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Homicide and Halo-Halo
by Mia P. Manansala
Upon opening her new café, Lila Macapagal stumbles into unpleasantness when the head judge of a local beauty pageant is murdered and her cousin becomes the main suspect, in the second novel of the series following Arsenic and Adobo. .
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Caramel Pecan Roll Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Baker Hannah Swensen agrees to help bake pastries at a local inn during a flashy fishing competition but investigates when the events celebrity spokesperson is found dead in the latest addition to the series following Chocolate Cream Pie Murder.
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A Catered Doggie Wedding
by Isis Crawford
Sisters and co-owners of a catering company plan a doggie wedding for their friends golden retrievers but receive threatening messages warning them to cancel the event, in the latest addition to the series following A Catered Book Club Murder.
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Cheddar Off Dead
by Korina Moss
Everything goes wrong at Willa Bauers newly-opened, French-inspired cheese shop in Sonoma Valley, Curds & Whey, when the local food critic is discovered stabbed to death there, making her the prime suspect.
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A Dark and Stormy Tea
by Laura Childs
After witnessing the murder of her friend Lois daughter, tea shop owner and amateur sleuth Theodosia Browning investigates and is surprised when so many suspects turn up, in the latest addition to the long-running series, following Twisted Tea Christmas.
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Death by Chocolate Chip Cupcake
by Sarah Graves
Bakery owners Jake and Ellie cater a glamorous housewarming party and investigate after witnessing one of the guests being shoved off a nearby cliff, in the fifth novel of the tasty mystery series following Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle.
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Death by Tart Attack
by Tamar Myers
While most of the Hernia community is reeling at the prospect of a giant, bible-themed amusement park being built nearby, someone is opposed enough to poison the developer in the latest novel of the series following Mean and Shellfish.
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Double Shot Death
by Emmeline Duncan
Sage Caplin brings her Portland coffee cart to an annual, eco-friendly music festival only to end up investigating the murder of one of the performers in the second novel of the series following Fresh Brewed Murder.
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Honey Roasted
by Cleo Coyle
Coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi investigates when her friend Queen Bea Hastings is found unconscious after falling from her high-rise rooftop where she kept her prize-winning honey bees, in the latest addition to the popular series following Brewed Awakening.
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In Too Steep
by Kate Kingsbury
When her interest is piqued by the murder of Lewis Trenton, a beachcomber, after finding a clue in a newspaper article, Misty Bay Tearoom owner Vivian Wainwright discovers the key to finding the killer in an unlikely place and works with Detective Tony Messina to find the truth.
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A Killer Sundae
by Abby Collette
Bronwyn Crewse investigates when the new owner of an ice cream truck is accused of murder after an attendee at the annual Harvest Time Festival is poisoned in the third novel of the series following Game of Cones.
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Murder Spills the Tea
by Vicki Delany
When, during the filming of the countrys hottest TV cooking show at her tea room, an infamous bad-boy chef and celebrity judge is murdered with her rolling pin, Lily whips up an impromptu investigation to catch a killer who could be anyone associated with the show.
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Put Out to Pasture
by Amanda Flower
When her best friend Kristy Brewer is accused of murdering her philandering husband, organic farmer Shiloh Bellamy must dig up the dirt on the real killer to save Kristy from prison.
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Spirits and Sourdough
by Bailey Cates
While investigating the recent murder of a woman whose ghost has been following her, baker Katie Lightfoot, under pressure from the living and the dead, must employ her magical skills to discover why her new husbands guardian spirit has gone missing.
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Strawberried Alive
by Jenn McKinlay
When someone takes a shot at Mel, and other shop owners in town are attacked, resulting in a fatality, she and her cupcake crew must put both their baking and detecting skills to good use as they sift through the clues to catch the mystery killer.
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Bound by Murder: An Antique Bookshop Mystery
by Laura Gail Black
Antiquarian bookseller Jenna Quinn is shocked and dismayed when her ex-fiance's new bride-to-be turns up dead after he arrives at her store and tells her he still loves her, in the third novel of the series following Murder by Bookend.
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A Book Club to Die For
by Dorothy St. James
Invited to speak at an exclusive club, assistant librarian Trudell Becket and her friend Flossie discover the clubs president dead in her kitchen before the meeting and investigate, in the third novel of the series following Perfect Bind.
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The Burning Pages: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery
by Paige Shelton
While attending a traditional Scottish celebration of the poet Robert Burns, bookseller Delaney Nichols finds everything going up in smoke when Burns House is burned to the ground, leaving a body in its ashes, and her coworker stands accused of the crime.
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Crimes and Covers
by Amanda Flower
At her wedding reception, Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly recognizes a dead body in the Niagara River as a recent customer with a rare copy of Walden, in the fifth novel of the series following Verse and Vengeance.
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Death by Beach Read
by Eva Gates
Lucy discovers dusty footprints, an open door and a dead body in her kitchen in her new home in a historic cottage in the Outer Banks, in the ninth novel of the series following Deadly Ever After.
