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January 2020
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Verse and Vengeance
by Amanda Flower
When a pesky private investigator is murdered during a bicycle race fundraiser, Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly is guided by the works of Walt Whitman to find the killer and clear her own name.
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The Books of the Dead
by Emilia Bernhard
Curiosity gets the best of American expat Rachel Levis when she steps into a Paris restroom and finds the dead body of Guy Laurent, who worked at the Bibliothèque Nationale. Having difficulty getting Laurent’s co-workers to talk, Capitaine Boussicault asks Rachel to volunteer at the library to help investigate. As the list of suspects, and the body count, grows, Rachel oversteps her boundaries and is taken off the case. Not one to give up, Rachel and her friend Magda charge into an investigation of their own to find the library’s killer.
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Scarlet Fever : a novel
by Rita Mae Brown
Facilitating romantic matches during the hunting season at Tattenhall Station, proud Master of Foxhounds “Sister” Jane Arnold uncovers a link between a suspicious death and an inheritance scam.
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A Most Novel Revenge
by Ashley Weaver
Set in 1930's England, socialite Avory Ames and her husband Milo avert their winter vacation from a trip to Italy to a country estate after an urgent summons from Avory's cousin Laurel. Laurel is among the guests who have been reassembled from a party years earlier when a death occurred. It is up to Avory and Miles to sort through the lies and scandal to find the murderer.
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Sticks and Bones
by Carolyn Haines
Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year's Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter White Garden party at the Prince Albert Hotel. Clashing at the party with an arrogant local writer whose best-selling memoir is being turned into a documentary, Sarah is hired by the film crew to discern the truth about the writer's story only to find herself targeted by someone who would kill to protect a long-held secret.
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Death in Paris
by Emilia Bernhard
The only thing chillier than a Parisian winter is cold-blooded murder. When a French financier drowns in a bowl of soup, his former girlfriend, American Rachel Levis, investigates the death along with her best friend Magda, immersing themselves in his upper-class Parisian world.
*First in the Death in Paris mystery series. The second book is The Books of the Dead (in the section above).
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Murders and Metaphors
by Amanda Flower
Charming Books owner Violet Waverly investigates after a celebrity sommelier who was scheduled for a book signing at her shop is found stabbed to death in a frozen vineyard.
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Puzzled Indemnity : a Puzzle Lady Mystery
by Parnell Hall
Hoping to escape a lonely winter, Cora Felton agrees to investigate a woman's suspicions that her cheating husband is trying to kill her. Before she can prove anything, the philandering husband is found dead and Felton's client is the prime suspect. Cora will have to follow the clues to find out what is really going on before it is too late.
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