Ellicott, Jessica
Summary: "Neither Beryl nor Edwina are the least bit interested in attending events at their alma mater, Miss Dupont's Finishing School for Young Ladies. However, when a letter arrives from Miss Dupont herself requesting their help, they pack their bags. Upon arrival, they learn that students have reported items missing, damaged possessions, and strange noises in the night. Then a mother of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ELLHechtman, Betty
Summary: "At the urging of Vista Del Mar's owner, Casey Feldstein takes on the job of combining a murder mystery game with her next weekend yarn retreat. Enlisting the help of the hotel's staff, she lays out a plot. As her intrigued guests watch the murder play out and the clues unfold, Casey is certain she's pulled off the perfect make-believe murder--until a real murder intrudes and everyone at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HECLeitch, Fiona
Summary: Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie 'Nosey' Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home. Having quit the Met Police in search of something less dangerous, the change of pace means she can finally start her dream catering company and raise her daughter, Daisy, somewhere safer. But there's nothing like having your first job back at home to be catering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIMcKinlay, Jenn
Summary: "Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCKPenney, Elizabeth
Summary: "Lately, Molly has been feeling that she might have fallen into a fairy tale: she's reinvigorated the family bookshop, made friends in her new home of Cambridge, England, and is even developing a bit of a romance with the handsome Kieran. Having recently discovered The Strawberry Girls, a classic children's tale, Molly is thrilled to learn the author, Iona York, lives nearby. But while visiting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SEASwann, Leonie
Summary: "It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a communal home for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had their share of issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, mobility issues, and unruly grandsons), nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SwannCarter, Ally
Summary: "Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt. She's the new queen of the cozy mystery. He's Mr. Big-Time thriller guy. But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world...That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone. She vanished from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARBerenson, Laurien
Summary: While in Kentucky to sell her Thoroughbred broodmare's offspring at a high-stakes yearling sale, rival sisters-in-law Peg and Rose discover something seems off about Six Oaks farm, and when the yearling manager with serious anger issues is murdered, the ladies enter the ring to expose the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: "Rayne McGrath's efforts to save the rundown family castle she inherited were an epic failure after she accidentally set fire to the tower and tanked the budget...Meanwhile, her cousin, Ciara Smith, is anxiously booking their joint calendar with special events in the hopes of bringing the property around...When a bridalwear client from LA asks Rayne for help as her guest list spirals out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane
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Summary: "In the middle of a Christmas holiday in Dharma, Brooklyn and Derek receive a phone call from their friend Claire in Scotland. The laird of the castle has just proposed to her! They plan to be married on New Year's Day, and they want Derek and Brooklyn to be their witnesses. While they're visiting, Claire hopes that Brooklyn will be able to solve a mystery in the castle library--twelve rare...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "Natasha Smith's mother is engaged--leaving Natasha to plan the entire wedding, beginning with an elaborate engagement party. For the extravagant affair, Natasha splurges on trendy food boards. Just as Natasha planned, the food is to die for--until someone actually does. When the groom collapses, it seems as if a heart attack is to blame. Then guests discover he was poisoned. With an event this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned spending the last weeks of summer drifting around Passamaquoddy Bay searching for pirate's treasure--and a dead body. Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAManansala, Mia P.
Summary: "The next riveting mystery in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen series by Mia P. Manansala, Agatha Award-winning author of Arsenic and Adobo. Lila Macapagal's godmothers April, Mae, and June-AKA the Calendar Crew-are celebrating the opening of their latest joint business venture, a chain of laundromats. However, what should've been a joyous occasion quickly turns into a tragedy when they discover the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime
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Summary: "In this atmospheric southern cozy debut, Madeline Brimley returns to the bookstore she inherited, discovering that small towns hold deadly secrets. Madeline Brimley left small town Georgia many years ago to go to college and pursue her dreams on the stage. Her dramatic escapades are many but success has eluded her, leaving her at loose ends. But then she gets word that not only has her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books
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Summary: "Sarah Grayson is taking a break to spend time with a friend and her dog. But their visit comes to an end when they discover a dead body. The deceased turns out to be a financial adviser who swindled millions from investors and who has been presumed dead for almost three years. Unfortunately, suspicion falls on the owner of the property where the body was found--and that owner is a good friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RYASchillace, Brandy
Summary: A neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor, Jo Jones, taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing, and to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets--and her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SCHSmith, Karen Rose
Summary: "New York State's Belltower Landing is the perfect place to cuddle up with a good book and enjoy a cup of tea, courtesy of Tomes & Tea. Owned and operated by Jazzi and her best friend Dawn Fernsby, the book bar is beloved by vacationers and locals alike. Jazzi befriends a woman named Brie who has recently made contact with her biological father. As an adopted child herself, Jazzi is more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMIBlackburn, Maggie
Summary: When Beach Reads bookshop hosts a Valentine’s Day event, “Romance by the Sea,” bookseller Summer Merriweather has no idea that the guest author is under investigation for her own husband’s murder. When that same author is found dead at the local bed and breakfast, nobody assumes it’s natural causes–there were plenty of people who wanted her dead. As Summer searches for the truth about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAQuinn, Spencer
Summary: Chet the dog and his human partner, private eye Bernie Little, get entangled in a web of crime to help their neighbor, Mr. Parsons. He had loaned his son, Billy, some money to help him get settled. But soon he discovered that his entire life savings is gone. Now Billy is nowhere to be found, and it's up to Chet and Bernie to track him down and get to the bottom of things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC QUIChilds, Laura
Summary: "A movie director's death on set at a haunted manor launches Theodosia Browning into an electrifying investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia and Drayton were expecting a mellow break from the bustle at the Indigo Tea Shop while catering a film, until the director ropes Theodosia into a role as a fortune teller. At the haunted Brittleback...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2024
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Summary: For inn keeper Holly White, Christmas time in Mistletoe, Maine, is the ultimate holiday gift. Business at the Reindeer Games Inn is booming, her wedding to Sheriff Evan Gray is nearly here, and the annual parade is about to begin. The town is lucky to have another gift this year with the state's ballet company staying for several performances of The Nutcracker. But disaster strikes when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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Summary: "With Bride's Dream Expo in town, it's all things wedding in Crystal Cove, including at the Cookbook Nook, where owner Jenna Hart is preparing for her own wedding in just a few short weeks. But there's a dark cloud hanging over the festive mood by the name of Sarita Strachline, a woman Jenna helped convict of arson who is now out of jail and bent on revenge. And when Jenna and Rhett's intimate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GERJames, Miranda
Summary: "At last, Charlie and Helen Louise's wedding is only a month away. They're busy preparing for the big day, and the last thing Charlie needs is a new mystery to solve. Enter Tara Martin, a shy, peculiar woman who has recently started working part-time at Helen Louise's bistro and helping Charlie in the archive. Tara isn't exactly friendly and she has an angry outburst at the library that leaves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2024