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Torie O'Shea mysteries volume 10
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With the Garden Club's First Annual Rose Show right around the corner and a historic house up for sale, Torie O'Shea, mother of three and president of the historical society in New Kassel, Missouri, has her hands full.
Nosy by nature, Torie can't help but poke around the old Kendall house, rumored to contain rare Civil War artifacts and even rarer quilts that would make fantastic additions to the historic Gaheimer House that Torie runs. But, why...
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When Bretta Solomon agrees to run a design competition at the annual florists convention in Branson, Missouri, she has no idea she will soon be embroiled in another mystery. When the McDuffys slip a note under her door asking for help in finding out if their daughter's death was murder, and tragedy strikes one of Bretta's friends at the convention, Bretta decides to put her sleuthing abilities to work. Her investigation is complicated by an intriguing...
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While out birding, someone starts shooting at genealogist Torie O'Shea and her partner. Running for her life, Torie trips over an antique trunk containing a dead body. On the heels of this discovery, a visitor to Torie's textile museum says he has proof that songs being sung by famous country music singers were originally written by Torie's grandfather. In the process of looking into both incidents, Torie unearths well-hidden family secrets.
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"Ageless Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show she humiliates three homeless women onstage, fires her entourage - not for the first time - and makes a bitter enemy of the town's powerful patriarch. After she collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, she ignores the advice of her doctors and discharges...
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"Everyone in Chouteau Forest knows the legend of the Cursed Crypt. It's claimed that the restless spirit of a professor nicknamed Mean Gene Cortini, buried in Chouteau Forest University's crypt, has been causing death and destruction in the Forest for almost two centuries. Local residents are used to disease and natural disasters striking every seven years. But not murder. When Trey Lawson outbids the wealthy Du Pres family at the university's annual...
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c2002
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In RIver CIty Missouri, the wedding of the year is causing florist Bretta solomon one headach after another. Just when she thinks things can't get any worse, two wedding workers die suspiciously. And it's up to sleuth, Bretta, to figure out just exactly what's going pon before the big day.
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[2017]
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In the exclusive, gated enclave of Olympia Forest Estates, death investigator Angela Richman watches a mansion go up in a fiery blaze. With it, seventy-year-old financier Luther Delor, a drunken, bed-hopping rhinestone cowboy. Embroiled in a bitter divorce, Delor may have scandalized Chouteau Forest, but his murder has united it against the accused: Delors twenty-year-old girlfriend, Kendra Salvato, an "outsider.".
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c2004
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One of the employees ofBretta Solomon, owner of the River City Missouri flower shop is found lying in a pool of blood on a dimly lit patch of lawn next to a beautiful garden. Because bretta knows the greenhouse staff so well, both the sheriff and the Parkers want her help in figuring out who could be behind such a brutal crime.
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c2005
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River City, Missouri, florist Bretta Solomon is happy to spend an occasional day off with her helper, Toby, a slow-witted young man whose mother died from a terminal illness, leaving him on his own. Everyone in town, including Bretta, takes extra care to make sure Toby is doing okay.However, today, before Bretta can relax, she must fulfill another promise: her father's new, and younger, girlfriend wants to redecorate Bretta¿ home. Bretta is less...