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|  | | A Body in My Office
Charles Bentley, a retired English professor, helps solve the murder of a colleague.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Charles Bentley, a professor of English at prestigious Opal College in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, is forced into retirement when the administration hires Garrison Underwood, an academic star from England, to teach his courses in American literature. Not only does this Englishman take his courses; he immediately occupies Charles’ office. After a heated exchange between them, Charles goes out to the parking lot to cool off. When he returns, he finds that someone has killed Underwood by bas | |  | | A Fragile Will
A young woman is in danger after becoming an heiress.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When high school English teacher Cassandra Reilly is laid off, she takes a poorly paying part-time job at a local nursing home to make ends meet. Her employment problems may be solved when one of her patients passes away after naming her in his will as the director of a new literary research center. But Cassie isn't sure she can handle the position, and her doubts increase when she receives a threat against her life./span>
p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, | |  | | A Rocky Road
When Susan Cantwell becomes a tour guide on a bus travelling through the Colorado rockies, she expects her passengers to have thrill of a lifetime--but she doesn't expect it to be their last thrill.
| |  | | Breaking the Rules
Laura Magee once again finds herself mixed up in murder, and at the same time, she must help her best friend Ronnie, who has fallen in love with a handsome millionaire.
Acting as Auntie Mabel, the advice columnist, Laura Magee answers the letter of a Ravensford resident concerned that a house being built in his neighborhood will interfere with an historical site. When Laura investigsted the property, a man throws rocks at her, and when this man turns up dead, Laura finds herelf at the head of the suspect list.
This would seem to be enough for Laura to worry about, but she is laso concered because her best friend, Ronnie, has fallen in love with the wealthy Everett Houser and finds herelf in conflict with Nick Manning, Everett's best friend.&n | |  | | Dearest David
A young woman works as a servant in the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">When seventeen-year-old Abigail Taylor turns down the proposal of Tom Dawkins, her family feels that she must go out and make her own way in the world. So a position as a servant is secured for her in the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson. DEAREST DAVID is the story of the few months in the year 1841 during which Abigail experiences life in the Emerson household at the peak of both its intell | |  | | Death of a Survivalist
A survivalist is murdered on a college campus where he has come to speak.
span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Charles Bentley, semi-retired professor of English at prestigious Opal College in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, is confronted in his office one day my Sebastian Locke, a survivalist living in upstate Vermont who is on campus to give a speech. Locke is concerned because his daughter’s history professor approached her in an inappropriate way. Bentley has the daughter in class, so Locke has come to him for information on this professor. Charles gives him some advi | |  | | Ghosts From The Past
Marcie Ducasse, assistant editor of Roaming New England Magazine, becomes involved in a murder when a man is hanged from the rafter of a barn from which three others were hanged over sixty years ago.
When Marcie Ducasse, assistant editor of i>Roaming New England Magazine/i>, makes her first solo trip through northern New england checking into stories of supernatural happenings, she expects to hear some strange tales, not become a part of one. But when a farmer tells Marcie about the ghosts of three men hanged in his barn back in the 1940s and then turns up a few hours later hanging in that same barn, Marcie finds herself up to her neck in a murder investigation.
With the help of Kevin Murray, a local newspaper reporter, Marcie begins digging into the case, and she | |  | | Grave Justice
Amanda Vickers and Marcie Ducasse, editors at ROAMNG NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE,return in this story to once again investigate the mysteries surrounding supernatural events in New England.
Marcie goes to the town of West Windham, Maine to check out a report about the so-called Monster of Lake Opal, a Lochness-type creature that is said to inhabit the dark depths of the lake. Amanda joins Marcie to attend a seance in the home of a man trying to contact his late wife's spirit in order to learn the identity of her murderer. The spirit tells them to look in her coffin to find a clue to her killer's identity. Amanda greets this with some skepticism until a local boy is almost murdered and the coffin is broken into. Marcie and Amanda quickly find themselves drawn into the hunt for both a strange sea creature and a murderer who appears willing to kill again in order to avoid Grave Justice.
| |  | | Lou Dunlop: Faces in the Dark
In Lou's third case, someone is going through the drive thru at the Burger Hut wearing scary masks and threatening Laura's life. Lou has to find out why, and he discovers that even more frightenng than the mask is what's behind it.
| |  | | Lou Dunlop: Private Eye
Lou is an average high school kid with only slightly above avearge problems until one of the girls in his class disappears. When an outrageous blond named Jessie convinces Lou to search for the missing girl, he gets more excitement than he ever expected.
| |  | | Ocean Blues
Clarissa Abbot, a young minister, must confront the threat of ghosts and a murder charge against her former fiancée.
span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;">Clarissa Abbot has been the minister at Shore Side Community Church in Shore Side, New Jersey for just over three months. She feels she is settling into the job well, when difficulties arise. One of the members of her congregation owns a haunted bed and breakfast. The peaceful ghost had previously been something of a tourist attraction, but now it has suddenly begun assaulting people, and the owner wants it exorcised. Clarissa explains that ministers don’t do that, and she also expresses some doubts about whether the attacks | |  | | Pirate Gold
Marcie and Amanda follow a treasure map to danger and death.
