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"Medicine Creek, Kansas, has been dying for the last century. A small, quiet place, the primary occupation is still farming, Main Street is a stretch of old and dusty businesses, and the nearest mall is 200 miles away. In a town where nothing changes, the community is terrified after a series of grisly murders takes place."--from NoveList.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
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Louisiana Sherriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux and his longtime friend and partner Clete Purcel are vacationing in Montana's spectacular Big Sky country when a series of suspicious events leads them to believe their lives-and the lives of their families-are in danger. In contrast to the tranquil beauty of Flathead Lake and the colorful summertime larch and fir unspooling across unblemished ranchland, a venomous presence lurks in the caves and hills,...
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Lottie Albright mysteries volume 4
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It's the Garden of Eden. And the weather is absolutely freezing! The discovery of the body of a young man inside the mausoleum of the Civil War veteran who commissioned this bizarre sculpture park makes the blood of Undersheriff Lottie Albright and her husband's Aunt Dorothy run cold. Dorothy Mercer, paying a visit to Western Kansas from Manhattan, may be a bestselling mystery novelist, but she is truly shocked confronting murder firsthand. But the...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 3
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After a whirlwind marriage to the San Celina Police Chief Gabe Ortiz, Benni is excited to visit his hometown in Kansas. At a rowdy backyard barbecue, she meets Tyler Brown, an aspiring country music singer with a promising future and a mysterious past. Everyone is shocked when Tyler's life is cut short by murder. And while Gabe is out of his jurisdiction, Benni is free to step in to do some sleuthing of her own.
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One beautiful summer afternoon, from her bedroom window on the second floor, Jody Linder is unnerved to see her three uncles parking their pickups in front of her parents' house. "What is this fearsome thing I see?" the young high school English teacher whispers, mimicking Shakespeare. Polished boots, pressed jeans, fresh white shirts, Stetsons- her uncles' suspiciously clean visiting clothes are a disturbing sign. The three bring shocking news: Billy...
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"The French Quarter restaurant is a favorite of Portia "Po" Paltrow and her happy band of quilters, the Queen Bees -- and not just because the proprietor and chef, Picasso, does wonders for their collective palates, but because the relative newcomer is one of the warmest, friendliest people in the town of Crestwood, Kansas. So when Picasso's glamorous wife, Laurel St. Pierre, is murdered, the town is in an uproar and the Queen Bees are determined...
7) Pay dirt
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While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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"A twisty thriller from the beloved author of The Familiar Dark, where a woman returns to the town where her sister was murdered and finds a copycat on the loose. It's been fourteen years since Greer Dunning's older sister, Eliza, was murdered, and Greer's family has never be the same. But after the execution of the killer convicted, there's now been a similar killing back in Greer's small Kansas hometown, Ludlow. A copycat, according to the authorities,...
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"Professional advice columnist turned café manager and amateur sleuth Sissy Yoder is adjusting to life in her parents’ small but not-so-sleepy former hometown of Yoder, Kansas, where family is plentiful, the tomatoes are “to die for”—and murder is often in season . . .Twenty-something Sissy Yoder never imagined herself running her Aunt Bethel’s café, but her help is needed, so she’s making a go of it. And she must admit that life in...
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"On her morning jog, Portia Paltrow comes upon the dead body of antiques store owner and college professor Owen Hill, sprawled across the back doorstep of Selma Parker's fabric and quilt shop on Elderberry Road. The site of their Saturday morning quilting bee just became a crime scene. Violent crime is rare in the charming village of Crestwood, Kansas, and rumors are soon circulating of a burglary gone wrong. But who would rob a quilt shop? No, Owen...
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Sarah-Jane Zdanski volume 1
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"A teacher. A soldier. An immigrant. A joker. A loner. A chancer. A carer. A mosaic of seven regular townsfolk are going about their days, blissfully unaware their lives are about to interweave, interchange and interact; entangling into such a messy web that, together -- and unbeknownst to them -- their lives end up changing the face of America forevermore." -- author's website.
13) A call to charms
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If life had gone as she planned, Lexie Green would have been teaching English at a prestigious university, not persuading spoiled, rich women to buy overpriced clothes they didn't need and often looked ridiculous wearing. Can you say electric yellow see-through skirts and Torn jeans with unfinished hems? Still, although this isn't the life Lexie would have chosen, all is going well. At least until Lexie is fired and her deranged ex-boyfriend tries...
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In a charming new cozy mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Amy Lillard, twenty-something advice columnist Sissy is ready for a fresh start in the small town of Yoder, Kansas - along with her loyal Yorkie, Duke. She's planning to help out at her aunt's Sunflower Café, but little does she know her new duties will soon include solving a murder!After Sissy's rodeo cowboy boyfriend turns out to be more of a rodeo clown, she packs a bag;...
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Sadie Keller is determined to find out how her brother died, even if no one else thinks it's worth investigating. Untimely deaths are all too common in rural Blackwater, Kansas, where crime and overdoses are on the rise, and the small-town police force is consumed with the recent discovery of a child's skull in the woods. Sadie is on her own, delving into the dark corners of a life her brother kept hidden and unearthing more questions than answers....
16) Family practice
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Susan Wren mysteries volume 3
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Police chief Susan Wren discovers that the prominent Barrington clan has a lot to hide when she launches an investigation into the shooting death of family matriarch Dr. Dorothy, an incident in which eleven-year-old Jen Bryant, a child in Susan's care, was also critically injured.
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Divine cozy mystery volume 02
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Hoping to build trust with the Divine locals, Joanna Pepperdine and the Second Chance residents host an open house to get to know the townsfolk better. The event is a huge success...that is until a guest finds a wallet belonging to a man who is now missing.
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