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The Cereal Murders: A Culinary Mystery

Diane Mott Davidson

The caterer for Elk Park Preparatory School's College Advisory Dinner, Goldy Bear discovers that the real main course for the evening is murder, in a work that includes recipes for Goldy's original creations.
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Live and Let Growl

Laurien Berenson - Kensington Publishing Corp
Format: Print book

"If you like dogs, you'll love Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries!" --Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling authorWhen her Aunt Peg lands a gig as judge at a Kentucky dog show, Melanie Travis welcomes the opportunity for a road trip. Too bad a killer has planned...
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Yule Be Mine

Lori Foster - Zebra; Reprint edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Sparkling days, crackling fires, long steamy nights. . .Christmas is all about making memories. In four delicious tales of seduction and romance, New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster brings you all the pleasures of the season--and then some. . . Booker Dean knows exactly what...
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Stori Telling

Tori Spelling - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

Stori Telling is a chance for Tori to set the record straight on her personal life and to let listeners experience the truly unique life shes led - with its undeniable childhood privileges, tabloid misperceptions, career successes, and personal regrets. This is Toris opportunity to define...
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unPHILtered: The Way I See It

Phil Robertson - Howard Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The beloved patriarch of AEs Duck Dynasty series, Phil Robertson, shares his thoughtfuland opinionatedphilosophy on life. In Phil Robertsons 1 New York Times bestseller, Happy, Happy, Happy, we learned about Phils colorful past and the wild road to becoming the beloved patriarch of AEs smash...
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Dyer Consequences

Maggie Sefton - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book

Kelly's spring project: rehabbing an alpaca ranch. But someone has different ideas for keeping her busy, including slashing tires and cracking windshields. Then the House of Lambspun knitting shop is trashed, and a woman is found drowned in a tub of dye. Although it seems like a burglary...
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Died in the Wool (Torie O'Shea Mysteries)

Rett MacPherson - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

With the Garden Club's First Annual Rose Show right around the corner and a historic house up for sale, Torie O'Shea, mother of three and president of the historical society in New Kassel, Missouri, has her hands full.  Nosy by nature, Torie can't help but poke around the old Kendall...
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Died Blonde

Nancy J. Cohen - Kensington; First Edition edition
Format: Large print book

There's no love lost between Marla and Carolyn Sutton. Carolyn has never forgiven Marla for leaving Hairstyle Heaven to open her own place, especially since Marla's clientele grew as Carolyn's faded away. Carolyn retaliated by relocating near Marla, but couldn't put the highlights...
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Wash, Fold, and Die

Dolores Johnson

In a mystery of stolen art, murder, and a well-pressed shirt, Mandy Dyer will make a killer come clean.Mandy Dyer could use a date. Unfortunately, the man who has come to her cleaning shop has only business on his mind. Detective Stan Foster unceremoniously dumped Mandy ni
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Crewel Yule

Monica Ferris - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book

Part-time sleuth and full-time owner of the needlework shop Crewel World, Betsy Devonshire likes to have a hand in anything crafty-from knitting to solving crime. In this latest yarn in the bestselling series, Betsy prepares for a chilling holiday season filled with mistletoe-and murder....
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Till Death Do Us Purl (A Black Sheep Knitting Mystery)

Anne Canadeo - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

The fourth in the charming knitting mystery series that is "sure to hook cozy fans" (Publishers Weekly) featuring Maggie Messina and her close circle of knitting-club friends, who must unravel another murder in their cozy coastal town of Plum Harbor, Massachusetts. . The Black...
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Murder of the Cat's Meow: A Scumble River Mystery

Denise Swanson - NAL; Original edition
Format: Paperback

New York Times Bestselling Scumble River SeriesWhen exVegas showgirl and local business owner Bunny Reid starts an online dating service called Cupids Cats Meow, out-of-town visitors flock to her bowling alley for the speed dating and cat show events that she hosts to bring in extra cash....
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Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No-Knead Breads

Nancy Baggett - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate guide of super-simple no-knead bread recipesFor years, home cooks have shied away from baking their own yeast bread because they were intimidated by the mess, expertise, and kneading required. Now in paperback, Nancy Baggett's revolutionary Kneadlessly Simple lets even...
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Dead on Time

H. R. F. Keating - Mysterious Pr; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Book by Keating, H. R. F.
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Tail Gait: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

