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Island Life
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Island Life by Michael W. Sherer

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A Carol For A Corpse by Claudia Bishop
A Case Of Overkill by Nancy A. Lindley-Gauthier
A Corpse In The Soup by Morgan St. James & Phyllice Bradner
A Deadly Dealer by J. B. Stanley
A Dinner To Die For by Claudia Bishop
A Dream Of Drowned Hollow by Lee Barwood
A Fatal Appraisal by J. B. Stanley
A Killer Collection by J. B. Stanley
A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams
A Little Class On Murder by Carolyn Hart
A Little Murder by Cindy Davis
A Minor Case Of Murder by Jeff Markowitz
A Picture Of Guilt by Libby Fischer Hellmann
A Real Basket Case by Beth Groundwater
A River To Die For by Radine Trees Nehring
A Rose From The Dead by Kate Collins
A Shot To Die For by Libby Fischer Hellmann
A Skeleton In The Closet by Judith K. Ivie
A Treasure To Die For by Radine Trees Nehring
A Valley To Die For by Radine Trees Nehring
A Wedding To Die For by Radine Trees Nehring
A Wrinkle In Crime by T. Dawn Richard
Aces And Knaves by Alan Cook
Acts of Violets by Kate Collins
All Roads Lead To Murder by Albert A. Bell, Jr.
Alpine For You by Maddy Hunter
Alpine Obituary, The by Mary Daheim
Alpine Pursuit, The by Mary Daheim
Alpine Recluse, The by Mary Daheim
Alpine Scandal, The by Mary Daheim
Alpine Traitor, The by Mary Daheim
Alpine Uproar, The by Mary Daheim
Alpine Vengeance, The by Mary Daheim
An Eye For Murder by Libby Fischer Hellmann
An Image Of Death by Libby Fischer Hellmann
And Murder For Dessert by Kathy Delaney
And Only To Deceive by Tasha Alexander
Angel At Troublesome Creek by Mignon Ballard
Angel Whispered Danger, The by Mignon Ballard
Antiques To Die For by Jane K. Cleland
Aphrodisiac by Allyson Roy
April Fool Dead by Carolyn Hart
Artistic License by Julie A. Hyzy
Art's  Blood by Vicki Lane
Asking For Murder by Roberta Isleib
Assumed Dead by Eleanor Sullivan
August Moon by Jess Lourey
Aunt Matilda's Ghost (For Young Readers) by Mignon Ballard
Aye Do Or Die by Candy Calvert
B
Babydoll by Allyson Roy
Battered Body, The by J. B. Stanley
Beaglemania by Linda O. Johnston
Bedeviled Eggs by Laura Childs
Big Dirt Nap, The by Rosemary Harris
Black Widow White Lies by Margaret Tessler
Blood Island by H. Terrell Griffin
Blood's Burden by Alex Matthews
Bloody Ham by Brian Kavanagh
Bodyguard, The by Christy Tillery French
Bodyguard And The Show Dog, The by Christy Tillery French
Bowled Over by Kasey Michaels
Bride And Doom by Deborah Donnelly
Brush With Death by Hailey Lind
Burning Questions by Elaine Busby
Buzz Off by Hannah Reed
C
Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke
Candy Cane Murder by Laura Levine
Capable Of Murder by Brian Kavanagh
Carrot Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Case Of The Roasted Onion, The by Claudia Bishop
Case Of The Tough-Talking Turkey, The by Claudia Bishop
Cat, The Quilt and The Corpse, The by Leann Sweeney
Catch A Falling Knife by Alan Cook
Cattery Row by Clea Simon
Chanukah Guilt by Ilene Schneider
Chasing Cans by Laura Crum
Chef Who Died Sautéing, The by Honora Finkelstein & Susan Smily
Cherry Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Chick And The Dead, The by Casey Daniels
Chili Con Corpses by J. B. Stanley
Chinese Alchemist, The by Lyn Hamilton
Christie Caper, The by Carolyn Hart
Christmas Wedding by Ellen Elizabeth Hunter
Closet Confidential by Mary Jane Maffini
Cluttered Corpse, The by Mary Jane Maffini
Code Of Silence by Sally Wright
Cold-Case Killer by Dorothy Francis
Conjurer, The by Cordelia Frances Biddle
Consigned To Death by Jane K. Cleland
Cornbread Killer, The by Lou Jane Temple
Corpse Pose by Diana Killian
Cow Crimes And The Mustang Menace by Sharon Dunn
Crazy Fool Kills Five by Gwen Freeman
Cries And Whiskers by Clea Simon
