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Author
Series
Hannah Swensen volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota's annual Winter Carnival -- and Hannah Swensen is set to bake up a storm at her popular shop, The Cookie Jar. But the honor of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle maven Connie Mac, who is bossy, bad-tempered and downright domineering. Things finally boil over when Hannah arrives at The Cookie Jar to find the Winter Carnival cake burnt to a crisp -- and Connie Mac...
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum volume 2
Language
English
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Pursuing Kenny Mancuso, who fled after inadvertently shooting his best friend, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes involved in an all-out manhunt for gunrunners and illegal weapons and is pursued by vice cop Joe Morelli.
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen volume 9
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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It promises to be a busy week for Hannah Swensen. Not only is she whipping up treats for the chamber of commerce booth at the Tri-County fair, she's also judging the baking contest; acting as a magician's assistant for her business partner's husband; trying to coax Moishe, her previously rapacious feline, to end his hunger strike, and performing her own private carnival act by juggling the demands of her mother and sisters.
With so much on her...
With so much on her...
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen volume 8
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
viii, 342 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Hannah Swensen and her bakery, The Cookie Jar, bask in the glow of Hollywood glamour when Main Street becomes a movie set. And although tensions simmer as the cameras roll, no one expects the action to turn deadly . . . until it's too late . . .
There's no such thing as privacy in Lake Eden, but Hannah never thought things would go this far. Everyone has been telling her what to do ever since she got not one but two marriage proposals....
There's no such thing as privacy in Lake Eden, but Hannah never thought things would go this far. Everyone has been telling her what to do ever since she got not one but two marriage proposals....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance...
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum volume 1
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
p. ; cm.
Language
English
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Out of work and out of money, Stephanie Plum lands a job as bounty hunter and her first prey is, guess who? None other than Joe Morelli, the macho pig who deflowered her in high school and bragged on the lavatory wall of Mario's Sub Shop. Now a cop, he is wanted for murder. The intriguing thing is she still rather fancies him and even more intriguing is that he will save her life. A debut in fiction.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 9.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Bakery owner Hannah Swensen has a dress to fit into and a date with her sister, Andrea, at Lake Eden's new health club, Heavenly Bodies. Dragging herself out of bed on a frigid Minnesota morning for exercise, of all things, is bad enough. Discovering the body of man-eating bombshell Ronni Ward floating in the gym's jacuzzi? Okay, that's worse. Nor does it help that there's a plate of The Cookie Jar's very own cream puffs garnishing the murder scene.
Trying...
Trying...
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 8
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
sound discs (72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join the Women's Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before in this thrilling novel from the world's #1 bestselling author.
Someone is killing the richest people in the city—and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer—and it's the...
Someone is killing the richest people in the city—and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer—and it's the...
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2025.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke’s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimes—one delicious clue at a time—has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all began on these pages, with a bakery, a murder, and some suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies. Featuring a bonus short story and...
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2004, c2003
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The residents of Lake Eden, Minnesota, are planning to paint the town red, white, and blue to celebrate the Fourth of July—but the fireworks are already going off at Hannah Swensen's bake shop, The Cookie Jar. . .
Lemon Meringue Pie Murder
Hannah Swensen thought she'd finally discovered the recipe for a perfect life. But her sometime beau Norman Rhodes tosses a surprise ingredient into the mix when he phones to tell her he's just...
Lemon Meringue Pie Murder
Hannah Swensen thought she'd finally discovered the recipe for a perfect life. But her sometime beau Norman Rhodes tosses a surprise ingredient into the mix when he phones to tell her he's just...
11) Silent voices
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discovering the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, Inspector Vera Stanhope, hoping that she has uncovered a simple natural-causes death, subsequently finds strangle bruises that reveal that the victim was murdered.
12) Booked for death
Author
Series
Booklover's B&B volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the historic waterfront town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Chapters Bed-and-Breakfast is a reader's paradise. Built in 1770, the newly renovated inn hosts a roster of special events celebrating books, genres, and authors. It's the perfect literary retreat-until a rare book dealer turns up dead in the carriage house during a celebration of Golden Age mystery author Josephine Tey. The victim's daughter points the finger at forty-two-year-old...
Author
Series
Chocoholic volume 12
Publisher
Obsidian
Language
English
Description
Lee's newest hire at the chocolate shop, Forsythia "Sissy" Smith, has the court of public opinion against her in her husband's murder, despite having a solid alibi.
14) No mercy: #2
Author
Series
Ellery Hathaway volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Police officer Ellery Hathaway and FBI profiler Reed Markham take on two difficult new cases in this stunning follow-up to The Vanishing Season. "A gripping and powerful read. It is what we call an edge-of-your-seat, rollercoaster of a thriller. You will not be able to put it down before you finish it."--The Washington Book Review on The Vanishing Season No Mercy is award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen's heart-pounding second novel. P Police officer...
15) The Murder House
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Language
English
Description
"No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multimillion-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy used to consider herself a local, but she hasn't been...
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen volume 26
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"While Hannah speeds through a lengthy holiday checklist, drama in town grows like Santa's waistline on Christmas Eve. Her sister Andrea wants to stave off the blues by helping out at The Cookie Jar, Michele's love life is becoming complicated, Lisa needs Hannah's advice, and Delores has a Christmas secret she's not willing to share. But nothing dampens the holiday mood more than the chilling mystery surrounding the man found near death in an abandoned...
Author
Series
Teresa Battaglia volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of gruesome murders. Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a detective with a background in criminal profiling, is called to investigate. Battaglia is in her mid-sixties, her rank and expertise hard-won from decades of battling for respect in the male-dominated Italian police force. While she's not sure...
18) The crow trap
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
535 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal....For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange,...
19) Girl in disguise
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go places and do things a male detective cannot. Once hired, Kate becomes skilled at lock picking and surveillance, but she is best in disguise--as a prostitute, rich matron, spinster, clerk, Southern belle--an expert liar, playing a role. She investigates burglaries, bank robberies, embezzlement, counterfeiting, blackmail, and murder. Eventually earning...
20) 3rd degree
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
341 p.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In James Patterson's shockingly suspenseful #1 New York Times bestseller, one member of the Women's Murder Club is hiding a secret so dangerous that it could destroy them all.
Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. When Lindsay searches for survivors, she finds three people dead. A lost infant and a mysterious message at the scene leaves...
Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. When Lindsay searches for survivors, she finds three people dead. A lost infant and a mysterious message at the scene leaves...
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