There's nothing like a tail well told. Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and ever-faithful Tee Tucker the corgi. TAIL GAIT Spring has sprung...
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Tall Tail: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Rita Mae Brown - Bantam Books
Format: Print book

In this fast-paced mystery by Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her animal friends seek to solve a whodunit rooted in eighteenth-century Virginia - uncovering a shocking secret that refuses to stay buried. TALL TAIL At any moment...
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Crime Rib

Leslie Budewitz - Berkley
Format: Book

Gourmet food market owner Erin Murphy is determined to get Jewel Bay, Montana's, scrumptious local fare some national attention. But her scheme for culinary celebrity goes up in flames when the town's big break is interrupted by murder . . .Food Preneurs, one of the hottest cooking...
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Assault and Pepper

Leslie Budewitz - Berkley Books
Format: Paperback

The Agatha Award-winning author of Crime Rib is proud to introduce Pepper Reece, the owner of the Seattle Spice Shop who thinks she can handle any kind of salty customer - until a murderer ends up in the mix ... After leaving a dicey marriage and losing a beloved job in a corporate crash,...
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Assault And Pepper

Tamar Myers - New American Library
Format: Hardcover

At the annual church chili supper, Reverend Schrock falls face down into his bowl. It seems someone put peanut butter in the chili, knowing full well that he was allergic. As Pennsylvania Dutch Innkeeper Magdalena Yoder investigates, she finds plenty of people who wanted the reverend dead,...
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Skein of the Crime

Maggie Sefton - Berkley Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

The newest installment in the series, with knitting patterns and recipes included! Fall has come to Fort Connor, Colorado, and the cool air has inspired the knitters at the House of Lambspun to start on their hats and mittens. It's also brought an influx of students to the university...
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Chapter & Hearse

Lorna Barrett - Berkley; 1st Printing edition
Format: Paperback

According to the gossip around Stoneham, New Hampshire, Tricia Miles cannot put down a real murder mystery. After all, the owner of the mystery bookstore, Havent Got a Clue, has been spending more time solving whodunits than reading them...Tricias sister, Angelica, considers herself to be the next...
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Chapter and Hearse: And Other Mysteries

Catherine Aird

A wealthy businessman has died under suspicious circumstances. A Christmas with the family provides more drama than could be expected. A girl accuses the hospital of killing her grandmother. In 16th Century Scotland, the death of a clansman is not what it first appears. From t
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Fat Free and Fatal (Savannah Reid Mysteries)

G. A. McKevett - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

When curvy P.I. Savannah Reid signs on to guard the newly svelte body of a star on the comeback trail, she finds herself rubbing elbows with the rich, famous - and deadly. Getting the skinny on the killer soon has Savannah starring in a real-life murder mystery that gives "location...
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Close Knit Killer

Maggie Sefton - Berkley Hardcover; Bookclub edition
Format: Hardcover

Springtime in Fort Connor Colorado is a breeze until a veteran con man shows up in town Everyoneincluding the House of Lambspun knittersis up in arms and once again its up to Kelly Flynn to untangle the threads of a complicated crime Kellys good friend the owner of the House of Lambspun...
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Yarn Over Murder

Maggie Sefton - Berkley; Bookclub edition
Format: Hardcover

Its early summer in Fort Connor Colorado and a herd of alpacas requires rescuing from a raging wildfire Kelly Flynn and the House of Lambspun knitters may be able to save the helpless animals but not the unexpected victim of a cold-blooded murder Kelly and her knitting pals were checking...
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Second Thyme Around

Katie Fforde - St Martin's Press
Format: Print book

When Phillida Dylan, 28, delivers baby vegetables to one of her regular clients and finds that her ex-husband, Lucas, has become the chef, she is horrified - more so when she learns he is to become the latest celebrity chef and needs her picturesque cottage, and her, in supporting roles....
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Thyme of Death

Susan Wittig Albert - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Eager to open up an herb shop and get closer to the earth, China Bayles leaves behind her career in corporate law and moves to Pecan Springs, Texas, but a close friend's tragic death could end her happy plans
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The Real Macaw: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Meg juggles twins, murder, and a back-talking bird in the next side-splittingly funny installment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling seriesDuring a 2am feeding for her four-month-old twins, Meg Langslow hears an odd noise and goes downstairs to find her living room...
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Duck the Halls: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews - Minotaur Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

'Tis the season to be jolly - and for Meg Langslow to round up stray animals of all sorts as well as a killer. Duck the Halls!The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers boughs of holly and barrels of laughs with Meg's latest adventure in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling...
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Reel Murder: A Mystery

