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Gray Whale Inn mysteries volume 3
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English
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When a weight-loss program descends on the Gray Whale Inn for a group retreat, the women of Cranberry Island get a little body-conscious. Mainly, they're conscious of hard-bodied trainer Dirk DeLeon, whose hunky physique keeps hearts racing long after his exercise sessions end. But when Dirk turns up dead, lust-fueled rivalries lead to criminal accusations, and innkeeper Natalie Barnes watches in disbelief as her boyfriend John becomes the lead...
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Gray Whale Inn mysteries volume 1
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English
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Trading Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes has risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up wicked blueberry coffee cake and to-die-for fudgy frosted brownies for her visitors. But when one of her guests turn up dead, the police--and most of the islanders--think Natalie has added murder to the mix. Now, Natalie must get cooking and find the true killer before...
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Gray Whale Inn mysteries volume 2
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English
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Ruthless developers, annoying guests, a new ghost, and a former fiance are stirring things up on Cranberry Island--not to mention the cold-blooded murderer on the loose. Between baking bars and finding bodies, innkeeper Natalie Barnes has her hands full. Things reach a boiling point when Natalie's best friend Charlene is named the prime suspect in the case. Can Natalie solve the murders, save the island, and keep her best friend out of prison?...
4) Deadly brew
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It's Halloween in Buttercup, Texas, and reporter-turned-farmer Lucy Resnick is up to her ears in more than goats and wayward cows when exotic game ranch owner Bug Wharton turns up dead by a fatal dose of bee venom. When local witch and mead winery owner Seraphine Alexandre becomes the prime suspect, Lucy gets involved ... and soon discovers that all kinds of things are brewing in Buttercup, and some of them are deadly.
5) Fatal frost
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"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. Lucy needs additional holiday stress like she needs a blow to the head—which she receives one night, courtesy of the...
6) Killer jam
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Dewberry Farm mysteries volume 1
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English
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When Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, Texas, she's looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. But Lucy has barely finished putting up her first batch of Killer Dewberry Jam when an oil exploration truck rolls up to the farm and announces plans to replace her broccoli patch with an oil derrick. Two days later, Nettie Kocurek, the woman who ordered the drilling, turns up dead...
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Snug Harbor mystery volume 1
Publisher
Gray Whale Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Bookseller and recent divorcaee Max Sayers has risked her life savings to start a fresh chapter with the purchase of Seaside Cottage Books in cozy Snug Harbor, Maine. But she's barely opened the shop's doors when her new storybook life takes a dark turn. The morning after the grand opening--featuring a famous author who shows up at the store on the arm of Max's ex-husband--Max's rescue dog Winston finds a dead man on the beach behind the shop. The...
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Dewberry Farm mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Gray Whale Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"The eggs aren't the only things dyeing in Buttercup...It's springtime on Dewberry Farm, and homesteader Lucy Resnick is putting together her wares for the Easter Market. She's just finished potting the last of her herb starts when a tornado rips through her farm, destroying her crops, scattering her lifestock and tearing up the barn. As Lucy searches for two kids lost in the storm, she makes a grisly discovery: her neighbor's home health aide, Eva,...
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A Dewberry farm mystery volume 8
Publisher
Gray Whale Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A struggling peach orchard, a tangled love triangle, and a suspicious death have farmer Lucy Resnick's reporter instincts on high alert in the latest Dewberry Farm mystery.--
11) Scone cold dead
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Gray Whale Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Innkeeper Natalie Barnes is living her dream life, creating scrumptious scone recipes and relishing cool summer days on quaint Cranberry Island, Maine ... until she stumbles across a dead body tucked under the blueberry bushes. Could the killer be one of her artsy out-of-town guests? Or will the murderer turn out to be uncomfortably close to home?
12) Whale of a crime
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Gray Whale Press
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2017.
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English
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"When a tour company books the Gray Whale Inn for a full week, innkeeper Natalie Barnes can't wait to get cooking-- and to hitch a ride on the antique schooner Summer Winds, getting up close and personal with the local whales. But when one of the humpback whales turns up dragging a mass of fishing gear from its tail, the tour takes a dark turn. It turns darker still when the schooner's handsome captain winds up attached to the vessel's anchor, sixty...
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Gray Whale Press
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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"Crisp autumn breezes, sizzling bratwurst, warm gingerbread cookies... and just a dash of murder. It's Oktoberfest in Buttercup, Texas, and homesteader Lucy Resnick is taking a break from her chores to enjoy a day of bratwurst, craft beer, and German gingerbread at Sweetwater Brewery. But the day takes a bitter turn when one of the brewery owners turns up dead, crushed by a giant sack of barley. It doesn't take long for Sheriff Rooster (not the sharpest...
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Snug Harbor mystery volume 2
Publisher
Gray Whale Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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When fledgling bookseller Max Sayers agrees to host Snug Harbor, Maine's new mystery writers' group, she envisions filling Seaside Cottage Books with literary conversation, warm, fresh-baked cookies, and a community to support her assistant Bethany's mystery writing dream. But the group has barely begun its second meeting when local author Reginald Blakely accuses young Bethany of plagiarizing his novel. The next morning, Reginald turns up dead in...
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Publisher
Gray Whale Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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It may be autumn on Cranberry Island, Maine. but things are heating up for innkeeper Natalie Barnes - and not just because of the cranberry scones in the oven. When a research team discovers the remains of a long-missing German U-Boat just offshore, the Gray Whale Inn becomes the center of operations for the eccentric multmillionaire funding the team. But the excitement over the discovery is soon dampened when something else turns up next to the long-lost...
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Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2014
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English
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"With her own wedding fast approaching and her mother-in-law dating an unexpected beau, the last thing Natalie Barnes needs is to find a young man shot dead in a dinghy. A note she finds with the body suggests the dearly departed had a secret rendezvous planned with somebody on the island. But when suspicion is cast on a fisherman Natalie believes to be innocent, she begins to wonder if the murder was the result of a lover's quarrel...or a lobsterman's...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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With an upcoming gallery show and a popular young artist visiting Cranberry Island, art is on everyone's minds -- especially innkeeper Natalie Barnes. Her niece Gwen is chosen to present her work at the show, but the gallery owner insists on paintings in oil, which is not her medium. Natalie worries about her niece, and about the threat of foreclosure on the Gray Whale Inn. Then she finds Gwen's mentor dead -- in what the police believe was suicide....