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Rosalyn Rikel

"The Gallager family's decision to visit Rochelle's Aunt Millicent is based on good intentions, but soon becomes a mission to solve a mystery as they realize there is danger surrounding them. The old woman lives alone in a mansion on the side of a mountain in Cumberland Plateau, but mainly inhabits the tower where she hoards her money. To ensure their own safety, the family must figure out what secrets she is protecting within the tower. They'd also like to know the real identity of the strange gardener who always peers at them through the shrubs. What do other people who appear in her life know about her peculiar ways? And what are their motives? Will they be able to solve the mystery in time?"--

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Jack Fredrickson

"Sweetie Fairbairn, the doyenne of Chicago society, is known for big-hearted philanthropy and magnificent soirees in her penthouse high atop one of the city's premier boutique hotels. Dek Elstrom is hired by a mysterious man in a long limousine to investigate the death of a clown. Was it suicide--or murder? What is the connection between the dead clown and Sweetie?"--

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Alexander McCall Smith

"The ever-delightful, insatiably curious Edinburgh philosopher and amateur sleuth returns to take on a case unlike any she's had before--this one with paranormal implications--in the tenth installment of this beloved author's consistently best-selling series. From a small town outside Edinburgh comes the news that a young boy has been recounting vivid recollections of a past life: a perfect description of an island off the coast of Scotland which he couldn't possibly know, and a house there, where he claims to have spent his former life. When the boy's mother asks Isabel to investigate his claims, she feels she must--of course!--help them learn the truth, and she and her husband, Jamie, set off for the island. But finding the house the boy described only leads to more complicated questions. And when she learns about the unusual story of the family who lived there, Isabel is suddenly faced with a situation of extraordinary delicacy that will require all of her skills both as sleuth and philosopher"--

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Jacquie Manning

For tourists, the idyllic island of Provo is a great escape from winter. For Valerie Bynder, it's an opportunity to teach at an international school while mingling with sophisticated foreigners, scuba diving and snapping undersea photos. But when the island's labor director is killed, and a zealous inspector targets her as the murderer, her world is upended. Enmeshed in a web of trouble, jobless, her work permit revoked, and her marriage threatened, she struggles to regain her balance, while also trying to prove she's not a killer. Navigating the political intrigues of Native Turks Islanders, wealthy expatriates, and Haitian immigrants. Val's escapades thrust her into a voodoo ceremony and the path of killer sharks, both undersea and on land, proving she's hot on the trail of the murderer.