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Open Book mysteries volume 4
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A murder in her quaint British bookshop drops American Gothic novelist Penelope Parish into her deadliest caper yet.
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The keeper of stories meets The lost apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. "The thing about books," she said "is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of." On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found. For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three...
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Legendary stage and movie star Sir Nigel Bellingham arrives on Cape Cod to star in a stage production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Before the play opens, a fundraising afternoon tea is arranged, but when it's time to leave, Sir Nigel has gone missing--only to be found at the bottom of the rocky cliff, dead.
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Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with gorgeous young Simon Abrahams. But Phrynes contentment at the Jewish Young Peoples Society Dance is cut short when Simon's father asks her to investigate the strange death of a devout young student in Miss Sylvia Lees bookshop located in the Eastern Market.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 20
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"Carolyn Hart is one of the most popular practitioners of the traditional mystery."
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Return to Broward's Rock in Laughed 'Til He Died, Carolyn Hart's landmark 20th novel in her much loved and critically acclaimed Death on Demand mystery series. Island sleuths Annie and Max Darling must solve three related local murders in this wonderful new whodunit by the multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winner-a must for fans...
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"Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk--so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it. What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing...
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After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
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Since Kit Selbourne scandalously broke her betrothal to Lord Martin Lacy, she's become an independent woman, running her uncle's bookshop. But when her uncle is murdered, Kit must turn to Martin for help--and she discovers the desire between them still burns strongly. Yet Kit is wedded to her new, free life ... unless Martin can finally convince his courageous bluestocking that their marriage would be one of equals ...
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In 1942, London. Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. When a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay. Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written by Nancy Mitford. For one woman desperately in need of a...
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When Rinn, Daniella, and Imogen clock into work at Wild Nights Bookstore on the first day of summer, they're expecting the hours to drift by the way they always do. Instead, they have to deal with the news that the bookstore is closing. Before the day is out, there'll be shaved heads, a diva author, and a very large shipment of Air Jordans to contend with.
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Amish bookstore volume 2
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"In the second novel of Beth Wiseman's new Amish Bookstore series, wounds from the past must be healed to make way for a promising future"--
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January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold. A past heartbreak will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world would be powerful enough to get Violet to attend. But Grandma Daisy informs has already arranged for Charming Books to host celebrity sommelier Belinda Perkins's book signing at the party. Belinda grew up in Cascade Springs,...
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Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack, which he titled Eight Perfect Murders. But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of a bookshop in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door. She's looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal's old list. And...
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