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Author
Series
Crime with the classics volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A game of charades ends in coldblooded murder in this entertaining cozy mystery, third in the Crime with the Classics series.
Having finished transforming Windy Corner, the grand Victorian mansion she inherited from her great aunt, into a writers' retreat, widowed literature professor Emily Cavanaugh is ready to receive her first set of guests. But her careful planning is thrown into disarray by the unexpected arrival of outrageous true-crime writer,...
Author
Series
Puzzling world of Winston Breen volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Winston attends a weekend of puzzles at a famous musician's mansion, but when he and other young guests pursue a thief, they find themselves in big trouble. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a family visit to a mansion his father has just inherited, Luke learns about a curse placed on the house--just in time, hopefully, to save his family from being imprisoned (or worse) inside the mansion forever.
5) Winterset
Author
Series
Mad Morelands volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
As mysterious dangers beset a country estate, a heartbroken man is determined to save the woman he never forgot in this enchanting Victorian romance.
Ever since Anna Holcombe inexplicably refused his proposal, Reed Moreland has been unable to set foot in the home that was the backdrop to their romance-Winterset. Yet the beauty and mystery of the Gloucestershire mansion continue to captivate him. He can neither continue living there, nor give it...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Inheriting a love of photography, an old camera and countless questions years after the disappearance of her mother, 16-year-old Gretchen returns to a decaying family mansion, where ancestral photos and letters dating back centuries reveal her family's haunted past"--
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Charlie, Anna, and Emily must overcome their differences and work together to solve various puzzles leading to the secret treasure a famous female explorer left in Idlewood Manor before the adults do.
Author
Series
In the garden trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Hayley Phillips came to Memphis hoping for a new start, for herself and her unborn child. She wasn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz, just a job at her thriving In the Garden nursery. What she found was a home surrounded...
10) Killing Adonis
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently lying in a coma amidst an armada of premium machinery. The...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young widow Stella Rothchild along with her two little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee and into her new life at Harper House and In The Garden Nursery. She is fiercely attracted to handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge, but the spirit of the Harper Bride isn't happy about the budding romance.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora Hope, helping her write about the events leading up to her family’s massacre in 1929 ,and soon discovers this seemingly harmless woman could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
13) Playing Dirty
Author
Series
Sisterhood diaries volume 3
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Cade Gallari, who made her life a living hell in high school, wants to shoot a documentary about the mysterious mansion she inherited, former "fat girl" Ava Spencer, the owner of a successful concierge business, refuses to be at his beck and call, especially in the bedroom.
Author
Series
Winterborne home volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
16) A willing murder
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After two bodies are found in a quiet Florida community, old secrets and deadly grudges are exposed, prompting retired novelist Sara Medlar, her niece Kate, and long-term houseguest Jackson to team up to try to unmask the killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Northpointe Chalet: A Contemporary Retelling of Northanger Abbey. When a lively group of customers visit Kathy Moore's cafŽ, new friendships--and romance--ensue. When she learns of a mystery in their past, Kathy takes on the role of amateur detective, but will her digging do more damage than good?
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 152
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Nancy finds a brass key and a safe-deposit receipt in the pocket of the blue satin jacket she bought at a vintage clothing store, she decides to investigate the mystery behind the key.
19) All my secrets
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
Author
Series
Grace and Favor mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
For sister and brother, Lily and Robert Brewster and the rest of Hudson Valley, the dark days of the Depression mean deprivation all around. Their poor town has lost its post office and now the mail gets dumped at the train station. When Robert helps a young widow haul her newly arrived German grandfather's trunks home, he thinks he may have found a new set of friends. But when a swastika is found painted on the widow's window, and the train porter...