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The Long Quiche Goodbye
by Avery Aames
During the grand opening of Fromagerie Bessette, the local cheese shop, owner Charlotte Bessette finds the festivities marred by a crime of passion that causes her to become the prime suspect in the murder investigation.
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Murder in the mystery suite
by Ellery Adams
The manager of a resort that caters to book lovers, Jane Steward, while hosting a Murder and Mayhem Week, gets more than she bargained for when the winner of the scavenger hunt is found dead in the Mystery Suite.
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Murder, plain and simple
by Isabella Alan
Having moved to an Amish community in Holmes County, Ohio, to run a quilting shop, Angie Braddock has to put her dreams of success on hold when a local woodworker winds up dead in her storeroom.
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The Darling Dahlias and the cucumber tree
by Susan Wittig Albert
The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder in this new tale from the author of the China Bayles mystery series.
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Meet your baker
by Ellie Alexander
After a locally loathed woman winds up death on the floor of Jules Capshaw and her mother's bakery, Jules must find the killer while still filling pastry orders. Includes recipes.
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Recipes for love and murder
by Sally Andrew
Forced to transition her career when her magazine moves from culinary to romance advice, middle-aged Afrikaans columnist Tannie Maria discovers her knack for helping others and risks her life to help track down an abusive man who has murdered his wife.
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Aunt Dimity's death
by Nancy Atherton
Summoned from her latest dreadful temp job by her lawyers, Lori Shephard discovers that Aunt Dimity--her mother's favorite bedtime story heroine--was a real person who has left her millions and the challenge to solve an eerie mystery.
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The quiche of death
by M. C. Beaton
In order to introduce herself to the picturesque English village where she has just retired, Mrs. Agatha Raisin enters a quiche in a local competition and promptly finds herself a murder suspect when the judge dies from her poisonous pie.
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Her royal spyness
by Rhys Bowen
A penniless twenty-something member of the extended British royal family, Lady Victoria, the daughter of the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch, puts her sleuthing talents to work when an arrogant Frenchman, who is determined to gain control of her family's eight-hundred-year-old estate for himself, ends up dead in her bathtub.
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The sweetness at the bottom of the pie : a Flavia de Luce mystery
by C. Alan Bradley
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, begins her adventure when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's mansion in the summer of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that involves an investigation into a man's murder where her father is the main suspect.
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Wish you were here
by Rita Mae Brown
Mary Minor Haristeen, postmistress of Crozet, Virginia, joins forces with her willful cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her Welsh corgi, Tucker, to investigate a series of bizarre postcards sent to the town's inhabitants that forecast impending death.
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Death by Darjeeling
by Laura Childs
When a guest turns up dead at a tea for the annual historic homes garden party she is catering, Theodosia Browning, the owner of Charleston's Indigo Tea Shop, turns sleuth to save her reputation, clear her name, and track down the real killer.
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Death by dumpling
by Vivien Chien
When Thomas Feng, one of the property managers of the shopping plaza that houses Lana Lee's family restaurant, is found dead, the police immediately suspect Lana Lee and her relatives, and Lana, with her family’s restaurant at stake, must find the real killer before they are all in even more hot water.
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Dog dish of doom : An Agent to the Paws Mystery
by E. J. Copperman
A talent agent for show-biz animals discovers her knack for solving crimes, in a debut entry of a lighthearted new series that finds her investigating a dispute between a famous stage director and a pushy dog trainer who is found face-down in his canine star's water dish.
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On What Grounds
by Cleo Coyle
Clare Cosi, the manager of The Village Blend, finds a murder mystery percolating in her very own store when the assistant manager is found dead in the back and the police believe it to be an open-and-shut case of robbery, but certain clues lead Clare to believe otherwise.
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Just desserts
by Mary Daheim
When carpet-sweeping magnate Otto Brodie brings his uproarious, flamboyant entourage to the quaint Hillside Manor Inn, everyone is expecting a wild party, but no one expects the murder of a soothsayer-for-hire to interrupt the frivolity.
