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Murder hits a little too close to home for bakery owner Lexy Baker when a grim discovery is made in Jack's - her homicide detective husband - basement. With Jack as the main suspect, Lexy has to turn up the heat and find the real killer while still trying to whip up the perfect meringue cookie recipe for the Brook Ridge Falls Desserts contest. Normally, she would enlist the aid of Nans, her amateur detective grandmother. Except... Nans has a secret...
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Everyone knows a Juniper Holiday Halloween party is to die for.
To get an invite is the most talked about topic in Crescent Cove. To experience the Holiday mansion in all its (supposedly) haunted glory is the stuff of legend. Of course, no one has actually seen a ghost in residence—but how could they when they’re having the time of their life?
As an eccentric with too much money and time on her hands, Juniper Holiday loves any excuse to throw...
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When Juniper Holiday invited guests to her latest party to see the new year in with a bang, she didn't mean from a gun.
But when Mayor Berkshaw is shot dead at the stroke of midnight, that's exactly what they get. Amidst champagne corks, fireworks, and a house full of masked guests, it's impossible to know who pulled the trigger.
One of Juniper's dearest friends, Chalis McGregor, had an ongoing feud with the mayor, and Juni is determined to find...
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Lexy Baker is finally tying the knot with hunky homicide detective Jack Perillo. She's planned the perfect wedding right down to her custom designed gown. Nothing can go wrong.... Until Lexy stumbles across a double murder, and one of the victims is a Bridezilla that Lexy had a major fight with just hours before. This time, Jack can't help her, because he's been taken off the case, and the gum-chewing ditzy rookie that's replaced him has put Lexy...
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The butler did it.... or did he?
A classic whodunit with a clever senior sleuth and mystery solving cats set in a manor house.
When the patriarch of Moorecliff Manor drops dead at dinner, it's up to Aunt Araminta and her Siamese cats Arun and Sasha to uncover the identity of the killer. It will be no easy task, as there is no shortage of suspects... including the butler.
But Araminta soon finds herself with more questions than answers. What was...
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It's the annual Brooke Ridge Falls dog show, and Lexy is excited to cater the event. She's not going to let the murder at the Doggy Diva pet salon put a damper on things for her. She's also not going to get sidetracked by the robbery at Farradays Jewelers down the street. Okay, maybe the dog napping in the retirement village will distract her. And what about the person stealing K-cups from the senior center?
Lexy's grandmother and her gang of senior...
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Juniper Holiday's annual Valentines Day party is all about love and romance... and this year, it's also about murder.
When the grand prize winner is found dead in the bathroom, there are very few clues as to who did it. With a house full of guests, there are plenty who had means and opportunity, but who had motive?
Detective Mallard is already in trouble with his boss, so he needs to solve this one fast... even if that means getting some help from...
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When a body is found in the hydrangeas at Moorecliff manor, certain members of the family fall under suspicion. Inspector Ivan Hershey is starting to wonder why dead bodies keep cropping up at the mansion. Especially since this particular body belongs to a member of a local organized crime gang and there are a lot of unanswered questions.
Who is Daisy's secret admirer? Why did the victim have a picture of Daisy? Why have people been lurking around...
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When the Moorecliff clan gathers at Moorecliff mansion for Archie's memorial service, no one expects gossipy aunt Shirley to end up stabbed in the solarium. It's not really a big surprise though, pretty much everyone in the family had reason to want her dead.
With those closest to her at the top of the suspect list, Araminta and her mystery solving cats Arun and Sasha vow to find the answers to the questions that could lead them straight to the killer....
10) Ice Cream Murder
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When millionaire Regis Banks drops dead at his own party, everyone assumes it was from natural causes - after all, the man was celebrating his one-hundredth birthday. ... Everyone except Lexy Baker's amateur sleuth grandmother, Nans, and her three friends, that is. When it turns out that Regis' death might have been caused by more than just old age, Nans refuses to let the trail grow cold - especially after a local reporter trying to get a scoop threatens...
