Little Shop of Murders

Little Shop of Murders

Author: Susan Goodwill

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0738710482

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Includes an excerpt from La cage aux foul play (p. [245]-255).


Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen

Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen

Author: Bill Crider

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1250014972

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Dan Rhodes, sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas, is called to the Beauty Shack, where the young and pretty Lynn Ashton has been found dead, bashed over the head with a hairdryer. The owner said Lynn had gone to the salon late to meet an unknown client. There was a lot of gossip going on about Lynn before her death, but no one seems to really know much about her, or they're not telling Rhodes. Lynn was known to flirt, and it's possible an angry wife or jilted lover had something to do with her death. The salon owner suspects two outsiders who have been staying in an abandoned building across the street. While he investigates the murder, Rhodes must also deal with the theft of copper and car batteries, not to mention a pregnant nanny goat that is terrorizing the town. Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen is a wonderful entry in this always delightful series by award-winning author Bill Crider.


The Bookshop Murder: An Absolutely Gripping Cozy Mystery

The Bookshop Murder: An Absolutely Gripping Cozy Mystery

Author: Merryn Allingham

Publisher: Bookouture

Published: 2021-07-26

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781800196827

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Bookshop owner Flora Steele escapes the sleepy English village of Abbeymead through the adventures in the stories she sells. Until one morning, everything changes when she discovers a body amongst her own bookshelves... The young man with the shock of white-blond hair lay spread-eagled on the floor, surrounded by fallen books. His hand reached out to the scattered pages, as though he was trying to tell her something. But who is he? How did he come to be killed in Flora's ordinary little bookshop? Flora finds out he was staying at the Priory Hotel, and when the gardener suddenly dies in its beautiful grounds only a few days later, she is certain that something untoward is happening in her quiet village by the sea. But are the two deaths connected? And is someone at the hotel responsible - the nervous cook, the money-obsessed receptionist, or the formidable manageress? Determined to save her beloved bookshop's reputation and solve the murder mystery, Flora enlists the help of handsome and brooding Jack Carrington: crime writer, recluse and her most reliable customer. As the unlikely duo set about investigating the baffling case, guilty faces greet them at every door. And they soon realise there's more than one person hiding secrets in Abbeymead... The start of a brand-new murder mystery series featuring bookshop owner Flora Steele and crime writer Jack Carrington. Fans of Agatha Christie, Faith Martin and Joy Ellis will love this perfect cozy murder mystery novel. An utterly addictive story that will have you guessing until the very end. Why readers love Merryn Allingham: 'Excellent... the tension builds and builds right up to the last chapter... a page-turner.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Love... so many twists and turns that kept me guessing most of the way through. Deserving of its 5 stars... highly recommend.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A roller coaster of suspense and intrigue. Grabs you from the first page. Entertaining and interesting characters. There are many twists and turns that will keep you turning the page until the end.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


Little Shop of Homicide

Little Shop of Homicide

Author: Denise Swanson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-03-06

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1101576952

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Dev Sinclair is the happy new owner of the old-fashioned shop in her small Missouri town. But if she doesn't focus on finding the killer of her ex's fiancée, this five-and-dime owner may find herself serving twenty-five to life...


The Little Shop of Murders

The Little Shop of Murders

Author: ACF Bookens

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2023-03-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Book shops, boutiques and small businesses are the lifeblood of small towns but what secrets lie behind those pretty display windows and in the alleyways behind these charming streets? Step inside for a personal retail experience like no other! 'The Little Shop of Murders' collects together fifteen superb cozy mysteries written by some of the finest authors in the genre. All author and publisher profits from the sale of this book go to children's charities, helping those most in need. Stories include: Don't Toy with Me by Diane Kelly A Man With No Imagination by Millie Ravensworth The Forget-Me-Not Antiques Mystery by Victoria Tait It Was Our Song by Nikki Knight Always and Furever by Eryn Scott Wild Irish Dreams by Lise McClendon Architect of a Murder by Carlene O'Connor Blooms and Blackmail by London Lovett Secondhand Murder by J. New The Lady of the House by Flora McGowan Requiem for a Violin by Geraldine Moorkens Byrne Nightly Nuisance by Kathryn Mykel The Gift of Dragons by ACF Bookens Nowhere to Hide by Debbie Young Murder in the Bookshop by Rachel McLean


Murders and Metaphors

Murders and Metaphors

Author: Amanda Flower

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books

Published: 2019-02-12

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1683319001

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USA Today–bestselling author Amanda Flower returns with the third cozy mystery in her more-charming-than-ever Magical Bookshop series—for fans of Sofie Kelly and Heather Blake. Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy get a little help from Little Women as they sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara. January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. A past heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or incantation powerful enough could get Violet to attend. But Grandma Daisy, an omniscient force all on her own, informs Violet that she’s already arranged for the mystical Charming Books to host celebrity sommelier Belinda Perkins’s book signing at the party. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet finds Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard—with a grape harvest knife protruding from her chest. Belinda grew up in Cascade Springs, but she left town years ago after a huge falling-out with her three sisters. One of those sisters, Violet’s high school friend Lacey Dupont, attends the book signing in the hope of making amends with her sister, but Belinda and Lacey end up disrupting the signing with a very public shouting match and Lacey quickly becomes the prime suspect in the sommelier’s murder. Violet is sure Lacey is innocent, and to keep her friend out of prison, Violet asks for guidance from her magical bookshop. The shop’s ethereal essence points her to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, but what have the four March sisters to do with the four Perkins sisters? If she can’t figure it out, Violet, herself, may turn as cold as ice. Violet, Grandma Daisy, Emerson the tuxedo cat, and resident crow Faulkner are back on the case in Murders and Metaphors, USA Today–bestselling author Amanda Flower’s enchanting third Magical Bookshop mystery.


Who Killed These Girls?

Who Killed These Girls?

Author: Beverly Lowry

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0307739880

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“A true-crime page-turner.... Lowry exhausts every possible scenario behind the shocking, unsolved quadruple murder ... and offers a theory on what really happened.” —New York Post "Gripping, moving, and as good as any depiction of a murder case since In Cold Blood.... Brilliant." —Ann Patchett, award-winning, bestselling author The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged, burned bodies of four girls—each one shot in the head—were found in a frozen yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror overtook the city. But after eight years of misdirected investigations, only two suspects (teenagers at the time of the crime) were tried; their convictions were later overturned and detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. The story has grown to include DNA technology, coerced false confessions, and other developments in crime and punishment. But this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Beverly Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a novel, heart-stopping and thoroughly engrossing.


Health Shop Murders

Health Shop Murders

Author: Robert H Fellows

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-01-16

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1496982746

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Detective Superintendent Larry Lunn was not averse to having a few wets at his local pubs on most days, as he enjoyed a drink, an enjoyment that his wife tried to change by suggesting they had a healthier lifestyle, and what resulted was an incident with muesli, followed by his hatred of health foods. However when it came to solving bizarre or difficult murders, there was no one finer than Lock Em Up Larry Lunn, yet ironically, thered been a series of murders in health food shops that had him baffled, and what fueled his frustration even more was Aymless Aymes, his senior officer, being particularly annoying by the way hed disastrously been meddling with his investigation. So with his sidekick, acting Detective Inspector Frank Sinetra, whom he took his frustrations out on, he would, with more luck than judgement, eventually get to the bottom of the mysterywith surprising results. Another enjoyable light read by this popular author.