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Death on the Beach | Anna Johannsen
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I highly recommend this series.

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The Evil Within | S M Hardy
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A must thriller and mystery!

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A Conspiracy of Bones | Kathy Reichs
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Temperance Brennan novel, she is in Charlotte when she sees a guy outside watching her house. She then is sent the photos of a man that has been attacked by wild hogs in Cleveland County, NC. Is he connected to a case in the past of a young girl. She calls for assistance from Erskine "Skinny" Slidell. Together they try to find out who the guy killed was and his relationship to a podcaster Nick Body that has weird conspiracy theories on subjects.

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Dead to Her | Sarah Pinborough
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This is about the upper crust in Savannah. When Bill Radford comes back to town with his new bride, Keisha everyone was shocked. His wife had just died months ago and already he has a new wife. Marcie is jealous because she thinks Keisha is wanting her husband Jason.
The story has twists and turns but I just couldn't get interested in the characters. Everybody was bad and no one good.

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Get your syrup out because this story is super sweet. Harper Anderson and her family own a flower farm. Luke's sister Annie Martin wants to get married on the farm because the flowers are so beautiful. Luke and Harper argue and disagree but are falling in love.
If you are into super romance movies then you love this book. It was good but to predictable for my tast

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British Manor Murder | Leslie Meier
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The first book is English Tea Murder, Lucy and three of her friends go with a college group to England. But even before they get there one of the group dies on the plane.
The next story British Manor Murder Lucy goes with her friend Sue to England to have a small vacation at a manor. They find out that the owners of the manor are not living the life of luxury like you would think but have many problems.

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The Numbers Game | Danielle Steel
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Once again Danielle Steel gives us a family that has issues. Pennie Jackson has parents that got married because her mother was pregnant. And even though they are happy they never seem as happy as her friend's parents. But soon her family begins to fall apart. We also get to see into her parent's lives and how they handle life's challenges.
This is an especially a good book from Danielle Steel. She can present family life so well.

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Everything centers around Hope Hall, a community center that has something for all ages. sMy favorite character was Kath Sutton, she is the manager of Hope Hall. She left London to help her mother when she was sick. She didn't go back to London but stayed to be the manager. She doesn't regret not going back to the city but enjoys the small interaction between people.

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Out of the Attic | V.C. Andrews
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This is where the family starts for the book Flowers in the Attic. The Foxworth family is old money in Virginia. Corrie Dixon marries Garland Foxworth and moves into the mansion outside of Charlottesville. The mansion is the envy of others less fortunate. Corrie lives there like she is a prisoner.
When Corrie gives birth to Malcolm she doesn't feel like a mother because she has help and she doesn't have to do anything. He is like his father.

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Detective Milo Reed calls Alex Delaware with a case he has just been called to. There is a limo with four dead bodies, the driver and three passengers. Each of the victims have a different history and there doesn't seem to be a connection between the people.
This is number 35 in the Alex Delaware series. You know these books are sellers if you have that many. I love the twists and intrigue through out the book.

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Eve Mallow has a secondary job of writing obituaries for famous people. She goes to a small village of Saxford St Peter in England, there she is writing the obituary for a world famous cellist Bernard Fitzpatrick. What she doesn't find out until she gets to the village is that Fitzpatrick had been murdered.
Which person has killed him? Eve starts to investigate with her trusted dog Gus.

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This was my first manga that I have read. It was really good and action packed. I definitely will read more in this series. Two students totally different, one athletic and the other studious. They come upon a crazy guy one evening on campus. What has happened to this guy?

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Quantum: A Thriller | Patricia Cornwell
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A new main character Captain Chase. Set in Virginia, she works for NASA. Her sister is missing, there are dead bodies showing up.
I've read Patricia Cornwell books since the '90s and this one will satisfy your Cornwell addiction.

