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Pub. Date
2020
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"To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her granddaughter, Evelyn Lester, shows up on Beatrice's doorstep...
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Farmers' market mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 22 cm.
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Bailey's Farmers' Market is abuzz over the visit of the Central South Carolina Restaurant Association, and Becca Robins is even more excited about her parents' unexpected visit. Her family watches as Becca happily hands out samples of her jams and preserves - until association president Joan Ashworth vetoes her strawberry preserves. Then Becca heads home to find Joan's body in her kitchen and her mother with blood on her hands.
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Southern sewing circle mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
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335 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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When the lead actress of Warren Shoemaker's new movie, which is being shot in their town, is found murdered and suspicion falls on a member of their sewing circle, Tori Sinclair must piece together to truth to catch a killer and keep their group from being ripped apart.
84) Remember me
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"Nell Martin is moving again, this time to the Winslow Grand Hotel, built in 1878. As Nell is settling in, strange things begin to happen. Doors lock of their own accord, writing appears on bathroom walls-- and most horrifying of all-- visions of a dead boy permeate her waking life. Thinking it was her mind playing tricks on her, she soon finds the past and the present colliding as she learns horrific details of a murder that happened at the hotel...
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2017.
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"Bonny Blankenship's most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend Lainey McKay. Amid the sand dunes and oak trees draped with Spanish moss, they swam and wished for happy-ever-afters, then escaped to the local bookshop to read and whisper in the glorious cool silence. Until the night that changed everything, the night that Lainey's mother disappeared. Now, in her early fifties, Bonny is desperate...
86) Full tilt
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Jamie Swift's job running the local newspaper in Beaumont, South Carolina, is complicated by the arrival of her silent partner, mysterious and sexy Maximilian Holt, in town ostensibly to support his brother-in-law, former wrestler Frankie Fontana, in his campaign for mayor, as well as two assassins, an insane poacher, and a dangerous plot.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
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A fortune in gold coins stolen from a house filled with visiting family members lies at the root of this Max and Annie Darling mystery.
88) Oath of honor
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Blue justice volume 1
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"Police officer Isabelle St. John loves her crazy, loud, law-enforcement family. With three brothers and two sisters, she's never without someone to hang out with--or fight with. And she knows they'll be there for her when things get tough. Like when her partner is murdered and she barely escapes with her own life. Determined to discover exactly what happened, Izzy's investigation sends her headfirst into a criminal organization, possibly with cops...
89) Steeped in evil
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Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning investigates after a body turns up in a wine barrel at a fancy wine-tasting party in South Carolina.
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"A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship--and flirt with an unexpected attraction--of their own. Year after year, Adam,...
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Pub. Date
2017
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When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it's a win-win by any standard: Cara's generating income necessary to keep husband Brett's ecotourism boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, an young artist who's been given a commission to paint birds on postage stamps, has a quiet space in which to work and tend to her pet canaries uninterrupted. It isn't long, however, before both...
92) Needle and dread
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Southern sewing circle mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2017.
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336 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"The Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle is needled by the murder of a highly strung woman during a do-it-yourself weekend for sewing enthusiasts"--
93) Don't go home
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 25
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"Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is hosting a party to celebrate successful Southern literary icon--and former Broward's Rock resident--Alex Griffith and his bestselling new novel, "Don't Go Home." But after the local paper announces that Griffith aims to reveal the real-life inspirations behind his characters, perhaps the author should take his own advice. Not everyone in town is ready to give him a glowing review....
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Southern sewing circle mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
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278 p. ; 18 cm.
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"Tori Sinclair feels like she's known her new sewing sisters forever. That is until the richest and meanest woman in Sweet Briar turns up murdered--and Rose, the circle's feisty matriarch, refuses to believe her troubled former student and responsible. With suspicion and gossip spinning out of control, something worse than just ruffled feathers is threatening to tear the town apart... Now Tori must confront her and her friends' deepest fears in order...
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Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe,...
96) Beach haven
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Carolina Coast volume 1
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"Free-spirited Opal Gilbert seems to have everything she needs to keep living a happy life in Sunset Cove as she refurbishes vintage furniture to sell at her funky ocean-side boutique, Bless This Mess. Until Lincoln Cole, a new-to-town ex-Marine nursing deep wounds and harboring hurts he can't seem to shake, wanders into her shop. Opal knows a person in need when she sees one and offers Lincoln a job in her workshop. But the brooding former soldier...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Annie Darling's friend and fellow shop owner Ves Roundtree is a very wealthy woman. Her rich brother entrusted her with his estate, and upon her death, his fortune is to be divided. Several cash-strapped islanders are in line to collect life-changing inheritances. The problem is, Ves is very much alive. Ves hosts a dinner for the prospective beneficiaries and feels a chill in the air that has nothing to do with the wintry season. Not long after,...
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Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 11
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"Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life, their parents barely support their dreams and worry for...
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In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents are throwing a barbeque to celebrate her son's engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride's father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker and one of Chicago's celebrated elite, discovers the limits and possibilities of cell phone range. Meanwhile, mother of the bride, Susan Kennedy Cambria, who dabbles in public relations and believes herself...
100) Lavender blue murder
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"Tea-Maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes), gun loaders, the drawing of pegs, fine looking bird dogs, and shooting costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede. But as gunshots...
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