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1) Simple lies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The quaint Indiana town of Pleasant Creek is bustling with activity as Christmas draws near. Boston native and innkeeper Liz Eckardt is learning to embrace her new home's holiday traditions and welcome the slower-paced life at the heart of Amish country. The little town is brimming with yuletide cheer and the brisk air is filled with the smell of freshly baked Christmas cookies and the merry sounds of carolers. Liz is certain her godson, Steve, coming...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Liz Eckardt is busy juggling the demands of her colorful guests at the Old Mansion Inn in the delightful town of Pleasant Creek, Indiana, when she is summoned to jury duty. Expecting it to be a quiet respite from the hectic pace at the inn, Liz prepares to escape into a good mystery novel. But the waiting room is far from quiet. Fellow juror Nora Wexler is loud, rude, and spends her free time insulting people and complaining about her ex-husband....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jillian Green and her great aunt Cornelia win an auction for the contents of a storage unit. Mystery unfolds as they go through the unit. Some of the furnishings were for a family restaurant that closed years ago. The same time as owner Grace disappeared.
Author
Series
Annie's quilted mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma Cotton and Kelly Grace, best friends and business partners, have been on the trail of a murderer for nearly two years. And they are down to their last suspect. Danielle Moore, now known as Mary Jones, is the last student from Rose Peterson's college class Emma and Kelly need to track down. Was Mary involved in Rose's death? If so, that would explain her taking an alias and going underground since then. Either she was the killer, or she knows...
5) Finished off
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Texas has been good to Kate Stevens. The Lone Star state has become her new home complete with a prosperous career as a crochet author and designer. Surrounded by dear friends and with her daughter, Vanessa, a stone's throw away at Regency College, Kate's life couldn't be better. That is until a single word on a crackling cellphone call turns Kate's world upside down. Vanessa, away on a college-sponsored archaeological dig in the sweltering summer...
Author
Series
Annie's quilted mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma Cotton is sure in her heart that the trail to the killer of her friend Rose Peterson is nearing an end. Chase Meyer is the next-to-last male suspect, and it was a man's DNA that was found under Rose's fingernails when she died fifteen years ago. He has to be the murderer. And Emma and her aunt, Dottie Faye Sinclair, intend to prove it-- once they find him. It seems Meyer has recently gone missing.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jillian Green gets roped in to instructing a teen baking class through the local parks department. Everyone participating in the class is full of enthusiasm except the program director, Louisa Byrne, a recent transplant to Moss Hollow who's failing to conceal her shaky nerves. When Louisa skips class unexpectedly, Jillian doesn't quite believe the woman's coworker when he claims she went to visit her sister. Did Louisa really ditch town for a family...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kate Stevens, a highly successful crochet designer living in Sage Hills, Texas is planning to celebrate the season for the first time away from her daughter, Venessa. The melancholy of that reality is tempered, however, when Alice MacFarlane and Jim Parker, old friends from Kate's hometown of Stony Point. Maine, show up. Alice needs a signature from her no-good ex-husband John, a man she divorced many years ago, before she and Jim can tie the knot....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emma Cotton and Kelly Grace, owners of Cotton & Grace in the seaside town of Mystic Harbor, Massachusetts, have spent much of the past year trying to unscramble the mystery of the death of their dear friend and fellow expert quilter Rose Peterson. Now their quest takes them to England and a spooky manor owned by the Dudley family. Colin Dudley, a former student in Rose's class and one of the last to see her alive, has converted the castle-like manor...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A warming trend is heading to Loch Mallaig, Michigan, in time for Easter, although spring mud puddles abound and the Scottish town's namesake lake is still covered in ice. Unfortunately, Bread on Arrival's head baker, Laura Donovan, gets fired up over more than just the heat wave when she learns that a rival bakery is opening in Loch Mallaig. That problem is quickly put on the back burner, however, when Laura makes a chilling discovery;a dead man...