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When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad-toting grandmas find a dead body under Ruth's late model Oldsmobile, it opens an investigation into a decades-old crime. It seems Ruth's reformed crime-boss boyfriend stashed something of immense value away before he died. Too bad word is out in the criminal underworld, and a dangerous killer has come to town to find it.
Armed with only their iPads, gigantic patent leather purses and a box of baked...
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Murder strikes again at Moorecliff Manor and this time the stakes are higher than they have ever been. Araminta's good friend, the famous jeweler Bertie Belamie, has been murdered in the mudroom and Jacob is the prime suspect.
Why was Bertie in the mudroom with his case of jewels and why is Jacob so close-mouthed about it? Why is Bertie's assistant, Stella, so vague about which pieces of jewelry are missing? And is it any coincidence that the neighborhood...
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It's Christmas in the holiday mansion, and Juniper has this years party gift-wrapped and under the tree!
Christmas at the holiday mansion is always a festive affair. The residents of Crescent Cove look forward to Juniper's yard decorations almost as much as an invitation to one of her parties-and this year, everyone has been invited. What could possibly go wrong with a mansion full of people and non-humans?
Murder of the ho-ho-ho variety, that's...
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When a retired mobster ends up murdered and one of her grandmother's best friends is the last one to see him alive, Lexy Baker can kiss her plans to spend an uneventful summer dreaming about her upcoming wedding to detective Jack Perillo good-bye. Lexy agrees to help her grandmother's octogenarian Ladies' Detective Club solve the murder. But she doesn't count on sneaking into crime scenes, interviewing kooky relatives, and following thugs around town....
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Bookstore owner Willa Chance has no idea that things in Mystic Notch are about to take a turn for the worse.
When a string of robberies escalates to murder, Willa is baffled by the behavior of her sister, the county sheriff. Normally the gung-ho lawwoman would be all over the case, but she seems more interested in doing her nails and picking out jazz music instead.
Willa has no choice but to take it upon herself to investigate. After all, her...
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When Lexy Baker temporarily fills in for the pastry chef at a lakeside resort it seems like a great way to combine business and pleasure.... until the head chef ends up with a knife through his chest and Lexy is found bending over the body. Suddenly, she finds herself in a race against time and battling a quirky dessert devouring detective to find the real killer in a long line of suspects. Was it the extravagant spouse? The suspiciously acting sous-chef?...
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Araminta Moorecliff and her mystery solving siamese cats, Arun and Sasha, are at it again when the Moorecliff Manor annual charity cat show turns deadly.
With a house full of finicky felines and cat fanciers, it's not going to be easy to figure out who done it. At least this time we know it's not the butler.
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Why did someone kill Olive Pendleton and hide her body?
When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad-toting grandmas witness a murder remotely through the camera of a drone, they go straight to Lexy's homicide detective husband, Jack, to report the crime. But with no body and no crime reported, Jack can't do a thing, leaving Lexy and her grandmother no alternative than to solve the murder themselves.
Armed with nothing but their gigantic patent...
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A new month, a new holiday, and Juniper Holiday is ready for stuffing to happen!
This year, Juniper has invited most of Crescent Cove to her Thanksgiving feast. Even that annoying Detective Mallard and his gang of ducklings.
The mansion is decorated. The table is set. The cooks (both living and ghostly) are trying new recipes. Everything is perfect until someone ends up face-down in the pecan pie.
Juniper is determined to solve the case before...
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When retired postmaster Albert Schumer is found dead on the steps of the post office, the whole town of Mystic Notch is disappointed he won’t be able to play in the annual checkers tournament.
But when his ghost informs middle-aged bookstore owner Willa Chance that he died trying to deliver an old letter, which has mysteriously gone missing, Willa realizes Albert didn’t just slip and fall. Someone killed him. Even worse, it turns out the letter...