Crossed Stitcher, The by Pamela Sue James
Curse Of The Holy Pail, The by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Cut Bait by C. M. Winterhouse
D
Da Vinci Cook, The by Joanne Pence
Dance On His Grave by Sylvia Dickey Smith
Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak
Dating Is Murder by Harley Jane Kozak
Dead Air by Deborah Shlian & Linda Reid
Dead And Berried by Karen MacInerney
Dead Days Of Summer by Carolyn Hart
Dead Don't Get Out Much, The by Mary Jane Maffini
Dead Ex by Harley Jane Kozak
Dead Head by Rosemary Harris
Dead Man Docking by Mary Daheim
Dead Man Running by Rett MacPherson
Dead Man's Island  by Carolyn Hart
Dead Men Don't Lye by Tim Myers
Dead Ringer by Julie A. Hyzy & Michael A. Black
Deadly Advice by Roberta Isleib
Deadly Appraisal by Jane K. Cleland
Deadly Blessings by Julie A. Hyzy
Deadly Diversion by Eleanor Sullivan
Deadly Interest by Julie A. Hyzy
Deadly Sins Deadly Secrets by Sylvia Dickey Smith
Deadly Threads by Jane K. Cleland
Deadly Valentine by Carolyn Hart
Deadmistress by Carole Shmurak
Death At Hilliard High by Carole Shmurak
Death By Committee by Carole Shmurak
Death du Jour by Lou Jane Temple
Death Goes Dutch by Albert A. Bell, Jr.
Death In December by Pam Broderick
Death In Lovers' Lane by Carolyn Hart
Death In Paradise by Carolyn Hart
Death Of A Dutch Uncle by M. E. Kemp
Death Of A Garage Sale Newbie by Sharon Dunn
Death Of A Lovable Geek by Maria Hudgins
Death Of A Pirate King by Josh Lanyon
Death Of A Six-Foot Teddy Bear by Sharon Dunn
Death Of A Trophy Wife by Laura Levine
Death Of An Obnoxious Tourist by Maria Hudgins
Death Of The Party by Carolyn Hart
Death On Demand by Carolyn Hart
Death On The Family Tree by Patricia Sprinkle
Death On The River Walk by Carolyn Hart
Death Reins In by Michele Scott
Death Roll by Marilyn Victor & Michael Allan Mallory
Death Shoots A Birdie by Christine Goff
Death Swatch by Laura Childs
Death Takes The Cake by Melinda Wells
Death Walked In by Carolyn Hart
Deception's Daughter by Cordelia Frances Biddle
Deep Sea Dead by Lori Avocato
Design For Murder by Carolyn Hart
Devil Wind by Deborah Shlian & Linda Reid
Devil's In The Details, The by Mary Jane Maffini
Digging Up Trouble by Heather Webber
Ding Dong Dead by Deb Baker
Dirty Rotten Tendrils by Kate Collins
Dogged Pursuit by Lee Charles Kelley
Dolled Up For Murder by Deb Baker
Don Of The Dead by Casey Daniels
Double Dog Dare by Linda O. Johnston
Dragonwell Dead by Laura Childs
Dressed To Keel by Candy Calvert
Driven To Murder by Judith Skillings
Drop-Dead Blonde by Denise Swanson
Drop Dead Delicious by Jill Brock
Dying For A Date by Cindy Sample
Dying To Teach by Cindy Davis
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Eagle Rising by Mary Montauge Sikes
Eden Palms Murder by Dorothy Francis
Eggs Benedict Arnold by Laura Childs
Eggs In Purgatory by Laura Childs
Eldercide by Julie Lomoe
Embroidered Corpse, The by Brian Kavanagh
Engaged To Die by Carolyn Hart
Escaping Reality by Geoff Nelder
Evil In Carnations by Kate Collins
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Fall Of Augustus, The by Sarah Wisseman
Family Claims by Twist Phelan
Fashion Victim by Sue Swift
Fat Lady Sings, The by Kit Sloane
Feline Fatale by Linda O. Johnston
Fiber & Brimstone by Laura Childs
Fifty-Seven Heaven by Lonnie Cruse
Fine-Feathered Death by Linda O. Johnston
First, Do No Harm by Larry Karp
Fit To Die by J. B. Stanley
Fitness Kills by Helen Barer
Fools Rush In by Sunny Frazier
For Better Or Hearse by Laura Durham
Forget To Remember by Alan Cook
Fright Of The Iguana, The by Linda O. Johnston
Frill Kill by Laura Childs
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G'Day To Die by Maddy Hunter
Ghost Wore Yellow Socks, The by Josh Lanyon
Goodbye Dolly by Deb Baker
Got No Friend Anyhow by Peggy Ehrhart
Grave Review by Cynthia Thomason
