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  • The Millionaire Murders by Rachel McLean

    The Millionaire Murders by Rachel McLean

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An anonymous murder victim and a missing journalist: can Lesley uncover the truth?DCI Lesley Clarke has too many suspects to choose from when a wealthy lawyer and her unidentified companion are found brutally murdered in a Sandbanks mansion...
  • A Streak of Bad Cluck by Ellen Riggs

    A Streak of Bad Cluck by Ellen Riggs

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With hens like these, who needs enemies?Ivy is finally starting to feel at home on Runaway Farm and she’s even settled the feathers of a formerly feisty neighbor with frequent gourmet food bribes. Unless the nosy neighbor has an ulterior motive, that is. She’s as sly as Ivy’s runaway sow.New guests descend on the inn and Ivy puts the mayhem of recent weeks behind her...
  • Backrush by Jana Deleon

    Backrush by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The sea heals all things.Tempest Island has weathered the worst of storms and still stands proud, providing its residents with the healing power of the sea and sun. When Alayna Scott’s life falls spectacularly apart, both professionally and personally, the executive chef’s only thought is getting back home to the island and her aunt Bea...
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    cozy  female-mc  whodunit  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • A Broken Bone by Melinda Leigh

    A Broken Bone by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The mysterious death of a local teen leads to a hunt for a killer in the sixth Widow’s Island novella by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.On Widow’s Island, the secrets are dark…and everybody has one. So when Deputy Tessa Black responds to a call about an explosion in a quiet neighborhood, she gets more than she bargained for: the body of a teen who went missing weeks ago...
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    cozy  female-mc  whodunit  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Corpse in the Carnations by Dale Mayer

    Corpse in the Carnations by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Riches to rags. … Chaos calms. … Crime quiets. … But does it really? After getting involved in two murder cases in the short time she’s lived in picturesque Kelowna, divorcee and gardener Doreen Montgomery has developed a reputation almost as notorious as her Nan’s...
  • An Embarrassment of Itches by M.K. Dean

    An Embarrassment of Itches by M.K. Dean

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's Diagnosis Murder meets All Creatures Great and Small...As a house-call vet, Ginny Reese has seen her share of the weird and wacky. But nothing in her previous experience could have prepared her to find one of her clients floating in her own swimming pool.Local artist Amanda Kelly was extremely wealthy with her share of secrets...
  • Below the Bones by Kendra Elliot

    Below the Bones by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A former FBI special agent must come out of retirement to solve a murder in the fifth novella in the Widow’s Island series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.Former FBI special agent Cate Wilde is a new bakery and bookstore owner—and retirement is now complete with a doctor boyfriend...
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    cozy  female-mc  whodunit  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • A Humbug Holiday by London Lovett

    A Humbug Holiday by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's holiday time in Firefly Junction but not everything is sweet sugarplums and glittery tinsel.Sunni Taylor has been too busy to get into the holiday spirit, even with her mom coming to town for a visit. Her festive spirit gets a spark when Detective Brady Jackson asks her to attend the town's production of A Christmas Carol...
  • Banana Slit by Angela K. Ryan

    Banana Slit by Angela K. Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The grand opening of Anna McBride’s seaside ice cream shop is anything but sweet.After the tragic death of her Irish twin sister, Bella, Anna needed a radical change. So, she closed her counseling practice in Boston to embark on a new adventure as an ice cream shop owner...
  • Vanilla Bean Vengeance by Agatha Frost

    Vanilla Bean Vengeance by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The FIRST BOOK in a BRAND NEW cozy mystery series!Claire Harris loves nothing more than crafting homemade candles. She has always dreamed of one day opening a quaint candle shop in her home village of Northash, but at thirty-five, she still can't afford to take the risk. Stuck in a dead-end job at the local candle factory, and back living with her parents, Claire knows her life needs a shakeup...
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    cozy  female-mc  romance  mystery  fiction  contemporary  crime  wlw
  • Murder in the Cookbook Nook by Ellery Adams

