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The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt (The Grub-and-Stakers #5)
by Charlotte MacLeodA widowed gardener meets a ghost from frontier times who&’s out for revenge: &“The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod&’s cup of tea&” (Chicago Tribune). Zilla Trott is pouring her cat some chamomile tea when the drifter appears in her kitchen. He is grubby and crude—not at all the kind of person you&’d usually find in the pleasant town of Lobelia Falls—but something about him intrigues the aging widow. Perhaps it&’s his rugged good looks, or the way he seems to come from another time and place. Or perhaps it&’s the fact that he&’s been dead for nearly a century. When Lobelia Falls was in its rough-and-tumble frontier infancy, Hiram Jellyby was the best mule driver the town had ever seen, until an argument over a hidden cache of gold left him bleeding to death in a back alley. He returns in spectral form to secure a proper burial, and finds that in modern-day Lobelia Falls, no one knows more about turning the soil than Zilla Trott&’s gardening buddies—all members of Dittany Monk&’s fearless Grub-and-Stake Gardening and Roving Club.
The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain (The Grub-and-Stakers #1)
by Charlotte MacLeodA small town gardening—and archery—club must solve a murder case and save their town from developers in the first cozy mystery featuring Dittany Henbit. Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with a bow and arrow. Practicing the craft, freelance secretary Dittany Henbit is strolling through the woods with her bow at her side when she meets a surveyor making surveys where he shouldn&’t. Dittany is giving him what-for when an arrow goes whizzing above her head. It is sharp enough to kill, and was not fired by accident, but Dittany wasn&’t the target. She and the surveyor find Mr. Architrave, the head of the water department, not far away—lying dead beneath the trees that he loved so much. Progress is coming to Lobelia Falls, and one resident will do anything to stop it. But in a town where every child can shoot, how can Dittany discover who drew the killer bow?
The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke (The Grub-and-Stakers #3)
by Charlotte MacLeodThe curtains almost close on an actor in this cozy gardening club mystery featuring amateur sleuth Dittany Henbit and her husband, Osbert Monk. When Jenson Thorbisher-Freep announces an amateur theatrical contest, the women in the Grub-and-Stake gardening club race to join in. They enlist Osbert Monk as their playwright—not only is he married to their club leader Dittany Monk, but he&’s famous the world over as Lex Laramie, bestselling novelist of Westerns. Taking the legend of Dangerous Dan McGrew as his inspiration, Osbert delivers a rough draft faster than the Pony Express. Now all the Grub-and-Stakers have to do is cast it. To play McGrew, Dittany picks town cad Andrew McNaster, who has recently improved his manners in an attempt to woo Osbert&’s aunt, Arethusa. The gunslinger&’s performance gets a bit too real on opening night, though, when his prop bullets are replaced with real ones, and claim the toe of a fellow thespian. Is McNaster as nice as he pretends to be? Or has he taken his part too close to heart, and decided to become very dangerous indeed?
The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee
by Alisa CraigAn heirloom quilt is the key to a mystery... and the perfect cover-up for murder.
The Grub-and-Stakers Quilt a Bee (The Grub-and-Stakers #2)
by Charlotte MacLeodWhen the seeds of a mystery are planted, gardening club member Dittany Henbit digs up clues in the cozy series from the international bestselling author. The Grub-and-Stakers gardening club has traditionally limited its activities to serving tea and gossiping about wildflowers, but when water department supervisor John Architrave is found murdered in the woods, club member Dittany Henbit turns to solving mysteries. After Architrave&’s will reveals that he bequeathed his ramshackle old house to the Grub-and-Stakers, with instructions for it to be turned into a museum, Dittany resigns herself to weeks of cleaning out the mansion and sorting through donated town &“artifacts.&” The task turns interesting, however, the minute bodies start falling from the sky. The new curator is airing out the house&’s attic when he takes his tumble off the roof. So unlikely is it that he would fall out the tiny attic window, that Dittany has no choice but to attempt to add one captured killer to the young museum&’s permanent collection.
The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn
by Alisa CraigA ruthless robber knits a deadly pattern of deception and murder.
