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Local legend claims that a diamond necklace was lost nearly a century ago, and for Mira, the treasure hunt is on! Buoyed by frozen goodies and a diminutive circus performer, Mira embarks on an exhilarating search for the jewels that puts her face to face with a menacing foe from her past.

Booby Trap is book four in this award-winning series starring the plus-sized, middle-aged, and whip-smart Odelia Grey. Could Dr. Brian Eddy, plastic surgeon to the rich and famous, possibly be the Blond Bomber serial killer? Odelia would never have suspected the prominent doctor of killing the bevy of buxom blonds if she hadn't heard it directly from her friend Lillian -- Dr. Eddy's own mother -- over lunch one day. Newlywed Odelia decides t...

As the wildly successful darling of the publishing industry, chick lit mystery writer Kimberlee Kalder is the guest of honor at an exclusive writers' conference at Dalmorton Castle in Scotland. But jealousy and resentment are soon replaced with shock when Kimberlee is found dead at the bottom of the castle's bottle dungeon. Who didn't want to see prima donna Kimberlee brutally extinguished like one of her ill-fated characters? It's up to Detec...

Something is amiss at the Sewing-by-the-Sea symposium: an attendee disappears, an antique sewing kit is stolen, and militant conference director Martha Madsen is found dead. It is up to Dewey Pellicano to find a pattern in this crazy quilt of a murder mystery.

Whiskey Mattimoe's Afghan hound Abra has many talents: stealing purses, consorting with criminals, and farting, to name a few. Now, Abra's been chosen to participate in the prestigious Midwest Afghan Hound Specialty in Amish country . . . as a Worst-in-Show example of how not to train an Affie. Suddenly, a prize-winning pooch disappears, an owner is murdered, and a handler turns up dead. The sleepy community's rustic charm is replaced by ruthl...

When the supper club members are invited to be guest judges at a regional barbecue contest, they accept the invitation faster than you can say "hog heaven." But the barbecue festival's family-oriented, finger-licking fun turns sour when a contestant is found dead. Things go from bad to worse when one of the five friends is accused of the murder and lands in jail. The strained relationship between James and Lucy is still no picnic, but the supp...

Mira James' fury over getting stood up by Johnny Leeson is hotter than the scorching summer heat in this fourth Murder-by-Month mystery. She's getting out of Battle Lake, Minnesota, "where the women are churchgoers, the men like to hunt, and the body count is above average." But before our sassy young heroine can hightail it back to Minneapolis to become a "cat-collecting, fist-shaking, asexual English professor, " a high school cheerleader is...

Ian Michaels, CEO of Accelenet, and his wife Rowena, a deputy DA, are out for a run on a winter morning. Out of the darkness, a mysterious black car runs them down, leaving Ian with a broken leg and Rowena unconscious in a ditch. Someone wants Ian or Rowena dead, but who?

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Jolene Asdale is one step away-one sale, in fact-from becoming a successful Finger Lakes businesswoman. But her dream stalls when a dead body tumbles out of the shiny Ferrari in her exotic car showroom, instantly making her a murder suspect. The crime brings Jolene face-to-face with Deputy Ray Parker, her almost-ex-husband, whose suspicions are raised further when he learns of Jolene's public and allegedly violent argument with the victim. Jol...

Who'd have guessed that running employee background checks at the HI-Data Corporation would make DD McGil the target of a ruthless killer? For DD, a thirty-something English professor turned investigator, the routine job should have been a welcome distraction from her fiance's death and her eccentric Aunt Elizabeth's quest to authenticate an unlikely literary treasure--a Robert Burns text worth millions if proven genuine. Relying on her own mo...

From deep in the heart of his English manor house, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four spoiled children with threats of disinheritance. Tiring of this device, the portly patriarch decides to weave a malicious twist into his well-worn plot. Gathering them all together for a family dinner, he announces his latest blow -- a secret elopement with the beautiful Violet... who was once suspected of murder...

It's springtime on Cranberry Island -- and love is in the air. It seems like every woman has the hots for buff trainer Dirk De Leon. He and his equally-gorgeous business partner, Vanessa Black, are leading a weight-loss retreat at the Gray Whale Inn -- forcing innkeeper Natalie Barnes to lighten up her butter-laden breakfast menu. The mood on the island darkens when two grisly discoveries are made. The first is a skeleton walled up at the isla...

The Arkansas River is the heart and soul of Salida, Colorado. It fuels the small town's economy and thrums in the blood of twenty-seven-year-old Mandy Tanner, a river ranger. When a whitewater rafting accident occurs, she deftly executes a rescue, but a man dies anyway. But it wasn't the river rapids that killed him, it was poison. Tom King was a rich land developer with bitter business rivals, who cheated on his wife, refused to support his k...

BOOK FOUR IN THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MARJORIE McCLELLAND MYSTERY SERIES It's 1935--mystery writer Marjorie McClelland and her new husband, millionaire Creighton Ashcroft, have sailed to a secluded island near Bermuda for a romantic getaway. Instead they find the Ashcroft vacation home filled--to Creighton's horror--with his family. The honeymoon is most definitely over when one of the group is found murdered. Can Marjorie untangle the multip...

Love--and smelly cheese--are in the air. Sophie Mae has accepted Barr's marriage proposal, and they're trying to keep her mother, Anna Belle, from taking over their no-fuss, no-muss wedding plans. But when Mom finds a cryptic suicide note that Sophie Mae's brother wrote two decades earlier, Sophie Mae reluctantly makes a trip back to her hometown of Spring Creek, Colorado, to suss things out. As she pokes around in other people's business whil...

Hoping to leave behind her heartbreaking past, Chloe Ellefson makes a fresh start as the new collections curator at Old World Wisconsin. This outdoor ethnic museum charms visitors with authentic historical artifacts and costumed employees who churn butter, make shoes, and reenact 1870s settlement life. But Chloe's first day on the job only brings misfortune when an elderly woman pleads with her to find the priceless eighteenth-century Norwegia...

When a lobsterman pulls up a 200-year-old anchor, Cranberry Island is abuzz with excitement. Soon the island is swarming with marine archaeologists, treasure seekers, and ghost-hunters. It's good news for Natalie--and the Gray Whale Inn--until one of her guests turns up dead.

The first book in the series, For Better, For Murder, is a finalist for the 2009 Agatha Award for Best First Novel! Jolene Parker and her police-deputy husband Ray have found new love in their life together. They're foster parents for Noelle, an adorable baby whose fugitive birth parents hightailed it out of their touristy Finger Lakes-area town. Jolene and Ray want to make their parenthood official, but the adoption hits a mysterious roadbloc...