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Diana Xarissa
Full Series List in Order
An Aunt Bessie Cold Case Mystery
1 - The Adams File (Jan-2021)2 - The Bernhard File (Apr-2021)
3 - The Carter File (Jul-2021)
4 - The Durand File (Oct-2021)
5 - The Evans File (Jan-2022)
6 - The Flowers File (Apr-2022)
7 - The Goodman File (Jul-2022)
8 - The Howard File (Oct-2022)
9 - The Irving File (Feb-2023)
10 - The Jordan File (Jun-2023)
An Isle of Man Cozy Mystery
1 - Aunt Bessie Assumes (May-2014)2 - Aunt Bessie Believes (Jul-2014)
3 - Aunt Bessie Considers (Oct-2014)
4 - Aunt Bessie Decides (Jan-2015)
5 - Aunt Bessie Enjoys (Apr-2015)
6 - Aunt Bessie Finds (Jul-2015)
7 - Aunt Bessie Goes (Oct-2015)
8 - Aunt Bessie's Holiday (Jan-2016)
9 - Aunt Bessie Invites (Apr-2016)
10 - Aunt Bessie Joins (Jul-2016)
11 - Aunt Bessie Knows (Oct-2016)
12 - Aunt Bessie Likes (Jan-2017)
13 - Aunt Bessie Meets (Apr-2017)
14 - Aunt Bessie Needs (Jul-2017)
15 - Aunt Bessie Observes (Oct-2017)
16 - Aunt Bessie Provides (Jan-2018)
17 - Aunt Bessie Questions (Apr-2018)
18 - Aunt Bessie Remembers (Jul-2018)
19 - Aunt Bessie Solves (Oct-2018)
20 - Aunt Bessie Tries (Jan-2019)
21 - Aunt Bessie Understands (May-2019)
22 - Aunt Bessie Volunteers (Sep-2019)
23 - Aunt Bessie Wonders (Jan-2020)
24 - Aunt Bessie's X-Ray (Apr-2020)
25 - Aunt Bessie Yearns (Jul-2020)
26 - Aunt Bessie Zeroes In (Oct-2020)
An Isle of Man Ghostly Cozy Mystery
1 - Arrivals and Arrests (Nov-2016)2 - Boats and Bad Guys (Feb-2017)
3 - Cars and Cold Cases (May-2017)
4 - Dogs and Danger (Aug-2017)
5 - Encounters and Enemies (Nov-2017)
6 - Friends and Frauds (Feb-2018)
7 - Guests and Guilt (May-2018)
8 - Hop-tu-Naa and Homicide (Aug-2018)
9 - Invitations and Investigations (Nov-2018)
10 - Joy and Jealousy (Feb-2019)
11 - Kittens and Killers (Jun-2019)
12 - Letters and Lawsuits (Oct-2019)
13 - Marsupials and Murder (Feb-2020)
14 - Neighbors and Nightmares (May-2020)
15 - Orchestras and Obsessions (Aug-2020)
16 - Proposals and Poison (Nov-2020)
17 - Questions and Quarrels (Feb-2021)
18 - Roses and Revenge (May-2021)
19 - Secrets and Suspects (Aug-2021)
20 - Theaters and Threats (Nov-2021)
21 - Umbrellas and Undertakers (Feb-2022)
22 - Visitors and Victims (May-2022)
23 - Weddings and Witnesses (Aug-2022)
24 - Xylophones and X-Rays (Nov-2022)
25 - Yachts and Yelps (May-2023)
An Isle of Man Romance
1 - Island Escape (Dec-2013)2 - Island Inheritance (Dec-2013)
3 - Island Heritage (Feb-2015)
4 - Island Christmas (Dec-2015)
A Janet Markham Bennett Cozy Thriller
1 - The Armstrong Assignment (Mar-2021)2 - The Blake Assignment (Jun-2021)
3 - The Carlson Assignment (Sep-2021)
4 - The Doyle Assignment (Dec-2021)
5 - The Everest Assignment (Mar-2022)
6 - The Farnsley Assignment (Jun-2022)
7 - The George Assignment (Sep-2022)
8 - The Hamilton Assignment (Dec-2022)
9 - The Ingram Assignment (Apr-2023)
A Lady Elizabeth Cozy in Space
1 - Alibis in Alpha Sector (Sep-2022)2 - Bodies in Beta Sector (Mar-2023)
A Later in Life Love Story
1 - Second Chances (Mar-2020)2 - Second Act (Jun-2020)
3 - Second Thoughts (Sep-2020)
4 - Second Degree (Dec-2020)
5 - Second Best (Apr-2021)
6 - Second Nature (Aug-2021)
7 - Second Place (Dec-2021)
A Markham Sisters Cozy Mystery
1 - The Appleton Case (Jun-2015)2 - The Bennett Case (Sep-2015)
3 - The Chalmers Case (Dec-2015)
4 - The Donaldson Case (Mar-2016)
5 - The Ellsworth Case (Jun-2016)
6 - The Fenton Case (Sep-2016)
7 - The Green Case (Dec-2016)
8 - The Hampton Case (Mar-2017)
9 - The Irwin Case (Jun-2017)
10 - The Jackson Case (Sep-2017)
11 - The Kingston Case (Dec-2017)
12 - The Lawley Case (Mar-2018)
13 - The Moody Case (Jun-2018)
14 - The Norman Case (Sep-2018)
15 - The Osborne Case (Dec-2018)
16 - The Patrone Case (Mar-2019)
