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Mystery with recipes volume 16
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Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons run a catering business in their upstate New York town, and they're delighted for the chance to provide tasty desserts for the local mystery lovers' book club. But when fiction spills into a reality and the sisters find themselves investigating a suspicious death, it's up to them to figure out whodunit...
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2014.
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Writing a new future takes a little time—and a lot of love.
Jean Vison never expected to run a book club, until her life took an unexpected turn. Now, with Jean’s husband gone, what began as an off-the-cuff idea has grown into a group of six women who meet the second Tuesday of every month for a potluck supper, for wine and laughter—and for books.
There’s Loretta, who deals with the lack of intimacy...
Jean Vison never expected to run a book club, until her life took an unexpected turn. Now, with Jean’s husband gone, what began as an off-the-cuff idea has grown into a group of six women who meet the second Tuesday of every month for a potluck supper, for wine and laughter—and for books.
There’s Loretta, who deals with the lack of intimacy...
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Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members!
When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming self-sufficient. But in truth, it's not the 'good life' she'd imagined, as three hours of digging barely yields a single straggly carrot. Worse, her teenage daughter is acting up, and her husband seems to find every strange excuse under the hot French sun to disappear.
So when her friend entreats her to join the...
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 2
The Thursday Murder Club volume 2
A Thursday murder club mystery volume 2
The Thursday Murder Club volume 2
A Thursday murder club mystery volume 2
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When an old friend, who has been accused of stealing millions of dollars' worth of diamonds, desperately needs her help, Elizabeth and her friends go up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.
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2013.
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"Most folks aren't forced by court order to attend a library-book discussion group, but that's just what happens to B and B proprietor and ex-Manhattanite Bea Cartwright, hippy cat lover Chandra Morrisey, and winery owner Kate Wilder after a small-town magistrate has had enough of their squabbling. South Bass, an island on Lake Erie, is home to an idyllic summer resort, but these three ladies keep disturbing the peace. The initial book choice is Agatha...
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Martini Club volume 1
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"Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees...
47) Summer reading
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Three women in a summer book discussion group in the Hamptons identify with the heroines of novels by Trollope, Flaubert, and Charlotte Bront.︠ But can reading really influence the choices people make--and even change the course of lives?
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 1
The Thursday Murder Club volume Bk 1
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 1
The Thursday Murder Club volume 1
The Thursday Murder Club volume Bk 1
Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 1
The Thursday Murder Club volume 1
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"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
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Book club mysteries volume 2
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[2015]
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Amy-Faye Johnson and her fellow book club members imitate Poirot as they try to prove Amy's brother's innocence in the murder of his business partner, an investigation during which the truth becomes stranger than fiction.
56) Cover story
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"It's time to celebrate when club member Molly Mathews's childhood friend, Teensy Coldicutt, moves back to town--complete with a published book. But as the club plans Teensy's book launch, Molly is attacked and Teensy's books are stolen. Who would be so desperate for 150 copies of a sexy novel written by an elderly widow? Then Ashton Corners is hit with another shock when Teensy's publisher turns up dead--and fellow club member and former police chief...
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[2014]
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Estelle sets up a book group in order to increase custom to her struggling small town cafe, what follows is more scandalous than she could have ever imagined ... As the first book club meeting flounders, Estelle suggests a spot of erotica to spice up the members lives --with trepidation the decision is accepted. Inspired by their sizzling reads, this group of shy suburban readers shake off their inhibitions and discover a new side to themselves with...
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Rose Cottage book club volume 4
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2022.
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Summertime getaways to Nantucket top the list of celebrity and sunseeker alike, and this summer is no exception. Bookshop owner Meagan Poe welcomes the island's many visitors with the Summer of Mystery author reading series. But just as it's about to kick off, a mystery of another sort strikes. Two vacationers are the talk of the town. Known for traveling around on a tandem bicycle, they mostly keep to themselves. Yet Meagan soon befriends the pair...
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Ashton Corners Book Club mystery volume 1
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2012
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Reading specialist and mystery book lover Lizzie Turner was excited for the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society hosted in Molly Matthews's old Southern mansion. But she didn't expect the gathering to become the scene of an actual murder. A stranger has been shot and nobody knows who the victim is, or how Molly's antique gun came to be used as the murder weapon.