Marian Babson

A retrospective held in her honor brings silent film star Eve Sinclair, along with her life-long friend Trixie, to London, but when the young woman sharing their flat is murdered, Eve and Trixie become prime suspects
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Reel Stuff: A Novel

Don Bruns - Oceanview Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Is it suicide or murder when Academy Award winning actor Jason Londell leaps to his death during the filming of a TV show in Miami? Londell's actress girlfriend hires private investigators James Lessor and Skip Moore to investigate. They uncover a plot loaded with twists and fueled...
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Jane and the Barque of Frailty (Jane Austen Mysteries)

Stephanie Barron - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. For it is up to Jane to tease a murderer out of the ton, lest she—and her country—suffer...
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The Silence of the Llamas

Anne Canadeo - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

Llama Drama! Ellie and Ben Krueger arrived in Plum Harbor eager to live out their dream - tending a herd of gentle, friendly llamas for fun and profit, on a farm just beyond the village. Their grand opening fiber festival kicks off on a bright note but abruptly ends in malicious mayhem....
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War and Peas

Jill Churchill - Thorndike Press
Format: Hardcover

At the annual Pea Festival, Regina Price Palmer--the innovative director of the Snellen Museum--is shot to death during a noisy reenactment of a Civil War battle. Single mom and sometime sleuth Jane Jeffry's part-time work at the museum soon puts her in the midst of a veritable podful...
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Sticks & Scones

Diane Mott Davidson - Bantam Books
Format: Book

The New York Times bestselling author of Tough Cookie dishes up another tasty treat of murder and mystery -- as caterer turned sleuth Goldy Schulz stirs up a heap of trouble while trying not to get burned by a killer who is striking far too close to home....For Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz,...
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Spells and Scones

Bailey Cates - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

There's a body in the bookshop in this latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Magical Bakery mysteries... When the bookshop next to the Honeybee Bakery hosts a signing for a Savannah radio celebrity's new self-help book, magical baker Katie Lightfoot is happy...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones: A 44 Scotland Street Novel

Alexander McCall Smith - Anchor; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 5 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy - just ask his mother. Featuring all the quirky...
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Chopping Spree

Diane Mott Davidson - Bantam Books
Format: Book

New York Times bestselling author Diane Mott Davidson has prepared another irresistibly tempting tale spiced with mystery and mayhem, as caterer-turned-sleuth Goldy Schulz finds herself in hot water when she sets out to catch a killer with a secret recipe for murder.Chopping SpreeFor Colorado...
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The Main Corpse

Diane Mott Davidson - Bantam Books
Format: Print book

She has been called "the Julia Child of mystery writers." Now, Diane Mott Davidson, who masterfully served up The Last Suppers, Killer Pancake, and Dying for Chocolate, returns with an irresistible five-star helping of suspense. When caterer Goldy Schulz takes a job with a multimillion-dollar...
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Bell, Book, and Scandal

Jill Churchill - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

You can't judge a book by its cover. To look at her, one would never think suburbanite homemaker Jane Jeffry would be interested in murder and mayhem. But after all the corpses she's come across -- and killers she's unmasked -- she's practically an expert on the subject....
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Some Like It Hawk: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Meg helps run Caerphillys summer arts and crafts festival while trying to smoke out a murderer--turn up the heat, because Some Like it Hawk! The hilariously funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the award-winning New York Times bestselling series that has captured human...
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Swan for the Money (Meg Langslow Mysteries)

Donna Andrews - Minotaur Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Meg Langslow’s eccentric parents have a new hobby: growing roses and entering them in highly competitive shows. Dad’s gardening skill and Mother’s gift for selecting and arranging the blossoms should make them an unbeatable team—and Meg is relieved they’ve...
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Six Geese A-Slaying: A Meg Langslow Christmas Mystery (Meg Langslow Mysteries Book 10)

Donna Andrews - Minotaur Books
Format: Audiobook

In Six Geese A-Slaying, Donna Andrews fans delivers another zany Meg Langslow mystery---this one filled with outrageous Christmas spirit ... and mayhem.Meg and Michaels house is serving as the marshaling point for the annual Caerphilly Christmas parade. The theme is "The Twelve Days...
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Uncharted TerriTori