17 - The Quinton Case (Jul-2019)
18 - The Rhodes Case (Nov-2019)
19 - The Somerset Case (Jan-2020)
20 - The Tanner Case (Mar-2020)
21 - The Underwood Case (Apr-2020)
22 - The Vernon Case (Jun-2020)
23 - The Walters Case (Jul-2020)
24 - The Xanders Case (Sep-2020)
25 - The Young Case (Oct-2020)
26 - The Zachery Case (Dec-2020)
A Midlife Crisis Mystery
1 - Anxious in Nevada (Nov-2022)2 - Bewildered in Florida (May-2023)
A Sunset Lodge Mystery
1 - The Body in the Annex (Jul-2022)2 - The Body in the Boathouse (Jan-2023)
3 - The Body in the Cottage (May-2023)
4 - The Body in the Dunk Tank (Sep-2023)
Book List in Order: 119 titles
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Island Escape
- Dec-2013
- / Contemporary Romance
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After cancelling her wedding, Katie Kincaid has a chance to completely change her life.An opportunity to spend three months doing research on the tiny Isle of Man is too good to pass up. It will be wonderful to get away from the sympathetic looks and...
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Island Inheritance
- Dec-2013
- / Contemporary Romance
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Carly thinks her life is just about perfect. She recently bought an adorable little house in her hometown in Pennsylvania. She has a job she loves, teaching first grade at the same elementary school she once attended. And she has the same boyfriend t...
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Aunt Bessie Assumes
- May-2014
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie assumes that she'll have the beach all to herself on a cold, wet, and windy March morning just after sunrise, then she stumbles (almost literally) over a dead body.Elizabeth (Bessie) Cubbon, aged somewhere between free bus pass (60) and t...
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Aunt Bessie Believes
- Jul-2014
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie believes that Moirrey Teare is just about the most disagreeable woman she's ever had the misfortune to meet.Elizabeth Cubbon, (Aunt Bessie to nearly everyone), is somewhere past sixty, and old enough to ignore the rude woman that does her...
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Aunt Bessie Considers
- Oct-2014
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie considers it an honour to be giving a presentation about her research at a conference at the Manx Museum.Miss Elizabeth Cubbon is known as “Aunt Bessie” to nearly everyone in her hometown of Laxey. While she never earned a college deg...
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Aunt Bessie Decides
- Jan-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie decides that she and her closest friends should have an enjoyable night out.Elizabeth Cubbon (known to almost everyone as Aunt Bessie) has made many friends over the lifetime that she’s lived in the village of Laxey, but few have been a...
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Island Heritage
- Feb-2015
- / Contemporary Romance
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Lisa and Darcy have been best friends since primary school, when they agreed that school was boring and boys were gross. Twenty-odd years later, Darcy has definitely moved on. She’s now a gorgeous redhead with a figure that stops traffic and a ta...
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Aunt Bessie Enjoys
- Apr-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie enjoys planning for a pleasurable Tynwald Day celebration with her friends.Elizabeth Cubbon is called “Aunt Bessie” by nearly everyone in the small village of Laxey that she calls home. A number of murders have thrown her normally qui...