Great Circus Train Robbery, The by Nancy Means Wright
Ground To A Halt by Claudia Bishop
Guess Who's Coming To Die? by Patricia Sprinkle
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Hail To The Chef by Julie A. Hyzy
Hark! The Herald Angel Screamed by Mignon F. Ballard
Harvest Of Bones by Nancy Means Wright
Hayloft, The by Alan Cook
Hazardous Duty by Christy Barritt
Heaven Preserve Us by Cricket McRae
Hell You Say, The by Josh Lanyon
High Heels And Holidays by Kasey Michaels
High Heels And Homicides by Kasey Michaels
Higher Calling by E. J. Rand
Honeymoon With Murder by Carolyn Hart
Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea, The  by Mike Bradford
Holiday Wishes by Kate Austin, Stevi Mittman, & Mary Schramski
Honeymoon For Three by Alan Cook
Hotline To Murder by Alan Cook
House Of The Sphinx, The by Sarah Wisseman
House On Benefit Street, The by Donna Montalbano
How To Marry A Ghost by Hope McIntyre
How To Seduce A Ghost by Hope McIntyre
Howl Deadly by Linda O. Johnston
Hula Done It by Maddy Hunter
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In A Dark Season by Vicki Lane
In All His Glory by John Howard Reid
In Plain Sight by Lorena McCourtney
In The Dead Of Winter by Nancy Mehl
In The Wash by Rebecca Benston
Inhuman Condition by Kate Thornton
Invisible by Lorena McCourtney
Iron Ties by Ann Parker
Island Blues by Wendy Howell Mills
Island Intrigue by Wendy Howell Mills
Island Life by Michael W. Sherer
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Journey To Die For by Radine Trees Nehring
June Bug by Jess Lourey
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Key Lime Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke
Killer Cocktail by Sheryl J. Anderson
Killer Cousins by June Shaw
Killer Cruise by Laura Levine
Killer Deal by Sheryl J. Anderson
Killer Heels by Sheryl J. Anderson
Killer Knots by Nancy J. Cohen
Killer Mousse by Melinda Wells
Killing Bridezilla by Laura Levine
King Of Ragtime, The by Larry Karp
Kiss of Death by Linda Palmer
Knee High By The Fourth Of July by Jess Lourey
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Lake Meade by Heather Mosko
Lament For A Lounge Lizard by Mary Jane Maffini
Last Writes by Sheila Lowe
Laughed 'Til He Died by Carolyn Hart
Law And Disorder by Mary Jane Maffini
Lawyer Who Died Trying, The by Honora Finkelstein & Susan Smily
Lighthouse Keeper, The by Luisa Buehler
Lion Tamer, The by Luisa Buehler
Loco Motive by Mary Daheim
L'Oro Verde by L. E. Chamberlain
Lost Among The Angels by Alice Duncan
Love Her To Death by Linda Palmer
Love Is Blond by Marie Dees
Love Is Murder by Linda Palmer
Love You Madly by Linda Palmer
Lucinda's Summer Vacation by Elizabeth Fackler
Lye In Wait by Cricket McRae
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Mad Cow Nightmare by Nancy Means Wright
Mad Season by Nancy Means Wright
Madeline Mann by Julia Buckley
Maggie Needs An Alibi by Kasey Michaels
Maggie By The Book by Kasey Michaels
Maggie Without A Clue by Kasey Michaels
Mai Tai To Murder by Candy Calvert
Malice In Miniature by Margaret Grace
Married To The Mop by Barbara Colley
Matthew Livingston And The Millionaire Murder by Marco Conelli
May Day by Jess Lourey
Mayhem In Miniature by Margaret Grace
Meow Is For Murder by Linda O. Johnston
Merry, Merry Ghost by Carolyn Hart
Mew Is For Murder by Clea Simon
Midnight Fires by Nancy Means Wright
Mint Julep Murder, The by Carolyn Hart
Miss Dimple Disappears by Mignon F. Ballard
Missing Member by Jo-Ann Power
Mood Swing: The Bipolar Murders by Julie Lomoe
Moon Over Chicago by J. D. Webb
Moonblind by Laura Crum
Most Valuable Victim by A. R. Grobbo
Mourning In Miniature by Margaret Grace
Moving Is Murder by Sara Rosett
Mud Blood by Joan Del Monte
Muddied Waters by A. R. Grobbo
Murder @ A Little Bead Shop by Yvonne Eve Walus
Murder @ Play by Yvonne Eve Walus
Murder @ Work by Yvonne Eve Walus
