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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.


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