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Death at Wentwater Court : a Daisy Dalrymple mystery
by Carola Dunn
During the post-war turbulence of 1920s England, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple shocks her family by getting a job writing, a position that leads her to Wentwater Court, a manor house full of jealousy and murder.
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Chocolate chip cookie murder
by Joanne Fluke
A novel and novella that feature cookie-baking sleuth Hannah Swensen describe her investigations into the death of a popular delivery man found murdered behind her bakery and a teenage girl who sleeps under the store's Christmas tree at night.
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Wine and punishment
by Sarah Fox
The owner of a literary pub finds her efforts to start over in a quaint Vermont community challenged by a suspicious fire and the untimely death of her compulsive gambler ex.
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Hollywood homicide
by Kellye Garrett
After witnessing a deadly hit-and-run, broke actress Dayna investigates and pursues the reward money in an effort to help her parents keep their house, but she soon finds herself wanting justice for the victim even more.
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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian lions
by Mario Giordano
Retiring to Sicily in the hopes of spending her final years enjoying the ocean view, the wine and the company of friends, 60-year-old Auntie Poldi discovers that her new home is not quite as tranquil as anticipated when her handsome young handyman is found murdered.
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Death by cashmere : a seaside knitters mystery
by Sally Goldenbaum
When Angie Archer, her upstairs tenant, who is unpopular with locals because of her bad reputation, turns up drowned in the harbor, Isabel "Izzy" Chambers, owner of a knitting shop in the small fishing village of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and her friends, the Seaside Knitters, take matters into their own hands to investigate the suspicious death.
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Death by chocolate cherry cheesecake
by Sarah Graves
Opening a waterfront bakery in a coastal Maine fishing village, Jake Tiptree and her best friend, Ellie, find their summer launch complicated by an unseasonal hurricane that strands her family away from home and renders her a suspect in the murder of a corrupt health inspector.
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Cocaine blues : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
by Kerry Greenwood
When sleuth Phryne Fisher decides to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia, she becomes embroiled in a mystery involving poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, and erotic encounters with a beautiful Russian dancer.
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A clue for the puzzle lady
by Parnell Hall
Bakerhaven Police Chief Dale Harper is perplexed by a piece of evidence in his first murder investigation--an apparent crossword puzzle clue found on the body of a teenage girl--so he recruits the town's famed "Puzzle Lady," the eccentric author of a weekly syndicated crossword puzzle column.
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Arsenic with Austen
by Katherine Bolger Hyde
Can’t go to the Oregon Coast right now? Grab this cozy mystery set near Tillamook in the fictional town of Stony Beach and follow Emily, a widowed college professor, who inherits a fortune and finds herself in danger. -Marta
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The railway detective
by Edward Marston
In 1851, after the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, Inspector Robert Colbeck enlists the aid of former police officer Brendan Mulryne to help him investigate the crime.
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
Working in Gaborone, Botswana, sleuth Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week.
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Sidney Chambers and the shadow of death
by James Runcie
A first entry in a planned six-part series set against 30 years of British history introduces unconventional clergyman Sidney Chambers, who teams up with roguish Inspector Harry Keating to investigate a suspicious suicide, a scandalous jewelry theft, the unexplained demise of a jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery.
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Murder at the Brightwell : a mystery
by Ashley Weaver
Regretting her marriage to a notorious playboy, wealthy young Amory Ames agrees to help her former fiancé, Gil Trent, prevent his sister's marriage to a disreputable man, only to be embroiled in a murder investigation that places her relationships and safety in jeopardy.
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Maisie Dobbs : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear
In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I.
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Aunty Lee's delights
by Ovidia Yu
Occasional sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant, feisty widow Rosie "Aunty" Lee helps rookie Police Commissioner Raja investigate the murder of one of her wealthy patrons by using her connections and uncanny ability to track down clues.
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