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Live and Let Diet (Australian Amateur Sleuth, Book ONE) A fun cozy mystery. Sybil Potts moves to Little Tatterford, a small town in the middle of nowhere in Australia, seeking to find peace and quiet after the upheaval of her divorce.
Although the town is sleepy and nothing has ever happened, her arrival coincides with a murder in the property adjacent to her cottage. Sybil soon finds she is at odds with the attractive Blake Wessley, the exasperated...
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With Aunty June in tow, journalist Misty Friday arrives in a touristy Aussie town to write about the ghost tours.
But when she stumbles upon a centuries' old murder mystery, she will need to crack the cold case before those keen to bury the town's secrets end up burying her.
Join Misty as she navigates her way through the clues, solves a murder, and does her best to discover just why John Smith is in Australia.
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Now that Dorothy is out of the way, Cressida employs a French Chef on the advice of Lord Farringdon alone. When a particularly untidy and rude builder is smothered by a mango, Mr. Buttons is discovered standing over the body. Instead of seeing Mr. Buttons as a murder suspect, the police believe he was the intended victim.
As the intrigue mounts, Blake tells Sibyl not to interfere. Sibyl soon realizes this is no ordinary murder case and that Mr. Buttons...
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A fun cozy mystery series set in Australia. Sibyl Potts has finally been awarded her long-awaited property settlement, and her ex-husband has been sentenced for her attempted murder. Yet just as all seems well in her world, the body of one of Cressida's boarders is found in her cottage next to a half eaten ice cream sundae. When all the evidence points to Sibyl as the culprit, how will she solve the crime and prove her innocence?
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Australian journalist Misty Friday has several problems, not the least of which is her name. Misty's mean boss sends her to an island resort in the Great Barrier Reef to investigate one paranormal event, but mermaids and murder throw her off the track.When Misty makes waves, she attracts the attention of the murderer and one mysterious stranger. Will Misty get to the bottom of this, or are there too many red herrings?
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Book TWO in a fun witch cozy mystery series!
When Australian journalist, Misty Friday, receives a mysterious letter summoning her to England, she expects to find her elderly relative. Instead she has a witch of a time, stumbling across danger, a cat, bad coffee, and the enigmatic John Smith, who may have his own reasons for being in Britain.
The murder of her relative brings more questions, some of them arcane.
Can Misty solve the murder before...
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Amelia's day is inundated with an overflow of men lining up to explain things to her. But when even Alder jumps aboard the mansplain train, Amelia can't bite her tongue any longer. She lets loose a wish that zaps the chatter right out of every man in town.Bayberry Creek is now quieter than a library during naptime. With the local police reduced to a series of shrugs and hand gestures, Amelia is left to investigate a murder. Amelia soon discovers that...
8) Witch Hunt
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Twists await you in Witch Hunt, the fifth book in the His Ghoul Friday cozy mystery series.Misty and Cordelia travel to an exotic location to write about the death of a politician. Helps comes from an unexpected source and more than one secret is revealed.Fifth time's a charm in this paranormal cozy mystery from USA Today bestselling author, Morgana Best.
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The murderer used chocolate to kill. How dairy!When an advertising executive dies after taking a bite of chocolate at his retirement party, chocolates caterer Narel is at once the detectives' main suspect. Though Narel is known for her killer baking, it's usually the chocolatey goodness that has her guests coming back for more.Can Mongrel, Narel's cranky and eccentric rescue cat, save Narel from the clutches of the police?Or will she come to sticky...
10) Dye Hard
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Sibyl doesn't barber a grudge despite the hair-raising murder. Will she brush herself off and get to the root of the matter?Obnoxious ghost hunters descend on Cressida Upthorpe's boarding house, convinced it must be a source of paranormal activity given that three murders have occurred there in a short space of time.After one of the ghost hunters is murdered with poisoned hair dye, Sibyl does her best to keep well away from the investigation, that...
