A Christmas Shadow by H L Marsay
Even the season of goodwill can’t stop a murder...Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow is reluctantly
attending York Minster’s Advent Ceremony when the new Dean is taken ill after
drinking wine. Was her allergic reaction a simple case of human error or could
she have been poisoned? Shadow becomes suspicious when he learns someone else
has died under similar circumstances. He begins to quietly investigate, but
when the body of a young woman is recovered from the river, he knows he must
act quickly. And this time, Shadow requires the help of someone from his past.
John Shadow is a man of contradictions. A solitary figure
who shuns company, but is a keen observer of all he meets. A lover of good
food, but whose fridge is almost always empty. He prefers to work alone but is
assisted by the eager Sergeant Jimmy Chang.
Together, the two men must work through a maze of cheating
husbands, corrupt clergy and criminal gangs to solve the murders before the
killer can strike again.
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Slay Bells Ring by Nancy Robards Thompson
Fans of Gilmore Girls and Murder She Wrote won't want to miss this suspenseful cozy novel from USA TODAY Bestselling author Nancy Robards Thompson.It's one thing to write a mystery, but when your daughter is
the suspect -- you solve it.
Wedding planner Jenna Bell doesn’t panic when the groom is a
no-show to the ceremony – even though he is her former high school sweetheart
and this wedding is the small town's event of the year. However, when he turns
up dead and she is falsely accused… well, yeah, now it’s the time to panic.
Jenna’s mother, Maddie, puts her cozy mystery writing skills
to use to try to clear her daughter’s name, stepping on by-the-book Chief of
Police Jackson Bradley's toes in the process. No matter how enticing he finds
her, he doesn’t want this writer-turned-amateur-sleuth interfering with his
murder investigation.
With nearly all of Hemlock, North Carolina, picking sides
and the town's own Gossip Brigade churning out the rumors, Maddie discovers the
mystery isn't very cozy when it hits this close to home.
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Dead in a Dumpster by B. L. Blair
When Leah Norwood finds the body of Isabel Meeks in the dumpster behind her store, she can’t believe the police consider her a suspect. Sure, she didn’t like Isabel, but then again, neither did anyone else. Isabel had a condescending attitude and a bad reputation. As manager of the antique store, Patina, she had made a lot of enemies.There is Patina’s assistant manager, the handsome and charming Trent. Isabel was blackmailing him. There is Patina’s owner, the aloof and influential Anthony Thorpe. Isabel was smuggling drugs through his store. And there is the entire drug dealing Cantono family. Isabel had lost a box containing heroin from one of their shipments. That is just to name a few and didn’t even include the stranger who was seen arguing with Isabel just hours before her death.
The police have too many suspects and too many soft alibis. Leah needs to prove to the sexy new chief of police that she had nothing to do with Isabel’s death.
Leah loves a good mystery. Can she find the killer before
the police arrest her for murder?
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A Case for the Toy Maker by Candace Havens
Ho. Ho. No…It’s Christmas in Sweet River, Texas, and the whole town is
feeling festive apart from Ainsley McGregor. Ainsley has never enjoyed the
holidays and would rather ignore them, but with her shop Bless Your Art busier
than ever and filled with happy shoppers, even she’s feeling some Christmas
spirit. That is, until her Great Dane, George Clooney, sniffs out a dead body
in the Santa House at the Christmas Festival.
When one of her favorite crafters becomes the prime suspect,
Ainsley is determined to prove his innocence. The case is full of so many
twists and turns that even Ainsley begins to fear the truth. Is she protecting
a killer?
With help from her friends and some extremely nosey
townsfolk, Ainsley and her dog hurry to find the truth––as long as they can
outwit and outrun the killer first. Otherwise, this Christmas might just be her
last.
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How Everything Turns Away by Steven J Kolbe
Falsely accused of fabricating evidence, Chicago FBI special agent Ezra James is given a probationary assignment. As head of security at a posh Catholic school, he investigates vandalism and petty theft instead of high-profile murders… Until the night of the Christmas pageant, when a student teacher is attacked and found near death at the foot of the school’s bell tower.
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