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  Shock and Paw

  Cate Conte

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  It's the holiday season on Daybreak Island, and Maddie James is looking forward to stepping out of the limelight, watching the island's Christmas decoration competition from afar, spending time with her boyfriend and family, running tours for visitors as part of the festivities, and spreading holiday cheer through cute cats in jingle bell collars. 
   
   
   
  But trouble hits close to home when word gets out that Donna Carey, the publisher of the island's only daily newspaper where Maddie's best friend Becky is editor, may be selling the business. Becky is a diehard journalist and to her, selling the only newspaper on the island is a fate worse than death. She publicly opposes the potential sale, wreaking havoc on her relationship with her big boss. 
   
   
   
  Maddie is sympathetic, but she has her own problems—like getting pulled into a role on the Christmas event committee despite her best efforts to stay far removed, and solving the case of a mysterious cat breeder trying to sell expensive designer cats as holiday gifts on the island. But then Donna winds up dead—electrocuted by her own Christmas decorations—and it appears to be more than an accident. To make matters worse, Becky becomes suspect number one. Maddie is thrown into another murder investigation in order to save her best friend from a Christmas behind bars.

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  A Word After Dying

  Ann Granger

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  Superintendent Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell are in desperate need of a holiday - and the Cotswold village of Parsloe St John seems the perfect choice. Their neighbour, retired journalist Wynne Carter, is as convivial as the village itself and, over a glass of blackberry wine, indulges in her latest obsession, Olivia Smeaton, a racy old lady whose life - and death - she is convinced are not all they seem. 
   
  Markby is more interested in buying Olivia's house than the circumstances of her vacating it, but Meredith is intrigued: by the old lady, the death of a cherished horse and a dusty junk shop run by a white witch. When another fatality - of a very grisly nature - is discovered, it seems her suspicion is justified. Clearly Olivia isn't the only enigma in Parsloe St John - and her death might be the first of many unless Meredith Mitchell and Alan Markby can make sense of some very secret lives to reach the truth ...

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  Heat of the Moment

  Amy Bennett

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  Jealousy and greed spark a bittersweet end—and new beginning—in the final Black Horse Campground mystery from the author of On a Dark Deadly Highway. 
   
   
    
  Running a campground has its ups and downs, and Corrie finds herself facing a cavernous financial hole. A severe drought has made the forest service put fire restrictions in place, meaning no campfires or grills can be enjoyed at the Black Horse. The drop in guests have Corrie worrying about the future—especially when it becomes clear that Sheriff Rick Sutton's malicious ex-wife is frothing at the mouth to buy the Black Horse. 
   
   
    
  Everything comes to a head when disaster strikes—and the Black Horse is engulfed in flames. What first seems to be an act of nature is quickly discovered to be arson, and after a dead body is found on site, officials suspect murder is at play. 
   
   
    
  Clues arise from the ashes that reveal a long-running conspiracy and well-protected secrets that will change Corrie's life forever . . .

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  Blood Thirsty

  Chelsea Burton Dunn

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  To stop a ritual for power, bloodlines must be drawn in the sand. 
  A war that has raged for a millennia may come to a close as werewolf alpha Lukis attempts a ritual that will give him unspeakable power and incite a cataclysmic event affecting the whole world. He is willing to sacrifice everything for it, even his own offspring. Leading a coven of vampires, Ace aims to stop him, but she may be thwarted by her own past and a love triangle she wanted no part in. 
  Her sire and former lover Nero has decided he no longer wants to adhere to the separation he and Ace agreed on decades ago, longing to rekindle the flame between them. But Ace is resolute—the mission comes first, even if the pull toward Nero is stronger than she'd like to admit. Six, the progeny she sired in secret, arrives soon after, asking for help, and her acute instability threatens to upend the mission and Ace's reunion with her sire. 
  Blood is thicker than water, but family can be a real pain in the fangs.

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  When It Rains

  Dave Warner

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  For Broome detective Dan Clement, it seems that crime is as plentiful as wet season rain. 
   
  When his sergeant is beaten up, and a woman is brutally assaulted, it seems like the same two suspects are behind both incidents. But when a woman's hand is discovered in crocodile-infested waters, things take a macabre turn. The stakes rise sky-high as Dan races against time to solve this complex and puzzling case.

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  The Trap

  Michael Leese

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  After the worst year of her life, Martha Munro is looking forward to getting back to the job she loves. She’s one of the best and brightest young detectives in the Met, but she’s immediately put on a seemingly pointless case . . . 
   
  Martha is ordered to investigate a spate of cat abductions in leafy south London. Each time, the missing moggy turns up unharmed days later. 
   
  But then one family receives a terrifying message: Next time it’s the kids. 
   
  And an ambulance is sent to the children’s school. A sinister threat by someone playing a deadly game of cat and mouse. 
   
  That same week, another Dulwich resident plunges to her death from an upstairs window. It looks like a tragic accident. Until Martha discovers she was pushed. 
   
  Someone is setting a dangerous trap for Detective Martha Munro — and they have eyes and ears everywhere. 
   
  Martha can’t let her family get hurt again. Can she outsmart this devious killer without falling into the trap?

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