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1501) The sharpest needle
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"1939, Los Angeles. Marion Davies has a problem. The actress has received poison pen letters highlighting an embarrassing event in her past from the mysterious 'Argus'. Can Lillian Frost and her friend and partner-in-crime, celebrated costume designer Edith Head, expose the writer before they expose Marion? Lillian's boss, millionaire inventor Addison Rice, seems to think so, but when Lillian speaks to her idol, Marion is reluctant to reveal her secrets,...
1502) Grey mask
Author
Series
Miss Silver mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, he learns of a conspiracy to commit a fearsome crime. Never one for the heroic, Charles's first instinct is...
1503) Meat thy maker
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sausages to kill for . . . The competition to go into business with Hernia's finest sausage makers is getting hotter than Magdalena Yoder's frying pan in this sizzling culinary cozy. Schmucker Brothers' Sausages are the talk of the town. The good folk of Hernia are obsessed with the delectable meaty treats, and the prospect of going into partnership with the brothers is proving equally irresistible to investors far and wide, including Magdalena Yoder's...
1504) Musseled out
Author
Series
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The busy summer tourist season is winding down in Busman's Harbor, Maine, but Julia Snowden senses trouble simmering for the Snowden Family Clambake Company. Shifty David Thwing--the "Mussel King" of upscale seafood restaurants--is sniffing around town for a new location. But serving iffy clams turns out to be the least of his troubles. . .
When Thwing is found sleeping with the fishes beneath a local lobsterman's boat, the police quickly finger...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"February 1939. Mamie Mason isn't enthusiastic when Bert, her husband of thirty years, persuades her to join him on an African cruise. Bert might be pining for adventure, but Mamie's perfectly content with her comfortable life in Hills Corners, Ohio. But once the couple board the glamorous SS Columbus, Mamie has to admit - much as it pains her - that Bert was right. Swimming in the pool, dancing under the stars, their own bedroom steward to serve...
1506) Idle gossip
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gossip columnist Lorna Whitcomb knows every dirty secret in Hollywood . . . except who killed her tipster. Sleuthing duo Lillian Frost and Edith Head investigate in this head-turning mystery. 1940, Los Angeles. Hollywood's famous gossip columnist, Lorna Whitcomb, has summoned Lillian Frost and her sleuthing partner, costume designer extraordinaire Edith Head, to her office. Lorna's 'leg man' Sam Simcoe - the man who finds the scandalous material...
1508) Death gone a-rye
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Vincent van Dough focaccia is being touted on Instagram as the best thing since sliced bread. By strategically placing chives, olives, and yellow peppers to look like poppies and sunflowers, bakers create a mouthwatering masterpiece in the style of the great postimpressionist painter. At Yeast of Eden, where bread making has always been an art, they're baking their own version for the school district's Spring Fling. But one person won't be tasting...
1509) Sidewalk saint
Author
Series
Foggy Moskowitz volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Florida, 1976. Foggy Moscowitz knows he's having a bad night when he wakes to find a gun pressed to his face. Nelson Roan has busted out of his prison cell and broken into Foggy's house, demanding Foggy finds his eleven-year-old daughter, Etta. But as Foggy searches for Etta, it seems her father is not the only person who wants her found: Canadian mobsters, crazy New York Irishmen, the FBI and even the Seminole elite are all on her trail. But why?...
1510) The tell-tale tarte
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The last thing Val needs in her life is an unsolved murder, especially when the victim, an actor famed for impersonating Edgar Allan Poe, happens to be dressed exactly like her Granddad. To keep an eye on Granddad, whose latest job takes him to the home of Rick Usher, a local author inspired by Poe, Val gets herself hired as a cook in Rick's House of Usher. When she discovers the actor wasn't the only one doing an impersonation, separating the innocent...
1511) Fatality with Forster
Author
Series
Crime with the classics volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Retired professor Emily Cavanaugh and her husband, Luke, are taking a much-needed break from Windy Corner and spending their honeymoon five thousand miles away as paying guests at Fizhugh Manor in Oxfordshire. Quaint nearby villages and the manor's impressive turrets and arches capture Emily's Anglophile heart, but when she meets its dashing young heir, James Fitzhugh and his American wife, Allison, James's cousin Penelope, his dithering uncle Roger...