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The Appleton Case
- Jun-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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Please note that this is a novella length story (around 25,000 words). The story is complete, no cliffhanger ending. Janet Markham enjoyed meeting Bessie Cubbon on the Isle of Man when she and her sister, Joan, were on holiday there. (See Aunt Bes...
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Aunt Bessie Finds
- Jul-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie finds herself in need of a change of scenery. Bessie Cubbon, Laxey Village’s “Aunt Bessie,” is feeling overwhelmed by the twists and turns her life has taken recently. When a friend suggests that she look at a flat in Douglas, Bessi...
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The Bennett Case
- Sep-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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Please note that this is a novella length story (around 25,000 words). The story is complete, no cliff hanger endings. Janet and Joan Markham are starting to feel settled in their new home. Now Joan is ready to start welcoming guests to their bed ...
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Aunt Bessie Goes
- Oct-2015
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Aunt Bessie goes house hunting with her friend, John Rockwell.CID Inspector John Rockwell asks Bessie Cubbon, a longtime resident of the village of Laxey where she's known to just about everyone as "Aunt Bessie," to help him find the perfect house in...
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The Chalmers Case
- Dec-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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Please note that this is a novella length story (around 25,000 words). The story is complete, no cliffhanger ending. Now that Janet and Joan Markham have had their first (albeit unexpected) guest, Joan is eager to get the bed and breakfast running ...
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Island Christmas
- Dec-2015
- / Contemporary Romance
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Darcy Robinson couldn't be happier that her best friend, Lisa, has found the man of her dreams. Now it's time for Darcy to make some big changes of her own. Quitting her job was easy, but finding a new one proves a little bit more difficult. Gorgeous...
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Aunt Bessie's Holiday
- Jan-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie’s holiday is an unexpected treat. When Bessie Cubbon’s best friend, Doona Moore, wins a week’s stay at an English holiday park, she’s quick to invite Bessie to join her. Bessie isn’t sure the destination, hugely popular with fam...
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The Donaldson Case
- Mar-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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Please note that this is a novella length story (around 25,000 words). The story is complete, no cliffhanger ending. Janet and Joan Markham are settling in to running their bed and breakfast and their new life in Doveby Dale. Janet is excited to dis...
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Aunt Bessie Invites
- Apr-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie invites her dearest friends for a traditional American Thanksgiving feast. Having spent her childhood in the US, Bessie Cubbon still celebrates an American-style Thanksgiving every November. Now Laxey’s favourite “Aunt Bessie” is pl...
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The Ellsworth Case
- Jun-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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The bed and breakfast is now up and running and Janet and Joan are looking forward to welcoming their last guests before they take a break for Christmas. The news that someone is passing counterfeit currency around Doveby Dale is worrying. Both coup...
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Aunt Bessie Joins
- Jul-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie joins the planning committee for Manx National Heritage’s new fundraiser, "Christmas at the Castle."Bessie is delighted that her friends, Marjorie Stevens and Mary Quayle, are also both on the committee. Carolyn Teare is a less welcome ...
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The Fenton Case
- Sep-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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With Christmas out of the way, the sisters are ready to reopen the bed and breakfast, but it seems as if guests are few and far between in cold and wet January. Joan and Janet are happy to welcome a young couple for a weekend stay, although Janet ha...
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Aunt Bessie Knows
- Oct-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie knows she’s in for a long evening when she joins her friends to celebrate New Year’s Eve. In Elizabeth Cubbon’s experience, New Year’s Eve parties are never as fun as they ought to be. When she's invited to share the night with he...
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Arrivals and Arrests
- Nov-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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Fenella Woods has only met a few people during the twenty-four hours she's been in Douglas, the capital city of the Isle of Man. She's shocked when she discovers one of them dead in an alley behind her apartment building. Struggling to adapt to her n...
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The Green Case
- Dec-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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Joan and Janet are starting to feel at home in Doveby Dale. Janet has even joined the Doveby Dale Ladies’ Club, a group of women who meet for dinner on a monthly basis.But when one of the other members suggests adding men to the club, the ladies f...
