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Miss Julia series volume 2
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When Miss Julia burst on the scene in her fictional debut, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, this proper lady of a certain age found her orderly world turned upside down when Hazel Marie Puckett appeared with her nine-year-old son, Little Lloyd, who looked disturbingly similar to Miss Julia's late husband. Now, in Miss Julia Takes Over, with her sharp tongue and iron backbone intact, Miss Julia must tackle another disruption when Hazel Marie doesn't return...
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Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body.Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly...
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If there's no rest for the weary, Miss Julia must be exhausted. She's just learned a secret - Hazel Marie is pregnant with twins and the prospective father has cleared out of town. But good things come in unexpected packages. Abbotsville finds itself the scene of a heist; and Miss Julia knows there's only one man who can solve the crime. It's J.D. Pickens, P.I., renowned investigator and Hazel Marie's wayward love. When he's summoned, one thing becomes...
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Miss Julia is feeling a little wishful when Hazel Marie, once her late husband's paramour and now her best friend, prepares to move out and live in sin with that marriage shy Mr. Pickens. Suddenly, to Miss Julia's delight, a wedding is in the offing. Handsome Deputy Coleman Bates and attorney Binkie Enloe announce their plans to run down to the courthouse and tie the knot. But Miss Julia insists that they have a real wedding ceremony and vows to make...
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Miss Julia series volume 4
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Miss Julia, the southern spitfire of a certain age, is becoming increasingly concered about her gentleman friend, Sam, who has suddenly started wearing cowboy boots, sending her flowers, and writing bad poetry. When he shows up on a Harley-Davidson Road King and asks her to hop on, she's convinced he's lost his mind.
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"Bestselling author Ann B. Ross cooks up a batch of fun in this latest novel in her popular series With a crisp bite in the air, Miss Julia is enjoying a well-earned respite by her new fireplace. But autumn leaves aren't the only things falling: James,Hazel Marie's housekeeper, has had a nasty tumble down some stairs. How can Hazel Marie feed and take care of him--not to mention a husband and two babies--when she barely knows how to boil water?...
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Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So she's forced to use her savvy, her sharp wit, and her old-girl network of domestic workers to discover...
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Miss Julia series volume 9
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Miss Julia devises a plan to expose some of Abbotsville's more eccentric characters in an effort to chase off a developer who wants to tear down the historic courthouse and build some upscale condominiums, while at the same time trying to counsel and console a host of female friends whose husbands all seem to have come down with a bad case of spring fever.
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Miss Julia series volume 7
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Miss Julia's hopes for a peaceful time with her new husband, Sam, are ruined when Hazel Marie's troublemaking uncle comes back to town claiming Little Lloyd is not the son of Miss Julia's late husband, forcing Miss Julia to prove him wrong and save Lloyd's inheritance.
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Miss Julia series volume 5
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In Miss Julia meets her match, our feisty heroine must come to terms with her most ardent admirer of all: longtime beau Sam Murdoch, who wants to tie the knot. While it's hard to resist Sam's charm, Miss Julia isn't about to give up her independence so easily. After all, there are plenty of other matters that require her attention, including a Holy Land theme park to be built on her property, a possible affair between the mayor and the preacher's...
11) Stolen hearts
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Grieving over his daughter's death and kicked out by his second wife, David starts a private investigation company, moves in with psychic friend Camden, and tackles two cases that may be linked by a notebook of strange musical notation.
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Miss Julia series volume 18
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When Miss Julia hears that Miss Mattie Freeman has taken a fall and is in the hospital, she wishes she'd spent more time getting to know the woman and not just because she's the last person in town to hear about the accident! So when the tumble proves fatal, the last thing Miss Julia expects is a phone call from Mr. Ernest Sitton, Attorney at Law: Miss Julia is named executor of Mattie Freeman's last will and testament, and it looks like her last...
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Miss Julia series volume 8
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"Miss Julia discovers that her Princess Diana ring replica and other jewelry pieces have been stolen, and she packs up Little Lloyd, Etta Mae Wiggins, and an inebriated private investigator in order to catch the thieves in Palm Beach."--from NoveList.
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When the president of a reclusive writer's fan club is found dead after a book signing, Charlotte Reed, the owner of Chapters B & B, her neighbor Ellen and Ellen's trusty Yorkshire terrier must page through the clues to catch a killer before the author meets the same fate.
17) The Empty chair
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"Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing... and keeping him is another. Now the quadriplegic Rhyme, who is in North Carolina to undergo risky spinal cord surgery, finds himself hunting a ruthless killer in the heart of a southern swampland--and going head-to-head with his protégé, Amelia Sachs,...
19) Lost boys
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The Fletcher family moves to Steuben, North Carolina, thinking it will be the right place for them. However, when their eight-year-old son Stevie becomes very withdrawn, they discover that he is being stalked and that other boys have mysteriously disappeared from the town.
20) Sand sharks
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Judge Deborah Knott is looking forward to a break from married life and the responsibilities of being a mom when she travels to Wrightsville Beach for a summer conference for North Carolina district court judges. But shortly after Deborah arrives, she stumbles upon the strangled corpse of one of her less-admired colleagues, and it doesn't take long before she realizes that the killer may have another target - one much closer to home.
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