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Cheap satin and peroxide blondes were a rare sight in St. Mary Mead, at least before film-man Basil Blake bought a cottage and invited down the London crowd. Then a girl in a garish get-up is found strangled in Colonel Bantry's library, and it appears Basil is involved.

"Detective Manon Bradshaw is 39, single, and miserable as sin. She has endured some of the worst dates in internet history. But she loves her job and performs it brilliantly; all she needs to rise up in the ranks is a big break. Edith Hind is a gorgeous, intrepid graduate student at Cambridge University who seems to have it all: a doting boyfriend, a devoted friend named Helena, a loving mother and a father who is a surgeon to the Royal Family. When...

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by 12 remarkable best-selling and acclaimed authors. This collection of 12 original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie's Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery...Miss Marple...

Lori Shepherd's debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. But once things get truly peculiar at Fairworth--moving furniture, strange sounds, and mysterious visitors--Lori calls on Aunt Dimity for her otherworldly guidance.

Lori is on her way to Wyrdhurst Hall to evaluate a rare book collectiion housed in a neo-Gothic castle. The hall, the books, and the journey to this remote and misty corner of Northumberland are full of surprises.

"Nancy Atherton's twenty-second cozy mystery in the beloved, nationally bestselling Aunt Dimity series. It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori Shepherd's husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, and Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home with Bess, spared a week of roughing it with a curious toddler. The two attend a village events committee meeting and Lori is astonished when the elderly, soft-spoken widow Mrs....

Arriving in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado only to find herself enmeshed in a missing-persons case, Lori Sheppard becomes suspicious about a hundred-year-old mystery and a charming man who seems to know more than he will admit.

Volunteering at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Lori Shepherd befriends a lonely retired secretary who soon passes away, and when Lori discovers that the woman possessed a considerable estate, she attempts to locate the woman's next-of-kin.

A cozy mystery in an English village where a row has erupted over an archeological find. Some say it is genuine, others that it is a fake. Aided by the ghost of Aunt Dimity, sleuth Lori Shepherd investigates.

When Lori and her family return from a three-month visit to the States, she finds the town atwitter over the death of Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper. Prunella sowed the seeds of discord at every turn, and Lori is intrigued enough --and upset enough by the ugliness directed at several of her closest friends--to try to solve the murder.