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Molasses Murder in a Nutshell (A Nutshell Murder Mystery)

By Frances McNamara - Published 2023

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Minutes after Theresa Ryan finds her sister Maggie dead in her bathtub, the floor beneath her rumbles and caves, and waves of thick, ...Read Review

Lady Rosamund and the Plague of Suitors (A Rosie and McBrae Regency Mystery)

By Barbara Monajem - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

Widowed Lady Rosamund solves another murder with the help of Gilroy McBrae, a friend with an attraction she prefers to be in denial ...Read Review

A Taste of Betrayal: A Faith Clarke Mystery

By Julie Bates - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

In 1775 Williamsburg, the colonial capital of Virginia, tempers flare between loyalists to King George III and patriots craving independence. Tavern keeper Faith Clarke, ...Read Review

What the Walls Know (A Lizzie Crane Mystery)

By Skye Alexander - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

In October 1925, four musicians called the Troubadours have a week-long engagement at the castle home of Duncan Fox on the windswept coast of ...Read Review

The Counterfeit Wife: A Revolutionary War Mystery

By Mally Becker - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

Following on her award-nominated debut, The Turncoat’s Wife, this is volume two of Becker’s Revolutionary War Mysteries series. The setting is ...Read Review

The Navigator’s Daughter: A Kat Lawson Mystery

By Nancy Cole Silverman - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

In Phoenix, Arizona, in 1996, Kate is summoned by her WWII veteran father, Steve, and shown a piece of an airplane’s aluminum skin ...Read Review

The Gallery of Beauties: A Venice Beauties Mystery

By Nina Wachsman - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

This debut mystery set in Renaissance Venice is a delight to read, especially for those who have visited the city. The Rialto, the ...Read Review

Villainy in Vienna: A Fiona Figg Mystery

By Kelly Oliver - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

Former file clerk and newly minted spy for British Intelligence, Fiona Figg, is up to her Sacher tortes in intrigue. She’s been ...Read Review

A Kind and Savage Place

By Richard Helms - Published 2022

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Prosperity, North Carolina in 1954 seems to be a small farming town from the outside, but its underbelly is rife with tragedy, cruelty, and ...Read Review