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Aunt Bessie Likes
- Jan-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie likes weddings. Elizabeth Cubbon, known to everyone as “Aunt Bessie,” is delighted to see two of her friends being united in marriage. But before the wedding, there’s a cold case that has the whole island talking. Aunt Bessie likes ...
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Boats and Bad Guys
- Feb-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Fenella Woods is excited to be taking the ferry across the Irish Sea to England so that she can begin her research. When she finds a dead body in her cabin, she has to change her plans. The police seem convinced that the killer is one of the other pa...
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The Hampton Case
- Mar-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Janet Markham is excited that Edward Bennett is coming to stay at Doveby House, the bed and breakfast that she owns with her sister, Joan. Edward may or may not be a secret government agent, but he is definitely attractive and interesting, at least ...
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Aunt Bessie Meets
- Apr-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie meets a former acquaintance on Laxey Beach. It’s the first anniversary of Danny Pierce’s death and Bessie is surprised when she sees Danny’s widow, Vikky, walking along the beach where her husband's body was found. Vikky is back on ...
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Cars and Cold Cases
- May-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Fenella Woods is nervous but eager to start driving lessons on the Isle of Man. Having never driven a manual transmission before, she quickly finds herself struggling with having to change gears with her left hand while sitting on what feels like the...
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The Irwin Case
- Jun-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Guests at Doveby House don’t usually pay by credit card, but when one tries and his card is refused, Janet Markham can’t help but wonder if there’s something more going on that a simple glitch in the credit card machine. As more stories of tro...
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Aunt Bessie Needs
- Jul-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie needs to start working on her Manx language skills again.Elizabeth Cubbon, known as Aunt Bessie to nearly everyone, is taking the beginner's Manx language class for the fourth time. This time, however, many of her friends are taking it wi...
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Dogs and Danger
- Aug-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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When Fenella Woods decided to cut all of her ties in Buffalo, New York to move to the Isle of Man, she didn’t even give pets a single thought. Not long after she’d settled in, however, she’d found herself with a kitten. Just back from a fortnig...
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The Jackson Case
- Sep-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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When their neighbour, Stuart, asks for a simple favour, Janet and Joan Markham can’t refuse. They’re happy to let the man use their bed and breakfast, Doveby House, for a planning meeting. Stuart is part of a committee that’s putting together...
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Aunt Bessie Observes
- Oct-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie observes almost everything. Elizabeth Cubbon, known as Bessie to nearly everyone, doesn’t miss much as she makes her way around the island that has been her home for all of her adult life. Aunt Bessie observes less than her friend Janet...
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Encounters and Enemies
- Nov-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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When Fenella Woods inherited her spinster aunt’s estate, she’d been surprised to learn that Mona had something of a racy past. Everyone she met seemed to have a story about Mona, and most of them seemed to involve wealthy and attractive men. Even...
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The Kingston Case
- Dec-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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Back from their holiday on the Isle of Man, Janet and Joan Markham are ready to reopen the bed and breakfast to guests. Janet is surprised to learn that one of the guests who will be arriving soon is William Chalmers's former wife, Alice. But Willi...
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Aunt Bessie Provides
- Jan-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie provides help to Constable Hugh Watterson whenever she can.Elizabeth Cubbon, Aunt Bessie to nearly everyone, has been involved in far too many murder investigations in the past year and a half. But when Hugh asks her to help him work out ...
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Friends and Frauds
- Feb-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Since she’s been on the Isle of Man, Fenella Woods has had the chance to make many new friends. Her closest island friend is her next-door neighbor, Shelly. When a man appears on Shelly’s doorstep claiming to have been a childhood friend of Shell...
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The Lawley Case
- Mar-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Janet Markham is starting to feel almost settled at the bed and breakfast she owns with her sister, Joan. When their neighbour and gardener, Stuart, tells Janet that he thinks someone might be growing plants for illegal drug manufacturing in Doveby ...
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Aunt Bessie Questions
- Apr-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie questions how best to support her friend Helen.Helen Baxter and Inspector Pete Corkill are getting married, but Helen’s nerves are getting the better of her. Elizabeth Cubbon, Bessie to everyone, does everything she can to help her frie...
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Guests and Guilt
- May-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Fenella Woods is less than excited when her brother James announces that he’s coming to visit her. She’s starting to feel truly settled in her new home on the Isle of Man, but James made it clear when she inherited their Aunt Mona’s fortune tha...