    Murder in the Cookbook Nook by Ellery Adams

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The witty new story from the bestselling author of The Secret Book & Scone Society series is perfect for bibliophiles who love a A Bookish Cook-Off with a little murder on the side… Six chefs are preparing to compete in an outdoor tent at Storyton Hall in Virginia for prizes that will boost their careers—but is there someone who can’t stand the heat? It looks that way when one of the...
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    amateur-sleuth  cozy  female-mc  adult  animals  audiobook  book  cats
  • Muffin But Trouble by Chelsea Thomas

    Muffin But Trouble by Chelsea Thomas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When you’re an amateur sleuth, you’ve always got baggage……and that means you never get a vacation from murder.Chelsea, Teeny, and Miss May are trying to have a fun trip to Los Angeles.But they’ve barely checked in to their hotel when they get a call from their old friends Amy and Petunia…There’s been a murder!Worse yet, all the evidence seems to point to everyone's favorite dog groomer..
  • Dead As A Doornail by Tonya Kappes

    Dead As A Doornail by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. And doesn’t our Sheriff Kenni Lowry know that? Well, she knows a lot of things. Lucy Lowell takes great pride in writing negative reviews in the local newspaper for anything that does not go her way. When Lucy is found dead, it appears to be from natural causes...
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    cozy  female-mc  adult  animals  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • A Purrfect Alibi by Leighann Dobbs

    A Purrfect Alibi by Leighann Dobbs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fortune tellers and mediums have descended on the Oyster Cove Guesthouse, determined to solve the mystery of local seafarer Jedediah Biddeford’s murder 300 years ago... especially if it leads them to the treasure he buried on the guesthouse grounds...
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    amateur-sleuth  cozy  female-mc  whodunit  adult  animals  book  cats
  • Poison Ivy by Helena Marchmont

    Poison Ivy by Helena Marchmont

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's party time in Bunburry! The deluxe Magnolia Inn is hosting surprise birthday celebrations for Bunburry's favourite senior citizens, Liz and Marge. But the party is not the only surprise. A glamorous widow, Francesca Fairfax Adams, is staying in the Magnolia Inn, and catches the eye of self-made man and amateur sleuth Alfie McAlister...
  • Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron

    Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The next shot from Cupid's bow may be fatal in USA Today bestselling, Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron's hearty and delightful seventh Cajun Country mystery.In Pelican, Louisiana, Valentine's Day has a way of warming the heart, despite the February chill. But the air at Crozat Plantation B&B turns decidedly frigid when celebrity chef Phillippe Chanson checks in...
  • Sweet Revenge by Karen MacInerney

    Sweet Revenge by Karen MacInerney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome back to Dewberry...
  • A Night's Tail by Sofie Kelly, Cassandra Campbell

    A Night's Tail by Sofie Kelly, Cassandra Campbell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the charming town of Mayville Heights, librarian Kathleen Paulson and her two cats pounce on clues to catch a killer, in the eleventh installment of this New York Times bestselling series. Spring is coming to Mayville Heights, and Kathleen's brother, Ethan, has arrived in town with his band, The Flaming Gerbils...
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    amateur-sleuth  cozy  female-mc  adult  animals  audiobook  book  cats
  • A Good Dog's Guide to Murder by Krista Davis

    A Good Dog's Guide to Murder by Krista Davis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The great Gingerbread Dog & Cat House competition has come to Wagtail, along with another murder to solve for Holly and her supersmart Jack Russell terrier Trixie in the New York Times bestselling Paws & Claws series by Krista Davis! Visitors are arriving in droves to spend Thanksgiving in the mountains of pet-friendly Wagtail, Virginia...
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    cozy  amateur-sleuth  mystery  animals  fiction  dogs  cats  audiobook
  • Fatal Frost by Karen MacInerney

    Fatal Frost by Karen MacInerney

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lucy Resnick’s nerves are as tight as a tea cozy. Her new goats, Hot Lips and Gidget, keep making a break for the town square, her truck is dying, and her boyfriend’s gorgeous ex-wife is in town for the holidays. Worse, someone’s digging holes on her land…and uprooting her peach orchard and dewberry patch in the process...
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    cozy  female-mc  adult  animals  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • A Margin for Murder by Lauren Elliott