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Orvieto--its very name brings to mind priceless art, colorful ceramics, and straw-colored wine. And the most famous cathedral facade in Italy, a structure of gothic spires, arches, statues, and mosaics. But as Rick Montoya discovers, this jewel of Umbria can have an ugly side as well. When Rick Montoya moved to his mothers Italy from his fathers Santa Fe, New Mexico, to work as a freelance translator using his dual heritage, he didnt expect to be...
1513) Cold turkey
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Literary caterer Tish Tarragon is looking forward to opening the new Cookin' the Books cafe the day after Thanksgiving, but before then she has the small matter of catering for the Thirty-First Annual Colonial Springs Turkey Trot, a highlight in the Hobson Glen calendar. With her food stall ready to go, Tish, the spectators and participating 'trotters' are eagerly awaiting the starter's pistol when they are confronted with the sound of rifle shots...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Literary caterer and owner of Cookin' the Books cßf Tish Tarragon is pushing thoughts of her impending eviction aside to prepare an appetising welcome buffet for a wedding weekend at Abbingdon Green Bed and Breakfast. While there, Tish witnesses one of the guests, controversial TV chef and restaurant critic, Gunner Randall, threatening staff after missing breakfast and making do with a mushroom omelet. When Randall is found dead the following...
1515) Confess, Fletch
Author
Series
Fletch mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Offering up brisk, tightly written plots and a stellar cast of characters both new and old, Confess, Fletch finds our incorrigible protagonist back in deep waters once again.
Fletch, now newly engaged and happily living out his days in Italy, finds himself embroiled in yet another scandal. His soon-to-be father-in-law has been kidnapped and is now presumed dead, and the priceless collection of rare art that belongs to his fiancée's family has been...
1516) Scone cold killer
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For Florida diner owner Gia Morelli, there's no such thing as too much breakfast-unless it kills you . . . When Gia Morelli's marriage falls apart, she knows it's time to get out of New York. Her husband was a scam artist who swindled half the millionaires in town, and she doesn't want to be there when they decide to take revenge. On the spur of the moment, she follows her best friend to a small town in Central Florida, where she braves snakes, bears,...
1517) Hidden Creed
Author
Series
Ryder Creed novels volume 6
Publisher
Prairie Wind Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"During a training exercise, Creed's scent dog, Grace, is drawn off course and discovers a shallow grave. The body was never meant to be found, hidden deep in an isolated part of Florida's Blackwater River State Forest. The remote area has no easy access in or out. The killer obviously hoped his secret would be scattered and swallowed up by the forces of nature. When Creed's dogs continue to find more remains, investigators quickly realize they're...
1518) Plain missing
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Inn owner Rachel Mast is no longer a devout member of the Amish community of Stone Mill, Pennsylvania, but she still cares deeply for them. So she's staying at her family's farm to help her mother through an illness--and at the same time, trying to track down two missing people"--
Author
Series
Perry Mason mysteries volume 31
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
2001, c1948
Language
English
Description
Marilyn Marlow has inherited a good deal of money from her mother. But the money originated with another will-that of her mother's wealthy employer. Now his relatives are contesting the will, and it's Rose Keeling, the key witness to its signing, whose mind they will need to sway.
When Rose is murdered, sleuthing lawyer Perry Mason must navigate a twisted case involving a personal ad that casts a cloud of suspicion over his client, Miss Marlow, in...
1520) The dogfather
Author
Series
Pampered pets mystery volume 10
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Co
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"When a designer handbags store owner is found dead, the police first believe it's an unfortunate accident. But the evidence doesn't lie. Before you can say 'wiseguy,' Bow Wow Boutique owner Melinda Langston's former fiancé and undercover FBI agent, Grey Donovan, is the prime suspect. Now the two are working side-by-side to prove Grey's innocence--nothing personal, just business. Or is it? Suspects are piling up, secrets are exposed, and no...