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The Moody Case
- Jun-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Janet and Joan Markham are on a routine trip to the supermarket when their car gets hit from behind. When the man who hit them doesn’t want to provide his name or insurance details, Janet rings her friend, Constable Robert Parsons. Robert fills o...
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Aunt Bessie Remembers
- Jul-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie remembers nothing about the party that Elizabeth Quayle insists she invited Bessie to attend. Elizabeth Cubbon, known as Bessie to nearly everyone, is confident that she would have remembered being invited to take part in a murder myst...
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Hop-tu-Naa and Homicide
- Aug-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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It’s Hop-tu-Naa time on the Isle of Man and Fenella Woods is excited to learn more about this uniquely Manx celebration. When a day of fun at Cregneash village ends with Fenella finding a dead body, though, she finds herself tangled up in another m...
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The Norman Case
- Sep-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Summer in Derbyshire brings a never ending stream of guests to Doveby House. Janet and Joan Markham find themselves working harder than they’d ever expected when they bought the bed and breakfast. While most of the guests have been pleasant, ...
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Aunt Bessie Solves
- Oct-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie solves murders with alarming regularity.Elizabeth Cubbon, known as Bessie to nearly everyone, has been caught up in far too many murder investigations lately. When a friend from the UK, police inspector Andrew Cheatham, comes to visit, sh...
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Invitations and Investigations
- Nov-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Fenella Woods is pleased when police inspector Daniel Robinson asks for her help with another cold case. It isn’t the first time he’s asked her to share her thoughts on an old case, but things have been difficult between the pair since Daniel ret...
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The Osborne Case
- Dec-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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Janet Markham has been trying to track down Gretchen Falkirk for months. She’s eager to learn more about Alberta Montgomery, one of the previous residents of the bed and breakfast she now owns with her sister, Joan. When her friends from the Isle...
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Aunt Bessie Tries
- Jan-2019
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie tries to help her friends.After Grace Watterson’s baby shower, Elizabeth Cubbon, known as Bessie to nearly everyone, gets stopped by one of the party guests. Lora White is worried that someone is trying to kill her.Aunt Bessie tries to...
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Joy and Jealousy
- Feb-2019
- / Cozy Mystery
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Fenella Woods is excited to be celebrating her first Christmas on the Isle of Man. She’s less enthusiastic that her former boyfriend, Jack, is coming for a long visit. While they split up months ago, before Fenella relocated to the island, Jack s...
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The Patrone Case
- Mar-2019
- / Cozy Mystery
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Janet is happy to help William Chalmers, the owner of Doveby Dale’s antique shop, interview a few potential employees. She and William are friends, although William often hints that he has romantic intentions. Regardless, it makes a nice change f...
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Aunt Bessie Understands
- May-2019
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie understands why Hugh is so worried about his wife, Grace. She’s about to have their first child, and Hugh doesn’t want her left alone in case she goes into labour. Bessie is happy to agree to spend an afternoon with the woman.Aunt Be...
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Kittens and Killers
- Jun-2019
- / Cozy Mystery
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Police inspector Daniel Robinson wants help with another cold case, and Fenella Woods is always happy to assist. This time, it’s a fifty-year-old murder case that has captured Daniel’s attention. With witnesses and suspects well into their seve...
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The Quinton Case
- Jul-2019
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It’s nearly Christmas, and Janet and Joan Markham have been looking forward to having Doveby House to themselves for a fortnight. Joan promised not to book any guests into the bed and breakfast through Christmas and New Year. When Joan gets a let...
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Aunt Bessie Volunteers
- Sep-2019
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Aunt Bessie volunteers to help Manx National Heritage clear out years of accumulated rubbish at Peel Castle.Elizabeth Cubbon has been known as Aunt Bessie for most her life. She’s acted as an honourary aunt to most of the children who’ve grown u...
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Letters and Lawsuits
- Oct-2019
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Along with everything that she left to her, Fenella’s aunt Mona left instructions for her own birthday party. Doncan Quayle, Fenella’s advocate, is in charge of arranging the party, following Mona’s detailed plans. He gets a little sidetracke...