The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn (The Grub-and-Stakers #4)
by Charlotte MacLeodA murder in a yarn store leads to some wild and woolly adventures in this &“energetic and merry&” mystery (Publishers Weekly). When word gets out that Dittany Monk, the sleuthing gardener of Lobelia Falls, is expecting twins, every knitter in town races to Miss Jane Fuzzywuzzy&’s Yarnery to begin work on a complete wardrobe of hats, booties, and tiny sweaters. One customer, however, has even more urgent business: the man with the gunshot wounds in his back. The victim stumbles out of a bullet-ridden car, dripping blood all over the freshly cleaned sidewalk, and dies with a peculiar phrase on his lips: &“The raveled sleeve!&” Before Miss Jane can offer advice on how to rescue an unraveling sweater, her unfortunate customer expires. To ensure her twins can be raised in a safe hometown, Dittany will have to get the yarn-store murder sewn up.
The Grudge
by Dolores Hitchens Bert HitchensThis crime novel from the authors of The Man Who Followed Women features two Los Angeles railroad detectives and explosive suspense. Tommy Collins has escaped from a midwestern prison, using dynamite to blast his way out—and killing a nurse in the process. The explosion was felt over a thousand miles away, where Tommy&’s sister lives in fear in Los Angeles. She has squirreled her mother and younger sister away, afraid Tommy will come after them for turning him in to the cops. Aftershocks also shake the LA office of railroad detectives Chuck Reeves and veteran John Farrel when some remote railway yards become the targets of mysterious detonations. Connections are made, and the detectives quickly realize Tommy holds a violent grudge against the railroad for firing him from his job. And with nothing to lose, his rampage is getting worse the closer he gets to his desperate family . . . &“Almost unbearable suspense . . . Holds the reader to the last punctuation mark.&” —Greensboro News & Record
Gruel and Unusual Punishment (An Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #10)
by Tamar MyersAn Amish Bed and Breakfast Mystery with Recipes – PennDutch Mysteries #10 Pennsylvania Dutch Inn owner Magdalena Yoder is back in the tenth book in the mouthwatering series... Conman Clarence Webber career has been long and very lucrative—until he landed himself in Hernia’s jail, and is promptly poisoned. Since Magdalena’s PennDutch Inn provides all of the meals for Hernia’s tiny jail, all eyes are on her. She retraces Webber’s criminal path through Pennsylvania—and even Maryland!—she soon discovers that he left a long list of victims, all with good reason to try to do the conman in!! With the reputation of her beloved PennDutch Inn on the line, Magdalena puts on her investigator bonnet to learn who in Hernia poisoned the gruel… “Bubbling over with mirth and mystery.” –Dorothy Cannell b>“A delicious treat.” –Carolyn G. Hart “Charming and delightful...Tamar Myers [keeps] it fresh and original.” -- Midwest Book Review
A Gruesome Discovery: A Mystery Set in 1920s Ireland (A reverend Mother Aquinas Mystery #4)
by Cora HarrisonIreland. 1925. Like all who seek charitable contributions, Reverend Mother Aquinas is used to being gifted some fairly dubious items. But nothing like this. On opening the evil-smelling trunk, labelled 'old books', the Reverend Mother is horrified to discover it contains the dead body of one of Cork's richest merchants, wrapped in decomposing animal hides. Many had reason to loathe the hides and skins merchant: his rebellious, republican son; his frustrated, clever daughter; his neighbours; his business rivals; and those whose unbaptised babies were buried on the site of his new tanning yard. But when suspicion falls on a former lay sister from her convent, the Reverend Mother decides she must help find the real killer.
Guard (The Underground #3)
by Becca JamesonHaley Sullivan has been through hell and back. Mistaken for homeless, she was snatched off the street by the Russian Mafia and injected with an unknown substance for two weeks. Confused and scared out of her mind, she manages to get her hands on a gun and shoots randomly at a group of men, hoping to escape. Mikhail Dudko has followed two Russian idiots who work for the Mafia after a strange ransom exchange. After a shootout that leaves the two mobsters dead—along with the owner of the house—he’s shocked to find the initial shooter to be a frightened, drugged, redheaded woman who takes his breath away in an instant. But Haley’s saga has just begun. The Russian Mafia wants her back. And Mikhail finds himself glued to her side twenty-four-seven in an effort to protect her. As he falls harder for her every day, he realizes she’s everything he could ever ask for in a woman: gorgeous, kindhearted, and…submissive. Haley has a lot to work through. The last thing she needs is a man breathing down her back night and day. An enormous man who fights mixed martial arts for an underground Mafia ring and spends the rest of his time bossing her around in a way that makes her heart beat rapidly and her toes curl under just looking at him. Has she changed? Or did she always have a latent need to be dominated in her blood?
