Lauren Elliott

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Indiana

A Magical Mystery

From the USA Today bestselling author of the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mysteries comes the first in a new series featuring an intuitive gemologist and owner of a New Age tea and crystals shop in beautiful coastal California's Monterey Peninsula. "Appealing characters, surprising twists, a bit of magic, and the promise of romance. Lovers of paranormal cozies are sure to get on board." - Publishers Weekly Flat broke and divorced, intuitive gemologist Shay Myers has changed since leaving her artsy hometown of coastal Bray Harbor sixteen years ago. But when she moves back under strange circumstances, old instincts may be the only key to spilling the tea on a deadly mystery. Even with her life in ruins in New Mexico, Shay feels uneasy about settling into the small seaside town where she grew up on California's Monterey Peninsula and taking over an estate bequeathed to her by Bridget Early, a woman she had barely known. Her heightened senses--an empathic gift she's had since childhood--go into overdrive upon touring Crystals & CuriosiTEAS, Bridget's eclectic tea and psychic shop brimming with Irish lore and Celtic symbols. They reach a boiling point when Shay looks up to discover a stranger's body sprawled across the shop's greenhouse roof . . . With her new business a crime scene and questions brewing over Bridget's so-called accidental death, Shay fears she's also inherited the attention of a killer. The terrifying realization sets her on an impractical investigation for answers aided by her sister, an elusive pure-white German Shepherd, a strikingly handsome pub owner who speaks in a gentle brogue, and a misunderstood young woman with perceptive talents of her own. As Shay struggles to figure out her true purpose in Bray Harbor and the powerful connection she has with the tea shop, she must trust her judgment above all else to identify a ruthless murderer and save herself from becoming victim number three.

Steeped in Secrets

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Carol J. Perry

Ohio

Reluctantly taking a job as the host of late-night horror movies after Ariel, the previous host, is murdered, Lee Barrett must unmask a killer in Salem, Massachusetts, as Halloween fast approaches, all with the help of Ariel's cat, who exhibits some strange powers. Original.

Caught Dead Handed

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Ann Purser

Michigan

A Loud Meade Mystery

Lois Meade is intent on enjoying her daughter's wedding, even though her son turns up with a mysterious young cellist named Akiko Nakamura. Never afraid to get her hands dirty, Lois wastes no time enlisting Inspector Cowgill for help when Akiko's cello, and then Akiko, go missing. Lois discovers to her horror that this could be another in a string of murderous musical thefts. She must race against the clock to find the girl and protect her son, before the music stops permanently.

Found Guilty at Five

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A Lois Meade Mystery

Lois Meade has worked through all the days of the week, turning up clues and scrubbing up messes and murders in the village of Long Farden, but sleuthing is rarely a spotless endeavour. A series of robberies starts to plague the village and Lois' own daughter, Josie, is shaken when a thief steals 100 from a grocery shop till. Josie's policeman fiance is on the case, but when Lois' husband is cracked on the head when he interrupts a burglary in progress, the need to find out who's cleaning out Long Farden takes on a new urgency as things become increasingly violent.

Foul Play at Four

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Sheila Connolly

A County Cork Mystery

The New York Times bestselling author of An Early Wake returns to Ireland where Sullivan's Pub owner Maura Donovan gets mixed up with smugglers. After calling Ireland home for six months, Boston expat Maura Donovan still has a lot to learn about Irish ways--and Sullivan's Pub is her classroom. Maura didn't only inherit a business, she inherited a tight-knit community. And when a tragedy strikes, it's the talk of the pub. A local farmer, out for a stroll on the beach with his young son, has mysteriously disappeared. Did he drown? Kill himself? The child can say only that he saw a boat. Everyone from the local gardai to the Coast Guard is scouring the Cork coast, but when a body is finally brought ashore, it's the wrong man. An accidental drowning or something more sinister? Trusting the words of the boy and listening to the suspicions of her employee Mick that the missing farmer might have run afoul of smugglers, Maura decides to investigate the deserted coves and isolated inlets for herself. But this time she may be getting in over her head...