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The Rhodes Case
- Nov-2019
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Janet Markham is both excited and nervous that Edward Bennett is coming for another visit. The handsome man has made no secret of the fact that he’s interested in being more than friends with Janet, but he’s usually too busy to pursue her. His ...
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Aunt Bessie Wonders
- Jan-2020
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Aunt Bessie wonders if a holiday is a good idea. Thomas and Amy Rockwell have had something of a shock. When Doona suggests a holiday to Lakeview Holiday Park, their father, John, isn’t sure whether to agree or not. In the end, Bessie, Doona, John,...
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The Somerset Case
- Jan-2020
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Everyone enjoys getting flowers, especially around Valentine’s Day, but Stacey, the waitress at the local café, is less than happy with the ones she’s been getting. Someone has been sending her flowers anonymously every day since the first of F...
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Marsupials and Murder
- Feb-2020
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Fenella Woods has been living on the Isle of Man for a year, and it now seems as if every charity there feels it’s appropriate to start soliciting her. Most of the letters get turned over to Fenella’s advocate to deal with, but one request catch...
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The Tanner Case
- Mar-2020
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Visiting special event venues sounds as if it could be interesting, especially when Janet Markham discovers that there will be cake samples. What neither Markham sister is expecting is a nasty message spray-painted across the front door of the first...
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Aunt Bessie's X-Ray
- Apr-2020
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie’s X-ray happily doesn’t reveal a break.Bessie Cubbon, Aunt Bessie to nearly everyone, has been walking on Laxey Beach for a great many years. An unfortunate fall sees her visiting the Ramsey and District Cottage Hospital for X-rays.A...
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Neighbors and Nightmares
- May-2020
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Fenella Woods has been having nightmares for the past two weeks. She and Daniel Robinson, her police inspector boyfriend, have been getting along really well, even starting to plan a vacation together. That was before he announced that the woman he...
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Aunt Bessie Yearns
- Jul-2020
- / Cozy Mystery
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Aunt Bessie yearns for a typical walk on the beach.It's been exactly two years since Elizabeth Cubbon, Aunt Bessie to nearly everyone, found a dead body on Laxey Beach. Since then, finding murder victims has been something of an unfortunate habit for...
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Orchestras and Obsessions
- Aug-2020
- / Cozy Mystery
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Fenella Woods isn't certain that following a traveling orchestra around England with police inspector Daniel Robinson is the sort of romantic vacation for which she was hoping. The tour is being led by one of Daniel's former teachers, and apparently ...
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Aunt Bessie Zeroes In
- Oct-2020
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Aunt Bessie zeroes in on the perfect house for her friends, Elizabeth Quayle and Andy Caine.Actually, the Looney mansion isn't anyone's idea of a perfect house. Decades of neglect have left the house in need of a complete renovation, but Andy and Eli...
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Proposals and Poison
- Nov-2020
- / Cozy Mystery
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Fenella Woods is happy to look at apartments with her boyfriend, police inspector Daniel Robinson. He wants to move closer to Fenella and central Douglas, and she's delighted. While they're visiting an apartment, however, someone unearths a box label...
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The Adams File
- Jan-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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Bessie is both excited and apprehensive about her new role in Andrew Cheatham's cold case unit. When the first case involves a missing five-year-old who may well have been murdered by her own father, Bessie has even more second thoughts.As if Andrew'...
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Questions and Quarrels
- Feb-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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Fenella has been living on the Isle of Man for a year and a half. She reckons it's high time she took a good look at all of the properties that she inherited from her Aunt Mona. After a long day spent driving all over the island, she and her lawyer e...
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The Armstrong Assignment
- Mar-2021
- / Mystery
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Janet Markham's wedding day is perfect in every way, and she can't imagine anything better than spending two weeks in Paris and two weeks in Venice on her honeymoon. Less than twenty-four hours later, though, her husband, Edward Bennett, has gone mis...
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The Bernhard File
- Apr-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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After a surprisingly successful first investigation, Andrew Cheatham's cold case unit is considering murder this time around. No one knew that Paul Bernhard was in New York City. No one knows why he was brutally murdered. No one knows where to find t...
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Second Best
- Apr-2021
- / Contemporary Romance
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After fifteen years of full-time work and part-time study, Suzy Snyder has finally finished her degree. Now she just has to find the perfect new job. She's been working at the Diner since she was a teenager, but even though she's now the manager, she...
