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The Lucky Winner

What if your wish came true and you became a millionaire overnight? Can you die of boredom? Sitting in her small den, surrounded by nothing that she can legitimately call “civilization” in a smal...

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The Deadwood Librarian

Burned-out archivist Nora Voss inherits a fog-soaked coastal library that secretly lends to the dead at sunset—and as overdue fines begin collecting in memories, years, and breath, she must untangl...

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Whistling Witches

You live in a small town with your mad-as-hatter aunts…who also happen to be witches. Then you discover you can see ghosts, fall in love and uncover a plan to destroy the town. Normal just got weir...

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Death of the High Priestess - A Witchy Cozy Mystery

Nova Navarro just got blackballed from the Coven. Homeless, magic-starved, and out of options, she turns to the one place she swore she never would—home. 📚 All stories are cross-posted on Wattpad,.....

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The Corpse Wore Cashmere

The town’s queen of knitting is dead. The weapon? A cashmere scarf. The suspects? Practically everyone who’s ever been on the wrong end of Edith Halloway’s gossip—which is the entire town. With a m...

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The Girl with the Uninvited Ghost

A relics collector must uncover a family secret to solve a wizard's homicide before his apprentice's ghost drives her crazy indefinitely ... or she becomes the next murder victim. ******** Mahogan...

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Family Drama

Darcy. A strange name for a woman, but it suited her. And she was a woman wrapped in mystery. She wasn’t like the other women of her day—she wasn’t a lady of high society or a woman in service ...

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Danger in the Deux Sevres

Disturbing incidents in picturesque south west France. A cast of characters, English and French, all living in the Deux Sevres, in the Poitou-Charentes region of western France, suddenly starts to ...

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Darkness Once More

Cut-rate private detective Archie Lemons' life is about to get a lot more complicated. The first flake of snow our hot little city has seen in twenty years drifted down from the heavens above and l...

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How to Poison Your Husband

Three years ago, Ivelle poisoned her murderous husband and ran away to start a new life. Now blissfully single, Ivelle is content with her carpentry business (apart from the crushing debt), and she...

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Alice's Anger

In order to save her dad, Alice has to travel through a hidden world below Sweden full of beings from Norse mythology. Urban fantasy with Nordic twist In two days Dad will be dead. To save him, Al...

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A Mellow Reach Market Mystery

The Saturday market in Mellow Reach smells like warm bread and fresh basil—the kind of place where neighbors argue about tomato prices and mean nothing by it. Sticky cobblestones. Chipped enamel mu...

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Mystery at the Fair

As a prior project manager in the Air Force, volunteering to be on the local Fair Board as the Vice President of Exhibits is a natural fit. The first day of fair set up, Jean finds a body in the st...

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What Are Families Bloody For?

When the head of the McCarthy family dies, the rest of the family gathers at the McCarthy ancestral home on Sycamore Island to attend the reading of the will as per family tradition. However, as th...

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At Sixes And Sevens

When odd events unfold and strange things keep happening in the small town of Panjë, Fiend Van Achthoven decides to investigate. 'Once in a blue moon', an old saying goes, 'things turn out just r...

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Tell No Lies: A Scheherazade Cozy Mystery

In this gripping cozy mystery, Zadie finds herself caught up in a web of lies and murder while she is struggling to determine some meaningful direction in her future career. An amateur sleuth, Zadi...

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Crime of The Jilted Librarian

Some people say, breaking -up is hard to do, Mya Russell is finding out, just how hard. It's not enough to be dumped by the biggest asshole in Crawford City, no, said asshole has to die right befor...

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Butchered Bayou

There's nothing like a sunny afternoon boat ride out on the water. Just make sure to bring your fishing pole and a fresh corpse. Did I mention to also have you bribe for the dock master handy? If y...

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Chapter one of Miami 1-der

We are a husband and wife writing team working on our first cozy mystery/ thriller series. If you like light-hearted fun stories, then kick back and enjoy the antics of PK Kincaid and his sidekicks...

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Sample Chapter: Muses, Mishaps, and Murder! Old version

Full Blurb Mason is a successful playwright, despised by his Muse. Kidnapped and forced to work with secret agents to solve a cold case involving a business cult and corporate orphanages. Can a co...

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