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A Suspicion of Strawberries
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By Lynette Sowell / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

When Charla Rae Thacker and her bridesmaids show up at Andi's soap shop in Greenburg, Tennessee, for a morning of pre-wedding pampering, Andi bends over backwards to make it a pleasant experience for them all. But then Charla keels over and dies from anaphylactic shock after she uses Andi's personally blended cherries jubilee facial scrub. Andi suspects sabotage and murder when she discovers strawberries - a lethal allergen for Charla - in the scrub. Now, Andi must save her business and her reputation.

Alibi in Arkansas
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By Christine Lynxwiler, Sandy Gaskin & Jan Reynolds / Barbour Publishing

No matter where southern sisters Jenna and Carly go, murder turns up like a bad penny. When the local newspaper editor is killed and Carly's son is a suspect, Jenna decides to go undercover to get the scoop on murder. A vacation in Branson , Missouri, sounds like fun but Jenna and Carly are surprised to find that the glittering lights and twanging tunes make a perfect backdrop for...murder! Back home in Lakeview, Carly's new diner is really cooking. But the last time she looked, murder was NOT on the menu.. So why is there a body outside her backdoor?

Another Stab At Life
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By Anita Higman / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

She has nowhere to go, except the dilapidated mansion she's just inherited from her Granny Minna. Unfortunately, Bailey discovers the house has a history as shadowy as its hidden passages and finds the neighborhood overflowing with some rather quirky folks. Bailey suddenly feels like she's trapped inside the pages of a gothic novel - but with a comedic twist. In order to honor her grandmother's wishes and stay at Volstead Manor Bailey must unravel a string of mysteries and secrets, which all seem determined to stay happily ever buried.

Baker's Fatal Dozen
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By Lisa Harris / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Get ready to cook up a second helping of Pricilla Crumb and her hilarious schemes to serve up justice. When Reggie Pierce, who runs Pricilla Crumb's favorite bakery, is found dead, Pricilla finds herself hot on the trail of another sticky scandal that begins with murder. But as Pricilla chases after clues to catch a killer, will the road to her long-distance romance with Max hit a permanent detour?

Band Room Bash
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By Candice Miller Speare / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

None of the kids at Four Oaks High School like cold, beautiful Ms. Georgia Winters, the new English teacher. But that shouldn't be a reason to murder her, right? Or is it. . . Trish Cunningham and oldest stepson, Tommy, find Georgia dead in the band room with her head bashed in. The suspect list grows and the charges might be assault with a deadly. . .bassoon. Then again, maybe not. Once again, Trish pulls out her notebook to collect clues. But Detective Eric Scott, who is suffering his own personal issues with Trish's best friend, Abbie, pointedly asks Trish to butt out. Despite Detective Scott's warnings, she jumps in as usual and finds herself embroiled in a mystery that has its roots in thwarted love and revenge. The finale could be Trish's swan song.

Bye Bye Bertie
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By Nancy Mehl / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Ivy Towers lives in the tiny town of Winter Break, Kansas. While working hard to get her late aunt's rare bookstore, Miss Bitty's Bygone Bookstore, on its feet, she accidentally discovers a map hidden inside an old music box. Could it be the map to the Lost Gambler's Gold? The legend of the ill-fated gambler, who hid his fortune somewhere in Winter Break before an Indian raid in the 1860s, has circulated among residents ever since Ivy can remember. Unbeknownst to her boyfriend, Deputy Sheriff Amos Parker, Ivy follows the directions to the place where "X" marks the spot. What she digs up will uncover a mystery that leads to much more than she ever imagined. Lives will be changed, old secrets will be revealed, and Ivy will learn that sometimes, lost treasure can turn out to be much more valuable than a chest full of gold.

Cozy In Kansas
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By Nancy Mehl / Barbour Publishing

College student Ivy Towers has definite plans for her future. But when her great-aunt bitty is found dead inside her rare bookstore, Ivy must travel back to a place and a past she thought she'd left behind. She discovers that Bitty's supposed fall from her library ladder seems quite suspicious. Her decision to poke her nose into things changes her destiny and propels her into uncovering carefully hidden secrets buried deep below the surface in the small town of Winter Break, Kansas. Along the way, she will also discover that love can be found where you least expect it--and in the most mysterious circumstances.

Dead As a Scone, The Royal Tunbridge Mystery Series #1
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By Ron & Janet Benrey / Barbour Publishing

Curator of the Royal Tunbridge Wells tea Museum, Nigel Owen has learned that a dangerous criminal sits on the institution's board. But before the killer's identity is revealed, Dame Elspeth dies--from a tainted creme' brulee'! Arrogant forensicchemist Flick Adams joins Nigel in the investigation. Can these two prima donnas solve this jolly good mystery?