A Guard Dog Named Honey
by Denise Gosliner OrensteinI made my birthday vow: I would get Willis out of jail, no matter what.When Bean's brother gets arrested for joyriding in a stolen car, Bean is devastated. She's determined to get him out of jail by raising the bail their mom can't afford. She tries everything, from applying for summer jobs, to offering to paint summer mansions. It's at one of those old mansions that she meets a young girl named Phoebe and her giant (and very valuable) guard dog, Honey.Bean quickly hatches her plan: She'll convince Phoebe to sell Honey and let her use some of the cash for bail.But when Honey's sale takes a dangerous turn, Bean is torn between her desire for her brother's freedom and her loyalty to Phoebe and sweet, drooly, affectionate Honey. Can Bean fight for her family without betraying her new friends?
Guard of Honor
by William P. KennedyAn isolated Carolina military camp offers training in torture techniques for aspiring Green Berets, but when a series of officers are murdered using these techniques, an investigation threatens to reveal the military's darker side.
Guardami: Autrice bestseller USA TODAY (Serie Blind Sight #1)
by Lexy Timms"A volte il cuore vede ciò che è invisibile agli occhi." Bree era il tipo donna che assaporava ogni attimo della propria esistenza uscendo di continuo, facendo surf, dipingendo e dando una mano alle associazioni di beneficienza del proprio quartiere. Era sempre circondata da tantissimi amici ed era ufficialmente fidanzata. Fin quando la sua vita intera non subisce un brusco arresto. Dopo aver rotto il rapporto con il proprio fidanzato in seguito ad un brutto litigio, perdere la vista a causa di un violento colpo al viso in un incidente stradale con la propria auto. Nonostante sia consapevole di essere sopravvissuta per puro miracolo, la sua vita sprofonda nell'oscurità. Sa che la bellezza del mondo è ancora attorno a lei ma non può raggiungerla e adesso odia la propria vita. Non importa quanto i sui amici e suo padre cerchino in tutti i modi di aiutarla a vivere di nuovo come prima. Quando suo padre decide di assumere un infermiere che si prenda cura di lei, Bree va su tutte le furie. Ha bisogno di riacquistare la vista, non di un babysitter. E che sia dannata se non odierà la sua vita ancora più di prima. SERIE BLIND SIGHT Guardami Proteggimi Il tuo sguardo su di me
Guarded by the Marshal
by Sharee StoverTracking a fugitive… and shielding an infant. When police chief Dani Fontaine gets an emergency call, she never expects to be ambushed by gunfire—or to find her friend&’s abandoned baby. Now Dani must keep the child safe, while evading assailants and investigating a leak in her department. And that means working with Deputy US Marshal Beckham Walsh, the man who almost destroyed her career. Protecting a child while searching for stolen weapons becomes more perilous at every turn. And with a target on their backs and multiple suspects, it could be their deadliest mission yet…From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Guarded by the Soldier (Justice Seekers #2)
by Laura ScottHe’ll put his life on the line…If it means protecting a little boy and his pregnant mom.After months of searching, security expert Ryker Tillman finally finds Olivia Habush and her young son—just as they are attacked by armed mercenaries. Now safeguarding Olivia, her unborn child and little Aaron is the former special ops soldier’s new mission. But to save the family burrowing into his heart, Ryker must figure out why someone wants them dead…USA TODAY Bestselling Author
Guarded Moments
by Cassie MilesBodyguard David Marquis knew Tasha Lancer was a marked woman. Hired to protect her by an anonymous third party, David was ready to lay down his life for her, sight unseen. But when he actually laid eyes on his beautiful, raven-haired new client, the stakes were raised. Tasha refused to admit she was in danger--and David began to fall for her, even as he realized she had a hidden past, one that could get them both killed. ...
A Guardiã do Irmão
by J. J. DiBenedettoJane Barnaby planejou as férias perfeitas de Natal. Seu pai e sua noiva estão indo com ela para a Espanha em uma escavação arqueológica. Poderão ver o seu trabalho, conhecer seu mentor e desfrutar de alguns dias nas praias ensolaradas do Mediterrâneo, em pleno auge do inverno. Mas tudo se desfaz quando o irmão irritante de Jane os acompanha e vai parar na prisão por um crime que não cometeu. Para limpar o nome do irmão, tudo o que Jane precisa fazer é perseguir uma vigarista astuta por toda a Europa, capturá-la e confrontar a mulher e seus cúmplices. Ah, e enganar um ex-agente da KGB e seu esquadrão pessoal ao longo do caminho.