A Turn for the Bad

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Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Is an ex library book with plastic cover and card holder. Also has Library markings. The edges of the pages are yellowed. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Joe Grey #15

In the 15th book in the Joe Grey mystery series, the feline P.I. and his friends thwart a clever killer who is seeking to destroy the lives of the cats' human companions.

Cat Striking Back

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Margaret Grace

Slight scrape on front edge as seen in photo.

Wisconsin

While accompanying her friend Rosie Norman to her thirtieth high school reunion, miniaturist Geraldine Porter must reconstruct the scene of a crime when star athlete David Bridges is murdered, which leads Gerry down the path of thirty-year-old alliances, betrayals, and grudges. Original.

Mourning in Miniature

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A groom with a view

Kristin L. Gray

A cozy mystery for middle grade readers, and up

Minnesota

An Amelia Earhart Mystery

“A cozy whodunit that cheerfully affirms girls’ and women’s contributions to aerospace.” —Kirkus Reviews Amelia Earhart’s famous aviator goggles go missing and eleven-year-old Millie has to find them before the night is over in this girl-powered middle grade mystery. Eleven-year-old Amelia Ashford—Millie to her friends (if she had any, that is)—doesn’t realize just how much adventure awaits her when she’s given the opportunity of a lifetime: to spend the night in Amelia Earhart’s childhood home with five other girls. Make that five strangers. But Millie’s mom is a pilot like the famous Amelia, and Millie would love to have something to write to her about…if only she had her address. Once at Amelia’s house in Atchison, Kansas, Millie stumbles upon a display of Amelia’s famous flight goggles. She can’t believe her good luck, since they’re about to be relocated to a fancy museum in Washington, DC. But her luck changes quickly when the goggles disappear, and Millie was the last to see them. Soon, fingers are pointing in all directions, and someone falls strangely ill. Suddenly, a fun night of scavenger hunts and sweets takes a nosedive and the girls aren’t sure who to trust. With a blizzard raging outside and a house full of suspects, the girls have no choice but to band together. It’s up to the Amelia Six to find the culprit and return the goggles to their rightful place. Or the next body to collapse could be one of theirs.

The Amelia Six

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Catherine Bruns

South Carolina

Syrup to No Good

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Mystery

Not many people move to Wormwood. The witches aren't welcoming. The fortunetellers are frauds. And the recent murder is only going to make things worse. Hazel Salem just wanted a story for her magazine. Instead, she finds herself at the centre of an investigation that's about to turn into a witch hunt. If someone doesn't solve this murder, and fast, it will be out of the cauldron and into the fire for Wormwood's witches. If you love talking cats, smart mysteries, and snarky humour, you'll love this series. Pick up these page-turning witch mysteries today!

Mandrake and a Murder

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Pennsylvania

The Chancellor Fairy Tales, Book 4

The Vintage Medium

#hardcover #bookshop #cozymystery #firstinseries #northcarolina 

A Beach Reads Mystery

A Shakespearean scholar inherits a beachside bookshop--and a murder mystery--in this delightful new cozy series for fans of Kate Carlisle and Ellery Adams.

A Shakespearean scholar inherits a beachside bookshop--and a murder mystery--in this delightful new cozy series for fans of Kate Carlisle and Ellery Adams.

Summer Merriweather's career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder's thread. Academic life at her Virginia university is a viper's pit, so Summer spends her summer in England, researching a scholarly paper that, with any luck, will finally get her published, impress the Dean, and save her job. But her English idyll ends when her mother, Hildy, shuffles off her mortal coil from an apparent heart attack.

Returning to Brigid's Island, NC, for the funeral, Summer is impatient to settle the estate, sell her mom's embarrassingly romance-themed bookstore, Beach Reads, and go home. But as she drops by Beach Reads, Summer finds threatening notes addressed to Hildy- "Sell the bookstore or die."

