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Sunday, September 4, 2022

New Releases

 


Bound by Murder 

by Laura Gail Black 

The birds are singing, books are selling, and the Hokes Bluff Inn has begun to host weddings on its property. Antiquarian bookseller Jenna Quinn loves the romance in the air—until her ex-fiancé, Blake Emerson, walks in with his bride-to-be, Missy Plott. Blake continues to profess his love for Jenna if she’ll have him back, no matter the consequences. And the consequences are grave, indeed, when Missy turns up dead.  

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Murder and an Irish Curse

 by Melissa Bourbon 

Armed with new information about her family’s connection to Dagda and Morrighan, from the Tuatha dé Danann, bibliomancer Pippin Lane Hawthorne is more determined than ever to stop the 2000 year old Irish curse on her family. When reporter Moira Quinn starts asking questions—and then ends up dead—Pippin discovers a personal connection that makes the quest for the truth even more personal.  

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Last But Not Leashed  

by Eileen Brady 

All Dr. Kate Turner wants to do is get her life in order before ringing in the new year, but with bodies turning up left and right, she’ll have to trust her own instincts—and those of her beloved animals—to stop a killer in their tracks. As the only veterinarian at Oak Falls Animal Hospital, Dr. Kate’s life is complicated.  

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Kate Shackleton’s First Case 

by Frances Brody 

Kate Shackleton is having tea with her friend, Doris, who is visiting from London. In the lovely setting of Harrogate’s premier tearoom, violence is the furthest thing from anyone’s mind. But when Doris is attacked by a mystery assailant, it’s up to Kate to find out why – and in doing so, she soon develops a taste for detective-work. 

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Dewey Decimated 

by Allison Brook 

Carrie Singleton is just off a hot string of murder cases centered around the spooky local library in Clover Ridge, Connecticut. She could really use a break—but no such luck, as she; Smoky Joe, the resident cat; and Evelyn, the library’s ghost, are drawn into another tantalizing whodunit. 

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A Vacation To Die For  

by Lynn Cahoon 

Hustling her fiancé off to a neighboring tourist town might be the only way Jill Gardner can plan her nuptials to South Cove’s in-demand police detective. But when a mystery man turns up dead at South Cove’s PD, Greg is hightailing it back home to investigate, leaving Jill to finish the vacation solo.   

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The Rising Tide 

 by Ann Cleeves 

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now . . .

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A Good Dog’s Guide to Murder

 by Krista Davis 

Visitors are arriving in droves to spend Thanksgiving in the mountains of pet-friendly Wagtail, Virginia. Many of them are bringing dog and cat gingerbread houses to enter in the contest that will be held in the new convention center. Wagtail resident Orly Biffle bequeathed the land to the town in his will, provided that they not cut down the grand old oak tree on the property. Orly’s children are mighty miffed that they didn’t inherit the prime piece of property overlooking the lake. 

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Best Practices 

by Gwen Florio

Nora Best is starting her life over . . . again. Spotting a ‘team leader’ job with a therapy program for troubled girls at Serendipity Ranch, Nora thinks it’s the perfect role. She’ll be surrounded by the beautiful Montana wilderness and be able to make a difference in the kids’ lives. All is going well until it’s revealed a girl recently died at the ranch.

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Murder in the Library 

by Katie Gayle 

Julia Bird had imagined the quiet of rural life would be soothing after years in the city, but she finds she can’t just sit still.Determined to throw herself into village
activities, she joins the library just in time to attend a talk by celebrated local author Vincent Andrews. Charming, devilishly handsome and talented, Vincent teases the crowd with a reading from his forthcoming novel.   

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Captive 

by Iris Johansen 

Jane MacGuire is enjoying a period of domestic bliss as she focuses on her art and her partner Seth Caleb uses his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world’s most powerful criminal empires…one whose tentacles reach across the globe and even to the idyllic Scottish retreat where Jane is working. 

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Back to the Garden

 by Laurie R. King

A magnificent house, vast formal gardens, a golden family that shaped California, and a colorful past filled with now-famous artists: the Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden. And now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new future, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the home’s past: a human skull, hidden away for decades. 

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Light on Bone 

 by Kathryn Lasky 

The narrative begins when she discovers the slain body of a priest in the desert. The plot includes several other murders, Georgia’s burgeoning romance with the local sheriff, an international espionage plot involving Charles Lindbergh (who is staying at the ranch with his wife Anne), and lots of intricate twists and turns leading to a thoroughly unforeseen denouement. 

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Robert B. Parker’s Fallout

 by Mike Lupica 

The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team’s biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult—the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers about how the boy died and why, he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined to keep him from digging further. 

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Sand Dune Slaying

 by Maisy Marple 

A young child abandoned on a crowded beach. A finger without a body found in a sand dune. A call from Casper Cove’s chief of police. This weekend is going to be wild. 

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Eight O’Clock Split 

by Joanne Pence 

Inspector Rebecca Mayfield returns to homicide after being place on administrative leave, but she’sassigned to desk duty. While she seethes at this latest restriction, boyfriend Richie Amalfi can’t believe she’d gone back there to work after all that has happened. He’s even more furious when the former partner who caused her to nearly be killed reappears seeking forgiveness.

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Desperation in Death

 by J.D. Robb 

The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who’d been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who’d hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two—but they’d been equally desperate. 

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Steeped to Death 

by Gretchen Rue 

Phoebe Winchester’s beloved aunt Eudora has a taste for adventure—and a knack for making magical tea. It’s even rumored that she just might be a witch. So when Eudora passes away and leaves everything to her niece—her Victorian mansion, her bookshop/tea store, The Earl’s Study, and one very chubby orange cat named Bob—Phoebe gets more than she bargained for. And she knows she’s in deep when a dead man is found on the shop’s back step, apparently killed while trying to break in.

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Hot Fudge Homicide 

by Angela K. Ryan

Fall has arrived in New England, and the summer tourist season has come to an end, which means Anna must get creative to drum up business for her ice cream shop. When a young Seagull Cove couple decides to host a celebration for their first wedding anniversary, Anna proposes a hot fudge sundae bar to sweeten up their house party. 

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A Song of Comfortable Chairs 

by Alexander McCall Smith 

Grace Makutsi’s husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm seems interested only in profits. To make matters worse, they have a slick new advertising campaign that seems hard to beat. Nonetheless with Mma Ramotswe’s help, Phtui comes up with a campaign that may just do the trick.

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Hula Homicide 

by B.A. Trimmer 

Kristy Piper finally achieved her lifelong dream of moving to paradise when she took a job in Hawaii as the Aloha Lagoon resort wedding planner on the gorgeous island of Kauai. Sun, surf, sandy beaches, and glowing brides. . .what could possibly go wrong? Turns out, everything. 

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Guilty as Framed

 by Lois Winston 

Boston mob boss Cormac Murphy has recently been released from prison. He refuses to believe Anastasia’s assertion that the man he’s looking for doesn’t live at her address and attempts to muscle his way into her home. His efforts are thwarted by Anastasia’s fiancé Zack Barnes. 


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