span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When Marcie is approached in a restaurant by a strange man who claims to have a map to hidden pirate treasure, she is initially skeptical. As author of the Weird Happenings column for Roaming New England Magazine, she has heard lots of stories, most of which have turned out to be exaggerated or untrue. But the Spanish coin the man shows her looks real, and he appears to be honest. So Marcie decides to bring along her colleague Amanda and Amanda's boyfriend Richard to in | |  | | Seaside Secrets
A young minister solves a murder along the New Jersey shore.
span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Twenty-seven-year-old Clarissa Abbot is a minister who has just gotten her first full-time position as pastor at Shore Side Community Church in Shore Side, New Jersey. A member of her congregation dies in the hospital under suspicious circumstances before he can pass along information about a mysterious event in the past. Feeling guilty because she couldn't convince the man to confide in her before his death, Clarissa begins an investigation to find out his secret. This | |  | | Shepherd by the Sea
Pastor Clarissa Abbot solves another murder at the New Jersey sore.
span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pastor Clarissa Abbot is struggling through the pandemic as minister at The Shore Side Community Church, doing more home visits than ever and trying to keep her congregation healthy and safe. Adding to her problems, a member of her congregation, Brenda Fisher, who is a real estate agent, finds the body of a murdered woman in one of her beach rentals. Distressed by her discovery and concerned that the police may see her as a suspect, Brenda comes to C | |  | | Stormy Weather
When the body of Travis Lambert, senior meteorologist, is found buried in a shallow grave next to the house of Stormy McCloud, junior meteorologist, things look dark for Stormy.
When Stormy is suspected of murdering her boss, Travis Lambert, the station hires Chance Malone to investigate the murder, but that doesn't improve Stormy's situation. Malone is attractive, charming, and funny, all qualities that Stormy's past experience with men have led her to avoid. It also doesn't help that Stormy has little interest in religion, while Malone is the unusual detective who keeps a Bible in his desk drawer rather than a bottle of Scotch.
When Stormy's estranged mother appears on the scene, things become even more complicated. As they discover more | |  | | The Accident
A missing girl is sought by a friend of the family.
This story span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">is about Karen Walker is an ex-homicide detective slowly recovering from the trauma of an automobile accident in which she was injured and her husband was killed when a drunk driver struck the car she was operating. After a year of surgeries and attempts to come to terms with her feelings of guilt, she finds herself living the narrow life of a semi-recluse./span>span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-fare | |  | | The Bad Actor
When Laura Magee, advice columnist on a local newspaper, comes to suspect that a women has been killed for her money by her younger boyfriend, she begins to investigate.
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Marcie investigated the death of an investment banker who might have died due to the legendary Black Dog.
When Jerome Kronberg, who is facing prosecution for investment fraud, dies in a fall from a mountain in Connecticut, many people suspect that it was no accident. Some believe it was suicide; others think he died at the hands of an irate client. Then there are others who suspect a more supernatural cause. Kronberg had seen the legenday Black Dog twice on the mountain, and the story is that if you see it three times, you die. The story of The Black Dog is what motivates Marcie to investigate the event for her Weird Happenings Column in Roaming New England Magazine. | |  | | The Blank Canvas
Laura Magee sees someone killed in a hit-and-run, and puts herself in danger to find the killers.
Laura Magee is spending the summer working in an art gallery in southern New Jersey. When dispute over a painting by a man named Rafferty lesds to the murder of one of her customers and puts Laura herself in danger, she must discover the identity of the killers, and find out what makes the painting valuable enough to kill for. When the FBI becomes involved, Laura realizes that this crime has more layers than she ever imagined.
On top of all this, Laura must deal with an insecure artist who paints only sea birds, a friend who has a track record of dating the w | |  | | The Crying Girl
When a former professor of Amanda's dies while investigating a New Hampshire inn that is supposedly haunted, Amanda and her associate, Marcie, decide to travel to the small town of Shadsborough to discover why people are hearing a ghostly girl crying in the inn and whether she is in some way reponsible for the professor's death.
| |  | | The Eye of Mumbai
A Jewel thief must help an insurance investigator.
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Alison Ranadall returns from her service as an MP in Iraq wounded-both psychologically and physically. Ali slowly begins to heal as she seeks to find out why a friend's lover has disappeared.
Alison Randall returns from her military service as an MP in Iraq wounded-both psychologically and physically. She attempts to regain her health by becoming a yoga instructor. She is gradually recovering physically, although her psychological condition remains precarious, when she is approached by one of her students, Lauren Malcolm, whose boyfriend has disappeared. Ali reluctantly agrees to help in the search.
It soon becomes apparent that Lauren's boyfriend, Dr. Jim, a married but separated physician, has had a number of affairs with his patients, and is qu | |  | | The Open Window
A former cop solves the murder of a college professor.
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br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px | |  | | The Phantom
A retired jewel thief gets more than she bargained for.
