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When Joyce Steiner moves into Fort Lauderdale's Lanai Gardens, reopening an old rivalry with Arlene Simon, whose husband ran off with Joyce fifty-five years earlier, Gladdy and the girls must band together to catch a killer when Joyce is murdered and Arlene stands accused of the crime.
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Theda Krakow mysteries volume 1
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"Gentry's appealing heroine, who gets ample opportunity to display her resourcefulness and fortitude, and the intriguing milieu in which she operates, should ensure both a warm reception and a speedy encore."-Publishers Weekly
Ansel Phoenix draws dinosaurs for magazines, books, and museum displays. But one morning, digging with students out in the field, she unearths the body of colleague and ex-lover Nick Capos. Shocked and grieved over the murder,...
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Maggie Browne and the members of the St. Rose Quilting Bee are back, attempting to solve a mystery as they work on their quilts. Sometime Bee member Candy Breckner is at the Palo Verde Care Center to recover from an auto accident; with two broken legs, she cannot manage on her own. Maggie and the Bee decide to visit, taking her a lap quilt they've made especially for her.
Candy breaks down when she sees them, saying that she's afraid there's an "angel...
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Gladdy Gold Mystery #4
"The Golden Girls play Nancy Drew in their own funny and creative ways...colorful and Meshugeneh."—Mystery Scene
Gladdy Gold has traded New York snow for Florida sunshine and she's loving every second! With a handsome gentleman, poolside gossip and a thriving private investigator business (perfect for a dedicated snoop!), life is grand...until a trip back to the Big Apple leads to Big Trouble....
"The Golden Girls play Nancy Drew in their own funny and creative ways...colorful and Meshugeneh."—Mystery Scene
Gladdy Gold has traded New York snow for Florida sunshine and she's loving every second! With a handsome gentleman, poolside gossip and a thriving private investigator business (perfect for a dedicated snoop!), life is grand...until a trip back to the Big Apple leads to Big Trouble....
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During just one week, Andi McConnell turns 60, loses her job, inherits a limousine, breaks up with her boyfriend---then finds his body in the car! With the help of former TV detective Fitz, Andi hunts for the killer. Will her diligent---and clumsy---sleuthing keep the cops from blaming the murder on her?
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Marlow Murder Club volume 1
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"Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon...
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When an elderly boarder at a Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops dead during afternoon tea, there's nothing particularly suspicious about it--except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. But when a second body turns up in the window seat and an autopsy shows both men were poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle Lady suspects she's dealing with a killer who's copying the movie Arsenic and Old Lace. More murders, more puzzles, and a grave dug in the...
10) NYPD puzzle
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"When young attorney Becky Balwin hires Cora Felton to accompany her to New York City to meet a new client in his penthouse apartment, the Puzzle Lady jumps at the chance. Cora is just coming off a bad breakup, and finding out that Chief Harper testified at a parole hearing for a killer she helped put away, has her feeling old. But when she and Becky arrive at the apartment, they find the man is dead. There's a puzzle on his chest, and a prowler is...
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Marlow Murder Club volume 2
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"It's been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks - AKA the Marlow Murder Club - since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, and Judith and Co. are looking forward to a bit of free champagne. But during the soiree, there's...
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Amish cupcake cozy mystery volume 04
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"Jane Delight has moved into her new home with eccentric housemates, octogenarians Matilda and Eleanor, and cat, Mr. Crumbles. It's baking care of business as usual until Eleanor decides to exhibit one of the wild goats in a local goat show. Soon, they are on an all-time dough when a body turns up, and Matilda and Eleanor are suspects. Can they get to the heart of the batter? Jane's not worried. She's bone and bread for sleuthing. Can she speak with...
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Gladdy Gold, Florida's self-proclaimed oldest private eye, is hot on the trail of a Peeping Tom and a retirement-home Romeo whose paramours keep expiring under suspicious circumstances; the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency go undercover at a retirement villa to expose the killer.
15) Spiked punch
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a"On the other side of seventy, Maddie Sparks decides to spice up her life by changing her writing interests from cozy mysteries to romance. As she transforms her writing she gets a sassy new haircut, fashionable clothes and a fuzzy orange cat named "Spike". Before she can begin this new chapter in her life, a stabbing death in the quiet country village she has made her home shocks the town's residents. When her son is accused of the murder, Maddie...
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Gladdy Gold mysteries volume 8
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"Life in sunny Fort Lauderdale's Lanai Gardens is about to be turned upside-down. Ida's long lost granddaughter, Tori, gatecrashes the ladies' deli lunch, demanding protection from men she insists are out to kill her. Determined to assist Ida and her granddaughter, Gladdy Gold's Detective Agency is on the case. But the stubborn and resentful Tori is not easy to help, she's secretive and regularly sneaks off to the puzzlement of Gladdy and her girls....
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Mac 'n' Ivy mysteries volume 4
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What comes after the honeymoon for Ivy and Mac? Looking for a good place to settle down and leave the nomadic life behind. No more dead bodies. No more killers. What do they find instead? Murder! Beginning with a runaway Miranda and a fiancée in a ruffled red bikini, continuing with a missing gun, and puzzling questions about the dead man. Was he the sweet guy the fiancée claims he was, with not an enemy in the world? Or was he a slick bank robbing...
18) Trumpet of death
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When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himself of his troublesome girlfriend, Samantha. But the mushrooms he's given Samantha end up on her daddy's dinner table, and Zack, one of the invited guests, is sure he's doomed the diners to an untimely...
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"Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and she's already traveled and planted a garden. She's organized her photos, her recipes, and her spices. The statistics suggest she has at least a few more decades ahead of her, so she better find something to do . After Jane helps a friend with a sticky personal problem, word starts to spread around her bridge club-and then around all of West Cambridge, Massachusetts-that she's the go-to girl for...
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"Rose Donovan looks for the good in everyone. With her sister-in-law, Peg, that sometimes requires a lot of searching. Even a sixty-something former nun like Rose has her limits, and gruff Peg Turnbull sure knows how to push them. But after forty years of bickering, they're attempting to start over, partnering up to join the local bridge club. Peg and Rose barely have a chance to celebrate their first win before one of the club's most accomplished...
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