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Polly is a photographer but needs money so she goes to work for a company that goes through dating sites and picks people you are looking for so that you don't have to do it yourself. Polly starts at To the Moon and Back dating agency. But another company that does the same thing is owned by Olly, who is a hunk, This is the different challenges Polly has while having a crush on the opposition.

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This is the first book I have read in the series County Cork. She had grown up in Boston with her Grandmother that had raised her but after her death she learns she has inherited a pub and house in Ireland where her Grandmother was from. She makes friends but she still has lots of questions. Her mother shows up that abandoned her when she was an infant. Plus now her mother and sister arrive. Plus a college student goes missing in a fairy ring.

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Silenced in Sequins | Debra Sennefelder
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This is the second in the series Resale Boutique Mystery. Kelly owns a boutique of used merchandise which her Grandmother gave her. Kelly had just lost her job in New York so this was a good opportunity for her. Kelly's problem though is she keeps running into finding bodies. This body is a woman from a reality tv show of rich ladies that fight all the time. Kelly again is dragged into the case.

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Silenced in Sequins | Debra Sennefelder
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This is the second in the series Resale Boutique Mystery. Kelly owns a boutique of used merchandise which her Grandmother gave her. Kelly had just lost her job in New York so this was a good opportunity for her. Kelly's problem though is she keeps running into finding bodies. This body is a woman from a reality tv show of rich ladies that fight all the time. Kelly again is dragged into the case.

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Emily Hartford comes home to her Dad and while she is there he has a heart attack and dies. She is left with his house and his business of medical examiner and coroner for the county. She has to debate with staying and taking over these jobs or going back to the Chicago and finishing her surgical residency or a college position. While she is thinking about her future there is a victim found and the local Sheriff wants Emily to help him.

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Amy is a librarian in Taylorsford, Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her best friend and co worker Sunny is running for Mayor but a skeleton has been found on her Grandparents farm which use to be a commune back in the ‘60‘s. They ask Amy to contact members from the past. Amy is sucked into a murder.
Since years ago I use to work at a Blue Ridge Library too these books bring back pleasant memories. This one is my favorite of the series.

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A Place Called Fear | Keith Houghton
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Maggie Novak Is enjoying New Years' Eve when she receives a phone call from a co-workers wife asking about her husband. Where has he disappeared to? A murder happens and Maggie has to solve it. It is unlike other murders because this involves a co-worker. This makes her questioning her colleagues and what their role in the murder.
I really enjoy this series. Descriptions make me feel like I am there at the locations.

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Gemma has a power job so she is away from the family most of the day. Her daughter Rosie is spoiled and requires lots of attention. The neighbor Mira is bored and has nothing else in her life but to watch the neighbors. The characters demand and require lots more love then they are getting.
It was good but I wanted to scream at the adult characters.

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The Dead Girls Club | Damien Walters
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Heather Cole receives a half of a heart necklace, Her friend Becca had the other half but she died years ago. Who has sent this necklace to her? Heather thinks it is one of the other two girls from the Dead Girls Club, a club that read books about killers. She gets paranoid and thinks someone is after her.
This book is a psychological thriller. Well worth a read.

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Hearthstone Cottage | Frazer Lee
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After graduation Mike and his girlfriend and their friends Alex and Kay go to the Scottish Highlands to take a break. When they almost get to the cottage they hit a deer with their vehicle. They are shaken up but get to the cottage and find Alex's sister Meggie staying as well. Mike keeps getting wild vibes. He starts hearing and seeing things but no-one else encounters these things.
A good old ghost story. I really enjoyed it.

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This is a short story of Lacy Shaw the librarian in the small town of Sweetwater Springs. Paris Montgomery is hired to teach a computer class for senior citizens. The two people meet and romance is in the air. Paris is concerned about giving Lacy the love she needs. He feels broken due to his past.
You can read the whole story in one sitting. A good little love story.

