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"When Lexy Baker temporarily fills in for the pastry chef at a lakeside resort it seems like a great way to combine business and pleasure. ... Until the head chef ends up with a knife through his chest and Lexy is found bending over the body. Suddenly, she finds herself in a race against time and battling a quirky dessert devouring detective to find the real killer in a long line of suspects. Was it the extravagant spouse? The suspiciously acting...
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There's a serial killer on the loose. And Lexy Baker's grandmother, Nans, could be the next victim. The bodies are piling up at the Brook Ridge Falls Retirement Center. Healthy people are dropping like flies. And yet no one believes a murderer is on the loose...except for Lexy Baker and the troupe of iPad-toting grandmothers who live at the center. When Lexy's detective boyfriend, Jack, refuses to believe that foul play is involved, Lexy has no choice...
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"When millionaire Regis Banks drops dead at his own party, everyone assumes it was from natural causes - after all, the man was celebrating his one-hundredth birthday. ... Everyone except Lexy Baker's amateur sleuth grandmother, Nans, and her three friends, that is. When it turns out that Regis' death might have been caused by more than just old age, Nans refuses to let the trail grow cold - especially after a local reporter trying to get a scoop...
4) Ghostly paws
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Mystic Notch cozy mystery volume 1
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"Middle age can be murder... At least that's how it seems to former crime journalist, Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect... she sees ghosts. After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Willa finds herself haunted by the tenacious ghost of the town librarian who insists Willa solve her murder." -- cover.
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Lady Katherine Regency Mysteries volume 4
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Lady Katherine juggles Christmas festivities, a perplexing cold case, and a wager with the annoying Captain Wayland that will prove once and for all which of them is the better detective. It's the Christmas season in London, but the holiday festivities don't deter Lady Katherine from investigating a death that happened months earlier. Since the victim was a maid, investigative resources were sparse, and the police hastily wrote it off as a random...
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Murder hits a little too close to home for bakery owner Lexy Baker when a grim discovery is made in her homicide detective husband, Jack's, basement. With Jack as the main suspect, Lexy has to turn up the heat and find the real killer while still trying to whip up the perfect meringue cookie recipe for the Brook Ridge Falls Desserts Contest.
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Lady Katherine Regency Mysteries volume 2
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The last thing Lady Katherine wants is to take the matchmaking job for Mrs. Burwick, whose daughter, Prudence, clearly does not want to be matched... until she realizes it provides her the perfect cover to investigate the string of robberies that have been taking place in the holiday town of Bath.
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When a retired mobster ends up murdered and one of her grandmother's best friends is the last one to see him alive, Lexy Baker can kiss her plans to spend an uneventful summer dreaming about her upcoming wedding to detective Jack Perillo good-bye. Lexy agrees to help her grandmother's octogenarian Ladies' Detective Club solve the murder. But she doesn't count on sneaking into crime scenes, interviewing kooky relatives, and following thugs around town....
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Lady Katherine Regency Mysteries volume 5
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"Lady Katherine's happiness at her newfound independence is shattered by the death of her elderly neighbor, Doctor Gammon. The doctor had become a trusted friend and had confided in Katherine that something about a former patient's case had been bothering him. Was it any coincidence he'd ended up dead the very next day? Katherine doesn't think so, especially when she discovers the case files he'd been scrutinizing the night before his death seem to...
10) Wedded Blintz
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Lexy Baker is finally tying the knot with hunky homicide detective Jack Perillo. She's planned the perfect wedding right down to her custom designed gown. Nothing can go wrong.... Until Lexy stumbles across a double murder and one of the victims is a Bridezilla that Lexy had a major fight with just hours before. This time Jack can't help her because he's been taken off the case and the gum chewing ditzy rookie that's replaced him has put Lexy at the...
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Everyone knows a Juniper Holiday Halloween party is to die for.
To get an invite is the most talked about topic in Crescent Cove. To experience the Holiday mansion in all its (supposedly) haunted glory is the stuff of legend. Of course, no one has actually seen a ghost in residence-but how could they when they're having the time of their life?
As an eccentric with too much money and time on her hands, Juniper Holiday loves any excuse to throw a...
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It's Christmas in the Holiday Mansion and Juniper has this years party gift-wrapped and under the tree! Christmas at the Holiday mansion is always a festive affair. The residents of Crescent Cove look forward to Juniper's yard decorations almost as much as an invitation to one of her parties-and this year everyone has been invited. What could possibly go wrong with a mansion full of people and non-humans? Murder of the ho-ho-ho variety, that's what....
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Juniper Holiday's annual Valentines Day party is all about love and romance... and this year, it's also about murder. When the grand prize winner is found dead in the bathroom, there are very few clues as to who did it. With a house full of guests, there are plenty who had means and opportunity, but who had motive? Detective Mallard is already in trouble with his boss, so he needs to solve this one fast... even if that means getting some help from...
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Brook Ridge Falls favorite bakery owner, Lexy Baker, has everything she ever wanted. A new husband she adores. A thriving bakery business. Everything is going great.... Until a new bakery springs up across the street and tries every trick in the book to put her out of business!Lexy smells something rotten about the bakery and it isn't just their stale brownies. When her own bakery is broken into she knows who did it ... but what she can't figure out...
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Why did someone kill Olive Pendleton and hide her body?When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad toting grandmas witness a murder remotely through the camera of a drone, they go straight to Lexy's homicide detective husband, Jack, to report the crime. But with no body and no crime reported, Jack can't do a thing, leaving Lexy and her grandmother no alternative than to solve the murder themselves.Armed with nothing but their gigantic patent...
16) Never Say Pie
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When the president of the Brook Ridge Falls Senior Center Book Club is found dead, facedown in one of the pies meant for the club's pie-eating contest, Lexy and her posse of iPad-toting grandmothers take it upon themselves to find the killer. Too bad the only potential clue might be buried inside one of the many pies taken by the police for evidence.That's no problem. Lexy, Nans, and the ladies will use their uncanny methods of deduction to ferret...
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When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad-toting grandmas find a dead body under Ruth's late model Oldsmobile, it opens an investigation into a decades-old crime. It seems Ruth's reformed crime-boss boyfriend stashed something of immense value away before he died. Too bad word is out in the criminal underworld and a dangerous killer has come to town to find it.Armed with only their iPads, gigantic patent leather purses and a box of baked...
18) Cry Wolf
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A mysterious death brings Deputy DeeDee Clawson to the scene of a movie being filmed at an old mansion in Silver Hollow. Tucker Rockwood, the star of the movie, is found dead, a stake through his heart. Lots of people might have wanted to kill Tucker, but when DeeDee's investigation points in the direction of the movie's producer, Caine Hunter, she thinks she has her man.As if investigating this murder isn't enough, DeeDee has something else hanging...
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Araminta Moorecliff and her mystery solving siamese cats, Arun and Sasha, are at it again when the Moorecliff Manor annual charity cat show turns deadly. With a house full of finicky felines and cat fanciers, it's not going to be easy to figure out who done it. At least this time we know it's not the butler.
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When a body is found in the hydrangeas at Moorecliff manor, certain members of the family fall under suspicion. Inspector Ivan Hershey is starting to wonder why dead bodies keep cropping up at the mansion. Especially since this particular body belongs to a member of a local organized crime gang and there are a lot of unanswered questions.Who is Daisy's secret admirer? Why did the victim have a picture of Daisy? Why have people been lurking around...
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