New Releases

 

Lots of great choices.  Several on my Wish List.  Which ones caught your eye? 

Murder at the Dressmaker’s Salon 

by C.J. Archer 
With the social season just around the corner, the women in Cleo’s family are having new outfits made by the most sought-after designer in the city. Madame Poitiers is bold, self-absorbed and not French, despite her claims. When Cleo stumbles on her dead body in the salon, she is in a unique position to gather clues and speak to witnesses. But she doesn’t expect to find Harry Armitage’s business card in Madame’s possession.   

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Clause of Death 

by Lorna Barrett 

Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, are the co-presidents of the Stoneham Chamber of Commerce. Things are changing in the booktown, and some merchants would say not for the better. They grumble that too many non-book-related stores are moving into the village, taking up the most visible storefronts on Main Street, diluting the “Booktown” moniker. Of course, the members with other businesses, like the latest, The Bee’s Knees, are fine with other businesses moving in. No matter what side of the argument they’re on, all the business owners agree on one thing: Tricia and Angelica are to blame.  

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Bayou Book Thief 

by Ellen Byron 
Twenty-eight-year-old widow Ricki James leaves Los Angeles to start a new life in New Orleans after her showboating actor husband perishes doing a stupid internet stunt. The Big Easy is where she was born and adopted by the NICU nurse who cared for her after Ricki’s teen mother disappeared from the hospital.

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Peril At Pennington Manor

 by Tracy Gardner 

Thanks to Aunt Midge’s unlikely friendship with Nicholas Pennington, the Duke of Valle Charme, Avery Ayers and her associates at Antiques and Artifacts Appraised head off to their most glamorous assignment yet—cataloguing and appraising the contents of a castle-like mansion on the Hudson River. But regal splendor becomes a backdrop to mayhem when the precious Viktor Petrova timepiece disappears—and housekeeper Suzanne Vick plummets from a parapet to her death. 

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Death by Beach Read

 by Eva Gates 
It’s spring in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Lucy and Connor have moved into their new home at last, a historic cottage on the Nags Head Beach. The house needs a lot of renovations, but they worked hard over the winter to get it ready. Lucy is now happily immersed in her work at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, planning her wedding, and decorating the house. That is, until a dead body disrupts their peaceful new abode. 

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A Fatal Booking

 by Victoria Gilbert 

Booklover Charlotte is delighted to welcome an eclectic group of guests to Chapters Bed and Breakfast for a book club retreat focused on fairy tales and classic children’s literature. But when one of the guests is poisoned at a Mad Hatter tea party, Charlotte realizes she’s fallen down a rather unpleasant rabbit hole  

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The Proof Is in the Poison 

by Diane Kelly 
Now that her moonshine shop is up and running, Hattie Hayes can focus her efforts on expanding her fledgling business to events in the area, like the Chattanooga Choo Choo Model Train Convention, which is running full steam ahead at the convention center down the block. Hattie is all aboard, seizing this perfect opportunity to promote her Southern homebrew to the folks who have come to the city for the annual event.  

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Murder Is No Picnic

 by Amy Pershing

The Fourth of July is coming, and for professional food lover Samantha Barnes, it’s all about the picnic. Okay, and the fireworks. And the parade. But mostly the picnic. What could be better than a DIY clambake followed by the best blueberry buckle in the world? Sam has finally found the perfect recipe in the kitchen of Clara Foster, famed cookbook author and retired restaurateur, and she’s thrilled when Clara agrees to a buckle baking lesson. 

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Marigold and a Killer Cold 

by Abby Reede 

I have come to love these characters! This was a great mystery with lots of twists and really fun to read. I am loving this series!!!"

A scammer, a millionaire, a secret love child... and a dead body. Who said small towns had to have small problems?

When Tracy is invited to provide her services at a swanky hotel in town, she feels honored and excited at the opportunity. Despite her aunt's reservations about the hotel's owners, Tracy forges ahead with plans to make her new clients very happy.

She's left shocked and humiliated when one of the hotel's owners goes behind her back to implement the ideas she suggested. She feels helpless and hopeless as the power couple seem too big for her to fight.

In the middle of stewing over this disappointment, she hears that one of the hotel owners has been found dead. While she wished many things on this person, death was not one of them. Her heart goes out to the family of the deceased and she hopes in some little way that she can pay her respects.

However, initial suggestions that this person died from natural causes are debunked when it's revealed that they were murdered... and Tracy is one of the suspects the police have their eyes on!

Tracy is determined to clear her name and find the killer but is surprised when she discovers that the deceased stepped on many toes in town who all had a reason to see her demise.

Will Tracy help to find the killer and restore her reputation in town? Or will she witness more murders at the hands of a diabolical miscreant who isn't afraid to get rid of anyone in their path?

Discover how this mystery is solved in the latest book in the Fern Grove cozy mystery series. If you want to enjoy a light-hearted read, with an amateur female sleuth and a gripping murder mystery with a touch of romance, then you'll love Tracy Adams and all the friendly and not-so-friendly characters in Fern Grove.

No cliffhanger, swearing or graphic scenes!

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Salted Caramel Crime

 by Angela K. Ryan
Anna takes a break from her busy ice cream shop for a long-awaited lunch with friends at Rosie’s inn. But a pleasant afternoon turns deadly when the housekeeper is murdered. Now, Anna and Rosie must do some clean-up of their own if they are to discover the killer and save the inn’s reputation. Meanwhile, nothing seems to be going right in Anna’s search for her sister, especially after Joe Wiggins mysteriously pulls back from the case. That is, until Anna’s search brings her and Jeremy undercover at a beauty school in Maine. 

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The Navigator’s Daughter

 by Nancy Cole Silverman 
Getting caught in the middle of an international art theft ring wasn’t supposed to be part of the deal Kat Lawson made with her dying father. But when her father receives a mysterious letter informing the former WW2 navigator/bombardier that his downed B-24 has been found and asking him to come to Hungary, Kat suspects this is all part of some senior rip-off scam. Her father insists she go, not only to photograph the final resting place of his plane but also to find the mother and son who risked their lives to rescue him and hid him in a cave beneath an old Roman fortress. 

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Welcome Home To Murder

 by Rosalie Spielman 
Tessa Treslow never wanted a small town life. As soon as she graduated high school, she happily escaped her tiny town to join the U.S. Army, leaving New Oslo, Idaho, population 852, firmly behind her. Twenty years later, the hometown hero is finally ready to come back—even if she has just a visit with loved ones in mind while her family is hoping to convince her to stay for good. 

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Death in a Pale Hue

 by Susan Van Kirk 
I will show them success. Artist Jill Madison repeats this mantra when she returns to her small hometown to restart her life. Hired to manage a new community art center, she vows to make it successful so the people of her town will have what she did not have—an education in the arts. She no sooner accepts the job than a burglar makes off with an expensive

sculpture and an uninvited corpse is discovered in the basement. 

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