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1) Low country
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Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a rich husband. If she drinks a little too much and her 20-year marriage to successful land developer, Clay, seems a little empty, well, she's doing what she was born to do: be the chatelaine of a magnificent home and hostess to her husband's friends and prospective clients. Her numbing routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and increasing isolation is interrupted,...
2) Full scoop
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Beaumont, South Carolina, pediatrician Maggie Davenport's ex-boyfriend, who is also the father of her thirteen-year-old daughter, escapes from prison and tracks her down in search of money he hid before being sentenced for murder, and fortunately for her she has attractive FBI agent Zack Madden to protect her as she tries to hide the past from her neighbors.
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Set in South Carolina in 1964, this book tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 17
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Bookstore owner Annie Darling goes undercover to pursue a clever killer who has framed her husband Max for murder, when Max mysteriously vanishes en route home and his car is found with a murder weapon in the trunk and a beautiful young woman dead nearby.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 22
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When her fellow charity shop volunteer Gretchen Burkholt is murdered, Dead on Demand Mystery shop owner Annie Darling enlists the help of her husband, Max, to piece together a puzzle involving an overturned kayak, a stolen motorboat, a troubled love affair, and a reckless teenager.
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A passionate but brief interlude with a dark stranger at sea threatens the foundation of Ronnie von Hurst’s life
Their intoxicating affair during a sun-soaked, three-day cruise was over as quickly as it started: Statuesque Ronnie von Hurst ended the tryst and planned never to see the handsome Drake O’Hara again. That is, until Drake shows up at the secluded South Carolina island estate that Ronnie shares with her estranged husband....
Their intoxicating affair during a sun-soaked, three-day cruise was over as quickly as it started: Statuesque Ronnie von Hurst ended the tryst and planned never to see the handsome Drake O’Hara again. That is, until Drake shows up at the secluded South Carolina island estate that Ronnie shares with her estranged husband....
9) Superstition
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A story on a series of fifteen-year-old unsolved crimes and a television show featuring a renowned psychic draw reporter Nicole Sullivan and police chief Joe Franconi into a perilous search for a murderer when the killer returns.
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2014.
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"Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the...
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"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
13) Sweetgrass
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[2010]
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389 pages ; 21 cm
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Sweetgrass is a historical tract of land in South Carolina that has been home to the Blakely family for eight generations. But Sweetgrass -- named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area -- is in trouble. Bulldozers are leveling surrounding properties, and the Blakelys could be forced to sell the one thing that continues to hold their disintegrating family together. For some of the Blakelys, the prospect of selling Sweetgrass is bittersweet...
14) Southern ghost
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 8
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c1992
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229 p.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 13
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To celebrate an April Fool's Day appearance by the island's most famous mystery author, Death on Demand bookstore owner Annie Darling creates a unique promotion-- a free book to anyone who can solve a series of clues about popular whodonits. But an April Fool prankster is distributing a counterfeit flyer, complete with not-so-fague accusations of murder. Annie, is out to find the culprit, but it's no laughing matter when murder is added to the mix....
17) The ideal man
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After she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, Dr. Ellie Sullivan is targeted by a shadowy criminal couple called the Landrys; and, after Agent Max Daniels pledges to protect Ellie until she takes the witness stand, the two of them find their close quarters leading to passionate feelings.
18) Exposure
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Virals novels volume 4
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Fifteen-year-old Tory and her "viral" friends, who contracted heightened, wolflike senses during an experiment gone wrong, investigate an abduction case and make some troubling new discoveries about their powers.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 9
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1996, ©1995
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240 pages ; 18 cm.
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Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore investigates the murder of the publisher of Mint Julep Press when he announces his plan to write a scathing book based upon Southern writers and the key suspects not only include Annie, but the five authors scheduled to receive medallions at the annual Dixie Book Festival.
20) Full speed
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Jamie Swift, owner of a local South Carolina newspaper, and her enigmatic partner, millioniare playboy Max Holt, posing as husband and wife as they become involved with a corrupt minister, a gang of gangsters on the loose, a hound dog named Fleas, and a wise-cracking computer whiz.
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