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Dewey Decimated
by Allison Brook
Connecticut librarian Carrie Singleton is aided in sleuthing by the resident cat, Smoky Joe, and the librarys ghost, Evelyn, after a dead body is found in the basement, in the sixth novel of the series following Death on the Shelf.
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Long Overdue at the Lakeside Library
by Holly Danvers
When Wallace, a local man, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree, librarian Rain Wilmot finds an enigmatic note to her from Wallace in the books he had returned and seeks to understand the message, while trying to catch a slippery killer.
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The Paper Caper: A Bibliophile Mystery
by Kate Carlisle
During the Mark Twain Festival, wealthy media mogul Joseph Cabot runs a citywide contest based on The Prince and the Pauper, giving one lucky lookalike access to his wealth for a few days, which leads to murder, and Brooklyn must quickly solve this case before another murder becomes front-page news.
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Peril on the Page
by Margaret Loudon
While putting the final touches on her new book, American Gothic novelist Penelope Parish, along with the quirky citizens of Chumley, investigates the murder of an author inside the bookshop, putting the town on high alert.
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The Plot and the Pendulum
by Jenn McKinlay
When library director Lindsey Norris arrives at the Dorchester familys estate to collect books left to the library, she instead finds a skeleton linked to a missing persons case from 1989, and sets out to solve this mystery and throw the book at a killer who thought they got away with murder.
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A Poisonous Page: A Sweet Fiction Bookshop Mystery
by Kitt Crowe
Bookshop owner Lexi comes to the defense of her friend Dash after he is accused of murdering two members of the Confection, Oregon chamber of commerce, in the second novel of the series following Digging Up Trouble.
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The Vanishing Type
by Ellery Adams
Book store owner Nora Pennington helps Deputy Andrews plan a wedding proposal for his intended bride, Hester, and suddenly notices that all her shops copies of The Scarlet Letter have been vandalized, in the fifth novel of the series.
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Blackmail and Bibingka
by Mia P. Manansala
With her trouble-magnet cousin returning to Shady Palms for Christmas, cafe owner Lila Macapagal isn't surprised when she has to clear his name after being accused of murder in the third novel of the series following Homicide and Halo-Halo.
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Bones of Holly
by Carolyn Haines
When a feud erupts between two authors at a Mississippi librarys tree decorating contest, Sarah Booth and Tinkie investigate after one of them goes missing, in the latest novel of the series following Lady of Bones.
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A Christmas Candy Killing: A Killer Chocolate Mystery
by Christina Romeril
Identical twins Alex and Hannah, proprietors of a mystery bookshop specializing in poison-themed chocolates investigate when a box of their candy turns up beside a new resident, who happens to have appeared as a suspect on a true crime show.
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Dashing Through the Snowbirds: a Meg Langslow Mystery
by Donna Andrews
After forcing employees to work through the holidays in Wales, an inconsiderate boss turns up murdered with too many possible suspects, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Round Up the Usual Peacocks.
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Easter Bonnet Murder
by Leslie Meier
A part-time reporter, Lucy Stone, investigates when Tinker Coves retired librarian goes missing after a silly dispute during the annual Easter Bonnet Contest, in the latest novel of the long-running series following Irish Parade Murder.
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Mrs. Claus and the Evil Elves
by Liz Ireland
To save Santaland from Christmas chaos, April Claus, amidst kamikaze drone-deer, a reindeer strike, a missing inventor elf named Blinky, and murder, must not only help Blinkys girlfriend clear her name in his disappearance, she must also save herself from a stone-cold killer.
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Peppermint Barked
by Leslie Budewitz
"As the holiday season lights up Seattle's famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece's beloved Spice Shop is brimming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and shoppers eager to stuff their stockings. But when a young woman working in her friend Vinny's wine shop is brutally assaulted, costumed revelers and holiday cheer are the last things on Pepper's mind. As the secrets of the market come to light, long-held grudges, family ties, and hidden plans only further obscure the truth. As Pepper chases down a killer, someone ischasing her, and in the end, the storied market itself may hold the final, deadly clue"
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Santa's Little Yelpers
by David Rosenfelt
Relieved when his co-worker Chris Meyers, the newest employee at the Tara Foundation, agrees to foster eight puppies, lawyer Andy Carpenter tries to overturn Chris wrongful conviction that he did time for.
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Bayou Book Thief
by Ellen Byron
After her husbands accidental death attempting an internet stunt, Ricki lands a job in New Orleans Garden District finding c and collecting vintage cookbooks in the first novel of a new series from the author of the Catering Hall Mysteries.
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A Fatal Booking
by Victoria Gilbert
With a group of childrens literature fans staying at her B&B, Charlotte falls down a proverbial rabbit hole after a guest is poisoned at a Mad Hatter tea party, in the third novel of the series following Reserved for Murder.
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High Spirits
by Carol J. Perry
Massachusetts transplant Maureen and her dog Finn want to advertise their quaint Florida inn at a holiday film festival and must investigate when a body is discovered there, in the second novel of the series following Be My Ghost.
