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A Catered Thanksgiving (Mystery with Recipes Series #7)

Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons have handled plenty of catering challenges with grace and aplomb. But this Thanksgiving, they're cooking a feast for felons... Whipping up Thanksgiving dinner with…

A Deadly Feast (Key West Food Critic Mystery Series #9)

Key West food critic Hayley Snow scents-es something fishy when a customer falls stone-crab cold dead on a seafood tasting tour. Thanksgiving is nearly here, and Key West food critic Hayley Snow…

A Good Dog's Guide to Murder (Paws & Claws Mystery #8)

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…

A Killer Kebab (Greek to Me Mystery #3)

The Bonaparte House is closed for the season, and Georgie Nikolopatos looks forward to fixing up the Greek restaurant and historic landmark-until her renovation plans hit a fatal snag. With her…

A Very Mummy Holiday (Tourist Trap Mystery Novella)

Jill Gardner has left her book-and-coffee shop behind to spend Thanksgiving week in coastal Oregon with her cop boyfriend, her golden retriever Emma, and a crowd of friends and family. But before…

Bittersweet (China Bayles Mystery Series #22)

It’s Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs, and China is planning to visit her mother, Leatha, and her mother’s husband, Sam, who are enthusiastically embarking on a new enterprise-turning their former…

Black Thursday (Mrs. Frugalicious Shopping Mystery Series #2)

A death by falling toasters crushes the fun of Black Friday When Maddie Michaels is invited by a local news channel to shop on camera for Black Friday, she leaps at the opportunity to share…

Cold Drip (Barks & Beans Cafe Mystery #6)

Welcome to the Barks & Beans Cafe, a quaint place where folks pet shelter dogs while enjoying a cup of java...and where murder sometimes pays a visit.

Thanksgiving is on the…

Death by Hot Apple Cider (Bookstore Cafe Mystery #9)

Krissy Hancock’s bookstore-café in Pine Hills, Ohio, is teaming up with the local library for a seasonal celebration, but someone is spiking the refreshments—with fatal results...
 

Death Rides Again (Jocelyn Shore Mystery Series #3)

Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore’s family reunion is getting smaller by the minute with each suspicious death in the latest in Janice Hamrick’s award-winning mystery series With the…

Double Chocolate Cookie Murder (A Cook-Off Mystery #5)

Sherry Oliveri is used to competing in cook-offs, but this time she’s serving as a judge. The upside is that she gets to taste all the contestants’ cookies. The downside is that one of the bakers…

Drizzled with Death (Sugar Grove Mysteries Series #1)

The annual pre-Thanksgiving pancake-eating contest is a big event in Sugar Grove, New Hampshire. It’s sponsored by the Sap Bucket Brigade, aka the firefighters auxiliary, and the Greene family…

Fanny Packs and Foul Play (Haley Randolph Mystery Novella)

Amateur sleuth Haley Randolph returns in a hilarious novella from mystery author Dorothy Howell. Fashionista and event planner to the stars Haley Randolph thinks the Thanksgiving Day feast she’s…

Fatal Festivities (Dune House Cozy Mystery #23)

The celebratory dinner was going well, until a guest drops dead at the table!

Suzie and Mary love running Dune House, the majestic B&B on the beach, with their…

Friends, Family and Fugitives (Dune House Cozy Mystery #27)

A Thanksgiving to die for.

Mary’s daughter and her friends are visiting for a few days over Thanksgiving and Suzie and Mary are so excited. But with two bounty…

Gobble, Gobble Murder (2 Thanksgiving Stories)

For Lucy Stone, Thanksgiving in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, is more than just gathering friends and family in gratitude. It’s also about catching a killer or two . . .

This contains two…

Kick The Bouquet (Flower Shop Mystery Series #20)

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and Abby is in a pickle. Does she go to her parents’ house for dinner or break with tradition and go to Marco’s mother’s house instead? Abby’s mom is…

Maggie's Brujo (Maggie McGill Mysteries #3)

As a child Maggie McGill dreamed of riding the range through the wide open spaces of a Wild West filled with cattle rustlers, white hats, and black hats galore. When Maggie and her daughter, Allie…

Murder of a Barbie and Ken (Scumble River Series #5)

In search of a social life in Scumble River, Skye Denison has revently joined the GUMBettes-the ladies auxiliary of the men's Grand Union of the Mighty Bulls. Now she and her boyfriend Simon…

Murder On The ICW (Magnolia Mystery Series #5)

During the Prohibition Era, moonshine operations flourished along the creeks that fed the Intracoastal Waterway. So Ashley Wilkes, historic preservationist, is not surprised to learn that the…

Overkilt (Liss MacCrimmon Mystery #12)

Liss MacCrimmon’s meddlesome mother is back in Moosetookalook, Maine, to serve a hefty portion of trouble in time for Thanksgiving. But when a scandalous murder case threatens to leave Liss alone…

Peanut Butter Panic (Amish Candy Shop Mystery #7)

Thanksgiving is Bailey King’s busiest holiday weekend. This year promises to be even more hectic, since Bailey’s candy shop, Swissmen Sweets, is providing desserts for Harvest, Ohio’s first…

Pilgrim in the Parlor (Inn at Holiday Bay #6)

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted,…

Poison in the Pudding (Inn at Holiday Bay #17)

In book 17 in the series, Abby joins Colt as he investigates the death of a local man who died after eating pudding dosed with poison during a community dinner. Was the man targeted or was the…

Raspberry Danish Murder (Hannah Swensen Series #22)

Thanksgiving has a way of thawing the frostiest hearts in Lake Eden. But that won’t be happening for newlywed Hannah Swensen Barton-not after her husband suddenly disappears... Hannah has felt as…

Roasted in Christmas River (Christmas Mystery Novella)

Gobble gobble, cluck cluck, someone has stolen Jack Daniels the turkey this Thanksgiving, leaving a Christmas River family fresh out of luck! It's Thanksgiving week in Christmas River, and pie…

Rock-a-Bye Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series #16)

Sarah Booth Delaney knows the perfect way to begin recovering from both the recent attack on Scott Hampton’s blues club and her broken heart. She’s going to host a Thanksgiving feast for all of…

Scot in a Trap (Last Ditch Mystery #5)

WINNER OF THE 2023 ANTHONY AWARD FOR BEST HUMOROUS NOVEL

In this darkly funny mystery Lexy Campbell's first love turns up dead at the Last Ditch Motel on Thanksgiving…

Secondhand Stiff (Odelia Grey Mystery Series #8)

Spending Thanksgiving with her faultfinding mother has Odelia more tightly wound than a turkey in November. But her husband's cousin Ina, who shows up for dinner with ugly bruises and without her…

Silent Secrets (Whispering Pines Mystery #7)

In Whispering Pines, even downtime can be deadly.
 
The quiet time of year as settled over Whispering Pines. For months, Sheriff Jayne O’Shea had been looking forward to a little R…