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When Al asks his favorite niece to become the interim manager of his restaurant, Unincorporated, she hesitantly agrees. Ashley's lack of experience in the industry makes her apprehensive, but her recently earned degree hasn't attracted any job offers. Hopefully, hard work and dedication on her part, and swift surgical recovery on Al's part, will prevent the venture from becoming a disaster. Struggling in her new role, Ashely is confronted with an...

A Disastrous Bridal Shop Visit Draws Amateur Sleuth, CiCi Winslow, Into the Path of a Drug Ring in Double Vision In Ripley Grove, a Cozy Mystery from Shirley Worley Present Day, Ripley Grove, Kansas CiCi is shocked to learn the owner of a local bridal shop is her Aunt Katherine, who begs CiCi's help locating her missing daughter, Jenna. Unable to refuse, CiCi's fiancé and local detective, Chad, warns against doing anything more than asking questions. As...

Promising to be the debut novel of the season, The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...

New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston teams up with Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to present a gripping true account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. The Monster of Florence is a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide--and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi are caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.

"When Thomas Pitt is tasked with playing bodyguard to Sofia Delacruz, a young and controversial British preacher who has been living in Spain and has returned to England on a mysterious errand, he thinks it's a waste of Special Branch's time and resources. But when kidnappers manage to reach Sofia murdering two of her companions in the process. Pitt learns that the message the lovely evangelist was meant to deliver was far more urgent than he knew....

The last time homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite was in Cedar Grove, it was to see her sister's killer put behind bars. Now she's returned for a respite and the chance to put her life back in order for herself, her attorney husband, Dan, and their new daughter. But tragic memories soon prove impossible to escape. Dan is drawn into representing a local merchant whose business is jeopardized by the town's revitalization. And Tracy is urged by the local...

In modern-day Gossamer Grove, Wisconsin, an inheritance forces Annalise Forsythe to face the town's dark secrets, while a century earlier amid the arrival of revivalists in Gossamer Grove, newspaperwoman Libby Sheffield works with a deacon's son to investigate his father's death.

"Lucy Abbott returns home to Fawn Grove, Maine, after serving time in Afghanistan, then years spent as a sous chef in New York. She's realized her only hope of moving on from the past involves facing it again. But Fawn Grove, like Lucy herself, has changed and the murder of a Muslim girl brings back difficult memories"--Provided by publisher.

If I could have a fiddle made of Daddy's bones, I'd play it. I'd learn all the secrets he kept. Shady Grove inherited her father's ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle's tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can't let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she's going to have to make those ghosts sing.--

A witch hunt is heating up... Zoe Clarke's life just keeps getting better. After repeatedly risking her life to solve a rash of paranormal murders in Moon Grove, Zoe's become a household name. But her newfound attention isn't all magic. Zoe knows she's made enemies along the way and that they aren't above pouring gas on her troubles. So when one of Moon Grove's most prominent witches dies in an inexplicable house fire, hysteria ignites-and Zoe...