Murder A La Carte by Prudy Taylor Board
Murder At St. Polycarp by Marianna Heusler
Murder At The Azalea Festival by Ellen Elizabeth Hunter
Murder At The Laurels by Lesley Cooman
Murder At Wrightsville Beach by Ellen Elizabeth Hunter
Murder By The Book by D. R. Meredith
Murder By The Glass by Michele Scott
Murder By The Sea by Lesley Cooman
Murder Grins And Bears It by Deb Baker
Murder Half-baked by Kathleen Delaney
Murder In Bloom by Lesley Cookman
Murder In Midwinter by Lesley Cookman
Murder In Miniature by Margaret Grace
Murder In Steeple Martin by Lesley Cookman
Murder In The Green by Lesley Cookman
Murder Is Served by Barbara Fox
Murder Most Maine by Karen MacInerney
Murder Of A Barbie And Ken by Denise Swanson
Murder Of A Botoxed Blonde by Denise Swanson
Murder Of A Pink Elephant by Denise Swanson
Murder Of A Real Bad Boy by Denise Swanson
Murder Of A Sleeping Beauty by Denise Swanson
Murder Of A Small-Town Honey by Denise Swanson
Murder Of A Smart Cookie by Denise Swanson
Murder Of A Snake In The Grass by Denise Swanson
Murder Of A Sweet Old Lady by Denise Swanson
Murder Off The Books by Evelyn David
Murder On Old Main Street by Judith Ivie
Murder On The Candlelight Tour by Ellen Elizabeth Hunter
Murder On The Cape Fear by Ellen Elizabeth Hunter
Murder On The Ghost Walk by Ellen Elizabeth Hunter
Murder On The ICW by Ellen Elizabeth Hunter
Murder On The Rocks by Karen MacInerney
Murder Passes The Buck by Deb Baker
Murder Takes The Cake by Evelyn David
Murder Uncorked by Michele Scott
Murder Unfolds by Sharon Short
Murder Walks The Plank by Carolyn Hart
Murder's Madness by Alex Matthews
Mystery Without Any Clues by Joe Albanese
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Never Say Sty by Linda O. Johnston
Night Of The Living Dandelion by Kate Collins
Night Of The Loving Dead by Casey Daniels
Night Watch by Mary Montague Sikes
No Such Thing As A Free Lunch by Shelly Fredman
No Such Thing As A Good Blind Date by Shelly Fredman
No Such Thing As A Secret by Shelly Fredman
Norway To Hide by Maddy Hunter
O
Oblivious by Cyndia Depre
Offshore Threat by Nancy A. Lindley-Gauthier
Old Wounds by Vicki Lane
Olive Horseshoe, The by Ben F. Small
On The Run by Lorena McCourtney
One For The Money by D. B. Borton
One Hex Of A Wedding by Yasmine Galenorn
Oolong Dead by Laura Childs
Organize Your Corpses by Mary Jane Maffini
Orkney Scroll, The by Lyn Hamilton
Our Lady Of The Assassins by Joe Albanese
Out of the Ruins by Sally Wright
P
Pasta Imperfect by Maddy Hunter
Patterns In Silicon by Maureen Robb
Pea Soup Poisonings, The by Nancy Means Wright (Young Adult)
Pennywise by Jill Brock
Perfect Cover by E. J. Rand
Perish By Pedicure by Nancy J. Cohen
Pie A La Murder by Melinda Wells
Pier Pressure by Dorothy Francis
Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke
PMS Murder, The by Laura Levine
Poetry Of Murder, The by Bernadette Steele
Poison Apples by Nancy Means Wright
Poison Pen by Sheila Lowe
Port City Shakedown by Gerry Boyle
Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy, The by J. Michael Orenduff
Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras, The by J. Michael Orenduff
Power In The Blood by Brenda Robertson Stewart
Preaching To The Corpse by Roberta Isleib
Pride and Predator by Sally Wright
Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Proof Is In The Pudding, The by Melinda Wells
Prophet, Priest And King by John Howard Reid
Publish and Perish by Sally Wright
Pursuit and Persuasion by Sally Wright
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris
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R
Ragtime Kid, The by Larry Karp
Recipe For Trouble by Jackie Griffey
Red Hot Murder by Joanne Pence
Relative Danger by June Shaw
Resort To Murder by Carolyn Hart
Revenge Of The Barbeque Queens by Lou Jane Temple
Romance Rustlers And Thunderbird Thieves by Sharon Dunn
