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Open Book mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Hit with a bad case of writer's block, American gothic author Penelope Parish heads to England where she, while working in a bookstore, gets embroiled in a murder investigation that leads to new friendships and new tricks to help her finish her novel.
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[2022]
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English
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Back under the same roof and bickering like old times before her best friend's February 14th wedding, maid-of-honor Lissette Alonso and Brian Anderson, who is the reason for all her Valentine's Day hatred, call a truce when someone he is trying to avoid shows up at the reception.
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Nine people gather at Tranquillum House health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some to get a reboot on life, some for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Frances Welty, former best-selling romantic novelist, arrives at Tranquillum House nursing a bad back, a broken heart, and an exquisitely painful paper cut. She|s immediately intrigued by her fellow guests, but the person that intrigues her most is the charismatic owner/director. Should...
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[2011]
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English
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Annie Shaw's goal is far from simple: become famous. But her second novel tanked, and her new editor wants her to re-write the ending of her latest work to ensure this one is more successful. In order to pursue fame and an elusive bestseller, she travels to Chicago, acquires a rambunctious dog, and participates in antics better suited to a television reality show than real life. Can Annie's best friends help her achieve her goals without destroying...
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2023.
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English
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Crime novelists Augusta Hawke expects to be quizzed her on writing skills when she's invited to a dinner party by aspiring writer Callie Moore. What she doesn't expect is to be solving a mystery, but that's just want happens when one guest suddenly dies, and Augusta suspects it is not a heart attack that killed the kindly celebrity doctor.
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"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, he shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
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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 women's...
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Whiskey Creek novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2013]
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English
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Sophia DeBussi, the 'mean girl' everyone remembers in Whiskey Creek has had some ill fate returned to her in the form of a corrupt and abusive husband. His recent death at the hands of the FBI has left her penniless and lonely. She takes a job as a housekeeper of an old flame, and although he refuses to get emotionally involved with her recent life drama, the Christmas season's approaching could lead to forgiveness and a second chance at happiness....
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Finlay Donovan novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From USA Today bestseller and Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun--the hilarious and heart-pounding next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series. Dating. Diapers. And dodging bullets. Who said single moms can't have fun? Finlay Donovan has been in messes before--after all, she's an author and single mom who's a pro at getting out bloodstains for rather unexpected reasons--but none quite like this. After...
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High society lady detective volume 2
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English
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"September, 1923. Despite closing her first case, high society lady detective Olive Belgrave hasn't found a new client. She's taken a job as a hat model to pay for her poky boarding house room. But then a job offer comes her way--make discreet inqiuires about a famous author who's disappeared. Olive travels to the English countryside to hunt for the missing mystery author. But soon after she arrives in the sleepy village, a body is discovered. Then...
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[2017]
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English
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When struggling novelist James Hernandez meets poet Louisa Bell, he's sure he's found the love of his life. There's just one problem: she's engaged to his oldest friend. As the years pass, James's dreams always seem just out of reachhe can't finish that novel, can't mend his relationship with his father, can't fully commit to a romantic relationship. But after betrayal fractures Louisa's marriage, she turns to James for comfort. The consequences...
73) Misery
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Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed and deranged fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his fictional heroine back to life.
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"A rich, eccentric family. A time-honored tradition. Or a lethal game of survival? One woman finds out what it really takes to join the 1% in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water. Harry is a novelist on the brink of stardom; Edward, her husband-to-be, is seemingly perfect. In love and freshly engaged, their bliss is interrupted by the reemergence of the Holbecks, Edward's eminent...
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2014.
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English
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"What do you do when you wake up hung over and late for work only to find a stranger on your couch? And what if that stranger turns out to be an Adversarial Manifestation who has already brewed you a fresh cup of fair-trade coffee? If you're Billy Ridgeway, you take the coffee. Lucifer explains that Billy must retrieve the Neko of Infinite Equilibrium, a cat-shaped statue with magical powers, before the most powerful warlock in the eastern United...
76) All of me
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Covington Cove volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"For ten months, bestselling novelist Alec Winston hasn't been able to type a single word, and he's coming dangerously close to breaching his publishing contract. An invitation from his brother to spend the summer in Wilmington Beach might be just the thing to blast through his writer's block. Yet Alec discovers more than a spark of inspiration on the sunny sands. He meets an amber-eyed muse who makes him think about much more than books"--Page 4...
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Open Book mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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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 call...
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"September 1st, 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside, but when a little girl vanishes without a trace, the reality of separation becomes more urgent and more deadly for those who love her. In the chaos and uncertainty of war, Josephine struggles with the prospect of change. As a cloud of suspicion falls across the small Suffolk village she has come to love, the conflict becomes...
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"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the 'unreal real' of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy...
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[2012]
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English
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"When an ancient tapestry bearing the likeness of her beloved Highlander Aedan MacKinnon arrives on her doorstep, romance novelist Jane Sillee is whisked back in time to fifteenth-century Scotland, to the castle of Dun Haakon on the isle of Skye, where she is given one chance to save her dream lover ... or lose him forever to the Unseelie king."--Provided by publisher.
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