    A Margin for Murder by Lauren Elliott

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the riveting new mystery from the USA Today bestselling author, a murder and a missing first edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses send rare bookstore owner Addie Greyborne on an investigation to challenge even the most distinguished of bibliophiles… Addie leaves her Greyborne Harbor bookstore, Beyond the Page Books and Curios, in the capable hands of her assistant...
  • Premeditated Mortar by Kate Carlisle

    Premeditated Mortar by Kate Carlisle

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Contractor Shannon Hammer gets tangled up in murder at a spooky old asylum in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Kate Carlisle. . . .Shannon Hammer is about to embark on one of the biggest projects of her career...
  • Round Up the Usual Peacocks by Donna Andrews

    Round Up the Usual Peacocks by Donna Andrews

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times, bestselling author Donna Andrews first introduced us to Meg Langslow as a crime-solving bridesmaid. In her 31st mystery, Round Up the Usual Peacocks, Meg returns to her roots, juggling cold cases and wedding guests. Kevin, Meg's cyber-savvy nephew who lives in the basement, comes to her with a problem...
  • The Falcon Always Wings Twice by Donna Andrews

    The Falcon Always Wings Twice by Donna Andrews

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment.When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to dress up in full regalia...
  • The Body in the Gravel by Judi Lynn

    The Body in the Gravel by Judi Lynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even in a lovely town like River Bluffs, Indiana, flipping houses can be a challenge. Especially when there’s the proverbial skeleton in the closet—and a literal corpse in the driveway . . .   House-flipper Jazzy Zanders has her work cut out for her. Her latest flip, which she co-purchased with her fiancée Ansel and cousin Jerod, is a three-story fixer-upper that’s more of a droopy-downer...
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    amateur-sleuth  cozy  female-mc  adult  animals  audiobook  book  cats
  • Down by Kirsten Weiss

    Down by Kirsten Weiss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The answers lie below… A shamanic witch and a poet, Lenore Bonheim hides in the world of books to escape reality, which for her includes seeing ghosts and forecasting death. But when her employer and friend dies under suspicious circumstances, she must use all her skills – magical and mundane – to find the killer and save her two sisters and her town...
  • Belinda Blake and the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing by Heather Day Gilbert

    Belinda Blake and the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing by Heather Day Gilbert

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Exotic pet-sitter Belinda Blake is nervous about her new job at the White Pine Wolf Preserve, but it turns out that the care and feeding of wild carnivores may be the least dangerous part of the gig . . .   Pet-sitter Belinda Blake is no stranger to dealing with wild animals, but she’s wary when the owner of the Greenwich, Connecticut, preserve asks her to help out with her “fluffy darlings...
  • Game of Gravestones by Gena Showalter, Jill Monroe

    Game of Gravestones by Gena Showalter, Jill Monroe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She suspects everyone of everything. Except her oldest friend. Who's found next to a body. Holding the murder weapon.For the first time, things are just right for cemetery owner Jane Ladling. Her cat only kind of hates her sort of boyfriend, Special Agent Conrad Ryan, and she isn't flat broke...
  • Purled and Poisoned by Tracey Drew

    Purled and Poisoned by Tracey Drew

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A smart woman would dump her cheating ex, move from the city, and give herself a chance for a well-deserved do-over. A smarter woman—smarter than me, anyway—wouldn’t jump out of that same frying pan and return to Cape Discovery, a seaside village where her family is the nuttiest of all the nut-ball residents...
  • The Diva Goes Overboard by Krista Davis

    The Diva Goes Overboard by Krista Davis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For once, event planner Sophie Winston finds herself a guest at a lavish engagement party, but things go horrifyingly awry when the groom-to-be is fatally poisoned . .
  • Muffalettas and Murder by Jann Franklin

