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Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
"1934, and Prohibition has finally been repealed. While liquor is legal again, moonshine isn't. Sheriff Buddy Norris needs a little luck when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront Cypress County's most notorious bootlegger. And it looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers-- just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition! Another unlucky break: a serious foul-up in Darling's telephone...
2) Hemlock
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 28
Publisher
Persevero Press
Language
English
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Description
"From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of A Plain Vanilla Murder, comes a tightly crafted novel that juxtaposes the disappearance of a rare, remarkably illustrated 18th-century herbal with the true and all-too-human story of its gifted creator, Elizabeth Blackwell. Herbalist China Bayles' latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"It's the spring of 1933 and times are tough all over. The only businessman not struggling is moonshiner Mickey LeDoux, though he still has to steer clear of federal agents. But banks are closing all over the country, and the small town of Darling is no exception. Folks are suddenly caught short on cash and everyone is in a panic. Desperate to avoid disaster, several town leaders--including Alvin Duffy, the bank's new vice president--hatch a plan...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Christmas, 1934-- and all of the Darlings are busy. Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square-- if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles of his career as an investigative reporter, and one of them involves his wife. Cute little Cupcake's talent as a singer and dancer makes her a tempting target for an unscrupulous exploiter. Lizzy must enlist the Dahlias to protect...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
It is now 1907, and in her Lake Country village, Beatrix Potter is about to encounter both woodland magic and an intriguing mystery. As she helps some village children look for fairy folk, she stumbles upon evidence that a flame-haired stranger may have dangerous plans.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
"For the Confederate Day celebration, the Darling Dahlias are ready to plant Confederate roses along the fence of the town cemetery. Miss Dorothy Rogers, club member and town librarian, would be quick to point out the plant is in fact a hibiscus. The Confederate rose is not the only thing that is not what it first appears to be in this small Southern town. Earle Scroggins, the county treasurer, has got the sheriff thinking that Scroggins' employee...
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Persevero Press
Language
English
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Description
It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling's direction, while...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per usual, the town's animals know more than the Big Folk. And only Pickles, Wickstead's fox terrier, knows exactly what happened. It's up to amateur sleuth Beatrix Potter to help the denizens of Sawrey,...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
After purchasing a farm in the beautiful Lake District of England, the animal lover attempts to make friends among her fellow villagers, while her animal companions find themselves caught up in solving a baffling mystery, in the first volume in a new mystery series inspired by the life of Beatrix Potter.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
The Texas Star herself -- Miss Lily Dare, the "fastest woman in the world" -- is bringing her Dare Devils Flying Circus to Darling. Unfortunately, she's also bringing a whole lot of trouble and rumors are flying. As the Texas Star barnstorms into town, Liz and Verna Tidwell offer to help bring down a saboteur who may be propelled by revenge. Before it's all over, there will be plenty of black eyes and dark secrets revealed .
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens. That's not the worst of it, though, as the Dahlias discover when the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth's Magnolia Manor is found dead. She had overindulged in a large and very rich chocolate cake - but was something else baked...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011, ©2010
Language
English
Description
Trying not to arouse village gossip, Beatrix Potter quietly investigates the arrival of anonymous letters that threaten the good name of her friend, Grace Lythecoe, all the while considering a second chance at love.
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Firmly established in her new home in the sleepy village of Sawrey, England, Beatrix Potter turns sleuth to investigate the suspicious death of local shepherd Ben Hornby, a kindly man with no apparent enemies--Novelist.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The eleven o'clock lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacy's favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms don't open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up. But another Eleven O'Clock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock--a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning--has been...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's domineering, philandering husband (famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz); and...
Author
Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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