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From USA Today Bestseller Madison Johns comes another Agnes Barton mystery featuring those hilarious sleuths Agnes Barton and Eleanor Mason.  Agnes Barton has been waiting years for this day. She’s always told Sheriff Peterson he would rue the day when his re-election time came around and...

Residents in Tawas are excited about rubbing elbows with golf pros at the upcoming fundraiser. But when Masters winner, Teddy Vaughn, is found dead on the greens, it's business as usual for Agnes and Eleanor. The sleuths have their hands full now as they hunt for the killer, but it takes a personal...

Hilarious sleuths Agnes Barton and Eleanor Mason head to Florida for the winter. True to his words, Sheriff Clem Peterson sends Agnes Barton and Eleanor Mason packing to Florida via a Cessna, but things go haywire when during a fuel stop, two men shoot the pilot. Agnes springs into action slamming...

Life in Tawas has changed dramatically when Bernice “The Cat Lady’s” ex-husband Wilber goes missing and is later found dead by resident detectives Agnes Barton and Eleanor Mason. Bernice is a suspect and the sleuths can’t let their friend down as they search for the truth. Oh and about that...

Agnes and Eleanor run into trouble in Tennessee.  Trouble when they have an accident totaling Andrew's SUV. Trouble when they find the body of Deputy Chapman who was a responding officer at the scene. And trouble at the ranch where they're staying.  Some might even consider Agnes and...

It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a war that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues...

Two best-selling authors. Two page-turning first-in-series books. And two hot heroines with murder on their minds. WANNA GET LUCKY? by Deborah Coonts Love. Laughter. Mischief. And murder… Vegas-style. And it’s Lucky O’Toole’s job to handle all of it. As the Chief Problem Solver for...

Nominated for the "FUNNIEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Lefty Award at Left Coast Crime 2003London 1699. Those intrepid and impecunious heroines the Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant Alpiew are once more scavenging for scandal to entertain the readers of that scurrilous rag, the London...

Marcy Collins proved her investigative skills in the field time and time again, but after an accident leaves her disabled, she’s forced into early retirement in a senior convalescent center. Although her mind and body may not be what they used to be, her steadfast determination to fight crime and...

For their next outing, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the ace sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, are planting marigolds in their flowerbed when Alma unearths a curious bone. Isabel suspects it’s a dinosaur bone while Alma insists it belongs to Betsy Sweet, a young woman who went missing...

Down in the sleepy, quaint Virginia town of Quiet Anchorage, murder is the last thing any townie living there would expect to happen on a summer day. Sisters Isabel and Alma Trumbo—both are in their seventies although Alma is quick to point out she’s the younger sister—look forward to spending...

Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, is just like any other small town but with one notable difference: the dead bodies keep turning up. Fortunately, Sheriff Roscoe Fox, who never met a sugar-glazed doughnut served with coffee he didn’t like, can depend on the sisters sleuths Isabel and Alma Trumbo. This...

Phyllis Garner, the kooky and funny bag lady, refuses to accept her best friend Ladybug Miles’ death is an accidental drowning in the Cornet River. The blustery, know-it-all Sheriff Roscoe Fox has officially called it that way. However, Phyllis holds it was murder, plain and simple. No matter how...

AN OUTSTANDING GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY CLASSIC & ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN OF WORLD WAR II! "Bright and breezy sabotage and romance with plus appeal for murder-mystery-spy addicts. S.E.P." Kirkus Reviews Not long after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and U.S. entry...