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Book 1 in the Anno Dracula series. What if vampires were the ruling class of Victorian England, with Dracula himself having turned and married Queen Victoria, installing himself in London as the ruler of the British Empire? And what if the victims of Jack the Ripper were all vampires? This is the premise of Anno…
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Sadie Coleman has moved to the small town of Shady Creek with her cat Wimsey and opened the Inkwell, a literary themed pub in the town’s old grist mill. Leaving her old life in Boston behind, Sadie is busy preparing for the annual Autumn Festival when a part of her old life, her ex boyfriend…
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Book 4 in the Agents of the Abyss series. Being a teenager isnt easy. Being a monster teenage spy is even more difficult. Fifteen-year old Agatha is a descendant of Dr. Jekyl, with monster DNA in her blood, and an M17 spy in training at Dame Sanctum’s Boarding School. Her team includes Lily, a genetically…
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Book 1 in the Jane Austen Mysteries series. This novel imagines the twenty-seven year old Jane Austen as an amateur sleuth, working on behalf of her dear friend Isobel Payne. Isobel is newly wedded to the much older Earl of Scargrave, and Jane is a guest at Scargrave Manor when the Earl passes away after…
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Book 1 in the Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #1 series. Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be “alienated” not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental pathologies were therefore known as alienists. A dark, historical, psychological thriller exposing the…
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The Cat Who… is a series of 29 cozy mystery books by Lillian Jackson Braun. Book 1, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards was published in 1966. The books follow the adventures of Jim Qwilleran or Qwill, a journalist and amateur sleuth, and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. Qwilleran was once a crime…
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Ivy Hearst has been able to see ghosts ever since she was a child. As an adult she works as a spiritual medium in Savannah, helping lost souls cross over and protecting the living from malign spirits and demons. After performing a cleansing ritual for a witch who is plagued by an evil presence, Ivy…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a cozy mystery town by the name of Boring, will be anything but. When devoted Janeite Kay Starling comes up with the idea of hosting a Jane Austen festival to bring some much needed influx of capital into the small town of Boring, she has no idea that…
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Tessa Myre is a former editor who has fled the big city after being involved in a plagiarism scandal. Now she lives with her teenage son in her quaint hometown of Jordan Hollow and runs the Sweet Retreat bakery, but when one of her friends and regular suppliers, Nick Bronson, is accused of murder, Tessa…
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Christa Dalrymple is dead. She has been murdered in her sleep, next to her estranged husband John. But instead of passing on, Christa remains in her house as a ghost, floating above her own dead body. Determined that she can do a better job than the police, Christa launches her own ghostly investigation, learning a…
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