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Aunty Lee's delights

Aunty Lee's delights

Yu, Ovidia, 1961-, author
2013


Cloche and dagger

Cloche and dagger

McKinlay, Jenn, author
2013



Death at high tide

Death at high tide

Dennison, Hannah, author
2020

The first in a delightful new cozy series featuring two sisters who inherit an old hotel in the remote Scilly Islands. After her husband passes away, Evie Mead learns she may own the rights to an old hotel on Tregarrick Rock, one of the Islands of Scilly. When a murder occurs at the hotel, and then another soon follows, frustration turns to desperation. Evie and Margot, the only current visitors to the island, are suspects one and two. It falls to them to unravel secrets spanning generations if they want to make it back alive.

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Death by dumpling

Death by dumpling

Chien, Vivien, author.
2018


Death in a Budapest butterfly

Death in a Budapest butterfly

Buckley, Julia, 1964- author
2019

Hanna Keller and her family run Maggie's Tea House, an establishment heavily influenced by the family's Hungarian descent and specializing in a European-style traditional tea service. But truthfully, one of the shop's largest draws is Hanna's eccentric grandmother, who's known for her remarkable ability to read the future in the leaves at the bottom of their customers' cups. Lately, however, her readings have become alarmingly ominous...Hanna is also an avid teacup collector and especially takes pride in the Anna Weatherley butterfly cup she recently procured. But the exquisite piece of porcelain soon becomes the center of a murder investigation, when it's suspected of delivering poison to one of the guests at their most recent event. Hanna's determined to find the true killer, exonerate her family, their business, and in the process, reclaim her beautiful Budapest Butterfly.

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Death on tap

Death on tap

Alexander, Ellie, author.
2018

A brewmaster must discover who killed the competition when her ex-husband -- and brewing rival -- is accused of the crime.

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The diva runs out of thyme

The diva runs out of thyme

Davis, Krista, author
2008


Eggs in purgatory

Eggs in purgatory

Childs, Laura
2008

Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lose their husbands but find independence when they open the Cackleberry Club. Then their cozy cafe becomes the scene of a crime when a lawyer dies with a secret on his lips and egg on his face. What this all has to do with a religious cult and Suzanne's past could put her own life on the line.

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Elementary, she read

Elementary, she read

Delany, Vicki, 1951- author
2017


If walls could talk

If walls could talk

Blackwell, Juliet
2010


A killer in King's Cove

A killer in King's Cove

Whishaw, Iona, 1948- author
2016

It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start. When she finds herself happily settled in King's Cove, a sleepy hamlet nestled in the idyllic interior of British Columbia surrounded by a suitably eclectic cast of small-town characters she feels like she may finally be able to put her past to rest. But then a body is discovered, the victim of murder, and although she works alongside the town's inspectors Darling and Ames to discover who might have possibly have motivation to kill, she casts doubt on herself.

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Little bookshop of murder

Little bookshop of murder

Blackburn, Maggie, author.
2020

Summer Merriweather's career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a thread, so Summer spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that, with any luck, will finally get her published, impress the Dean, and save her job. But her English idyll ends when her mother, Hildy, shuffles off her mortal coil from an apparent heart attack. Summer is impatient to settle the estate, sell her mom's embarrassingly romance-themed bookstore, Beach Reads, and go home. But as she drops by Beach Reads, Summer finds threatening notes addressed to Hildy: "Sell the bookstore or die." Clearly, something is rotten on Brigid's Island. What method is behind the madness? Was Hildy murdered? But there are more suspects on Brigid's Island than are dreamt of in the Bard's darkest philosophizing. And if Summer can't find the villain, the town will be littered with a Shakespearean tragedy's worth of corpses--including her own.

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Much ado about murder

Much ado about murder

Duncan, Elizabeth J., author.
2017

When the up-and-coming new British director for the Catskills Shakespeare Theater Company's production of "Much Ado About Nothing" is found dead, a presumed suicide, costume designer Charlotte Fairfax investigates.

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Murder at the Breakers

Murder at the Breakers

Maxwell, Alyssa, author
2014


Murder in an Irish village

Murder in an Irish village

O'Connor, Carlene, author
2017


Murder is binding

Murder is binding

Barrett, Lorna, author
2008


Night of the living deed

Night of the living deed

Copperman, E.J., 1957-
2010

Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming-and profitable-guest house. One small problem: the house is haunted, and the two ghosts insist Alison must find out who killed them.

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On what grounds

On what grounds

Coyle, Cleo
2003


A potion to die for

A potion to die for

Blake, Heather, author
2013


Read and buried

Read and buried

Gates, Eva, 1951- author
2019

The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library Classic Novel Book Club is reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne while workers dig into the earth to repair the Lighthouse Library's foundations. The digging halts when Lucy pulls a battered tin box containing a Civil War-era diary from the pit. Tucked inside is a hand-drawn map of the Outer Banks accompanied by a page written in an indecipherable code. The library is overrun by people clamoring to see the artifact. Later that night, Lucy and Connor McNeil find the body of historical society member Jeremy Hughes inside the library. Clearly Jeremy was not the only one who broke into the library--the map and the coded page are missing. Lucy's nemesis, Louise Jane McKaughnan, confesses to entering the library after closing to sneak a peek but denies seeing Jeremy--or his killer. When Lucy discovers that fellow-librarian Charlene had a past with Jeremy, she's forced to do what she vowed not to do--get involved in the case. Meanwhile, the entire library staff and community become obsessed with trying to decode the page. But when the library has a second break in, it becomes clear that someone is determined to solve that code.

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Secondhand spirits

Secondhand spirits

Blackwell, Juliet
2009


The secret, book & scone society

The secret, book & scone society

Adams, Ellery, author.
2017


A spell for trouble

A spell for trouble

Addison, Esme, author.
2020

Aleksandra Daniels hasn't set foot in the quiet seaside town of Bellamy Bay, North Carolina in over twenty years. Ever since her mother's tragic death, her father has mysteriously forbidden her from visiting her aunt and cousins. But on a whim, Alex accepts an invitation to visit her estranged relatives and to help them in their family business. Bellamy Bay doesn't look like trouble, but this is a town that harbors dark secrets. Alex discovers that her own family is at the center of salacious town gossip, and that they are rumored to be magical healers descended from mermaids. She brushes this off as nonsense until a local is poisoned and her aunt Lidia is arrested for the crime.

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A study in murder

A study in murder

Hutton, Callie, author
2020

Bath, England, 1890. Lady Amy Lovell receives an anonymous letter containing shocking news: her fianceĢ, Mr. Ronald St. Vincent, has been dabbling in something illegal, which causes her to promptly break their engagement. Two evenings later her former fiance makes an unexpected and most unwelcome appearance at her house. She promptly sends him to the library to cool his heels but later discovers the room seemingly empty--until she stumbles upon a dead Mr. St. Vincent. Lord Wethington arrives to find Lady Amy screaming and sends for the police, but the Bobbies immediately assume that she is the killer. Desperate to clear her name, Lady Amy and Lord Wethington launch their own investigation--and stir up a hornet's nest of suspects, from the gardener who served time in prison for murder to a vengeful woman who was spurned by St. Vincent before he proposed to Lady Amy.

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