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  The Culinary Mysteries With Goldy Bear: Book 13

  Dark Tort

  by Diane Mott Davidson

  Caterer Goldy Schulz's lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference room snacks for a local law firm, is time-consuming, but she's enjoying it . . . until the night she arrives to find Dusty, the firm's paralegal, dead. The deceased also happened to be Goldy's friend and neighbor, and now Dusty's grieving mother is begging Goldy to find out who murdered her daughter. Just because the police are on... (more)
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  The Culinary Mysteries With Goldy Bear: Book 12

  Double Shot

  by Diane Mott Davidson

  Caterer supreme Goldy Schulz has more on her plate than she can handle. Her ultra-charming, ultra-wealthy, and seriously psychopathic ex-husband, Dr. John Richard Korman (aka "the Jerk"), is free now that the governor of Colorado has commuted his prison sentence. And someone -- the Jerk, perhaps -- has taken great pains to sabotage Goldy's latest culinary endeavor, a post-funeral reception for a friend at a local... (more)
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  The Sibyl in Her Grave

  by Sarah Caudwell

  Julia Larwood's Aunt Regina needs help. She and two friends pooled their modest resources and invested in equities. Now the tax man demands his due, but they've already spent the money. How can they dig themselves out of the tax hole? Even more to the point: Can the sin of capital gains trigger corporeal loss? That's one for the sibyl, psychic counselor Isabella del Comino, who has offended Aunt Regina and her... (more)
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  Agatha Raisin: Book 12

  Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came

  by M. C. Beaton

  Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery-a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolutely furious. What are her options? She takes an island vacation and joins a Pilates class. But what finally lifts her spirits is finding a corpse. The dead girl is a member of Agatha's exercise... (more)
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  Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates (A Monsieur Pamplemousse Mystery)

  by Michael Bond

  That Clouseau-like clone, Monsieur Pamplemousse, and his faithful hound, Pommes Frites, are swept into an investigation when a person or persons unknown set out to bankrupt and discredit France's premier bible of cuisine, "Le Guide".
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  Thus Was Adonis Murdered

  by Sarah Caudwell

  Fleeing from tax-related worries, Julia Larwood indulges in a holiday, unaware that the fellow tourist she falls for is an Inland Revenue employee, who turns up dead in her bed with her copy of the Finance Act nearby. Reprint. PW.
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  A Crown of Lights (A Merrily Watkins Mystery)

  by Phil Rickman

  A modern witch-hunt splits a remote community - in a further challenge for exorcist Rev. Merrily Watkins. A disused church near a Welsh border hamlet has already been sold off by the Church when it's discovered that the new owners are 'pagans' who intend to use the building for their own rituals. The local rector, an extreme evangelical, is appalled and blames these inoffensive middle-class witches for... (more)
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  Death on Demand: Book 5

  A Little Class on Murder

  by Carolyn G. Hart

  When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max... (more)
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  Agatha Raisin: Book 13

  Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate

  by M. C. Beaton

  Wretched after being dumped by her husband, bored with pottering about Carsely, and wishing every man would sod off, including her neighbor John Armitage, Agatha Raisin is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-haired, blue-eyed Tristan Delon, she is swept off her feet...along with nearly every other female in the village. Wrapped in brightly coloured dreams of the curate... (more)
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  The Culinary Mysteries With Goldy Bear: Book 14

  Sweet Revenge

  by Diane Mott Davidson

  Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu, alongside the Great Expectations Grapefruit, Chuzzlewit Cheese Pie, and Bleak House Bars, is a large helping of murder. While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Brisbane— the Sandee... (more)
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  The Poet And the Lunatics: Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale

  by G. K. Chesterton

  Gabriel Gale is an eccentric poet. His madness is the madness of insight and he uses this gift to solve or prevent crimes committed by madmen. Chesterton ably illustrates his own premise that lunacy and sanity may just be a point of view...
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  Murder in Mimicry

  by Anne Morice

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  The Wisdom of Father Brown

  by G. K. Chesterton

  Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work.
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  Agatha Raisin: Book 14

  Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House

  by M. C. Beaton

  Just back from an extended stay in London, Agatha Raisin finds herself greeted with torrential rains and an old, familiar feeling of boredom. When her handsome new neighbor, Paul Chatterton, shows up on her doorstep, she tries her best to ignore his obvious charms, but his sparkling black eyes and the promise of adventure soon lure her into another investigation. Paul has heard about Agatha's reputation as the... (more)