Guardia e ladri (Delitti e disastri)
by Rhys FordUn racconto della serie Delitti e disastriSi ride e si scherza finché non ci si imbatte nel corpo di un uomo morto. La vita di Alex Martin è piuttosto ordinaria. Dal Planet X Comics, il suo negozio di fumetti, passano i geek e gli strambi, ma ormai lui non fa più caso alle loro stranezze. Tutto cambia il giorno in cui apre il negozio e trova un cadavere sul pavimento. A indagare viene chiamato il detective James Castillo. Alex non sa se vorrebbe abbarbicarsi all’uomo oppure stargli alla larga ma, per fortuna, anche il detective si mostra interessato ad Alex… perché sospetta proprio di lui.
El Guardián
by Katrina Bowlin-Mackenzie Silvia García BarrioUna mujer es secuestrada por un culto satánico, pero la policía la rescata. Años después la vuelven a secuestrar, y esta vez, su novio, Ardan Kane, el sheriff y su equipo seguirán las pistas y lucharán por encontrarla antes de que el ritual se complete. Este libro contiene material adulto y rituales satánicos.
The Guardian
by Bill EidsonNine-year-old Janine Stearns and her parents stop at a convenience store to buy ice cream. Moments later, a masked gunman walks in and robs the store, shooting the clerk and kidnapping Janine. What begins as a seemingly random act of violence quickly becomes a world of dark interconnections and horrifying possibilities. Nothing is as it appears. It is left to Ross Stearns, Janine&’s uncle and guardian, to rescue Janine and end the nightmare of senseless violence.The Guardian is an experience of shocking power that takes off like a rocket from the very first chapter.
The Guardian
by Christopher KenworthyA dark and disturbing thriller of one man’s deadly rampage to rescue a young girl from human traffickers by the author of Lakeside Murders. A former mercenary and paramilitary in some of the most terrifying organized fighting groups in the world, Harry Carver stops at nothing to hunt down those who do him wrong. Born American but living in Britain, Carver is protecting Lynn, his vulnerable ward and her daughter, Irene. But when both go missing, he learns the shocking truth: Irene, young and beautiful, has been sold into modern-day slavery. Sigmund Dark is the illustrious and Machiavellian owner of an elite prostitution ring, with syndicates in London, Paris, and all other major cities of Europe. Sitting atop his constructed throne in an elaborate Carcassonne palace, Dark thinks he is impenetrable and infallible. But he hasn’t planned for the fury of Harry Carver. An expert fighter and detective, Carver skates his way around the streets of Paris and elegant Carcassonne to track down Irene’s kidnappers. He must force his way into Dark’s shady, horrific prostitution ring, any way he can. He will not give in. He is a guardian until death.
The Guardian
by Jeffrey KonvitzThe evil continuesin this sequel to the New York Times-bestselling The Sentinel Satanic forces return to an apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side with the discovery of a grotesque, charred body and two other eerily linked murders. When the young woman who stumbles upon the body is raped, her husband begins a furious quest for revenge. Meanwhile in the building, a blind and paralyzed nun with sinister intentions stares vacantly out of an upstairs window and a cunning priest tries desperately to save more innocent lives from destruction. Full of hellish twists and turns, The Guardian is a story of what happens when you come face to face with evil incarnate.
Guardian
by Catherine MannTHEY'D DO ANYTHING FOR COUNTRY. AND EVERYTHING FOR EACH OTHER. After a dark ops malfunction, Major David Berg finds himself dead center in a military trial. It's a race against time to root out the truth, and Major Sophie Campbell isn't making that any easier. The hot JAG wants to bring down David's unit and fast. His testimony is crucial to winning a case that will make her career. All Sophie has to do is ignore this witness's unflappable charm, his unnerving good looks, and a strong, solid presence that commands her attention. It's not easy for David, either. His attraction to this take-charge beauty is turning him inside out. But these adversaries have more in common than secret, mutual desire. There's a traitor somewhere in the dark ops and now, to find him, David and Sophie must work together--relentlessly, tirelessly, and so intimately it could be damn near fatal.
The Guardian
by Cindi MyersMemories of rescuing her fueled his dreams. Seeing her again fueled his desire. Far from the mountains of Afghanistan, Abby Stewart found solace in the wild country of western Colorado. But after finishing one war, she was caught in another. In securing the crime scene, Lieutenant Michael Dance was more surprised to see Abby than the dead body. How could he forget her face after caring for her wounds and saving her life? And yet she didn't remember him at all. That wouldn't stop him from embarking on a high stakes investigation leading to much worse than murder. And if it helped jog Abby's memory and soften her toward him, he wouldn't leave her side until she was safe once more...