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By Lorena McCourtney (Rogue Ridge Press)

RIPTIDE is the second book in The Julesburg Mysteries, a three-book series of Christian romantic suspense set on the rugged Oregon coast. (Earlier published in paperback. )Twin sisters Sarah MacIntosh and Julie Armstrong have just found each other after being raised by different families and each never knowing the other existed. Their bond is strong and immediate, true “twins of the heart. ” They plan to buy and remodel Julesburg’s old Nevermore theater as a mini-mall for artisans and crafts people.

By Sharon Dunn (Kregel Publications)

No one makes a fool of Ruby Taylor—or her friends. This tough cookie of a detective winds up in a tangled mystery. Follow the fiery redhead through a harrowing adventure to right the wrongs of love—with helicopters, flying buffalo, and a heart-pounding chase scene for good measure. Guaranteed fiction!.

By Audrey Stallsmith (WaterBrook)

BOOK THREE OF THE INTRIGUING “THYME WILL TELL” MYSTERY SERIES Can Regan Culver prune away a thorny tangle of suspicion and danger that’s strangling an heirloom rose society? After wildlife rehabilitator Damia Day costs senatorial hopeful Bram Falco the election, her animal patients are slaughtered and her prized rose bushes poisoned–presumably in retaliation. Since both Day and Falco are members of the heirloom rose society founded by Regan Culver’s mother, Regan is asked to intervene. But when someone replaces Falco’s lighter fluid with gasoline at a society cookout, the resulting explosion disfigures him for life and a deadly, modern-day War of the Roses ignites. To quench it, Regan must discover the truth about another fiery accident that dates back to the seventies and has left one charred body unidentified for twenty-five years. But before the mystery is solved, a murderer will strike again.

By Anita Higman, Hillary McMullen (Forget Me Not Romances, a division of Winged Publications)

When Anne’s mother agrees to marry a wealthy, mysterious man, she expects a nice mansion in the hills. But their new home, Belrose Abbey, is more like a castle—imposing, cold, and full of shadows. The more Anne explores the corridors and vacant rooms and dusty crannies, the more she discovers about the abbey’s master—her soon-to-be stepfather—Ivan Helsburg. As her mother’s wedding draws closer, Anne begins to harbor a creeping suspicion that all is not well at Belrose Abbey.

By Julianna Deering (Farlinford Press)

Downton Abbey Meets Agatha Christie in This Sparkling MysteryFrom the tip of his black Homburg hat to the crease in his cheviot trousers, he\’s the epitome of a stylish 1930s English gentleman. His only problem? The body he’s just discovered. Drew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate. With the help of beautiful and whip-smart Madeline Parker, visiting from America, Drew proposes to use the lessons he\’s learned reading mysteries in order to solve the crime. Before long, he realizes this is no lark, and no one at Farthering Place is who he appears to be — not the blackmailer, not the adulterer, not the embezzler, and not even Drew himself.

By Christy Barritt (River Heights)

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