Death on a Deadline
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By Christine Lynxwiler, Jan Reynolds, & Sandy Gaskin / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Headline News; Jenna Stafford's nephew is accused of killing his boss, the newspaper editor. But stop the presses! Jenna recruits her sister, Carly, and they go undercover to get the scoop on the murder. Will the next headline proclaim: Jenna and Carly Expose Killer? Or will the sleuthing sisters end up the featured subjects in tomorrow's obit column?

Drop Dead Diva
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by Christine Lynxwiler, Jan Reynolds & Sandy Gaskin / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Free Branson vacation…in exchange for a little elbow grease and moral support. Jenna Stafford and her sister, Carly, dust off their cowboy boots, herd the kids into the SUV, and hightail it up to Branson, Missouri, to help with the grand opening of a friend's theater. To their amazement, the glittering lights and twanging tunes make a perfect backdrop for…murder! The high-maintenance star of the show gets on everyone's nerves. Until someone puts a permanent end to the diva's demands. Carly and Jenna's leading men are waiting in the wings. But with a whole band of suspects, can the sleuthing sisters make the killer play a different tune before their own song is silenced forever?

Everybody Loved Roger Harden
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By Cecil Murphey / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Psychologist Julie West and Reverend James Burton arrive late for dinner on Palm Island-but just in time to discover their host, millionaire Roger Harden, murdered. Ten possible suspects share close quarters on the secluded island, all of them with deep secrets and sufficient motive to have wanted the wealthy "benefactor" dead. Can Julie and Burton ignore the mysterious attraction developing between them long enough to discover who among them didn't love Roger Harden enough to let him live?

Everybody Wanted Room 623
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By Cecil Murphey / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

When psychologist Julie West arrives at Cartledge Inn in response to an urgent call from Stefan Lauber, a supposedly reformed criminal recently released from prision, a near-hysterical desk clerk tells her that Lauber has been murdered in his room-room 623..

Fog Over Finny's Nose
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By Dana Mentink / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

The worm business is thriving for vermi-culturist Ruth Budge. . . until a disembodied toe turns up on the golf course, and members of a strange cult begin to infiltrate the quiet seaside town of Finny, California. Life is already crazy for forty-seven-year-old Ruth, juggling the needs of her worm farm, her new spouse, and a platoon of crippled seabirds bequeathed to her by her dead husband. Then there's the insanity swirling around the first ever Finny Fog Festival and the discovery of a bizarre diary from one of the town's seediest ancestors. Things go from misty to murderous as a man plummets to his death from an exploding hot air balloon. Is the craziness a byproduct of the festival or a decades-old curse unearthed in the antique diary? Ruth had better find out fast or her worms won't be the only things six feet under.

For Whom The Wedding Bell Tolls
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By Nancy Mehl / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Ivy Towers is getting married to the love of her life. . .But she finds that trying to run a rare bookstore and plan her upcoming nuptials is more than she can handle. In steps Delaphine Shackleford, a new and unwilling resident in the small town of Winter Break, Kansas. Delaphine offers to be Ivy's wedding planner, and Ivy jumps at her offer. But hiring the eccentric woman will not only drive Ivy to the brink of madness, it will also propel her into the middle of a bizarre murder mystery!

Fudge Laced Felonies
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By Cynthia Hickey / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

While transplanting the rosebush her church's handsome greeter, Ethan Banning, inadvertently killed, Summer and Ethan discover a hidden stash of diamonds, a rusty can full of cash, and a bloody gardening. glove. This discovery sets Summer and her candy-making aunt on a search for a killer.

George Washington Stepped Here
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By KD Hays / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Karen Maxwell, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance her life as a soccer mom with her need to have a life of her own. After working as a bookkeeper in her brother's private investigation firm for years, she finally gets the chance to go undercover and handle a case on her own. Her first assignment is to find out who has stolen the local historical society's greatest treasure. Along the way she makes some new friends, one of whom is very attractive, unmarried, and unfortunately a prime suspect in the case.

Glory Be!
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By Ron Benrey / Steeple Hill

After a big falling out in the church, angry parishioners choose practical jokes as their weapon of choice. When a VW Bug shows up on Emma McCall's porch, she knows that matters need to be taken care of in a serious manner. She calls in the cops to help with the pranksters, and along with the detective comes the deputy police cheif, Rafe Neilson. When the events take a turn for the worse, Rafe knows he must do everything he can to prevent Emma from being caught in the crossfire.