Susan Marlowe, librarian and retired jewel thief, gets involved in her old way
life when her boyfriend, and insurance investigator, asks her if she can
discover the identity of the person who fashioned the replica of a stolen
pink diamond. Susan's investigations get her into a confrontation with
a murderer and into collaboration with The Phantom, a charming
and notorious high-end thief.
| |  | | The Restless Past
Tam and Sam dig into a crime from the past.
Tamara Lyons and Samantha Stokes have little in common. Tam is voluptuous and black, whie Sam is slender and white. Tam is an ex-MP, while Sam is a former fashion model. Tam is a lesbian, while Sams wings both ways. What they have in common is that they are both private investigastors, and together they make a kickass team.
In The Restless Past, they receive a requst from the Dean at South Jersey University to look into the credentials of a new faculty member in the physics department. What appears to be a minor acdemic issue soon becomes a case involving murder and intrigue with ro | |  | | To Breathe Again
Summyr Fox discovers that running her own yoga studio can lead to more excitement than she expected.
| |  | | To Die for Art
A retired professor of english solves a murder.
When semi-retired professor of English, Charles Bentley finds his next door neighbor dead on her kitchen floor without any signs of an injury. He wonders how she died. He is skeptical when the coroner says it was a heart attack because the woman was in good health. As Charles digs further into her life, he finds many things that make him reconsider his own life. He also discovers that she did not die of a heart attack, rather she died for art. | |  | | To Grandmother's House
Laura Magee takes the job of advice columnist for the Ravensford Chronicle and discovers that giving advice can be murder.
Laura Magee becomes advice columnist at the Ravensford Chronicle in Ravensford, Massachusetts. All is going well until she is invited to a dinner at the local college where she trips over the dead body of Jack Proctor, an art teacher at the school and a friend of her late grandfather.
In order to clear her own name, she decides to discretely investigate the murder with the reluctant help of Michael Farantello, chief of detectives on the Ravensford Police Force. As old boyfriends pop up and new ones develop, Laura continues her search for the truth.
To | |  | | When Push Comes to Shove
Lawyer Madison Revere must find a nursing home killer.
Madison Revere, a lawyer who lives on the New Jersey shore, has just returned to work after a pandemic quarantine to find herself dealing with the death of sn elderly woman in a nursing home. At first it appears that the woman died from the virus, but then it begins to look like something more sinister. Madison must discover whether a serial killer is on the loose killing the elderly, and try to stop him before he kills again. | |  | | When the Dog Bites
A young lawyer solves a murder in a town on the New Jersey shore.
span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Madison Revere, a lawyer in her twenties, is living on the New Jersey shore. She hopes to soon be made an associate partner in the law firm where she works. One night, while out walking her neighbor’s dog, the little pooch suddenly leaps up and bites a man who is passing by. This event leads to a chain of occurrences that cause Madison great worry. In addition to biting dogs, Madison must also deal with her lazy, tyrannical boss, a masked stalker, a new love inter | |  | | When The Last Dance Is Over
Marcie Ducasse, associate editor of ROAMING NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE,investigates the case of a girl killed twenty years ago who has returned seeking vengeance.
When Marcie Ducasse, newly promoted associate editor of ROAMING NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE, gets a call from Steve Rostow, an old college friend, telling her that the ghost of a girl killed twenty yers ago on the night of her senior prom has returned seeking vengeance, she knows this is the right material for her "Weird Happenngs" column. As she investigates, Marcie finds that the richest man in town, who ws a suspect in the girl's murder, wants to hush up the ghostly attacks and prevent her story from being published.
As the attacks reacher a murderous crescendo, Marcie a | |  | | When the Rope Breaks
Madison Reere, a young lawyer, solves a murder in a New Jersey shore town.
span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Madison Revere, a lawyer in her late twenties, has just been made an associate partner in the firm of Baker and Kerr located on the New Jersey shore. One of her first duties is to help execute the will of a software entrepreneur, who died when his rope broke while climbing with his wife in the Alps. Everything appears to be going smoothly, until the man’s sister claims that her late brother’s wife, who stands to inherit a fortune and control of his company, | |  | | Woven Hearts
Can a fabric store owner find love when the man of her dreams is the manager of her competition?
Kate Manning, the owner of Golden Needles, a fabric shop, becomes distressed when Fabulous Fabrics, a large discount chain, opens a branch in her neighborhood. Her distress increases when she finds that Roger Garrison, a handsome, interesting man she has just me in her shop, is the manager of the competiton.
When Kate's shop is covered in graffiti and her orders are misdirected, she begins to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage her business. Can Kate love a man who would run her out of business and spoil her dream of owning her own store? |
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Murder my Darling
by Gerald Darnell
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 All Carson Reno Mystery Series Books are standalone novels. It is not necessary to read them in any particular order.
A famous author is murdered, Carson is at the scene of the crime and considered a prime suspect – but he doesn’t remember anythi |
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Rachel's Garden
by Louise Worthington
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 Can something so perfect really be poisonous?
When Rachel and her husband Adam move to Maple Cottage in remote Cheshire, it should be the fulfilment of their dream to start a family.
Haunted by her past and challenged by events around he |
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