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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Booklover Charlotte is delighted to welcome an eclectic group of guests to Chapters Bed and Breakfast for a book club retreat focused on fairy tales and classic children’s literature. But when one of the guests is poisoned at a Mad Hatter tea party, Charlotte realizes she’s fallen down a rather unpleasant rabbit hole The victim – an opinionated busybody whose jewelry store sold original designs, along with some possibly “hot” merchandise...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When her first group reading ends in murder, self-taught "seer" Shay, the descendant of an Irish witch and owner of a New Age tea shop, with her assistant suspected of committing cold-blooded murder, finds her business in hot water as she works to exonerate her employee by following the signs to a manipulative murderer.
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Series
Saffron Everleigh mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues’ beliefs about women’s academic inabilities and not so subtle hints that her deceased father’s reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university’s large expedition...
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Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries....
6) Shadowscent
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the Aramtesh Empire scent is all important, and Rakel has a way with perfumes which she hopes to use to delay her father's inevitable death. Ash is a member of the imperial bodyguard, assigned to the crown prince Nisai's bodyguard. They are brought together on a caravan to an outer province, seeking a rare flower that can cure the poisoned emperor. When Nisai himself is poisoned, Rakel and Ash smell like the chief suspects. They must search out...
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Series
Sandman Slim volume 8
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sandman Slim returns in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action and inventive fantasy that are the hallmarks of New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. The request from Thomas Abbot, the Augur of the Sub Rosa council, couldn't come at a better time for James Stark, aka Sandman Slim. For a man who's most recently met Death and death's killer a few months of normal life is more than he can handle. He needs...
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Tales from the kingdoms volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An enticing contemporary retelling of the classic story of Snow White. While the handsome prince, the jealous queen, the beautiful girl and of course the poison all appear, Sarah Pinborough's charming and provocative spin on the story will captivate fans of the fairy tale all over again"--Amazon.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia, and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it's time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands -- in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery, A Comedy of Terrors. Flavia Albia, daughter and successor of private informer Marcus Didius Falco is twiddling her thumbs with no clients during the December festival of...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the year 88 BC, King Mithradates of Anatolia died suddenly after an apparent poisoning. His son, Prince Mithradates, then disappeared for seven years into the woods where he collected hemlock plants and other deadly poisons. Upon his return, he shared a fatal meal with his mother and brother. Mithradates, who ultimately became King, somehow left the meal unharmed. In modern-day Turkey, a young boy endures a bite from a venomous viper. His doctor...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
New edition /
Language
English
Description
They say that Lord Mantling's mansion is haunted--at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red Widow's Chamber, the now-sealed quarters once housed the wife of a guillotine operator in the French Revolution and, since her passing, have been host to a century of unsolved horrors including the death of a man in 1802, the death of a child in 1895, and a number of mysterious mortalities in the years in between. Now, in 1935, eight men and women join...
12) Eggnog murder
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Eggnog Murder: When a gift-wrapped bottle of eggnog proves to be a killer concoction for a Tinker's Cove local, all Lucy Stone wants for Christmas is to find the murdering mixologist who's stirring up trouble. Death By Eggnog: Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell has never cared much for Bar Harbor's grouchy town librarian, Agatha Farnsworth. But after the Scroogy senior has a fatal and suspicious allergic reaction to supposedly non-dairy eggnog,...
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