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Fleeing from a broken engagement, Jane Austen has scarcely arrived in Scargrave when the local earl is felled by a mysterious ailment that is far too agonizing and fatal to be credited to his fondness for claret and pudding. The earl's widow asks Jane to investigate.

When Robert Smedley is determined to prove that his wife is cheating, Raisin Investigations immediately offers to help. Unfortunately for Agatha, Mabel Smedley appears to be the perfect wife, young and pretty and a regular volunteer at church. Although Smedley's case doesn't look promising, Agatha's attentions are diverted when she stumbles across the body of missing teenager, Jessica Bradley. In a sudden gesture of kindness (and good public relations),...

In the fall of 1144, two groups of visitors come to Brother Cadfael's Abbey. One group is lead by a ribald French troubadour, and the other by a mischievous young Benedictine monk. As rising flood waters threaten the abbey, a dead body is discovered, and Cadfael is set on the prowl.

While in New York City to appear on a top-rated morning show, librarian Tori Sinclair, along with the Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle, goes up against the Big Apple's elite when fellow member Dixie Dunn is arrested for murdering a con artist who specialized in scamming older women.

Returning home to Shadow Bend, Missouri, where she hopes to launch her new line of cupcakes, Kizzy Cutler finds her plans derailed by the strange death of her assistant and several attempts on her own life, which makes her realize that someone is not so sweet on her return.

Qwill, Koko and Yum Yum unite when an old friend needs help. A puzzling murder complicates things.

"The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. But in her plain-speaking housekeeper Grace's opinion, Isabel Dalhousie - wealthy, attractive, kind and lonely - does not make the best of what she has; in Isabel's life there is too much thought and not enough action." "Bruised early in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie...

Temple Barr is a PR hotshot promoting a weeklong televised charity event, Dancing with the Celebs. She's got the perfect celebrity for the show: her fiance, Matt Devine. He's a little dubious but agrees to the scheme. But while Matt struggles to master the sexy moves of the tango, accidents cripples the production, and it becomes clear that a killer stalks the dance floor.--From publisher's description.

"Even though Agatha Raisin loathes amateur dramatics, her friend Mrs. Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local pantomime. Stifling a yawn at the production of "Babes in the Woods," Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten on the stage, until a trapdoor opens and the Ogre disappears in an impressive puff of smoke. Only he doesn't re-appear at final curtain. Surely this isn't the way the scene was rehearsed?...

For years Jitty, Dahlia House's resident ghost, has dreamed that Sarah Booth Delaney would have a child. It looks like Jitty's dream will finally come true, and Sarah Booth is crushed when it doesn't. Depressed, Sarah Booth finally allows her best friend to whisk her away for a luxurious weekend vacation at a special spa and cooking school. The pampering and food go a long way toward making her feel like her old self, but there's another welcome distraction...