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Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon by Donna Andrews
Operating the switchboard at the business office shared by her brother’s computer-game company and six unusual therapists, Meg Langslow finds herself drawn into a mystery when the company’s practical joker is murdered on top of a mail cart. |
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The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog by Marian Babson
After her beloved Pekinese dies, Dame Cicile Savoy and her aging friend head to Stuff Yours, a taxidermy shop, where they stumble on a dead body, a blazing fire and the wily cat Cho-Cho-San. |
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The Deadly Dance: An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M.C. Beaton
The intrepid Agatha Raisin scours the Cotswalds for random clues to snag whoever’s threatening her agency’s first client, while her old friend Sir Charles exerts his considerable charm on Emma Comfrey. |
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Best In Show by Laurien Berenson
Dog lovers rejoice in Melanie Travis’ 10th case. This time she snoops out crime while showing her Standard Poodle pup, Eve, at the National Specialty dog show in Maryland amidst a pack of wacky suspects. |
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The Hummingbird Wizard by Meredith Blevins
A wicked humor drives this story as Annie Szabo, aided by her fortune-telling mother-in-law, Madam Mina, pulls out all her tricks to discover who killed her childhood chum. |
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The Importance of Being Ernestine: An Ellie Haskell Mystery by Dorothy Cannell
This British cozy spoofs hard-boiled American mysteries as an interior decorator and her housekeeper try to find out what caused the deaths of Lady Krumely’s elderly relatives at Moulty Towers. |
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The Alpine Pursuit by Mary Daheim
Quirky locals acting out a drama about Alpine, Washington are appalled when the shootout scene ends in real death. Emma Lord springs into action to find the real culprit among many suspects. |
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Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson
Goldy Bear Schulz, the culinary-cozy caterersleuth, is now the prime suspect when her gun shows up next to the dead body of her annoying and abusive ex-husband, Dr. John Richard Korman, aka “The Jerk.” |
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Cutwork by Monica Ferris
With the help of gabby customers in her needlework shop, the deceased’s family and a friend on the police force, the persistent Betsy Devonshire stitches clues together to bring justice to a craft fair killer. |
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Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak
Wollie’s attempt at dating 40 men in 60 days as part of a friend’s research project is complicated when the Mafia gets involved and one of her dates dies. |