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After her ex-husband leaves her high and dry, former socialite Doreen Montgomery's chance at a new life comes in the form of her grandmother, Nan's, dilapidated old house in picturesque Kelowna...and the added job of caring for the animals Nan couldn’t take into assisted living with her: Thaddeus, the loquacious African gray parrot with a ripe vocabulary, and his buddy, Goliath, a monster-size cat with an equally monstrous attitude. It’s the new start Doreen and her beloved basset hound, Mugs, desperately need.

After far too many years in the Los Angeles corporate world, Whitney Dagner has come home to Santa Catalina Island off the California coast to help her brother Nick run Nautically Yours, the family tourism business. Between gift shop shifts selling all manner of T-shirts and tchotchkes and keeping her feline Whiskers in fine fettle, she pilots the Sea Bounder, a glass-bottom boat showing tourists the underwater sights of aquatic plants, marine life - and a murder victim?

London, 1926. After a short leave of absence, Private Detective Posie Parker is back—and with a bang! Her first assignment? Interview the dazzling Eglantine DuBarry and Jack Smeaton of ‘The Banana Splits’, the most talked-about jazz band in town, who seem to have troubles aplenty. But before the ink is dry, Posie lands an even more notorious client: Lady Hilda Kilcoyne, a scandalous sportswoman convinced her war-hero husband wants her dead.

For thirty years, Charles Sterling was the hunter. He escaped the cell that was supposed to restrain him and killed at will. The only person who ever came close to stopping him was his own daughter, Detective Erica Sands, and now even she is gone, vanished into the sea off the coast of France...

When Prescott Pemberton–a local artist who made it big in New York City before moving back to Head Rock Harbor–is found dead in the harbor, it’s tragic, but no one suspects foul play. However, when it becomes clear that several people in town might have benefited from his death, questions arise. Was this death by misadventure…or was Prescott murdered?

In the woodland community of Shady Hollow, you'll discover a secret. Moose and mice, owls and bears live side by side in civilised harmony. The town has a coffee shop and a bookshop, a haberdasher and a bank. Life is peaceful, until a skeleton is found buried deep under an apple tree. Danger has returned to Shady Hollow. Ace reporter Vera Vixen only wants a good news story as harvest time arrives with the promise of glorious feasts ahead. But the discovery of the body casts a darker shadow.

Rosemary Thorn's life takes another surreal turn as she prepares to host the most unlikely event of the season, while her daughter Athena juggles exam stress and organizing the town's Imbolc ritual. Darkness is stirring in the nearby forest, and a hunger-driven force threatens to consume everything in its path. With vampire politics, fae realm adventures, and cantankerous deities in the mix, Rosemary and Athena must confront both external dangers and their own inner demons. 

When an American tourist is murdered with a scone in Gemma Rose's quaint English tearoom, she suddenly finds herself apron-deep in a mystery involving long-buried secrets from Oxford's past. Armed with her insider knowledge of the university and with the help of four nosy old ladies from her local Cotswolds village (not to mention a cheeky little tabby cat named Muesli), Gemma sets out to solve the mystery - all while dealing with her matchmaking mother and the return of her old college love, Devlin O'Connor, now a dashing CID detective.

Avery Denning's weekend plans did not include negotiating Sparkles's release from police custody or witnessing a murder at a sound bath. When an invitation to a sound bath arrives in her inbox, Avery assumes a quiet evening at Mother Earth might be exactly what she needs. The invitation wasn't meant for her, but curiosity has gotten Avery into trouble before. This time, it gets her a front-row seat to murder. What begins with sound bowls and meditation ends when Graham Stratton, a newcomer to Lily Rock, dies before the final note fades away. Everyone assumes it was a tragic accident.

Welcome to the Bean Hive Coffee Shop where the gossip and coffee are HOT! Fall has settled over Honey Springs, Kentucky, painting the lakeside town in cozy hues of amber and gold. But for Roxy Bloom, owner of The Bean Hive coffee shop, the annual Neewollah Festival brings a chilling new flavor: murder. When national social media influencer Marlowe Lannigan is found dead in Lake Honey Springs—a twist made even more perplexing by her lifelong fear of water—the town is steeped in suspicion.

