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Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So she's forced to use her savvy, her sharp wit, and her old-girl network of domestic workers to discover...
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With a steamy Southern plot and a sassy new heroine, this Edgar Award winning novel debuts an exceptional new series. Attorney Deborah Knott is North Carolina's answer to V.I. Warshawski, a legal sleuth with a knack for sniffing out the most baffling crimes. Deborah has just done the unthinkable-entered the heated race for judge of old-boy-ruled Colleton County. The only female candidate, she's busy reeling in voters and giving campaign speeches....
3) STAR FLIGHT
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While visiting her grandfather in North Carolina, Lauren Castle learns about the alleged suicide of her famous movie actress grandmother more than sixty years ago.
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Laura Fleming mysteries volume 8
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Laura Fleming knows that love plays by its own rules. After all, she did the unthinkable and married a Yankee. But even she's shocked to hear that her indomitable Aunt Maggie, a spinster closer to eighty than seventy, has eloped with Big Bill Walters. Laura, her husband Richard, and their baby daughter hightail it home, where Laura discovers the real motive behind Aunt Maggie's marriage. Someone is trying to kill Big Bill, and Aunt Maggie plans to...
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A rich man summons Hallie Knight of California to his estate in North Carolina to find his missing granddaughter, Susan. Hallie and Susan were best friends. For Hallie this is a dangerous assignment as the family think Susan is dead and fear the dying grandfather will give the estate to Hallie. By the author of Daughter of the Stars.
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Laura Fleming mysteries volume 5
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A crafty killer lurks among the prized collectibles of a Southern smalltown flea market in this cozy mystery by a New York Times—bestselling author.
There's nothing Laura Fleming's Southern family likes better than a get-together, and cousin Augustus returning from the army is a perfect reason to gather for a party in Byerly, North Carolina. While Laura and her scholar husband, Richard, are in town, her formidable great-aunt Maggie has an assignment...
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Laura Fleming mysteries volume 6
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A Boston woman visiting her Southern hometown must smoke out a fire-starting killer in this cozy mystery by a New York Times—bestselling author.
Laura Fleming is always happy to visit her ever-extending family in Byerly, North Carolina. This time, though, it's not kin calling her back home, but businessman Burt Walters. Burt's hoping Laura can dig up dirt on Marshall and Grace Saunders, proposed buyers of Walters Mill.
Laura knows Burt has good...
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Laura Fleming mysteries volume 4
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In this cozy mystery by a New York Times—bestselling author, a Boston woman is ready to show her visiting cousin around town, until murder mars their plans.
You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of Laura Fleming. Though she's happily settled in Boston, Laura is thrilled to hear that her cousin Thaddeous is visiting from North Carolina. Before she can begin, showing him the best of Beantown, however, bad news...
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Donut shop mystery volume 57
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When Arnie Lancaster gets out of prison on a technicality after being convicted of killing local Susie Mae Long, he comes to retired police chief Phillip Martin and donutmaker Suzanne Hart to figure out who really killed the woman sixteen years earlier. Is Arnie trying to whitewash his past, or did someone else really kill the woman and pin it on him?
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Laura Fleming mysteries volume 7
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Murder takes center stage in a Southern small town's Christmas play in this cozy mystery by the New York Times—bestselling author of Down Home Murder.
Laura Fleming's theater-loving husband, Richard, is getting an early Christmas present- he's been asked to direct a production of A Christmas Carol in Laura's hometown of Byerly, North Carolina. To Richard's annoyance, the play is beset by practical jokes and glitches, and Seth Murdstone makes an...
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"The fourth, ground-breaking mystery featuring African-American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche White by Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award winning author Barbara Neely. Blanche White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer to help her best friend with her catering business. It's a homecoming rich with the potential for new romance and fraught with the pain of facing the man who raped her at knife-point years ago but was never prosecuted...
12) The body farm
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"A rural North Carolina town is shaken by the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner, a crime reminiscent of the handiwork of a serial killer who has eluded the FBI for years. Called in to investigate, Kay Scarpetta is joined by her ingenious, rebellious, and very annoying niece, Lucy, an FBI intern with a promising future in Quantico's computer engineering facility. To find the answers needed to solve Emily's murder, Kay must conduct a grisly...
13) Donut disturb
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Donut shop mystery volume 53
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When a murder happens onstage during the dress rehearsal for Max's new play, Suzanne and Grace must dig into the lives of the cast and crew to see who may have just ended the production before it could even begin.
14) Rigged rising
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Donut shop mystery volume 47
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When former mayor George Morris is accused of the murder of Lily Hamilton, the new mayor-elect, Suzanne and her stepfather Phillip dive into the case to clear their friend and find the real killer.
15) The hole truth
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Donut shop mystery volume 52
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When Richard Hastings is murdered, his past leads Suzanne and her stepfather, Phillip, on a wild ride to the present as they search for the man's killer. To make matters worse, one of Suzanne's best friends is one of their main suspects, and Suzanne must walk the fine line between friendship and her compulsion to discover The Hole Truth. --Back cover.
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Donut shop mystery volume 55
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There's a Valentine's Day scavenger hunt in April Springs, and Donut Hearts is one of the stops. Couples go from place to place and post photos of themselves together as they solve puzzles that lead them to the next venue. The grand prize is a romantic weekend in Asheville, but the contest gets shout down prematurely when one of the players is murdered during the hunt! Suzanne and Trish must find the killer before someone else loses more than just...
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