Book review
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Book 1 in the Finlay Donovan series. Finlay Donovan is broke and way behind on her next romantic suspense novel, her rich ex husband wants their children to come live with him and his annoyingly perfect fiance, her nanny quit and her car could break down any minute. After a meeting with her agent discussing
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Book 1 in the Malabar House series. Malabar House is the name of a police station in Bombay housing the undesired and failed members of the police force not trusted to be placed anywhere else. It is also the station where Persis Wadia is assigned. As India’s first and only female police officer, there are
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Book 1 in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney series. Mr. and Mrs. Knightley have invited a house full of guests for a month long summer party at their home of Donwell Abbey. But the festive spirit is soon shattered by the arrival of the hated Mr. Wickham. When he is found dead, it is
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A melancholic and introspective view of life in a small Polish town, seen through the eyes of an older woman who believes in astrology and loves animals far more than humans. In the winter Janina is a caretaker, looking after the empty houses of her richer neighbours who spend the winter in the city. In
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Looking for a summer themed cozy mystery? Here are five cozy mysteries for the summer, all perfect for a beach read, poolside book or just for cozy mystery lovers who like the vibes in their books to match the season. The Murder of Mr Wickham by Claudia Gray is a Regency era mystery/romance featuring Jane
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Book 1 in the Aunties series. A dead body, a high society wedding on a luxury island resort, a heartthrob ex boyfriend and a bunch of interfering family members. That is what Meddelin Chan has to deal with in Dial A for Aunties, a comedy/mystery/romance by Jesse Q. Sutanto. As the daughter of Chinese-Indonesian immigrants
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Book 1 in the Beryl and Edwina Mystery series. When Beryl Helliwell moves in with Edwina Davenport, the village rumour mill in Warmsley Parva is working overtime. Beryl is a wealthy American adventuress known for her daring feats and travels, while Edwina is a respectable Englishwoman who never ventures outside the village. With Beryl’s arrival,
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Aberwick city, home to automatons, airships, assassins, secret societies, mad maths and inventions that could save the world or break it. That is the backdrop for the thief and escape artist extraordinaire, Miss Arcadia Snips, and the constrained mathematician William Daffodil, who are thrown together in an explosive murder investigation with ties to both Snips’
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Book 1 in the Killers of a Certain Age series. Billie, Helen, Mary Alice and Natalie are all women in their sixties. All of them are retired. And all of them are killers. For forty years the four women have assassinated drug lords, dictators, arms dealers and human traffickers, dishing out punishment when the law
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Book 1 in the Amelia Peabody series. Amelia Peabody is an independent woman and a woman of independent means. She decides to use some of her wealth to broaden her horizon by travelling the world. In Rome she encounters the disgraced gentlewoman Evelyn Barton-Forbes, and the two of them decide to travel to Egypt together.
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