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religious group is meeting at a Manor House for a convention. Revered Celia Gordon is poisoned by peanuts being in her dessert. Which person in the group killed the unpopular Revered?
This is the third in the series with Monica Noble. I had not read the other two but had no problem. A good mystery to read fast

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Beating About the Bush | M. C. Beaton
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This is another delightful book with Agatha Raisin. She is hired by a company to investigate but from the start they try to make her look foolish. When the secretary Mrs. Dinwiddy is found dead they try to blame it on a donkey but Agatha knows it is murder instead. Her and her assistant Toni try to solve the case but from opposition from the company and the police.

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More Than Just Mum | Rebecca Smith
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This is a cute story of the life of a Mum and the challenges she meets each day with her family. Even though our family loves us they tend to run us through the wringers. Hannah Thompson has a teaching job that she doesn't enjoy. She starts to look for other jobs that could pay more since her oldest son is heading to university next year.
A comedy of how life really is instead of sugar coating it.

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This book includes strange stories through the Midwest and West Virginia. Some of the strange stories include the Mothman, the Beast of Bray Road, and a runestone. Others that I had not heard of were about a turtle, aliens that had pancakes, spaceships. and other stories. Each subject was well covered with the history and people in the area and their views too. This will be especially interesting if you are from this area or know the area.

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Jade Allen is a friend to a homeless guy that lives out in the woods. She finds him dead and reports the murder and her mother DCI Sophie Allen is shocked because she didn't know her daughter even knew the guy. They try to figure out why a homeless guy would be killed because he did not own anything of value. He had once been a senior member of a commune, was this why he was killed?
This mystery series is very written.

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Leah loses her parents in a car wreck. Her father had always wanted to move to Scotland and her mother loved Christmas. Leah sees an auction for a Christmas Tree Farm in Scotland and buys it. She knows nothing about trees but she moves there to start her new business. She comes into contact with the pumpkin farmer neighbor Noel first off. When he rescues her from a crying episode in her car he thinks she will go running back to London.

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The Confession Club | Elizabeth Berg
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This is the third book in the Mason Series. I absolutely love these books. They are so heartwarming, feel good books. There is a group of women that meet to eat and tell a secret that no-one knows about. They let two new members into the club Maddy and Iris. Maddy has just came back from New York and wants to escape to the slow moving life of the small town. Iris meets a homeless guy John and they become friends.

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Ghoster | Jason Arnopp
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Kate quits her job and moves to a new city to be with her boyfriend Scott. When she gets to the apartment all of the furniture is gone and she doesn't hear anything from Scott.

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The Body on the Beach | Anna Johannsen
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Inspector Lena Lorenzen is ask if she will go back to the island she grew up on and solve a murder. She is assigned Detective Sergeant Johann Grasmann from another town, she questions if they will be able to work well together but very soon she finds out he is a great worker. The victim was over a children's home. They question the staff and community members.
I found this to be interesting and look forward to more from the author.

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Buried in the Stacks | Allison Brook
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Carrie is a librarian with something different. She has a ghost librarian, Evelyn, that talks to her in the library. When Dorothy, Evelyn's niece, is murdered Carrie feels obligated to help find the murderer. There are several people in the community that aren't model citizens and may have had something against Dorothy since she was not liked.
This was a good cozy read.

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What Happened That Night | DeAnna Cameron

his is a young adult book however be very careful not to let anyone under the age of 14 read this book. The descriptions are very detailed and though the subject matter is real it is disturbing as well. The main character Clara has had a crush on the boy next door Griffin.
I think this information should be given out to the public so people can be aware of it but this book could give nightmares to a younger child.

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This is the story of Fox Hollow Farm where Herb Baumeister would pick up guys in gay bars and take them home and and then kill them. Once he killed them he buried them on the farm or burned their bodies. With all of the killings that have taken place at the location it is no wonder that it is haunted. I had seen several tv shows about the farm but didn't have a lot of history. This book helped fill in the gaps.