Clearly, something is rotten on Brigid's Island. What method is behind the madness? Was Hildy murdered? The police insist there's not enough evidence to launch a murder investigation. Instead, Summer and her Aunt Agatha screw their courage to the sticking place and start sleuthing, with the help of Hildy's beloved book club. But there are more suspects on Brigid's Island than are dreamt of in the Bard's darkest philosophizing. And if Summer can't find the villain, the town will be littered with a Shakespearean tragedy's worth of corpses--including her own.

Little Bookshop of Murder

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#paperback #mystery #cozymystery #deniseswanson

Maryland

A Devereaux’s Dime Story Mystery

When Aaron Burgess is found slumped over the steering wheel of his tractor and rushed to the Underwood Medical Clinic by his friend and business partner Quito Escobar, no one expected that the situation would turn into a homicide investigation. But when it does, newly licensed private investigator Devereaux Sinclair and her fiancé Jake Del Vecchio are hired to find the murderer. Was Aaron a random victim of some psycho killer or was his murder something much much more personal?* * *Love is in the air of Shadow Bend, Missouri. Dev and Jake are engaged and moving in together. Jake's ex-wife is working for and dating Dev's ex-boyfriend. And Jake's Uncle Tony has been reunited with his first sweetheart, Birdie. It even looks as if Dev's BFF, Boone St. Onge, has found his special someone.But romance comes to a screeching halt when a mysterious murder takes place. This puzzle isn't just whodunnit, but how and why.With a short list of suspects, Dev and Jake are in a race to figure out the answers before someone else gets planted six feet under.

Fly Me to the Tomb

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Kate Carlisle

Oregon

Shannon is happy to help her beau, Mac Sullivan, renovate his historic lighthouse mansion but work grinds to a halt when the reamains of a missing young woman are found.

Crowned and Moldering

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Fixer-Upper Mystery, Book 7 - Ex-library copy

New Jersey

Shannon's good friend and retired tech billionaire, Raphael Nash, is loving his new retired life but he can't stay unoccupied for too long. He's started the Marigold Foundation, to help fund small companies and individuals who do humanitarian work around the world. Soon though, Raphael's old business partner arrives in town with a grudge and a plan to steal him away from his important new passion project. But when his former associate winds up dead, all signs point to Raphael. It s up to Shannon to hammer out the details of the murder before her friend gets pinned for the crime.

Shot Through the Hearth

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Laura Childs

#paperback #adultfiction #cozymystery #fiction #mystery #sleuth #laurachilds #crime 

Theodosia Browning investigates a Charleston steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs, now in paperback.

While viewing the harbor's Gaslights and Galleons Parade from the widow's walk of Timothy Neville's Charleston mansion, local banker Carson Lanier seemingly tumbles over a narrow railing, then plunges three stories to his death. But a tragic accident becomes something much more sinister when it's discovered that the victim was first shot with a bolt from a crossbow.

At the request of the mansion owner, Theodosia investigates the tragedy and is soon neck-deep in suspects. An almost ex-wife, a coworker, a real estate partner--all had motives for killing the luckless banker, but one resorted to murder to settle accounts.

INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES AND TEA TIME TIPS!

Plum Tea Crazy

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Illinois

Perfectly Pumpkin Killer

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Hardcover, used and good condition. I bought it used and never read it. There is some residue from a sticker on the cover.

Tennessee

ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 2
Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective. Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction's most richly developed amateur detectives, is always ready to pursue the answers to all of life's questions, large and small.
In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's best-selling new detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, gets caught up in an affair of the heart--this one a transplant.
When Isabel's niece, Cat, asks Isabel to run her delicatessen while she attends a wedding in Italy, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly plagued with memories of events that never happened to him. The situation appeals to Isabel as a philosophical question: Is the heart truly the seat of the soul? And it piques her insatiable curiosity: Could the memories be connected with the donor's demise? Of course, Grace--Isabel's no-nonsense housekeeper--and Isabel's friend Jamie think it is none of Isabel's business. Meanwhile, Cat brings home an Italian lothario, who, in accordance with all that Isabel knows about Italian lotharios, shouldn't be trusted . . . but, goodness, he is charming.
That makes two mysteries of the heart to be solved--just the thing for Isabel Dalhousie.

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