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| Howloween Murder by Laurien BerensonStarring: Melanie Travis, who raises show dogs and works with struggling students as a tutor at a Connecticut private academy.
What happens: The school's elderly secretary is accused of poisoning a homemade marshmallow puff that killed a neighbor, so Melanie seeks the real murderer as Halloween nears.
Series alert: This lighthearted 26th in a popular cozy series features a cast of likeable characters (human and canine) and deft plotting. |
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| Grave Peril by Jim ButcherStarring: cynical Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden, who finds lost items and conducts paranormal investigations.
What happens: With the help of his friend Michael, who's a sword-carrying knight, Harry tries to figure out why a powerful ghost is wreaking havoc and targeting Harry's friends, not to mention dealing with the vampires and demons who are afoot as well.
Series alert: This 3rd in the bestselling Dresden Files cleverly combines fantasy and mystery elements and features likeable characters, action-packed plots, and zippy dialogue. The 17th book in the series, Battle Ground, came out in September. |
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| Ghost in Trouble by Carolyn HartStarring: Bailey Ruth Raeburn, a fashion-conscious emissary from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions....and its biggest rule-breaker.
What happens: Kay Clark's former boyfriend comes home to Adelaide, Oklahoma and dies in what appears to be an accident. Kay thinks it was murder, and now Bailey Ruth's assigned to keep her safe and sort it all out.
For fans of: Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity series, who may like this 3rd entry in a funny, heartwarming supernatural series set in a small town. |
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| Murder on Millionaires' Row by Erin LindseyStarring: spirited 19-year-old Rose Gallagher, an Irish American housemaid working in a Fifth Avenue brownstone in 1886 New York.
What it's about: Rose investigates after her handsome British boss mysteriously disappears, and she finds herself dealing with Pinkerton agents as well as ghosts and other supernatural elements.
Series alert: This delightful series debut mixes paranormal mystery with a hint of romance. Rose's adventurous 3rd outing, The Silver Shooter, arrives in November, where you'll find her heading out west. |
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Dead and breakfast
by Kate Kingsbury
What it's about: While renovating a haunted mansion to open a bed and breakfast, Melanie West and her grandmother must investigate after they discover the skeleton of a former owner in an upstairs closet and a more recently deceased body on the beach below the inn.
Series: A Merry Ghost Inn Mystery
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Ghost on the case
by Carolyn G Hart
What it's about: When a young woman is blackmailed into breaking into her wealthy employer's home to steal ransom money in exchange for her sister's life, the ghostly Bailey Ruth Raeburn follows heavenly orders to assist the distraught young woman and outmaneuver a brutal killer.
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The hollows : a novel
by Jess Montgomery
What it's about: A sequel to The Widows finds newly elected sheriff Lily Ross investigating ghost sightings in Moonvale Hollow and the death of a mysterious woman who was killed while walking along a railroad shortcut beneath the Appalachians.
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Crewel and Unusual
by Molly MacRae
What it's about: Caught between two rival shopkeepers who are accusing each other of forging their crafts, Kath Rutledge teams up with the TGIF needlework group and Geneva the ghost to solve an untimely murder. By the best-selling author of Plagued by Quilt.
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Queen Anne's lace
by Susan Wittig Albert
What it's about: Discovering a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs in the loft above her shop, China hears ghostly humming and smells lavender from an invisible source before a series of strange occurrences in the building she shares with Ruby reveals the story of a young widow lacemaker who died under suspicious circumstances a century earlier.
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The shape of night : a novel
by Tess Gerritsen
What it's about: Moving to a coastal community in Maine, a woman trying to outrun her past is confronted by a string of murders and the ghost of a sea captain who is haunting her isolated home. By the best-selling author of Harvest.
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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