins and Barbara Collins) Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Trash n' Treasures Mystery series. The series features recently divorced Brandy Borne, who has moved back home to live with her eccentric, larger-than-life, mother in the Mississippi River town of Serenity. Also featuring Sushi, Brandy's blind Shih Tzu, mother and daughter engage in antiquing and crime-solving. Antiquing tips are a bonus feature.
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Donna Andrews Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Meg is a blacksmith in Yorktown, Virginia. Looking to laugh? You'll love the antics of Meg's family. Their over-the-top wackiness adds to the fun of these excellent mysteries. All have birds in the title.
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Dorothy Cannell Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Ellie Haskell series.Ellie is an interior decorator who solves mysteries along with her husband, Ben, a writer and chef. Joining them are Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency. Outlandish characters enliven the stories, and the titles are puns on literary classics..
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Laura Childs Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Theodosia "Theo" Browning is a tea shop owner and sleuth in Charleston. Hosts of supporting characters assist with her catering business and crime-solving exploits.
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Jane Cleland Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries series. Ever since Josie left a high-paying job in New York to set up shop as an antiques appraiser on the rugged New Hampshire coast, her life has not gone exactly according to plan. She has a booming business, good friends and neighbors, and even a promising romance, but dead bodies seem to appear too frequently and Josie finds herself ferreting out the truth, defending her reputation, and trying to keep her business running smoothly, all while trying to put down roots in her new community.
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Cleo Coyle Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Clare Cosi owns the Village Blend coffeehouse in Greenwich Village, where coffee and crime are always brewing. Recipes are included.
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Mary Daheim Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Bed & Breakfast series.Judith McMonigle Flynn is the innkeeper of a B&B in Seattle. Bodies keep turning up in this series, and Judith is a reluctant sleuth. She also has a zany cousin who tends to get her in trouble whenever they're together.
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Jonathan Gash Find Hinsdale materials here.
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This series covers the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer based in East Anglia who is a bit of a rogue and an amateur sleuth. His scruples are questionable, but he does have a reputation in the antiques trade for an almost supernatural talent for recognizing exceptional items as well as spotting fakes and forgeries.
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Sally Goldenbaum Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Isabel "Izzy" Chambers is the owner of a knitting shop in Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, where a diverse (eccentric) group of women congregate each week to form the Seaside Knitters. Izzy and her knitting group work together to solve the latest local murder.
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Carolyn Hart Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Annie Laurance inherits a bookstore on an island off South Carolina called Death on Demand. Max Darling is a private investigator. They marry and become partners in crime-solving -- think Nick and Nora Charles with wildly eccentric characters.
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Joan Hess Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Claire owns a small bookstore in a college town. Her husband was killed years ago when he was hit by a chicken truck. Her teenage daughter frequently talks in CAPITAL LETTERS. Claire has a dry, rather droll, witty style and is frequently at odds with her detective love interest as she becomes involved in her amateur investigations. Of course there is a collection of odd friends who often get Claire into trouble.
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Clare O'Donohue Find Hinsdale materials here.
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When her fiance announces he's calling off their wedding, heartbroken 25-year-old Eleanor "Nell" flees New York City for her grandmother's home in quaint Archers Rest in upstate New York. In this small town, Nell's life revolves around the quilt shop, Someday Quilts, and the members of the shop's quilting circle, who become involved in some amateur sleuthing.
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Maggie Sefton Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Kelly Flynn, a consulting CPA begins a brand-new life when she leaves Washington, D.C., to investigate the death of her aunt in Colorado -- and stays. She just happens upon mysteries or murders to solve, but along the way she is introduced to a host of knitting friends, who meet at a yarn store called The House of Lambspun. Each book includes a knitting pattern and a recipe from a dish featured in the story.
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