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On the day after a heated discussion of a fictional heroine's suicide, book group member Helen Coulter falls to her death from her roof garden. Helen's death is declared a suicide--a shocking end to a perfect life--but Amanda is skeptical. ... Amanda's investgations will draw her into a zone of great danger, where Helen Coulter's ice-hearted killer is once more ready to strike."--P. [4] of cover.
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Several pounds heavier—and gaining—blissful mother-to-be Ellie Haskell knows her days as a thin woman are numbered. Time to let out her clothes, put up her feet, and prepare to enjoy the next nine months as pampered wife. But the first pangs of morning sickness have barely passed when Ellie's handsome husband, Ben, is invited to compete for membership in the world's most exclusive secret society of chefs, and suddenly Ellie finds herself...
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On the eve of a quilt exhibition at the folk art museum in San Celina, California, one of the artists is found dead. The museum's new curator, the recently widowed Albenia Harper, sees her cousin, Rita, flee the scene and the police chief names her the prime suspect. But Albenia is sure Rita is not guilty and investigates on her own.
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With her sense of “abandon and play,” Langton sends her scholar/sleuth Homer Kelly up the down staircase on a labyrinthine search for a missing art lover (Eudora Welty).
Leonard Sheldrake knows little about Frieda except that he loves her. A Harvard professor and admirer of the bizarre engravings of M. C. Escher, Leonard is visiting a Cambridge exhibition of the artist’s work when he meets Frieda and falls instantly...
Leonard Sheldrake knows little about Frieda except that he loves her. A Harvard professor and admirer of the bizarre engravings of M. C. Escher, Leonard is visiting a Cambridge exhibition of the artist’s work when he meets Frieda and falls instantly...
6) Irish chain
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A senior citizens' prom in San Celina is disrupted by murder. Museum curator Benni Harper investigates the Japanese community to which the victim contributed financially in World War II. It turns out his charity did not come from the heart, but was the result of blackmail by two ladies of the town. By the author of Fool's Puzzle.
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When the garishly grotesque clan of wealthy carpet-sweeper magnate Otto Broadie sweeps down upon Judith McMonigle's Hillside Manor Inn, it looks like there'll be a wild night of drinking, dining, and fortune-telling in the offing. But when their soothsayer-for-hire Madame Gushenka drops dead after someone douses her tea leaves with bug killer, harried hostess Judith and her irrepressible cousin Renie are left to clean up the mess. One of the Brodie
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Benni and her relatives and friends are gathered for the family's annual barbecue and cattle roundup. Among the guests is Shelby Johnson, a young photography student from a wealthy Chicago family. In Benni she finds a favorite subject and a new friend. But when the young woman's body is discovered on the ranch the next morning, Benni's closest relatives suddenly develop into prime murder suspects.
13) Seven sisters
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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.
14) Kansas troubles
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After a whirlwind marriage to the police chief, Gabe Ortiz, Benni is excited to visit her new husband's Kansas hometown. At a rowdy backyard BBQ, she meets Tyler Brown, an aspiring country singer with a promising future and a fascinating past. Tyler's gifts and life are cut short when she's murdered.and Benni realizes that her hasty marriage will be much like the Kansas weather---unpredictable and bound to be stormy.
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"Long romantic walks along the beach, snuggling together in front of a warm fire, falling asleep in each other's arms is what Meg Langslow and her boyfriend, Michael, are looking forward to. Their hopes are dashed when they arrive to find Aunt Phoebe's house already populated by Meg's parents, her brother, a neighbor and Aunt Phoebe. Neither Meg nor Michael is fully prepared to spend their getaway weekend trampling around the muddy island trying to...
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A story teller from the local library is murdered in San Celina, California, only days before the town's story telling festival. Sleuth Benni Harper, curator of the folk art museum which is sponsoring the festival, discovers the victim doubled as another kind of story teller, a ghostwriter for the town's scandal sheet. By the author of Kansas Troubles.
17) The Alpine hero
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Discovering the body of a murder victim in the facial room of the local salon, editor Emma Lord tackles the story of the year in the face of wild rumors, t disappearance of a young woman, and danger to her own life.
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THE ALPINE ADVOCATE IS ON A ROLL.
The big story is the five million dollar luxury spa that Los Angeles real estate developers want to build around Alpine's mountainside mineral springs—hot news and fierce controversy for Advocate readers, and for the paper's editor and publisher, Emma Lord.
Pro-spa Alpiners cite the prospect of sorely needed new jobs. Those against it predict glitz, sleaze, and an avalanche of "Californicators."...
The big story is the five million dollar luxury spa that Los Angeles real estate developers want to build around Alpine's mountainside mineral springs—hot news and fierce controversy for Advocate readers, and for the paper's editor and publisher, Emma Lord.
Pro-spa Alpiners cite the prospect of sorely needed new jobs. Those against it predict glitz, sleaze, and an avalanche of "Californicators."...
19) Gone to the dogs
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Columnist Holly Winter, dog lover, becomes embroiled in adventure when poet-veterinarian Oscar Patterson disappears from his New Hampshire clinic. --