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A Hint of Mischief
by Daryl Wood Gerber
Fairy-gardening tea shop owner Courtney Kelly investigates after a famous actress is murdered during a girls weekend for an old sorority sisters fortieth birthday in the third novel of the series following A Glimmer of a Clue.
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The King Falls
by R. J. Lee
When King Kohl, the scion of the Kohl and Son real estate firm, is murdered, bludgeoned with one of his own award plaques, reporter Wendy Winchester, along with her detective husband, is determined to find the offender who felled the unguarded King.
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Knit or Dye Trying
by Allie Pleiter
When artisan fiber dyer Julie Wilson is murdered right before her special dying workshop, Y.A.R.N. store owner Libby Beckett must unravel a long list of suspects to catch a killer determined to tie up loose ends.
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Muddled Through
by Barbara Ross
When an argument over a proposed pedestrian mall ends in murder, Snowden Family Clambake owner Julia sets out to clean up the case as Busmans Harbor, Maines citizens fight amongst themselves.
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Murder on an Irish Farm
by Carlene O'Connor
Putting their wedding on hold due to the discovery of a human skeleton at a farmhouse near the church, garda Siobhǹ and Macdara must solve a 50-year-old cold case of a missing groom, which heats up when a fresh corpse appears.
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Murder Most Grave
by G. A. McKevett
When a criminal is brutally murdered, Stella, with a new grandbaby to care for at home and a teenage granddaughter hanging out with the wrong boy for her, takes a break to help Sheriff Manny Goldford solve this case that could cost Manny his position.
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Murder Through the English Post
by Jessica Ellicott
When anonymous poisoned pen letters pit neighbor against neighbor in their sleepy English village, culminating in murder, intrepid sleuths Beryl and Edwina must read between the lines to deliver swift justice to the perpetrator.
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Something Fishy this Way Comes
by Gabby Allan
When the murder of her best customer, Leo Franklin, disrupts her itinerary, tour guide Whitney Dagner and her police diver not-so-ex-boyfriend must wade through years of scandal and bad blood between the Franklin and Ahern families to catch a killer.
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When the Crow's Away
by Auralee Wallace
Haunted by the ghost of a candy shop owner who wants her to solve his murder, young witch Brynn Warren, to bring him peace, must rely on all of her skills both magical and mundane to unmask a killer with a sweet tooth.
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The Art of the Decoy
by Trish Esden
When a waterfowl decoy collection goes missing after her appraisal, fine art and antiques expert Edie Brown is accused of the crime and must race against time to expose the real culprits before the FBIs Art Crime Team or the ruthless thieves catch up with her.
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Bear Witness
by Lark O. Jensen
A tour boat guide and her sightseers spot a corpse in the frigid Alaskan waters and recognize him as an annoying tourist who argued with the crew and may have been pushed in the first novel of a new series.
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Buried in a Good Book
by Tamara Berry
When the start of their summer vacation is marred by murder, best-selling thriller writer Tess Harrow is thrust into the subsequent investigation, involving a big foot sighting and a handsome local sheriff, which puts so much more than her teenage daughters summer plans at stake.
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Dead and Gondola: A Christie Bookshop Mystery
by Ann Claire
Returning to her Colorado hometown to run her familys historic bookshop with her sister, Ellie Christie discovers a dead man on the ski gondola and immediately suspects a mysterious stranger who left behind a first edition Agatha Christie novel.
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Front Page Murder
by Joyce St. Anthony
While trying to run her fathers newspaper, Irene Ingram investigates the death of one of her crime reporters who was chasing down a story about a Jewish shop owner who received a threatening message from a stranger.
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A Killing in Costumes
by Zac Bissonnette
Facing fading stardom, a former star couple open a movie memorabilia store and become prime suspects when the owner of a competing shop with ties to a mega-auction house turns up murdered, in the first novel of a new series.
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Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies
by Misha Popp
Preparing for the statewide pie contest, which could help wronged women everywhere, Daisy Ellery, whose pies have the magical ability to avenge women done wrong by men, finds herself in a sticky situation when a blackmailer threatens to reveal her true calling to the world.
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Renovated to Death
by Frank Anthony Polito
Just as they are about to start filming the renovation of twin brothers Terry and Tom Cashs local Tudor, real-life domestic partners and stars of a new reality TV show Peter and JP discover Tom Cash dead and must chip away at the clues to catch a killer.
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Steeped to Death
by Gretchen Rue
Inheriting her beloved aunt Eudoras Victorian mansion, her bookshop/tea store and a very chubby orange cat named Bob, Phoebe Winchester also inherits a dead body and digs into the underbelly of Raven Creek to learn the truth about Eudora as she discovers her own unique and unexpected gifts.
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Under Lock & Skeleton Key
by Gigi Pandian
Tempest Raj, while visiting her dads latest renovation project, discovers the body of her former stage double and wonders if she was the original target, and as she dives into this impossible mystery, she wonders if the Raj family curse has finally come for her.
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