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Ice Cold Heart | P. J. Tracy
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I cannot express how much I love this series. The characters are so colorful and work so good together. There is action through out the book, you are never bored. The only problem is I read them too fast.
In this one Roadrunner might have found a girlfriend!!! There are hackers going into a currency and stealing money. There is a crazy artist with weird views on women. And a new female character to be friends with the Monkeewrench Crew.

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The Missing Ones | Edwin Hill
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This is the second in a series but this book will stand alone. It was so action packed and I didn't get bored at all and I could not wait to get to the end to see what happened.
On a small island in Maine nothing usually happens but all at once Rory, the only policeman on the island, is kept busy.
I am going to go back and read the first book and cannot wait for book three.

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The Dark Side: A Novel | Danielle Steel
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The main character Zoe had a younger sister die when she was a child. And I know that would affect a person but not to the level where her personality went to. Young mother's make mistakes and sometimes have weird ideas but that does not mean they are out to harm their children. Only the last move would be considered harm on purpose. Just because you are young and make mistakes does not mean you have munchausen syndrome by proxy.

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Map of Days | Ransom Riggs
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You can't go wrong with these books, always enjoyable.

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A Murder on Jane Street | Cathy Cash Spellman
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The elderly woman next door is murdered. Fitz Donovan an excop wants to solve the case. He brings his family into the case with him. They find out with help from friends that the neighbor was an important person in the fight againt the Nazis. Other secrets are revealed.
I really enjoyed this book and hope she makes this as a series with the family solving cases.

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Tom is a farmer in Australia. He doesn't necessarily have good luck with women. He isn't very confident in himself and maybe the women sense this about him. He does have a lot of love to give.
The story started out slow but once Hannah came into the picture it picked up for me.

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Stella inherits money from her parents and decides to buy an old house a few hours outside of London. Her boyfriend Jack lives with her but he complains about the small town and the remodeling of the home. One night a woman shows up and asks for help. Stella comes from a family that helped others and she wants to help the woman. Jack sees the woman as a threat.
Suspenseful and a few twists you are not expecting to happen.

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If you are a fan of Stranger Things like I am you need to get this book. This is my fix until the next episodes come out in July. While I was reading it was like I was watching an episode. I hope this is just the first of many of these books.
Hopper is telling Eleven about his past when he was a detective in New York City. He knows the subject matter is too advanced for Eleven but she is no normal girl.

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The First Mistake | Sandie Jones
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Alice has questions about her past. Her past was not what she thought. I loved this book, there was so many twists and turns.

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Mimi's Dad lives in the Cotswolds in a small village called Goosebrook. When Mimi finds out her boyfriend has been cheating with her roommate she quits her job and goes to stay with her Dad and his partner. She meets lots of people in the village but Cal and his wife are instantly best friends.
I love this book and did not want it to end. I encourage everyone that likes uplifting books to read this one, it will make you smile.

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This is the first book in the series. Sukey Reynolds is a great character that you can relate to. She is a civilian Scene of Crime Officer that takes photographs of crime scenes. It was a mystery novel that kept me guessing who could be the murderer. There is several peopled killed. I am looking forward to reading more in this

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Waisted: A Novel | Randy Susan Meyers
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Daphne and Alice had families that made snide remarks about their weight. Both women were successful in their careers but their weight kept them from being confident in their own bodies They both go to a place like Biggest Loser but much more cruel. With five other women they are facing hell on earth. If you have ever dieted you will find this book entertaining. Loved it!

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A Perfect Cornish Summer | Phillipa Ashley
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Sam is head of a summer festival The main attraction of the festival bails. Chloe hires Sam's old boyfriend to fill in for the main billing. Gabe wants to start a new relationship with Sam. Then there is Chloe who is estranged from her daughter and grand daughter. Everyone will have a tense time trying to bring peace into their lives.
Phillipa Ashley brings her characters to live and we are at the window looking in.

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If you are looking for a new action packed series then read the Jane Hawk series by Dean Koontz. I just finished the 5th one and they are so good, so good you don't want them to end.