book recommendation
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“Sunny for now,” I said. But change is definitely in the air.” Autumn Davis, weather girl and coffee enthusiast, steps in as a last-minute replacement emcee at the Sunset Sips Coffee Festival, but has to weather an unexpected storm when several of the contestants’ ingredients and coffees are sabotaged. With the help of her best…
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” You know, a town gets set in its ways. When things are mostly working okay, it just goes humming along. People turn a blind eye to the parts that don’t work so well.” When estranged twins Cassie and Ana begin to clean up their late mother’s home after her funeral, they find a manuscript…
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“Fugitives. Missing Kids. COVID looming like a storm.” Book 2 of the Mysteries of a Heart series. Gabby Heart is back, and this time she is going to Scotland with her friend Abe, a children’s author whose books Gabby illustrates. The two are looking forward to exploring the Highlands, but soon find themselves in the…
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“Remember, a cozy mystery is where the unexpected becomes the norm, and laughter is the best antidote to life’s little surprises.” Chloe Essex is nearing fifty and the end of her acting career and determined to make her last performance spectacular. But when a priceless tiara loaned by a rich benefactor disappears, Chloe finds herself…
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Nobody ever believed that murders “just happened” around Mallory Viridian. Not at first, anyway. Imagine living the life of a murder mystery heroine. It might sound fun at first, but imagine finding dead bodies every time you move, start a new job, go to a party or simply take a walk. Imagine the suspicion and…
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“A sinister hooded figure who smells like spring flowers? Oh, Simon, this case is shaping up to be delightfully absurd.” Lady Margot is overseeing the preparations for the annual Midsummer Garden Party at Blackwell Manor when the body of the head gardener, Edwin Thistlewood is found among the rosebushes. Despite the warnings from Inspector Simon…
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A True Crime Podcast-style Book Review Alex loves her cozy quilt shop and her comfortable, peaceful existence, but when she finds an ancient box with a mysterious quilt square, she and her friends are swept up in an adventure of suspense, drama, missing persons and conspiracies right in the heart of the Istanbul markets and…
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“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” Combine the adventure of luxury travel with the claustrophobia of being snowed in and completely cut off from society, add twelve travellers and one Belgian detective, and you have the formula for one of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels. With…
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“A soldier’s heart, that’s what they call it, my dear. When the battles won’t stop.” Before Leona Gladney was Leona Gladney, she was a Union soldier who fought in the war disguised as man. Now, she is trying to build a new life for herself and fit into good society in Boston with her husband…
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