Contemporary
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“Fenway,” Nathaniel Ferris said, putting on his pontificating voice, “with me as your father, people are always going to think you’re in my pocket…” When Fenway Stevenson loses both her mother and her job, she reluctantly accepts her estranged father’s offer of an apartment and a temporary job as a coroner in Estancia, her old…
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Her mother had never visited Elkhorn Slough. And no one had ever been murdered there. But there was a first time for everything. Mother-daughter murder night, is what Beth and her mother Lana would call it when they would relax together, watching detective shows in bed all evening. Now Beth is living a quiet life…
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There was nothing safe; there were only gradations of exposure to danger. Mahit Dzmare is the newly appointed ambassador to the Teixcalaanli Empire. Coming from a small, independent mining Station, Mahit’s diplomatic mission is to try to ensure that the Empire allows the Station to continue to stay independent while still allowing for trade and travel…
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“Haven’t we always looked out for each other, Hep? Helped each other?” When Hep Anderssen’s older brother Bill unexpectedly shows up at her door one night, claiming that he has hit a deer on the road, Hep does what she always does and helps him keep his accident a secret. But when news of a…
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“Family secrets, a celebrity murder, a wrongful conviction, Hollywood drama. It’s got everything.” An intolerable celebrity actor goes missing, and DI Ryan Hale and his team get a taste of the drama of Hollywood productions with all its lies, deceit, backstabbing, and power plays. At the same time, Ryan is presented with new evidence concerning…
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Far too many people grow boring with age, but in Great Diddling the opposite seems true. Author Berit Gardner moves to Great Diddling in search of inspiration and gets even more than she bargained for when an explosion at a village tea party kills Reginald Trent, a man who is hated by most of the…
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Outsiders flock to Miracle Springs in hopes of being made whole, but how many of its residents are hiding wounds that have never healed? Book 1 in the Secret, Book, & Scone Society series. Nora Pennington, owner of Miracle Books, has moved to Miracle Springs to escape a past that has left her scarred, both…
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Edie O’Sullivan is the Pensioner Puzzler, known for her skills as a crossword setter. She is a jigsaw puzzle fan, devoted to her nephew Sean and holds a deep hatred of Christmas in her heart. But when she receives a box with pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and a message from a murderer calling themself…
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A Christmas at Highbury by Michelle Cox A very light-hearted and cosy 1930s Christmas mystery about stolen presents, generational divides and all the love and despair of naturaland found families coming together for Christmas. Cozy mystery. 193 pages. Published 2024 Deck the Halls… Dead by Tessa Aura When the organiser of the Bath Festival of…
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Book 3 in The Homeswappers Mysteries series. Retired teachers Etta and Dora and their basset hound Leon have swapped homes with a Danish family from the tiny island of Ærø for a pre-Christmas holiday. But when they find the remains of a woman who went missing two years earlier, the brash Etta and the gentle…
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