Rosary Bride, The by Luisa Buehler
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Saddled With Trouble by Michele Scott
Sassy Cinderella And The Valiant Vigilante by Sharon Dunn
Say Goodbye by E. J. Rand
Scandal In Fair Haven by Carolyn Hart
Scots On The Rocks by Mary Daheim
Scout Master, The by Luisa Buehler
Scrub-A-Dub Dead by Barbara Colley
Secrets By The Sea by Mary Montague Sikes
Secrets Dark And Deep by Anne White
Set Sail For Murder by Carolyn Hart
Seven Deadly Samovars by Morgan St. James & Phyllice Bradner
Seventh Deadly Sin by D. B. Borton
Shadows Of A Down East Summer by Lea Wait
She Had To Know by Coco Ihle
Shooting Gallery by Hailey Lind
Shoots To Kill by Kate Collins
Signs In The Blood by Vicki Lane
Silenced By Syrah by Michele Scott
Silent Auction by Jane K. Cleland
Silver Lies by Ann Parker
Silver Needle Murder, The by Laura Childs
Simmer Down by Jessica Conant-Park & Susan Conant
Sins Of The Fathers by Patricia Sprinkle
Six Feet Under by D. B. Borton
Sleeping With Anemone by Kate Collins
Sleight Of Hand by Robin Hathaway
Snipped In The Bud by Kate Collins
Something Old Something Dead by Misty Simon
Something Wicked by Carolyn Hart
Sonnet Of The Sphinx by Diana Killian
Southern Ghost by Carolyn Hart
Speak Ill Of The Dead by Mary Jane Maffini
Spice Box, The by Lou Jane Temple
Spin A Wicked Web by Cricket McRae
Spurred Ambition by Twist Phelan
Stagestruck by Cynthia Thomason
State Of The Onion by Julie A. Hyzy
Station Master, The by Luisa Buehler
Steamed by Jessica Conant-Park & Susan Conant
Stiffs And Swine by J. B. Stanley
Still Waters edited by Kate Flora, Ruth McCarty, and Susan Oleksiw
Stirring Up Strife by Jennifer Stanley
Stolen Honey by Nancy Means Wright
Stranded by Lorena McCourtney
Sudden Death Sudoku by Shelley Freydont
Sudoku Murder, The by Shelley Freydont
Sugar Plum Dead by Carolyn Hart
Sweet Man Is Gone by Peggy Ehrhart
Sweetheart Deal by Claire Matturo
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Tacked To Death by Michelle Scott
Tap Dancing Gorilla, The by Renee Gardner
Tea And Witchery by Marie Dees
Teaberry Strangler, The by Laura Childs
Textbook Murders by Joe Albanese
Thirteen Diamonds by Alan Cook
This Old Souse by Mary Daheim
Thistle & Twigg by Mary Saums
Thugs And Kisses by Sue Ann Jaffarian
To Hell In A Handbasket by Beth Groundwater
To Love And To Perish by Laura Durham
Tombs Of Endearment by Casey Daniels
Too Big To Miss by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Too Hot To Handle by Mary Jane Maffini
Too Rich And Too Thin, Not An Autobiography by Barbara DeShong
Too Late For Angels by Mignon Ballard
Top O' The Mournin' by Maddy Hunter
Tragic Magic by Laura Childs
Triangle by Sue Swift
Tropical Warnings by April Star
Trouble In Bloom by Heather Webber
Twice Dead by Eleanor Sullivan
Two-Shot Foul by D. B. Borton
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Under Lock And Key by Rebecca Benston
Under The Bridge And Back Again by Mike Bradford
Unplugged by Lois Greiman
Unscrewed by Lois Greiman
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Vi Agra Falls by Mary Daheim
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Waiting For Armando by Judith Ivie
Wash And Die by Barbara Colley
Watches Of The Night by Sally Wright
What Are You Wearing To Die? by Patricia Sprinkle
Where Angels Fear by Sunny Frazier
White Elephant Dead by Carolyn Hart
Who Is Killing Doah's Deer? by Jeff Markowitz
Whose Number Is Up, Anyway? by Stevi Mittman
Why Is Murder On The Menu, Anyway? by Stevi Mittman
Wiped Out by Barbara Colley
Without Fear by Cordelia Frances Biddle
Written In Blood by Sheila Lowe
Wrong Drawers, The by Misty Simon
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Yankee Doodle Dead by Carolyn Hart
You May Now Kill The Bride by Deborah Donnelly
Your Chariot Awaits by Lorena McCourtney
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