11) Reign of terrier
Author
Series
Scottish Bakehouse mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends since they hit the books together in college, Bread on Arrival owners Molly Ferris, Carol MacCallan, and Laura Donovan all turned to a new page in their lives when they opened their Scottish bakehouse in Loch Mallaig, Michigan. Now firmly rooted in the quaint village, the Bakehouse Three learn that another newcomer is starting a fresh chapter in town, and they rush to patronize the recently opened used bookshop of retired Detroit police...
Author
Series
Rose Cottage Book Club volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As April descends on the harbor town of Nantucket, bookshop owner Meagan Poe embraces the promise of fresh starts--beginning with the first book club meeting at Rose Cottage Books. She soon discovers that the few but mighty inaugural members bring big personalities and plenty of new revelations to break the ice. Married for two years to the love of her life, Olivia James has uncovered information about her husband that makes her question everything...
14) Tartan feathered
Author
Series
Scottish Bakehouse mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bread on Arrival bakehouse co-owner Molly Ferris has grown used to having an empty nest, but she’s thrilled when her daughter, Chloe, comes home to roost a week before Thanksgiving. Chloe delights in exploring the quaint Scottish town of Loch Mallaig, Michigan, where plenty of other out-of-towners are flocking together for some fall fun. Her joy plummets, however, when a series of alarming incidents indicate that Chloe has ruffled someone’s...
Author
Series
Scottish Bakehouse mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Loch Mallaig, a place where the iconic sounds of Great Highland bagpipes fill the air, kilts never go out of fashion, and mysteries surface with curious regularity. Undaunted when they discover that the only retail space available in the charming Gaelic town is a former funeral parlor, event planner Molly, NYC chef Laura, and retired math teacher Carol bravely fire up the Scottish bakehouse of their dreams, Bread on Arrival, in the old Victorian mansion....
16) Bitter words
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Faith Newberry is setting in nicely at her job as librarian at the upscale and pet-friendly Castleton Manor library retreat. Even her cat, Watson, has taken to his new life in Lighthouse Bay on Cape Cod. With a cozy cottage on the grounds of the Massachusetts estate to live, and surrounded by books by day and friends by night, Faith thinks life couldn't get much sweeter. When celebrity pastry chef Sugar Worthington takes up residence at the manor,...
17) Heid and Seek
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's Hero Day at Loch Mallaig Elementary, and Bread on Arrival bakehouse owner Carol MacCallan thinks she's really made the grade when her granddaughter, Maisie, gives her top marks for her amateur detective work. Others at the Michigan town's grade school have caught wind of Carol's skills as well, and a handful of teachers ask her to look into the disappearance of some odd supplies from their classrooms. Unfortunately, the simple theft investigation...
18) Up to noir good
Author
Series
Secrets of the Castleton Manor Library volume 11
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Librarian Faith Newberry gets herself into a jam when she agrees to deliver a lecture at the So Noir literary retreat. Then when Oscar North, chef and restaurant owner, falls from a balcony and dies, Watson the cat gets his first case.
Join Faith Newberry and her cat, Watson, in the quaint town of Lighthouse Bay on Cape Cod in Massachusetts as she marries her love of books to a penchant for sleuthing. After landing her dream job as librarian at Castleton...
19) A Hopeless Ness
Author
Series
Scottish Bakehouse mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rumors of strange sightings in the local lake are making waves in Loch Mallaig, Michigan, where Molly Ferris and her best friends, Carol MacCallan and Laura Donovan, operate a popular Scottish bakehouse. Molly has heard the gossip floating around about the so-called Loch Mallaig Monster and chalked it up to the Month of the Faeries, the October pranking tradition celebrated by the town. The last thing she expects when she visits the pier...
20) A deadly chapter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Join Faith Newberry and her cat, Watson, in the quaint town of Lighthouse Bay on Cape Cod in Massachusetts as she marries her love of books to a penchant for sleuthing. After landing her dream job as librarian at Castleton Manor, an upscale literary retreat, Faith is forced to read between the lines and solve the mysteries she finds among the stacks. Faith, Watson, and the lively members of the Candle House Book Club set out to unravel whodunits that...
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