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The serial killer who managed to elude them in Maine has resurfaced. Harland Briggs is every sadistic monster Jo has profiled rolled into one. Leaving his hunting grounds in Maine, he's making his way across country, leaving a path of destruction in his wake. After learning that in the past three years an alarming number of teenage girls had been abducted across the country, Jo goes against her husband's wishes and agrees to go after Briggs. Once again, her sanity, as well as her life, is in jeopardy...and the life of her unborn child.

When Memorial Day celebrations turn into murder investigations, amateur sleuth, Kelly Armello, and officer Troy Kennedy are thrown into another small-town cozy mystery with big repercussions. Troy’s veteran friend ends up dead, and Troy knows in his gut that there’s foul play. But how can he prove it, when shady Chief Stark, newly restored to his role as police chief, seems to be set on running the town in his own fashion, even if that includes dealing in drugs and murder?

A cantankerous old man, dead. But who’s the killer? Could it really be the reverend? Notable families being targeted by unknown assailants. But what kind of a rat would leave rats in your daughter’s mailbox? Can Kelly and Troy piece together the puzzle and discover who’s to blame? Or will the pastor be sent out to pasture in prison?

Rachel Hershberger wants to get away from her Amish home in Fields Corner, Ohio. For a year, she's been trying to fill her mother's shoes by taking care of her father and siblings. She quit her job at the bakery so she would have more time to clean and cook at home. Before her mother died, Rachel was positive she wanted to marry Samuel Weaver, but now she can't think about wedding plans. She blames her father for her mother's death. If they had installed a phone in their barn or a shanty, her mother might have received medical help in time to save her life.

Critical choices made in the drama and chaos of the last days of the Vietnam War reach across the Pacific to modern-day Portland, Oregon, threatening to destroy the lives of those who managed to cheat death in 1975. When a violent explosion takes a woman's life just steps away from Logan McKenna's downtown hotel, the police suspect all the wrong people, including a homeless vet and two of Logan's new friends; but are any of them completely innocent?

Dear Lord,

I need your help and sooner would be better than later. Wouldn't you know it, just as soon as I decide to attempt the five-day Bible study challenge, my parents start heaping on....

Returning home from a summer away, it is evident that Marjorie’s faith has grown and her heart is on the mend. However, the gossip in town, as well as the disrupting presence of a newcomer, begins to reach a height that threatens reputations as well as relationships. While Marjorie and Leonard are working to find where their paths will lead, Ralph and Estelle begin to question if the paths they chose were the right ones with the best possible outcomes. In Overruled, fate is questioned.

Leanne grew up under the steady trickle of the harsh and belittling words of her critical mother, in the shadow of her sisters' perfection, and under the weight of a dark secret. With her self-confidence all but eroded, and her head hanging down, she is surprised when Mike McKinley notices her. With every kind word, Mike erases a little pain from her past, and for the first time, she feels as if she is standing on firm ground. But seven years into their marriage, she realizes that her foundation is lying on shallow ground.

A church outing to Punxsutawney is the last place you’d expect to run into a mystery. Especially when it leaves someone dead in the water! When Kelly Armello, the sleuthing librarian, discovers deadly connections between her hometown and the haunt of Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-forecasting groundhog the Groundhog Day, nothing can stop her from digging deeper. With the help of Officer Troy Kennedy and a few other unlikely characters, the Settler Spring sleuths set out to unravel this grisly groundhog affair!

In Shattered, the first book in the original mystery series and stunning fiction debut with which Valerie Davisson lets us crave for more, Logan McKenna loses her husband, her illusions, the company they built together, her music, and now, probably her job. But that won't stop her from digging into a murder investigation that keeps Southern California's tight-knit artist community on its toes and law enforcement cluelessly guessing.

Kassia is a thief and a soon-to-be oath breaker. Armed with only a reckless wit and sheer bravado, 17-year-old Kassia barely scrapes out a life with her older sister in a back alley of the market district of the Imperial city of Corium. When a stranger shows up at her market stall, offering her work for which she is utterly unqualified, Kassia cautiously takes him on. Very soon, however, she finds herself embroiled in a mystery involving a usurped foreign throne and a vengeful nobleman.

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Kelly Armello Kennedy and her police chief husband, Troy Kennedy, are disappointed that a February snowstorm may ruin their first Valentine’s Day together. But when Kelly discovers a body in the town library, there’s more than a lost holiday at stake. Why was the body left in the romance section? Why was a wedding ring hidden behind a novel about adultery? Who left wine glasses near the books on marital infidelity? Finding a murderer when all the suspects are people she knows is a challenge, as Kelly realizes that she may not know her friends as well as she thought!

As a child, Renee's alcoholic mother paraded a slew of men in and out their home. Renee vowed she would never turn out like her, but one broken night, she ran from the nightmare of her home and into the arms of handsome bad-boy Ian McKnight. She tries to erase her moment of weakness with years of faithful service. Then Ian returns. When the bridal shop hires him to create a website, she realizes she must face the truth. With his camera pointed in her direction, Ian tries to capture the real Renee, the one behind the veil of lies.

Mickey is a 12-year old, asthmatic boy who spends his time with his iPad, iPod, and tons of video games. He does not participate in the rough and tumble activities of boys his age including sports and considers himself a nerd. That does not stop his parents from sending him to camp for the summer. While there, he meets Jackson, a beaten down plow horse that seems to need Mickey's friendship as much as Mickey needs his.

Emily contacts renowned interior stylist Piper Hawkins to help her reorganize her space. Piper is incredibly popular online and Emily hopes hiring him may lead to some great material for her blog. When Piper ends up dead Emily is left sifting through the mess and organizing all the clues to see where they lead!

A series of city girls head west to escape their problems...they arrive, full of promise, at a place called Summer Hope.

Emily Cherry, the elderly blog star and happenchance sleuth is inspired by an animal rescue story that leads to a new mystery for her to uncover! When Emily’s fans go nuts for a few cute pictures of Rosemary the cat, Emily decides to focus her attention on furry friends as a great subject for her writing and enlists herself as a volunteer at the Best Friends Furever pet shelter.

Ageing sleuth Emily Cherry is not your typical retiree. Everywhere she goes excitement follows –along with a dead body and a mystery to solve. And that’s precisely what she finds when she agrees to a temporary job at her local auto shop. Thrown full-throttle into a mechanical mystery, Emily has to rely on her age and wits to expose a cranky crime that’s hard to crack. The clues are hidden in plain sight but where will they lead?

With her father’s plummeting business and health, 21 year old Josephine Hayden is urged to ease her parents' burden and accept an invitation to join hands with an unknown Western man in Cowtown, Kansas. Her first sight of blue-eyed Clae McKinley and his twin brother, Harland, is encouraging, but when she is presented with a contract outlining her responsibilities as a Mail Order wife, overwhelming fears of a loveless marriage besiege her tender heart.