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When her sister-in-law Poppy is found murdered, amateur sleuth Aurora Teagarden teams up with Poppy's boyfriend, a local police detective, to solve the case, in spite of complications caused by the

When karate-loving cleaning lady Lily Bard fled a violent past and planted herself in Shakespeare, Arkansas, she had no intention of ever going back.

Lily Bard has joined a group therapy session in Shakespeare, Arkansas, determined finally to face her past. It sounds positively enlightening, until the murder of a fellow member sends a warning.

Trying to keep a low profile as a cleaning lady, Lily Bard gets sucked into a murder investigation when one of her clients is killed in an apparent tryst gone bad.

Karate-kicking house cleaner Lily Bard stumbles across a dead bodybuilder. And though a hunky stranger soon tickles her fancy, she begins to suspect him of murder.

When Lily Bard, a reclusive cleaning lady with a penchant for karate, finds and reports a dead body, her shady past and connections to potential perpetrators make her a leading suspect.

Aurora Teagarden islaunching a new career in real estate. Unfortunately, at Roe's first showing of a house, a corpse is the star attraction. Worse still, the body belongs to a rival realtor.

A collection of every short story featuring Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic waitress heroine of the "Southern Vampire" novels, includes "Fairy Dust," "One Word Answer," and "Dracula Night."

In Georgia, former librarian Aurora Teagarden is overjoyed when her new husband, rich and handsome Martin Bartell gives her a house as a wedding present.

Amanda has been appointed principal of the junior high school in her small community.

Regina Pearson is raised by her father in Hawaii. When he passes away, she decides to search North Carolina for the family she has never known.

When she inherits her aunt's home, Susan Pettiford returns to North Carolina following a 16-year absence. After undergoing a hysterectomy, she seeks comfort in the arms of Lucas Hamilton.

Coreen Treadwell heads a prominent social welfare agency, but she is haunted by her past. Raped and impregnated as a teenager, she gave up her baby, Frieda, without ever seeing her.

Career jounalist Marge Hairston and her three loving children, Drogan, Cassie, and Sharon, are about as close as a family can be.

After their father dies without revealing the whereabouts of his will, his three adult children hire a private investigator to locate the will, as each comes to terms with the conflicts and secrets