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It's July in Moosetookalook, Maine, and Scottish Emporium proprietress Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin is prepping her wares for the annual Celtic heritage festival. But as a sinister crime wave washes over the quiet town, this year's celebration might prove a wee bit more eventful - and deadly - than tartan and bagpipes.
82) Dead by dawn
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"Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, his Jeep crashes into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in the middle of nowhere, having lost his gun and any way to signal for help, Mike fights his way to the surface. But surviving the crash is only the first challenge. Whoever set the trap that ran him off the road is still out there, and they're coming for him. Hours earlier, Mike was called to investigate...
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Halloween is coming to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and local reporter Lucy Stone is covering the town’s annual Giant Pumpkin Fest for the Pennysaver. There’s the pumpkin-boat regatta, the children’s Halloween party, the pumpkin weigh-in…even a contest where home-built catapults hurl pumpkins at an old Dodge! But not everything goes quite as planned.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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When Neil Garrett opens a new seafood shop in Kittery Harbor, Maine, Sunny's cat Shadow is on the hunt for tasty treats until Sunny discovers a mysterious man in his freezer. Her boyfriend, Chief Investigator Will Price, nets Neil as the prime suspect, but Sunny feels differently and sets out to find the real culprit and get Neil off the hook.
87) Telling tails
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Second Chance cat mystery volume 04
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of A Whisker of Trouble returns as secondhand shop owner Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, get caught up in a case of she said, she said... When Sarah Grayson opened a secondhand shop in the quaint town of North Harbor, Maine, she was expecting peace and quiet. Then she was adopted by a rescue cat named Elvis and a kooky trio of senior sleuths known as Charlotte's Angels. Now she has nine lives worth of...
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Death by chocolate mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In the fourth Death by Chocolate Mystery, Jacobia Jake Tiptree and Ellie White are fired up for Eastport, Maine's Annual Cookie Baking Contest. But when a cunning killer and a devastating fire threaten to ravage the quaint island town, Jake and Ellie must dip into another homemade homicide investigation before all they love goes up in smoke."--
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A Candy Holliday murder mystery volume 5
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Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Summer has arrived! But as the community gears up for another festive strawberry-picking season, the villagers are shocked when local berry farmer Miles Crawford is found dead in a hoophouse near his strawberry fields. Rumors have been swirling around about a secret real estate deal between Miles and Lydia St. Graves. And now Lydia is missing after she was seen fleeing the scene of the crime. When Henry "Doc" Holliday becomes involved in the mystery,...
90) Backstory
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A small, themed bed & breakfast on the Maine coast sets the scene for murder. A hurricane lashes the Novel Inn, forcing guests to remain beyond their check-out dates. Kate's ex-fiancé from ten years ago has booked a room and she is trying to avoid him. Jillian moves her sick elderly neighbor to the inn so she can take care of him. Then the power goes out and they are faced with providing all meals for their guests, not just breakfast. When the guest...
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Ike Schwartz, sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiancée, Ruth Dennis, president of a local university, seek some peace and quiet on Scone Island, a rocky piece of land four miles off the coast of Maine without electricity or phone service. The fact that there has been a suspicious accident resulting in the death of the mysterious Harmon Staley doesn't concern them--until Ike's past as a CIA agent rolls in on him like the area's famous twelve-foot...
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Reporter Lucy Stone, of Tinker's Cove, Maine, uncovers some icky revelations about Bart Hume, a philandering cardiac surgeon, as she investigates a shooting murder connected to a suspicious accident fatality and the disappearance of a teen youth counselor. Along the way, Lucy and Sara, Lucy's high school freshman daughter, are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the killer.
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2018.
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Sarah Grayson owns Second Chance, a shop that sells lovingly refurbished items in the charming town of North Harbor, Maine. But she couldn't run the store without the help of her right-hand man, Mac - or her dashing rescue cat, Elvis. Mac's life before north Harbor was always a little mysterious, but it becomes a lot more intriguing when a woman from his past shows up in town... and then turns up dead. Suspicion falls on Mac, but Sarah - and Elvis...
94) Boiled over
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Maine clambake mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Things get serious when Julia Snowden—while helping her family's clambake company prepare for the Founder's Day summer celebration in Busman's Harbor, Maine—is drawn into an investigation after a body is found stuffed in an oven.
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Maine justice volume 5
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Harvey and Jennifer buy the house next door for Jennifer's brother and his wife, but workers replacing the furnace find a skeleton buried in the basement. The Priority Unit is quickly called to the scene to investigate the murder which leads to a missing person cold case and a recent home invasion"--
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2010
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English
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When Liss and the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society get snowed in during a gathering for the Robert Burns Night Supper, old grudges and whiskey heat up the atmosphere. Then a tartan-covered body is discovered in a storage room, and Liss helps her friends sort out the facts before more tempers--and lives--are lost.
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Gray Whale Inn mystery volume Bk. 6
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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With her wedding plans in place and her future mother-in-law settling in at the Gray Whale Inn, it's a rare patch of smooth sailing for innkeeper Natalie Barnes. Even Natalie's guests are interesting and enjoyable, adding a lively element to the dinner conversations. But while picking berries for her Lemon Blueberry Pudding Cake, Natalie makes a ghastly discovery -- a dead man in a skiff adrift on the waves. With people she cares about on the hook...
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Death by chocolate mystery volume 03
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"When a pirate festival blows into their small town of Eastport, Maine, bakeshop owners Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her best friend Ellie White expect they'll be busy baking up a storm, but instead they find themselves marooned in a new murder investigation after someone kills a well-known food writer and TV personality "--