Contemporary
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Virginia Farrell is a journalist and long-time jazz enthusiast and mystery fan. Betty Brown, a former jazz singer, reveals the existence of a box full of priceless, thought-to-be-lost stolen jazz tapes from the 1950s, asking Virginia to ensure that they are returned to their rightful owner. But before Virginia can act, Betty Brown is murdered,
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Four women linked through decades. Three now vanished. When Ethel Dockery reports her three bridge friends missing, only DI Ryan Hale and DS Fiona Winter take her seriously. They are only reluctantly allowed to investigate as Ethel is the superintendent’s mother, but once Ryan and Fiona begin to look into the case, they find that
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Book 2 in the Francine Witt Mystery series. Bottled Up resumes the action where book 1, Full Bodied ended, with Francine Witt on a mission to tell the story of Penelope Radcliffe, archaeologist and grandmother of Rosalind Downing, who is accompanying Francine as her research assistant. As the two of them begin to look into
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Book 1 in the Francine Witt Mystery series. A fun, cozy, wine and Egyptology themed mystery with a surprisingly deep message of feminism and representation. Francine Witt is a wine blogger dreaming of a career in “real” journalism while posting budget wine recommendations and blogging about the shenanigans of two wine thieves who time and
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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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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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A great insight into the mind of Christopher Boone, a fifteen year old boy living with his father and attending a special needs schools. The first chapter of this books is labelled 2. The second chapter is 3. The third chapter is 5. Why? Because Christopher likes prime numbers. This is just one of many
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Book 1 in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series. Queen Elizabeth is residing at Windsor Castle shortly before her 90th birthday, hosting a soirée for a select group of guests. But the festivities are marred by the shocking discovery of one of the guest, Maksim Brodsky, a handsome Russian pianist, who is found dead