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Author
Series
Scumble River mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
Advance praise for Murder of a Small Town Honey:
"A delightful mystery that bounces along with gently wry humor and jaunty twists and turns." —Earlene Fowler
When Skye Denison left Scumble River years ago, she swore she'd never return. But after a bout with her boyfriend and credit card rejection, she's back to home sweet—homicide....
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
With school approaching, thirteen-year-old Doug Spaulding and his neighborhood friends decide to attempt to stop time by waging war against the elders of their small town, trying everything from fasting to breaking the village clock, and the men, led by school board member Calvin C. Quartermain, fight back.
6) Blood rites
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, Chicago's only professional wizard takes on a case for a vampire and becomes the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.
Harry Dresden has had worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Like fleeing a burning building full of enraged demon-monkeys, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there’s something...
Harry Dresden has had worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Like fleeing a burning building full of enraged demon-monkeys, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there’s something...
Author
Series
Scumble River mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she left Scumble River years ago, school psychologist Skye Denison thought she’d never be back. But after a run of bad luck in the big city, she has a new appreciation for the down-home charm of small-town life—and decides to start over in the town where she started out…
When Skye’s beloved grandmother is found dead in her bed, the family consensus is natural causes. Still, Skye insists on an autopsy—an examination that
...9) Identical
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 9
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
Author
Series
Scumble River mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who could be driven to kill by books and sweets? While school psychologist Skye Dennison eagerly anticipates the grand opening of a new bookstore called Tales and Treats, many of Scumble River's most outspoken citizens want to shut down the owners before they even open- and one is angry enough to commit murder...
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes--one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic...
12) Summer knight
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now that his girlfriend has left him, professional wizard Harry Dresden can't pay his rent and alienates his friends. He's soon approached by the Winter Queen of Faerie with an offer he can't refuse--all he has to do is find out who murdered the Summer Queen's right-hand man, the Summer Knight, and clear the Winter Queen's name. Soon, Harry finds out that the fate of the entire world rests on his solving this case.
Author
Series
Orphan train novels (Jody Hedlund) volume 3
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1850, Sophie Neumann flees New York with her two young charges after witnessing a crime. Reinhold Weiss has finally purchased his own small farm when an old friend shows up, pleading for help. But how can he help her when mounting debts and past scars still haunt him?"--
1850. After witnessing a crime, Sophie Neumann needs to flee New York with her two young charges. She manages to find passage to Illinois on an orphan train, with the aid of...
15) Storm front
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts.
16) Together forever
Author
Series
Orphan train novels (Jody Hedlund) volume 2
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marianne Neumann takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in hopes of finding her younger sister. In 1858 New York she finds it's not always easy to offer children a better life. Former schoolteacher Andrew Brady suffers from a grief that won't go away-- and keeps hidden a secret from his past. As the two team up to place orphans across Illinois, a shocking tragedy threatens their work-- and changes one of their lives forever....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her true-crime podcast becomes an overnight sensation, a young woman is pulled into the web of a case that may offer a surprising connection to her own sister's disappearance years earlier"--
Eight-year-old Marti Reese watched her sister Maggie get into a car-- and she never returned. Twenty years later, after countless false leads, Marti has abandoned her marriage, is drinking to forget, and documents her never-ending search via a true-crime...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"A young workaholic avoiding home for the holidays discovers that you can't run away from who you are. Everly Lancaster always dreamed of leaving her hometown in rural Illinois. Now she helps run a burgeoning startup in Chicago, where her professional goals leave little time for friends ... or a vacation. When a massive snowstorm hits, Everly's mother urges her to come home for Christmas, but she hesitates to return to the life she's worked so hard...