Three weeks on from that night and ChameleoMan & friends are riding high after their first vigilante victory... but Dan & his cats are about to face something far deadlier. Stopping a mugging was almost too easy, but when a body turns up in the industrial estate, Dan begins to wonder if the...

The eighth in the House-Flipper Mystery series set in Nashville, where the real estate market is to die for. In Nashville, carpenter Whitney Whitaker is ecstatic when the owner of an antebellum livery stable approaches her about rehabbing the barn and offers Whitney free rein with the design...

Jack Dutton died in the dark. Why? Who hated him enough to kill him? Why had he made a list of gemstones and their prices? What was he guilty of? Dutton had been a handsome war hero, but tragedy surrounded him, and his nature had always been unpredictable. When Lennox and Swift begin peeling away the layers of deceit, they uncover some vile secrets, secrets that have already led to Dutton's murder, and it's not long before there's another.

Verity Long would really like a day off. Between uncovering the culprit who capped her gangster ghost housemate and dodging the bomb her boyfriend just dropped on their relationship, her spiritual calling has gotten complicated. But when she steps out for a little fun at a church fundraiser, she has another mystery on her hands when a family friend plunges from the bell tower.

About Book 2: "Merrill's comic mystery featuring a curmudgeonly sleuth is even funnier than her first ... Readers who enjoy tongue-in-cheek whodunits will find themselves grinning frequently." –Publishers WeeklyYou know that eccentric great-aunt no one wants to sit beside at family functions? Or that neighbor who's just a little too strange? Or the pushy woman at the thrift store? Maybe you know Gertrude. If Miss Marple had 27 cats, a Maine accent, and absolutely no filter, she'd be Gertrude, Gumshoe. She's a smidge snarky. She's frightfully frugal. And she's fearless.

Mia Thorne’s midlife makeover is going better than she ever expected. She has a new job, a new relationship, a new garden—well, never mind the garden. She doesn’t even mind that she’s back to pounding the pavement to generate ad revenue for the local newspaper. Unfortunately an important meeting with the marketing director of the Newberry Playhouse generates the wrong kind of buzz when a beloved actress is found dead the day of her big performance. The murder triggers a ghostly rumor that had been put to rest long ago.

Still reeling from her sister’s unexpected death, artist Emily Harper isn’t convinced Becky’s fall down the grand staircase was an accident. But when a hidden journal resurfaces—along with cryptic notes and eerie visions—Emily begins to suspect her sister was on the verge of uncovering something dangerous. Then a body is discovered at Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, and the past crashes into the present. A local historian has been murdered—one who may have known the truth about Becky’s final days.

Laid off and laying low, I wasn’t looking for trouble—but trouble found me anyway. When stuntwoman Whitley Leland is banished to the mountain town of Arrow Springs to “keep an eye” on her spirited grandmother Bobbie, she’s counting the days until she can return to Los Angeles. But things take a sudden turn when Kit—the precocious rescue Chihuahua she's inherited—leads her to a neighbor sprawled at the bottom of her back steps. Bobbie, undeterred by her age and fueled by a passion for mystery-solving (and possibly sherry), believes something more sinister is afoot.

It’s never too late for a second chance, and when Sadie Sutton’s marriage implodes spectacularly, she jumps into her vintage VW campervan and heads for the twisty cobbled streets and sea views of her childhood in the little seaside town of Winching. But her fresh start comes to an abrupt stop when she trips over a dead body, turning an ordinary walk with her faithful dog Sam Spade into a murder investigation!

Cookies, Charms, and two Prince Charmings! Addy would have never thought in a million years that she would end up working for the Ministry of Witch Hunters . . . not that anything else in her life has gone exactly as planned. Now she’s in Seattle, solving multiple murders with Spooky by her side. Soon, whether or not she can trust witch hunters becomes the furthest question from her mind. Instead, she’ll ponder the following: Can simple charms be powerful enough to kill? Can she choose between Logan and Nicholas? And most importantly, can cats become spies?