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Scrapbook of Secrets: A cumberland Creek Mystery Author: Mollie Cox Bryan Published: February 7, 2012 by Kensington Series Name: Cumberland Creek Mysteries Category: Traditional, Cozy Main Character: Annie Chamovitz, Beatrice Matthews, Vera Matthews Having traded in her career as a successful investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home mum in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia, Annie can’t help but feel that something’s missing. But she finds solace in a local “crop circle” of scrapbookers united by chore-shy husbands, demanding children, and occasional fantasies of their former single lives. |
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BEFORE SHE DIES Author: Mary Burton Published: January 31, 2012 by Zebra Books Category: Fiction/Romantic Suspense Main Character: Charlotte Wellington, Detective Daniel Rokov,Detective Malcolm Kier, Detective Deacon Garrison, Angie Carlson, Grady Tate, Sooner HE IS THEIR JUDGE… In death, they are purified. Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath. |
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Dead in Small Doses Author: John Dandola Published: January 31, 2012 by Compass Point Mysteries Series Name: A Tony Del Plato Mystery In the spring of 1943, through his Edison family connections, Tony Del Plato gets a surprising assignment when Paramount Pictures decides to make one of its Popular Science movie shorts about inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr. (a real-life Edison protégé). Filming will take place not only at Hammond's grandiose castle-home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, but also aboard his yacht on a trip to the Caribbean. |
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Relatively Dead Author: Alan Cook Published: January 23, 2012Series Name: Carol Golden Category: mystery/suspense Main Character: Carol Golden, Rigo Ramirez Carol Golden has recovered her identity if not her memory (lost in Forget to Remember) and wants to connect with more relatives than just her grandmother (her parents and brother are dead) but when she finds cousins it appears they are being targeted for murder. In addition, her grandmother, who is developing Alzheimer's has lost money to the Grandparent Scam. Carol travels from her home in North Carolina to Los Angeles to attend the service of one cousin, apparently murdered, and to try to connect this to the person who is scamming her grandmother. |
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Shedding Light on Murder Author: Patricia Driscoll Published: January 18, 2012 by Five Star/Gale Category: Traditional/cozy Believing in second chances, Grace Tolliver, former probation officer and new owner of Pearl's antique lamp shop, hires Duane Kerbey, a troubled young man, as a holiday employee. But when a prominent local citizen of Barnstable Village is murdered and Duane is arrested for the crime, blame is placed on Grace. After all, she sent the young man, knowing that he was a convicted felon, on an errand to the victim's home. Click for more info. |
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