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41) Dead weight
Author
Series
E. J. Pugh mystery volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Baffled by the suspicious deaths of a member of her weight-loss support group and the realtor selling her house, amateur sleuth E.J. Pugh struggles to find a link between the two killings, a situation that is complicated by E.J.'s growing estrangement from her husband.
Author
Series
Pine Mountain volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In desperate need of money, erotic novelist Sloane Russo takes a job tutoring Gavin Carmichael's 13-year-old half-sister and cannot stop fantasizing about her gorgeous employer who is a serious distraction.
Author
Series
Murder she wrote volume 20
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A luxury trip aboard a train through scenic British Columbia with a friend and his railroad association brings Jessica Fletcher face to face with murder when a member of the entourage dies after a sip from an all-too-potent Bloody Mary.
Author
Series
Murder she wrote volume 19
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When a tornado claims the life of a professor who works at the college where Jessica Fletcher teaches, she begins to investigate his death, convinced that it was murder.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Cherishing dreams of becoming a best-selling novelist while performing her day job as an assistant at a weekly London newspaper, twenty-seven-year-old Isabel is introduced into literary society by her eccentric mentor before her fanciful antics bring her unwanted notoriety.
Author
Series
E. J. Pugh mystery volume 5
Publisher
Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A romance writer turned amateur sleuth is thrust onto the cutting edge of a murder investigation when her sister-in-law becomes the prime suspect.
Author
Series
Open book mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Murder she wrote volume 44
Publisher
Obsidian Mystery
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Make room for Jessica Fletcher as she cleans house to catch a killer who hasn't got a ghost of a chance.
51) A fatal feast
Author
Series
Murder she wrote volume 32
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Suffering from writer's block with both her novel's deadline and Thanksgiving fast approaching, Jessica Fletcher and her friend, Scotland Yard Inspector George Sutherland, stumble upon the body of a man with a carving knife stuck in his chest.
52) The It Girls
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Promoting themselves from genteel poverty to fame, two beautiful sisters, one a daring fashion designer and the other a writer of scandalous novels, become each other's most staunch supporter and harshest critic in the face of misunderstandings and confidences.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling thriller author Tess Harrow and her teenage daughter, Gertrude, need a fresh start. Now that Tess's divorce is final, the best place for her and Gertie to heal and reconnect is the rustic cabin in the woods that Tess inherited from her late grandfather. Between the beautiful pond on the property, the majestic mountain views, and the peaceful forest, it should be a relaxing getaway. But they've barely made it through the door when an explosion...
Author
Series
Murder she wrote volume 24
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Heading to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for a peaceful vacation and a visit with her close friends, Vaughan and Olga Buckley, mystery writer Jessica Fletcher draws on her powers of detection when Vaughan is kidnapped for a huge ransom.
Author
Series
Writer's apprentice mystery volume 3
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lena's best friend, Allison, is in a panic. On a walk in the woods by her home, Allison discovers the body of her mail carrier, an argumentative man who recently had a falling out with Allison's husband. Lena quickly realizes that Allison has nothing to worry about as the murder weapon points to a different suspect altogether: Lena's embattled boyfriend, Sam West.
Author
Series
Murder she wrote volume 43
Publisher
Obsidian, an imprint of New American Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
There's a battle brewing in Cabot Cove between two eateries. But when one of the combatants becomes a fatality, Jessica Fletcher will have to get cooking to find the killer. --Provided by publisher.
57) Lies she told
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Once-successful novelist Liza Cole has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list. Her husband David is distracted by the disappearance of his co-worker and best friend, Nick. Liza's latest heroine, Beth, is a new mother who suspects her husband is cheating on her. Beth aims to catch him in the act but before she realizes it she's tossing the body of her husband's mistress into the East River. As the lines between...
58) A fatal footnote
Author
Series
Open book mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Upper Chumley-on Stoke has all the makings of a fairy tale, complete with a glowing bride and horse-drawn carriage. But it wouldn't be much of a story without a villain, and as American Gothic novelist Penelope Parish is coming to learn, happy-ever-afters are as fraught in this charming British town as they are in her books. When the Duke's former girlfriend is found murdered at the reception it's up to Penelope...
Author
Series
Josephine Tey mystery volume 10
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 the families they left behind in the city. As a cloud of suspicion falls across the small Suffolk village Josephine Tey has come to love, the conflict becomes personal,...
Author
Series
Josephine Tey mystery volume 8
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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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