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Sell low, sweet Harriet / by Harris, Sherry(Mystery writer);
Sarah Winston's garage sale business has a new client: the daughter of a couple who recently died in a tragic accident while away on a trip to Africa. Their house is full of exotic items from around the world that need to be sold off. When Sarah learns that the deceased were retired CIA agents, the job becomes more intriguing -- but when an intruder breaks in and a hidden camera is found, it also becomes more dangerous. And Sarah has enough on her plate right now since she's investigating a murder on the side at the nearby Air Force base, where her status as a former military spouse gives her a special kind of access. With so much work piling up, Sarah decides to hire some help. But her assistant, Harriet -- a former FBI hostage negotiator -- has a rare talent for salesmanship. Which is good, because Sarah may have to haggle for her life with Harriet's assistance...
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Divorced women; Garage sales; Detective and mystery stories; Electronic commerce; Murder;
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Let's fake a deal / by Harris, Sherry(Mystery writer);
As a former military spouse, Sarah Winston's learned a little about organizing, packing, and moving. Her latest project sounds promising: a couple of tech-industry hipsters, newly arrived in her Massachusetts town, who need to downsize. Unfortunately, when Sarah tries to sell their stuff, she discovers it's all stolen and she's the unwitting fence. Michelle, an old friend of Sarah's from the Air Force base, is in line for a promotion but not everyone is happy about it, and she's been hit with an anonymous discrimination complaint. When one of the men she suspects is behind the accusations turns up dead in Michelle's car, Sarah needs to clear Michelle's name as well as her own for selling hot merchandise. And she'll have to do it while also organizing a cat lady's gigantic collection of feline memorabilia, or they'll be making room for Sarah in a jail cell.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Divorced women; Garage sales; Theft; Murder;
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From beer to eternity / by Harris, Sherry(Mystery writer);
While helping her late friend's grandmother Vivi run the Sea Glass Saloon in the Florida Panhandle, Chloe Jackson must clear Vivi's name when she is accused of murdering one of her regular customers, and she soon discovers that Vivi is not the only one in Emerald Cove with secrets.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Murder; Secrecy;
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Three shots to the wind / by Harris, Sherry(Mystery writer);
"Saloon owner Chloe Jackson appears to have a secret admirer...She immediately rules out Rip Barnett. They are in the early stages of dating...Sure enough, her ex-fiancé from Chicago has flown down to Florida for an accountants' convention...Unfortunately he's not in a hotel conference room, he's floating facedown in the lake next to her house, clutching a photo of Chloe...When Rip becomes the prime suspect, Chloe is determined to find the secret murderer"--
Subjects: Cozy mysteries.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Murder;
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Absence of Alice / by Harris, Sherry(Mystery writer);
Sarah's latest client, Alice Krandle, is sure she has a fortune in antiques on her hands. She's already gotten a generous offer for the whole lot before her garage sale has even begun, but she thinks she can earn more with Sarah's expert help. The problem is that while Sarah's sorting through items from decades past, her landlady, Stella, faces a clear and present danger. Stella's kidnapper has contacted Sarah with a set of instructions, and "Don't call the police" is at the top of the list. But they didn't say anything about Sarah's friend Harriet--who happens to be a former F.B.I. hostage negotiator...
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Antiques; Kidnapping; Hostage negotiations;
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A time to swill / by Harris, Sherry(Mystery writer);
Saloon owner Chloe Jackson is after a murderer with skeletons in the closet--and one on a boat. BAD TO THE BONE Chloe loves her new life pouring beers and mixing cocktails at the Sea Glass Saloon in the Florida Panhandle town of Emerald Cove. But on the job, the only exercise she gets is walking from one end of the bar to the other, so in the mornings she loves to run on the beach. On this morning's foggy run, she spots a sailboat washed up on a sandbar. Hearing a cry, she climbs aboard the beached vessel to investigate and finds not only a mewling kitten--but a human skeleton in the cabin. The skeleton is tied back to Chloe's friend Ralph, whose wife disappeared on a sailboat with three other people twelve years ago. Believing his wife was lost at sea, Ralph remarried. Now he finds himself a murder suspect. Chloe is determined to find out who's been up to some skulduggery, but her sleuthing will lead her into some rough waters and some bone-chilling revelations...
Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments); Murder; Sailboats;
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Her Amish country husband / by Johns, Patricia (Romance writer),author.;
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Religious fiction.; Novels.; Amish; Antique dealers; Man-woman relationships;
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The world's wildest cons : incredible true tales of hustles, frauds and swindles / by McKenzie, Duncan(Comedy writer),author.;
'The World's Wildest Cons' is a collection of true stories of con men and women who charm their way into all kinds of hijinks. We're all familiar with Frank Abagnale (of 'Catch Me If You Can' fame), Charles Ponzi (of the Ponzi scheme), and Anna Delvey (of Netflix's 'Inventing Anna'). But they're just the ones you've heard of. This collection offers not only tons of stories of actual cons, it also digs into the way cons have evolved to incorporate technology or adapt to cultural differences over time and around the world.
Subjects: Case studies.; True crime stories.; Crime.; Criminals.; Fraud.; Swindlers and swindling.;
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Murder under the mistletoe / by Lynn, Sherry(Mystery writer),author.;
"Landscape artist and owner of SeaScapes, Kinsley Clark has been re-hired to decorate the town of Harborside for the upcoming holiday season and boat parade. Using the local elements found in Maine, Kinsley creates kissing balls-the town's official mistletoe-to hang downtown and along the wharf. Kinsley is also responsible for Harborside's official "lobster-stacked" Christmas tree, located beside the local marina, where the annual Harborside Boat Parade & Fireworks Display takes place. When local alderman Chris Chesterfield dressed up as the Grinch right down to the green face paint, falls off the pier and into the icy Atlantic the night of the annual kickoff event, the town is in shock. But all eyes turn to Kinsley and her beautiful decorations when it becomes evident that Chris didn't fall after all-and that he was looking to replace SeaScapes with a different decorating team. Kinsley, along with bestie, Becca and Pete, the owner of the Blue Lobstah, must unearth the truth before Kinsley takes the fall"--
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Recipes.; Novels.; Christmas stories; Businesswomen; Christmas decorations; Holiday decorations; Landscaping industry; Murder; Small cities;
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A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia / by Allen, Sandra(Nonfiction writer),author.;
"Dazzlingly, daringly written, marrying the thoughtful originality of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts with the revelatory power of Neurotribes and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Sandra Allen did not know her uncle Bob very well. As a child, she had been told he was "crazy," that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than she had been alive, and what little she knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed her his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps, a stream of error-riddled sentences over sixty, single-spaced pages, the often incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a "true story" about being "labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic," and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise, Allen translates her uncle's autobiography, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Lacing Bob's narrative with chapters providing greater contextualization, Allen also shares background information about her family, the culturally explosive time and place of her uncle's formative years, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that, to most people, remains unimaginable"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Allen, Sandra (Nonfiction writer); Schizophrenia;
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