Gone To Glory!
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By Ron and Janet Benrey / Steeple Hill

An unexpected windfall had greedy church choir members seeing green, taking sides and preparing for battle. Their weapon of choice? Practical jokes. And Emma McCall wanted no part of it, until a VW Bug appeared on her bed- and-breakfast porch. The combatants pranks were escalating, and only innkeeper Emma seemed to be taking them seriously. But before the pretty amateur could dust for fingerprints, an unexpected ally appeared: Glorys deputy police chief, Rafe Neilson. So when the antics became no laughing matter, the courageous single dad could not let impetuous Emma fight the pranksters alone.

Gunfight at Grace Gulch
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By Darlene Franklin / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

The feud between the Graces and the Gaynors is still going strong more than a century after its inception in the 1891 Oklahoma land run. Newspaper editor Penn Hardy is murdered during the reenactment of the most famous gunfight in the history of Grace Gulch, Oklahoma. Cici Wilde, owner of a vintage clothing store, feels compelled to investigate when police suspect people close to her. She soon discovers her talent for sleuthing equals her flare for wearing period clothing. Theater director Audie Howe never expected the reenactment to end in a real murder. He cares too much for the future of the Magda Grace Mallory Theater - and the charming Cici Wilde - to let her face danger alone. Cici and Audie take a dangerous gamble to nail the killer - and lay their lives on the line.

Homicide at Blue Heron Lake
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By Susan Page and Megan Davis / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Emily Grant returns to the lakeside community of Baxter, Maine, expecting a peaceful week in her family's island cottage. Instead, she and her high school crush, Nate Holman, discover the body of Henry Derbin, an elderly island resident. Later, Emily finds another body, buried more than a decade earlier, on Mr. Derbin's land. Can Emily and Nate overcome past hindrances to their romance long enough to dig up clues that will help solve both murders?

Humble Pie, Pippa Hunnechurch Mystery Series #3
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By Ron & Janet Benrey / Broadman / Holman

Pippa Hunnechurch's professional reputation is on the line---and her life is in jeopardy. The hottest software company in town has hauled her recruiting firm into court on a charge of "consultant malpractice." A bad situation gets worse when a ruthless industrial spy starts murdering people---and includes Pippa on his hit list. Can she elude the killer and save her company from ruin? 304 pages, softcover from Broadman & Holman.

In The Dead of Winter
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By Nancy Mehl / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Samantha "Ivy" Towers returns to Winter Break, Kansas, where she spent her summers as a child, to make funeral arrangements for her Aunt Bitty. While there, she begins to suspect her aunt's death, which resulted from a fall in her bookshop, wasn't an accident after all. Childhood friend, Amos Parker, now sheriff of Winter Break, seems anxious to get Ivy out of town. A missing book, a message scrawled by an unknown person, and an extra coffee cup leaves Ivy with more questions than answers.

Miss Aggie's Gone Missing
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By Frances Devine/ Heartsong Presents Mysteries

When Aggie Pennington-Brown mysteriously disappears on the same day the Cedar Chapel bank is robbed, the sheriff assumes she was kidnapped by the robbers, and the whole town seems to agree. Victoria Storm, owner of Cedar Lodge Boarding House and her elderly boarders reluctantly come to the same conclusion. But when secrets from their missing friend's past begin to unfold, a horrible possibility arises. Could someone they know and love have harmed Miss Aggie? Could it be one of them? As Victoria and her elderly friends attempt to solve the mystery and locate Miss Aggie, more secrets are revealed until Victoria begins to wonder if there is anyone she can trust.

Murder By Mushroom
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By Virginia Smith / Steeple Hill

Serving up murderous munchies at a church potluck social wouldn't win any popularity contests, as Jackie Hoffner discovered. Someone had laced the casserole she brought with poisonous mushrooms. and the deadly dish had fellow churchgoer and town fussbudget Alice Farmer pushing up daisies. Now the gossip-hungry townsfolk suspected Jackie of foul play. To prove her innocence, she decided to conduct her own murder investigation, and Trooper Dennis Walsh's helpful efforts and boy-next-door charm were welcome. Meanwhile, the town's mysterious poisoner seemed to have more victims in mind...

Murder In The Milkcase
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By Candice Miller Speare / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

When mommy and wife Trish Cunningham finds the body of pharmacist Jim Bob Jenkins behind the two-percent milk, she knows she's having a bad day. Worse, she's a suspect in the case. Sleuthing to exonerate herself from murder charges, she shakes up a murderer who has nothing to lose by killing anyone in the way–including Trish.

Murder On The Ol Bunions
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By S. Dionne Moore / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

LaTisha Barnhart's bunions tell her something's afoot as she delves deeper into the murder of her former employer, Marion Peters. When LaTisha becomes a suspect, the ante is upped, and she is determined to clear her name and find the real culprit.

