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A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.
Maine, 1789: The Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice. Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As the local midwife and healer, Martha is good at keeping secrets. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, every...
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Professional Scottish dancer Liss MacCrimmon finds herself in the middle of a bizarre mystery when, after returning home to Moosetookalook, Maine, the town gossip is found dead under a special bolt of fabric called the Flower of Scotland in the stock room of her aunt's store.
6) Insomnia
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In Derry, Maine, a small town polarized by a pro-life rally, two old men become possessed by supernatural forces engaged in a struggle between good and evil. By the author of Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
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In the twelfth volume of the cozy mystery series, Annie Dawson and her friends from the Hook and Needle Club are going to be extras in a made-for-TV Christmas movie being filmed in Stony Point, Maine. Annie pulls a small leather-bound suitcase from the attic at Grey Gables to donate as a prop. Her prop is nearly stolen in a mugging, after which her best friend is kidnapped, setting the stage for adventure and intrigue.
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Annie Dawson's grandmother, Betsy Holden, had taken her share of strays into her old Victorian home, Grey Gables. Orphaned kittens and puppies--and her fair share of weary and worn people as well--had been welcomed to share the warmth of her hearth. But now Annie, heir to the Holden estate, is face-to-face with Tara Frasier, an orphaned young woman searching for an emotional connection to her dead mother. Annie knew Gram would embrace this stranger,...
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"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?" Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie Pelletier and Ian Kelly, the daughter of a well-known local family and her sweetheart, the locals have little reason to believe her story. Not Rob Barrett, the FBI investigator...
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"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father...
12) Fudge-a-mania
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Peter chronicles his family's vacation in Maine highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn enemy Sheila Tubman.
13) Hell House
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"Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug...
14) Knit to kill
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While on a weekend getaway to Osprey Island, hosted by Amy, Black Sheep member Lucy Binger's friend, a prominent member of the community is murdered, turning the idyllic setting into a crime scene. When the investigation focuses on Amy's husband, the knitters step in to untangle the clues.
16) Home body
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"A runaway teen breaks into reporter Jack McMorrow's isolated cabin looking for safe haven, only to vanish when his parents come looking for him. His trail leads Jack straight into the heart of a world where truth is only a lie well told."--Publisher's website.
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In the ninth book of the cozy mystery series, Annie Dawson discovers a deed that has been locked away for years in a trunk in the attic of Grey Gables. The discovery launches a series of adventures that reveal how and why her grandmother came to own the old estate and what happened to the original owners.
18) The package
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"When Annie and her trusted handyman, Wally, stumble upon a mysterious package that had slipped behind an old dresser in the attic of Grey Gables, they are unwittingly swept into a mystery of intrigue, masked identities, and personal danger"--Publisher's description.
20) The photo album
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"No one seems to recognize the young man caught in the background of some old photos that Annie found in the attic of Grey Gables. But Mary Beth, owner of A Stitch in Time, turns strangely pale when Annie shows the photos at the Hook and Needle Club meeting. Annie is determined to find out who this stranger is and what became of him. His young, sad face haunts her and she feels compelled to unearth his story. Then disturbing information gleaned from...
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