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It looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers, just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break comes when there's a serious foul-up in Darling's telephone system - and not a penny for repairs. And while liquor is legal again, moonshine isn't. Sheriff Buddy Norris needs a little luck when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront Cypress County's most notorious bootlegger...
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 6
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"The Eleven O'clock Lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacy's favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms don't open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up. But another Eleven O'Clock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock--a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning--has been...
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Garden gates volume 1
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Bethany House Publishers
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English
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Owner of Perennially Yours Garden Design, Mibby Garrett loves her eccentric customers, her dog Blink, and her teenage son. There is a lot to keep her busy, such as the various ailments that are affecting her clients' plants and flowers. Her work and her close friends, especially next-door neighbor Louise, have helped her keep her life together after the death of her husband. She needs much support, thuogh, when she finds an intriguing secret about...
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"Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family's winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to Napa Valley, and when Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she'll finally get that smooch. But the starchy professor isn't the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. One wine-fueled girls' night later, Hallie...
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 9
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English
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"Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens. That's not the worst of it, though, as the Dahlias discover when the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth's Magnolia Manor is found dead. She had overindulged in a large and very rich chocolate cake--but was something else baked...
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Garden gates volume 2
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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"The Garden Gates series continues with a glimpse at how God's promises lead one woman through a season of loneliness. Both thought-provoking and fun, this second-chance romance features colorful characters, light-hearted humor, and moving spiritual themes"--Provided by publisher.
A self-employed landscape gardener, Mibby Garrett is tending to more than flowerbeds. Since her husband's death almost two years ago, she has been raising her teenage sone...
8) Shaker run
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Kate Marburn thought her recovery from her former husband's betrayal was a new beginning. A quiet and controlled life as the rose gardener on the estate of Sarah Denbigh, a wealthy widow, seemed the perfect escape. But when Sarah dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving Kate the unexpected heir to Sarah's vast fortune in Shaker furniture, the police suspect Kate might have had something to do with Sarah's death. Looking for a refuge again, Kate...
10) Bad Girl Creek
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When a beloved aunt dies, leaving her with a flower farm, Phoebe Thomas takes in three roommates to help run the farm. As the women bond in friendship, their lives change. Phoebe, confined to a wheelchair, finds herself for the first time; the others overcome a job loss, a romantic break-up, and an eviction.
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Dirty business mysteries volume 1
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Casual snooping turns serious when a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula's friends is arrested for the crime.
12) In every flower
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Garden gates volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Virago modern classics volume no. 173
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Virago Press
Pub. Date
1995
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English
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HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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The sequel to Friendship Cake finds the new bonds of friendship and unity enjoyed by the ladies of Hope Springs Church challenged by Margaret's sudden illness, Nadine's grief over her lost daughter, Charlotte's crisis of faith, and Jessie's fierce desire to see the world outside the boundaries of her small town.
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Dirty business mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"Something stinks to Paula Holliday, and it isn't just the corpse flower, titan arum, named for its off-putting fragrance. When Paula's friend Lucy asks her to tag along on an all-expense-paid junket to the Titans Hotel, it seems like a good idea. Paula even manages to squeeze a few bucks and a byline out of the local paper for writing an article on the titan arum, a rare flower that's just about to bloom and on display at the hotel. But when her...
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.
19) Mulch
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994
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English
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Organic gardner/television host Louise Eldridge is filling in the low spots of her garden with grass collected from the neighborhood. When body parts start turning up in the mulch, Louise begins an investigation.