    Muffalettas and Murder by Jann Franklin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Evangeline Delafose swore she'd never return to her ho-hum Louisiana hometown. But when her brother asks her to help solve a murder, things get a lot more interesting...
  • A Fair Time For Death by Adriana Licio

    A Fair Time For Death by Adriana Licio

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The annual Chestnut Fair brings visitors from far and wide to the sleepy village of Trecchina. This year, one will be coming to die.The moment Vanda Riccardi makes the grisly discovery in the forest, a blow to the head knocks her cold. By the time rescuers find her, the corpse is gone...
  • Iced Spy by A. Gardner

    Iced Spy by A. Gardner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The small town of Bison Creek has been chosen to host the highly-anticipated Sugar Mountain Bake-Off. But as a new snowstorm rolls in, Essie Stratter finds a frozen body near the lake - the body of her former client. As Essie joins in the murder investigation she discovers that her tiny hometown is tangled in a web of secrets. Secrets that could stab her in the back like a deadly icicle...
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    cozy  female-mc  adult  animals  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Death in Darkness by Nell Goddin

    Death in Darkness by Nell Goddin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A disturbed wife. A nanny. And a pack of cowardly, lying friends.Simon Valette, a cultured and successful Parisian, moves his family to Castillac looking for peace and quiet. Before they've had a chance to settle in, someone is found murdered in their library. Molly and Ben work double-time to disentangle all the lies--including those told by their own friends...
  • Last Diner Standing by Terri L. Austin

    Last Diner Standing by Terri L. Austin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rose Strickland is having a blue Christmas. Her friend is arrested for attempted murder, her sexy bad guy crush is marked by a hit man, and her boss is locked in an epic smackdown with a rival diner. Determined to save those she loves, Rose embarks on an investigation more tangled than a box of last year's tree lights...
  • Bones in the Begonias by Dale Mayer

    Bones in the Begonias by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Riches to rags. … Chaos continues. … Murders abound. … Honestly? Doreen Montgomery’s new life in Kelowna was supposed to be a fresh start after a nasty split from her husband of fourteen years, plus a chance to get her bearings and her life back on track. Instead her first week in her new hometown was spent digging up dead bodies, chasing clues, and getting in Corporal Mack Moreau’s way...
  • Mixing Up Murder by Emmie Lyn

    Mixing Up Murder by Emmie Lyn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Murder wasn’t supposed to be on the menu at the Little Dog Diner, but that’s exactly what we got served anyway. Hi, I’m Dani Mackenzie and I’m the unfortunate soul who owns said diner. Looks like business is going to be slow for a little while as the whole town scrambles to find whodunnit...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  female-mc  mystery  fiction  dogs  animals  audiobook  family
  • Hardback Homicide by S.E. Babin

    Hardback Homicide by S.E. Babin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm Dakota Adair, lifelong bibliophile and the proud owner of Tattered Pages, home to rare books and a particularly prickly Persian named Poppy. I’m not quite sure I ever pictured myself ending up in the quaint, little town of Dewdrop Springs, Maine, but the coffee, carbs, and endless reading materials inside my store keep me from venturing outside too much, anyway...
    Categorized as:
    cozy  female-mc  amateur-sleuth  mystery  fiction  cats  animals  dark
  • Wed, Read & Dead by V.M. Burns

    Wed, Read & Dead by V.M. Burns

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bookstore owner Samantha Washington sells and solves mysteries in North Harbor, Michigan--including the murder of her mother's wedding planner... Sam's mother can't wait to wed her wealthy beau, Harold Robertson. The big mystery is how they're going to pull off a lavish wedding in three weeks. Harold's snobby sister-in-law proposes a solution: engage flamboyant wedding planner Lydia Lighthouse...
  • Bridges Burned by Annette Dashofy

    Bridges Burned by Annette Dashofy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Paramedic Zoe Chambers is used to saving lives, but when she stops a man from running into a raging inferno in a futile attempt to rescue his wife, Zoe finds herself drawn to him, and even more so to his ten-year-old daughter. She invites them both to live at the farm while the grieving widower picks up the pieces of his life...
  • Demise in Denim by Duffy Brown