Mysterious Incidents at Lone Rock
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By Rajendra Pillai / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Professor Rich Harrison and his colleague from India, Chinni Roy, have been invited for a relaxing weekend at Lone Rock, an estate in the country owned by a female friend of Rich's. While Rich anticipates the trip, Chinni is thinking about murder, That's not surprising. After all,he was a police detective in India, so he's always prepared for the worst. When a shot rings out in the middle of the night and someone is found dead, Chinni uses all his tools and his experience to help the police find the killer. Along the way, Rich learns a few things about sleuthing from his detective friend, applying the model of algebraic formula to reach a conclusion, as well as expecting the unexpected--especially in matters of the heart.

No Love Lost
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By Lynn Bulock / Steeple Hill

I seem to be gathering quite a collection of murder victims: first my husband, then my contractor. And now my ex-husbands fiancee has turned up dead. But I, Gracie Lee Harris, am on the job-much to the dismay of my boyfriend, homicide detective Ray Fernandez. I have enlisted the ladies of the Christian Friends to help me figure out who killed my ex's sweetie not long before their wedding. My ex is the prime suspect, but his fiancee kept secrets that might have been deadly. I just pray that her secrets don't get me killed!

Pedigreed Bloodlines
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By Sandra Robbins / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Pedigreed Bloodlines, set in the fictional Smoky Mountain Resort town of St. Claire, North Carolina, introduces Leigh Dennison as the antique dealer turned sleuth when the woman who has been like a mother to her is murdered. Leigh who struggles with ADD, her best friend Marcie Payton, and Blake Cameron, the love of her life, will return in two more adventures.

Recipe For Murder
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By Lisa Harris / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Pricilla never expected to be involved in a real life mystery, but that's exactly where she finds herself when she joins her son at his hunting lodge in the beautiful Colorado mountains. A superb cook and articulate hostess, Priscilla plans an informal buffet for the guests at her son's hunting lodge. But the dinner party turns to chaos when a guest is found dead after sampling one of her salmon-filled tartlets.

The Final Crumpet, The Royal Tunbridge Mystery Series #2
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By Ron & Janet Benrey / Barbour Publishing

Etienne Makepeace, England's celebrated "Tea Sage," vanished without a trace in 1966, leaving the whole of Great Britain wondering what became of the famed radio personality. Forty years is hastily buried remains are discovered beneath two sickly Assam tea bushes in the Royal Tunbridge Wells Tea Museaum's tea garden--along with the pistol that killed him. Nigel Owens, curator, and Flick Adams, tea chemist, are thus embroiled in the second mystery to threaten the integrity of the museum. Are they in over their heads this time?

Trouble Up Finny's Nose
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By Dana Mentink / Heartsong Presents Mysteries

Dead bodies in the fountain? The discovery of her late husband's secret novel? Come join Ruth Budge in the not so quiet town of Finny, California where trouble doesn't stay buried for long.

When Zeffie Got a Clue
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By Peggy Darty / Waterbrook Press

It's an ordinary afternoon in Summer Breeze, Florida, when a young, wide- eyed girl steps into I Saw It First, the trash-to-treasure shop Christy Castleman and her Aunt Bobbie have opened. Clutching a jewelry box, Zeffie Adams tells Christy she needs money to pay her grandmother's medical bills, prompting Christy to offer this curious visitor more than the jewelry box is worth-or so she thinks. But complicated questions form when Christy rips out the box's lining and uncovers a clue to a cold case murder mystery from eight years ago. Despite warnings from her family and handsome boyfriend Dan Brockman, Christy decides to do a little detective work of her own. After all, the infamous murder happened close to her grandmother's farm. How risky could it be to take the jewelry box back to the Strickland plantation and ask around about it?

Where The Truth Lies
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By Elizabeth Ludwig & Janelle Mowery/ Heartsong Presents Mysteries

A case of suicide leads an amateur sleuth on a trail of deceit and corruption… Casey Alexander refuses to believe her aunt committed suicide. Convinced a murderer is hiding out in her aunt's sleepy hometown, she'll do anything to uncover the truth. But as her personal investigation produces mounting evidence, the danger to Casey grows. Now she'll be forced to trust certain residents of Pine Mills for help, including local nursery owner, Luke Kerrigan. . .the man with whom she's falling love. . .and who may be stalking her. Prompted by strange clues and a mysterious stranger, Casey does a little more digging. The secrets she unearths will turn lives upside down and threaten the peace in Pine Mills' small community-especially when she discovers that the truth can sometimes be hidden in a lie.

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About Your Host Susan Sleeman

Susan is passionate about Christian Suspense both as a reader and a writer. Susan is the author of seven Christian Suspense novels and she looks forward to the day her agent finds a publishing home for her work. Read more about Susan's . . .
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