11) Sweet Revenge
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What would you do if you were medically unable to gain weight? Eat chocolate and solve murders, of course . . . When a car accident leads to extensive plastic surgery and an inability to gain weight, Cocoa Narel finds herself transformed from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. No longer forced to temper her love for chocolate, Cocoa plans to open a candy store and begins to enjoy the sweet life along with her quirky rescue cat. But when her high...
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In this USA Today Bestselling series, Laurel inherits a funeral home, to discover it's a dead-end job.Nobody knows that Laurel Bay can see ghosts. When she inherits a funeral home, she is forced to return from Melbourne to the small town of Witch Woods to breathe life into the business. It is a grave responsibility, but Laurel is determined that this will be no dead-end job.There she has to contend with her manipulative and overly religious mother,...
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A truth spell is an honest mistake . . .When the demanding Marina Mercer forces Amelia to do a truth spell over shares in a goldmine, Amelia expects nothing will go wrong. But when Marina's tenant is murdered in gold blood, Marina's boyfriend becomes the prime suspect.Now Alder is furious at Amelia for once again finding herself an Australian Sherlock Holmes searching for nuggets of information-but she can't worry about that now. The real murderer...
14) Spell It Out
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For Amelia Spelled, it's another case of déjà brew when a man dies at a Tea Leaf Reading. Amelia and Camino are among the witnesses. Only trouble is, they were both asleep at the time. Luckily, Amelia is soon brewing up a solution, along with her trusty friends, who are out to prove there is a tea in team. When the murderer draws a little too close for comfort, will the house come to the rescue, or is Amelia in for a steep shock? Alder has something...
15) Make Some Magic
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Thanks to Aunty June, Misty has a devil of a time in an old gold-mining town.Can Misty discover an indigenous Australian spirit before anyone else dies?And what happens with John Smith?Join Misty and be surprised in Book 4 of this paranormal cozy mystery series by USA Today bestselling author, Morgana Best.
16) Ghost Stories
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When Laurel's mother, Thelma, hosts a group of writers in the belief they are writing about the Holy Ghost, she is horrified to find they are, in fact, writing ghost stories. Thelma decides to go on a road trip. Her GPS cannot get her there, so she hires an escort to show her the way. This turns out to be a grave mistake. Things are at rock bottom when the escort's naked body is found in Thelma's bedroom.Will Laurel be able to steer the police in...
17) Repossessed
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What's worse than being possessed? Repossessed . . .Laurel thought seeing her mother possessed was bad, but she finds it hard to keep up her spirits when Thelma is struck by lightning and possesses a man with a less than wholesome reputation.
There will be grave consequences when Thelma, who is not in her own body, is the main suspect in a murder, and Ian goes camping.
Will Thelma give up the ghost? Will Laurel solve the murder in due corpse?...
18) Ghost Blusters
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When the ghost of a punk rocker possesses Thelma, Laurel is tasked with solving the ghost's murder. If Laurel succeeds, the ghost will release her mother, which seems a shame, really. She's a lot nicer possessed.What will happen when possessed Thelma attends church and mixes with her snooty friends? Will her singing performance at the church concert cause any surprises? And what will Ian think? With the murderer still on the loose, Laurel must hurry...
19) Christmas Spells
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Amelia is feeling extra Santa-mental and wants the Christmas spirit, just not the Christmas spirit who arrives to demand her help.The Ghost of Christmas Past was an elf-made man who was murdered the previous Christmas while in a Santa suit.Can Amelia solve the murder, or is it a lost Claus?Yule never guess who the murderer is! Book 14 in this fun cozy mystery series from USA Today Bestselling author, Morgana Best.
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A group of philosophers at a Socrates convention. Sound like fun? Maybe not . . . but then there's the body.When one of the new boarders, an eminent professor of Socratic philosophy, is found poisoned by hemlock in a meal of quail, eccentric boarding house owner Cressida Upthorpe soon becomes the main suspect.Sibyl Potts, with the help of Mr Buttons, launches herself into the investigation, much to the consternation of stressed police officer Blake...
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