    Demise in Denim by Duffy Brown

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s springtime in Savannah, Georgia, in the newest Consignment Shop Mystery from the national bestselling author of Pearls and Poison . The azaleas and magnolias are in bloom—and Walker Boone is on the run. . .When Reagan Summerside turned the first floor of her old Victorian home into a consignment shop, she never imagined she’d be harboring a fugitive in her attic...
  • Mother's Day Murder by Tonya Kappes

    Mother's Day Murder by Tonya Kappes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Holiday Cozy Mystery Series is a spin-off of Tonya Kappes's A Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery Series! You do not want to miss Violet Rhinehammer's journey and some appearances from our beloved Laundry Club Ladies and favorite characters from A Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery crossover series!It's Mother's Day in Holiday Junction and Violet Rhinehammer is covering all the Mother's Day events...
  • Chilled to the Cone by Ellie Alexander

    Chilled to the Cone by Ellie Alexander

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Pastry chef and amateur sleuth Juliet Capshaw finds herself on thin ice as she attempts to solve her latest case of small-town murder in Ellie Alexander's Chilled to the Cone: A Bakeshop Mystery.The deep freeze has thawed in Ashland, Oregon and Torte is gearing up for a busy spring...
  • A Vacation to Die For by Lynn Cahoon

    A Vacation to Die For by Lynn Cahoon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More, discovers that wedding planning can be murder . . .Hustling her fiancé off to a neighboring tourist town might be the only way Jill Gardner can plan her nuptials to South Cove’s in-demand police detective...
  • And Then There Were Crumbs by Eve Calder

    And Then There Were Crumbs by Eve Calder

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s a talented pastry chef―with a secret recipe for solving crimes…WELCOME TO THE COOKIE HOUSEKate McGuire’s life was sweet in Manhattan before she lost her restaurant job and fiancé both. But sometimes that’s just the way the cookie crumbles, and soon she finds herself starting from scratch in the island town of Coral Cay, Florida...
  • Word to the Wise by Jenn McKinlay

    Word to the Wise by Jenn McKinlay

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It's no-holds-barred murder, in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Hitting the Books.Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams--but it's not all roses for Briar Creek's beloved library director, as gardening enthusiast and town newcomer Aaron Grady gives the term "book lover" a whole new meaning...
  • Sign Off by Patricia McLinn

    Sign Off by Patricia McLinn

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Divorce a husband, lose a career …grapple with a murder. TV journalist Elizabeth “E. M.” Danniher will tell you she committed two sins — she didn’t stay young, and she made an enemy of a powerful news executive — her ex. She used to break national news. Now her top story as the “Helping Out!” reporter at dinky KWMT-TV in Sherman,Wyoming is getting a refund for a defective toaster...
  • Ground by Kirsten Weiss

    Ground by Kirsten Weiss

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her magic flows from the earth… Jayce Bonheim is on the sheriff’s radar and not in a good way. Always the reckless one of her triplet sisters, Jayce is trying to turn over a new leaf. No more wild partying. No more one night stands. But when someone leaves a dead body in her pickup truck, her resolve to become the sensible sister is sorely tested...
  • Furbidden Fatality by Deborah Blake

    Furbidden Fatality by Deborah Blake

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A lottery winner uses her good fortune to save a local pet sanctuary, but when a body is discovered on the property, she just might be in the doghouse in this first book in a new, charming cozy mystery series from author Deborah Blake.Kari Stuart's life is going nowhere--until she unexpectedly wins the lottery...
  • Murder on Vacation by Nell Goddin

    Murder on Vacation by Nell Goddin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Happy Valentine’s Day! Well, maybe not so much… Molly Sutton’s B&B is jam-packed for the holiday, but whatever romance is in the air is quickly snuffed out when somebody turns up dead. In addition to worrying that one of her remaining guests is a killer, Molly’s not feeling tip-top and spends more time napping than sleuthing...
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