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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 5
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Vicky Bliss is the first to admit she doesn't know a thing about Egyptology. But her familiarity with criminality brings an intelligence agency to her office with an offer she can't refuse: they want her as an undercover operative on a luxury Nile cruise because certain information has come their way that a major theft of Egyptian antiquities is in the works.
Vicky suspects the man they are seeking is her occasional lover and frequent adversary,...
Vicky suspects the man they are seeking is her occasional lover and frequent adversary,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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When a stranger leaves Benni Harper his entire estate, she finds herself embarking on a journey that will lead her into danger and help her discover the secrets that were buried with her mother more than twenty years ago.
3) State fair
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For Benni, the annual San Celina Mid-State Fair is a much anticipated break in her normal routine of overseeing museum exhibits, temperamental artists and stubborn cattle. Even her police chief husband, Gabe Ortiz, takes time from his busy schedule to enjoy the fair's activities and exotic fried foods....
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 9
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Benni Harper, struggling to protect her marriage from the onslaught of her husband's ex-girlfriend, becomes involved in a decades-old murder mystery when she is asked by the historical society to catalog the contents of some old trunks that belonged to young Maple Bennett Sullivan, a woman believed by many to have killed her husband before running off with a lover.
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Quilter and rancher Benni Harper is forced to use all of her amateur sleuthing talents when she becomes entangled in the dark and tragic secrets of a feuding family as she investigates a brutal crime that hits all too close to home.
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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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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"It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability. Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire--to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum...
8) Spider web
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 15
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The Memory Festival is held each year in celebration of recollections and loved ones through crafts. When it's marred by the shooting of a local cop, by someone who has a vendetta against the police, Benni fears for her police chief husband and anyone else who may get caught in the crossfire. Determined to make her town safe, she begins her search for the shooter.
9) Ice Blue
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Museum curator Summer Hawthorne considered the exquisite ice-blue ceramic bowl given to her by her beloved Japanese nanny a treasure of sentimental value--until somebody tried to kill her for it.
The priceless relic is about to ignite a global power struggle that must be stopped at all costs. It's a desperate situation, and international operative Takashi O'Brien has received his directive: everybody is expendable. Everybody.
...10) Fool's puzzle
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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Benni Harper, ex-cowgirl, quilter and folk-art expert, stumbles upon a body while setting up a homemade quilt exhibit. As she tries to solve the murder, she makes shocking discoveries about her family.
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Chloe Ellefson and her sister, Kari, have long dreamed of visiting each historic site dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder. When Chloe takes custody of a quilt once possible owned by the beloved author, the sisters set out on the trip of a lifetime, hoping to prove that Wilder stitched it herself. But death strikes as the journey begins, and trouble stalks the fellow travelers. Among the Little House devotees are academic critics, greedy collectors,...
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"When a priceless artifact is stolen, museum curator Lana Gomez becomes the prime suspect. How can she hope to adopt her orphaned nephew if she is a person of interest in a crime? Cooperating with Capitol K-9 Unit officer Adam Donovan doesn't get her very far--the handsome cop thinks she is hiding something. But when the real theif returns set on silencing Lana, it is Adam and his Doberman pinscher, Ace, who become her only defense against a madman...
14) Irish chain
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Ex-cowgirl and current sleuth Benni Harper is struck with surprises good and bad when she sponsors a "senior prom" at the local retirement home: first she finds herself dancing with an old crush from her teen years, and then she finds two dead bodies in one of the retirement home's rooms.
15) Broken dishes
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 11
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English
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While visiting a friend's Western dude ranch, Benni Harper stumbles upon the remains of a long-dead murder victim buried in a shallow grave and embarks on an investigation to reveal the truth behind the terrible crime.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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"Hoping to relax after solving a murder in Wichita, Kansas, Benni Harper and her new husband, Gabe Ortiz, are back in San Celina, California. But while Bennis is jogging in the park, she happens upon the dead body of a library storyteller. It's an odd and disturbing scene - the woman is still dressed in her Mother Goose costume, lying facedown in the lake. Benni's investigation takes her inside the Storyteller's Guild, where she finds out that Mother...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 10
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English
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Spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert Benni Harper is back, investigating the connection between her favorite author, the murder of a family friend, and a crazy quilt. And when she starts receiving strange phone calls and anonymous letters telling her she'll be the next victim, her interest in the case becomes even more urgent.
18) Murder is a must
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First edition library mystery volume 2
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"Hayley Burke is determined to make the First Edition Library a success in every way but was not counting on having to solve an old friend's murder in this all-new mystery from USA Today bestselling author Marty Wingate. I am happy to report that I am finally settling in to my position as curator of Lady Fowling's collection of first edition mysteries at the First Edition Library in Middlebank House. I have even made progress with Lady Fowling's former...
19) Hame
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'Hame, n. Scottish form of 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.' In the wake of the breakdown of her relationship, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her 9-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote Scottish island of Fascaray. Mhairi has been commissioned to write a biography of the late Bard of Fascaray, Grigor McWatt, a cantankerous poet with an international reputation. But who was Grigor McWatt?...
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"Ella Wilson has avoided home and the holidays for nearly a decade. For her, the season is plagued by a jinx that's brought nothing but painful memories: her mother's death nearly two decades ago, her fiancé's abandonment last year, and now the loss of her job as an art curator. But without work to occupy her, home is exactly where Ella has ended up. And somehow, she's also been roped into planning the town's Christmas tree auction-side by side with...
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