Tori Spelling - Gallery Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In her latest update, Tori Spelling describes her never-complacent life balancing parenthood with the pressures of living in Tinseltown.
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celebraTORI: Unleashing Your Inner Party Planner to Entertain Friends and Family

Tori Spelling - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of sTORI telling, Mommywood, and uncharted terriTORI, reality show star, and hostess extraordinaire Tori Spelling offers tips and advice for throwing a fabulous - and affordable - party as only she can.I love the puzzle of throwing special, chic parties...
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The Lovers Knot: A Someday Quilts Mystery

Clare ODonohue - Plume
Format: Paperback

Book #1 of the Someday Quilts Mystery series. In the tradition of Jennifer Chiaverini and Emilie Richards, a debut quilting mystery. Nell Fitzgerald is thrilled when she receives a gorgeous handmade quilt in a lovers knot pattern from her grandmother Eleanor as an engagement gift. Her joy is short-lived,...
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Eggsecutive Orders

Julie Hyzy - Berkley; Berkley Prime Crime Mass Market Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Chef Olivia Paras has too many eggs in one basket-and is feeling like a basket-case... When NSA big shot Carl Minkus dies right after eating the dinner Olivia Paras's staff had prepared, all forks point to them. Now the Secret Service is picking apart the kitchen-and scrutinizing...
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No Use Dying over Spilled Milk: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery with Recipes

Tamar Myers

Magdalena Yoder, the no-nonsense Mennonite proprietor of the PennDutch Inn, journeys to Farmersburg, Ohio, to attend the funeral of her disliked cousin, Yost Yoder, and finds herself investigating his bizarre death, following a trail of clues to the Daisybell Dairy.
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A Midsummer Night's Scream

Jill Churchill - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Jane Jeffry has a new hobby: the theater--specifically, a rundown theater that close pal Shelly and her husband have donated to a local college drama department. Jane has graciously agreed to lend her taste buds to the college's newest production, helping Shelly judge prospective caterers...
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp hers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them

Donovan Hohn - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity- "adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) .When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers,...
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Capital Gaines: The Smart Things I've Learned by Doing Stupid Stuff

CHIP GAINES - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

"National Bestseller - New York Times, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, Wall Street Journal"The funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of 4 in Waco, Texas. But long before...
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Dead Over Heels (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Book 5)

Charlaine Harris - Berkley; Reprint edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Part-time librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead - especially not dropped from a plane right into her own backyard. But when other strange things happen around her, ranging from peculiar (her irascible...
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The Cold Light of Mourning: A Mystery

Elizabeth J Duncan - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Elizabeth J. Duncan spins a charming tale of murder and intrigue in this winning first novel.The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day ... and turns...
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Kale to the Queen

NELL HAMPTON - Center Point Pub
Format: Library Binding

Chef Carrie Ann Cole is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- an assignment as the new Personal Chef to the Royal Family at Kensington Palace. But no sooner has Carrie Ann touched down across the pond and donned her apron than a dead body crops up beneath the royal kale beds.
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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime

Jasper Fforde - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

Unconvinced that a former convict and millionaire philanthropist has been murdered by his suicide-victim ex-wife, detective inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant, Mary Mary, battle internal politics while uncovering a plot involving money laundering, bullion smuggling, and asylum-seeking...
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Gilt By Association

Tamar Myers - Avon Books
Format: Paperback

Petite, indomitable North Carolinian Abigail Timberlake rose gloriously up from the ashes of divorce--parlaying her savvy about exquisite old things into a thriving antiques enterprise: the Den of Antiquity. Now she's a force to be reckoned with in Charlotte's close-knit world of mavens,...
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Grape Expectations: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery With Recipes

Tamar Myers - Thorndike Press
Format: Hardcover

A couple of unprincipled outsiders have bought an old farm at the edge of the Mennonite community of Hernia, Pennsylvania. They say they want to grow fruit, but their real plan is to start a vineyard and open a winery. This scheme is a serious affront to the teetotalling Mennonites, so everyone's...
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Roast Mortem

Cleo Coyle - Berkley; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author brews up another culinary mystery--and this time, it's New York's Bravest that get burned: After local firefighters pull Clare out of a blazing caf, she happily comes to their rescue by teaching them the finer points of operating their newly...
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Wagging through the Snow

LAURIEN BERENSON - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

"If you like dogs, you'll love Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries!" - Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling author Melanie Travis needs a little peace from her busy life this Christmas. But the usual holiday hubbub is a joy compared to the killer...
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