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2) Die for love
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The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a gossip columnist seems anything but. And when she's approached by a popular genre star who fears for her...
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Second book in the Jacqueline Kirby series. Jacqueline Kirby is invited to an English country mansion for a weekend costume affair. The hosts and guests, all fanatic devotees of King Richard III, hope to clear his name of the five- hundred-year-old accusation of murder. Jacqueline is amused at first at the group's eccentricities, until the antics of a practical joker become more and more macabre, and one at last proves fatal.
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To look at her, one would never think suburbanite homemaker Jane Jeffry would be interested in murder and mayhem. But given the corpses she's come across she's practically an expert on the subject. Which is why Jane's booking down to a nearby mystery writers' convention to mingle with the brightest lights of literary crime, and maybe drum up some interest in her own recently completed manuscript. But when a famous ego-squashing editor keels over at...
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Television's beloved sleuth Jessica Fletcher is back in her twenty-ninth adventure. Cabot Cove, Maine, annually hosts an elaborate Fourth of July celebration, and this year is no exception. Between historical reenactments, parade floats, and the fireworks show, the community is abuzz with activity. No one is more enthusiastic than the town's newest resident, corporate mogul Joseph Lennon. His insistence on financing a fireworks extravaganza to rival...
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In this installment in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, goes to Washington, DC, to promote literacy but finds a mystery. Jessica is in Washington, DC, to support a senator's new literacy initiative. The week-long literacy event includes a visit to the White House to meet the president and a lavish party or two. But during one affair at the senator's home in Virginia, Jessica discovers the dark...
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In this installment in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, finds her sleuthing skills are needed right at home. Jessica is pitching in to help Cabot Cove's first Lobster Festival by writing an article about the lifestyle of the local lobstermen. But instead of getting the story, she becomes tangled in a net of intrigue and murder. She finds she must truly struggle to be free of the killing trap...
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Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, travels to sunny Mexico only to find her life is in danger, in this installment in the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica is happy to accompany her publisher to Mexico for a little rest and relaxation. San Miguel de Allende is the perfect place for Jessica to soak up the sun, bask in Mexican culture, and spend some time with her good friends Vaughan and Olga Buckley. But when Vaughan is kidnapped...
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Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Sunday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor. And rumor has it that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's block, with a deadline looming, bills piling up, and blank...
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In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.
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"In the summer of 1915, the sudden death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. Years later, Josephine Tey returns to the same house -- now much changed -- and remembers the two women with whom she once lodged as a young teacher during the Great War. As past and present collide, with murders decades apart, Josephine is forced to face the possibility that the scandal which threatened to destroy those...
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Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, ends up involved in a murder mystery up north in this installment in the USA Today bestselling series. Jessica Fletcher has booked a one-week cruise through Alaska in order to enjoy some solitude. Her plans are thwarted when Kathy Randall asks to accompany her. Kathy's sister, Wilimena, recently disappeared from the same cruise ship that Jessica is booked to travel on. Kathy thinks her disappearance...
14) Nine lessons
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Josephine Tey mystery volume 7
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Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John's-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church's organist is found in an opened grave, together with a photograph of a manor house and a cryptic note. The image leads Archie to Cambridge, where the crisp autumn air has brought bustling life to the ancient university and town. Mystery author Josephine...
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Open book mysteries volume 3
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Penelope Parish is ready to close the book on her amateur sleuthing -- from now on, The Open Book's writer-in-residence will be sticking to villains of the fictional variety while she puts the final touches on her new novel. But when an author is murdered inside the bookshop, all of Upper Chumley-on-Stoke goes on high alert. Now it's up to Pen and the quirky citizens of Chumley to stop a killer and protect the charming British town she's begun to...
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Josephine Tey mystery volume 10
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"During the mass evacuation from London in September 1939, a little girl vanishes without a trace and Josephine struggles with the chaos and uncertainty of war"--
September, 1939. Mass evacuations take place across Britain, as thousands of children leave London and the dangers of the Blitz for the safety of the countryside. But when two little girls step off the train and go missing, the reality of separation becomes more urgent and more deadly for...
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"From the moment Roan Taggart picked up the pretty redhead at the Jackson Hole airport, his training and experience told him she was spooked. She's left New York City to visit the Wind River Ranch, where Roan is a wrangler, and just as he can pick up a horse's mood, he can feel the tension coming off her body. And that vulnerability is triggering all his protective instincts ... Shiloh Gallagher likes the gray-eyed cowboy's dry humor--and the Special...
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“How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,” Fleur Talbot rejoices. Loitering about London in 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world,” as secretary to the odd Autobiographical Association. Are they a group of mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing their memoirs in advance—or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? Rich material, in any case. But...
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"May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire. Jane decides to use some of the profits...
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