Enter the perfect job, a research position that includes room and board, which will allow her to spend her days hunting down rare mysteries for an avid book collector. There’s just one problem: her employer, Vera Van Alst—the most hated citizen of Harrison Falls.
Jordan’s first assignment is to track down a rumored Agatha Christie play. It seems easy enough, but Jordan soon finds out that her predecessor was killed while looking for it, and there is still someone out there willing to murder to keep the play out of Vera’s hands. Jordan’s new job is good…but is it worth her life?
A Fete Worse Than Death (A Hemlock Falls Mystery) by Claudia Bishop (Berkely Prime Crime mass market, 5 March 2013).
Disaster strikes a mere week before the Hemlock Falls Ladies’
Auxiliary hosts the annual Spring Fete when the festival’s
chairwoman—the redoubtable Adela Henry—gives up her job in a huff. Who’s
going to judge the justly renowned Jell-O architecture contest? Or stop
the members of the Craft Guild from sabotaging their rivals, the Crafty
Ladies? More to the point, who’s got the tact, diplomacy, and iron will
necessary to organize the booths and settle quarrels over the
programming?
Hemlock’s mayor hopes to assure the
fete’s success when he recruits professional organizer Linda Connally
and her staff to take over Adela’s duties. But when Connally’s body
turns up in the trunk of a used car at Peterson’s Automotive, Meg and
Sarah are back in the detecting business . . .
Assaulted Pretzel (An Amish Mystery) by Laura Bradford (Berkley Prime Crime mass market, 5 March 2013).
The quiet town of Heavenly is buzzing with excitement over the
latest guests at the local inn, Sleep Heavenly. Toy manufacturer Rob
Karble is in town to meet the members of the Amish community who will
soon be crafting a new toy line for his company. But when word gets out
that Karble intends to use the Amish designs without employing the Amish
to make them, someone sends the interloper to his final reward.
No
one wants to believe anyone from the Amish community could commit such
an act, but as Claire and Detective Fisher have learned, no one is above
sin—or suspicion.
Wave Good-Bye (A Southern Beauty Shop Mystery) by Lila Dare (Berkley Prime Crime mass market, 5 March 2013).
Violetta’s salon is up in arms. Business is dead. Snippets, a big box
haircutting chain, has opened in St. Elizabeth, undercutting prices and
luring away loyal customers. Violetta’s daughter, hairdresser Grace
Terhune, is shocked to discover that it’s her old high school rival Lisa
Butterworth who’s behind the big sweep—and Grace isn’t going to take
this sitting down.
Snippets’ cold-blooded prized employee is doing
wonders with Violetta’s client list. According to Lisa, it’s just
business—until a bitter confrontation leaves Grace more than frustrated,
and Lisa less than alive. Now Grace is the prime suspect in her rival’s
murder. And only her friends at Violetta’s can save her—before the
charge proves permanent.
Bowled Over (A Vintage Kitchen Mystery) by Victoria Hamilton (Berkley Prime Crime mass market, 5 March 2013).
Vintage kitchenware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton has been
estranged from her high school best friend Kathy Cooper since they were
teenagers, but she never knew what turned Kathy against her. After
fireworks at a Fourth of July picnic, Jaymie discovers the body of her
former friend in the park. On the ground nearby is Jaymie’s own
Depression-era glass bowl, broken in two.
With her fingerprints all over the bowl and a troubled history with the victim, Jaymie suddenly finds herself at the top of the list of suspects. Did the killer intend to frame her for the murder? If so, she is ready to mix it up, because solving crimes is vintage Jaymie Leighton…
With her fingerprints all over the bowl and a troubled history with the victim, Jaymie suddenly finds herself at the top of the list of suspects. Did the killer intend to frame her for the murder? If so, she is ready to mix it up, because solving crimes is vintage Jaymie Leighton…
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