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Roses and Revenge
- May-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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When Fenella Woods moved to the Isle of Man, one of the things she left behind in Buffalo was her former boyfriend, Jack Dawson. Now Jack is getting married, and he's invited Fenella to help celebrate his special day. Fenella and the new man in her l...
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The Blake Assignment
- Jun-2021
- / Mystery
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Getting a man from London to Edinburgh doesn't sound as if it's going to be a very difficult assignment for Janet and Edward Bennett, not even if the man is somewhat particular about how he gets from one place to another. They are surprised and not h...
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The Carter File
- Jul-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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Julie Carter was celebrating her high school graduation with five friends on a rainy weekend in 1985. Her murder is the third case that Andrew Cheatham presents to his cold case unit. One of the five people at the cottage with Julie killed her, but, ...
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Secrets and Suspects
- Aug-2021
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After finding a skeleton while visiting the properties that she'd inherited from her aunt, Mona Kelly, Fenella Woods is only a bit worried about what she might find when she visits the safe deposit boxes that Mona had in banks around the Isle of Man....
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The Carlson Assignment
- Sep-2021
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After nearly a year, Joan Markham Donaldson is ready to start welcoming guests again to the bed and breakfast, Doveby House, which she owns with her sister, Janet. Janet Markham Bennett is far less excited about the idea, so she's quick to agree to a...
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The Durand File
- Oct-2021
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With all the time he's spending on the island running his cold case unit, Andrew Cheatham is considering buying a house there. Bessie is happy to go along on the hunt with him, but they're both surprised and upset to discover a fire raging at one of ...
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Theaters and Threats
- Nov-2021
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When Fenella learns that her friend, Breesha, is going to be in a play, she reserved a box at the theater for herself and her friends. The show turns out to be a complicated mess, but even worse is the body surrounded by blood in the next box. Fenell...
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The Evans File
- Jan-2022
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Bessie Cubbon is surprised and disappointed when she learns that Andrew Cheatham isn't going to be staying in the holiday cottage next to her home on Laxey Beach when he visits the island in February. For the next week of cold case unit meetings, he'...
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Umbrellas and Undertakers
- Feb-2022
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All Fenella Woods wants is to have a nice lunch with her fiancé, Police Inspector Daniel Robinson. When the café's owner manages to start a fire, though, things get complicated very quickly. As if the fire isn't enough for Daniel to investi...
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The Everest Assignment
- Mar-2022
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When a retired Hollywood actor starts getting threatening letters, Janet Markham Bennett, retired teacher, and her husband, Edward Bennett, retired spy, are sent to investigate. Benjamin Everest may have quit acting, but he's also about to embark on ...
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Visitors and Victims
- May-2022
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Fenella Woods has been living on the Isle of Man for nearly two years and she's delighted that her nieces, Margaret and Megan, are finally coming to the island for a visit. Unfortunately, they haven't been on the island long before they stumble acros...
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The Farnsley Assignment
- Jun-2022
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Janet Markham Bennett is just starting to feel as if she's getting used to her part-time job with her husband Edward's top-secret government agency. Their next assignment is something a bit different, though. This time the agency is sending them to t...
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The Body in the Annex
- Jul-2022
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After months of planning, sisters Abigail and Amanda Clark have finally purchased a historic resort property in the Finger Lakes. Abigail has years of experience managing hotels and restaurants, so she's sure she's ready for this new challenge. She i...
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The Goodman File
- Jul-2022
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Elizabeth Cubbon, called Bessie by nearly everyone, has many friends on the Isle of Man. She's called the island home for more years than she wants to remember. When one of her friends, Mary Quayle, asks for a favour, Bessie is quick to agree. Mary i...
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Weddings and Witnesses
- Aug-2022
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It's nearly Shelly Quirk's wedding day, and her closest friend, Fenella Woods, is doing everything she can to help Shelly celebrate. Shelly's Aunt Elaine is visiting, and the three women have plans to spend the final days before the wedding at the Se...
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Alibis in Alpha Sector
- Sep-2022
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When I lost my low paying, dead-end job, a friend offered me a one-way ticket to Val Segas. I didn't want to take advantage of his generosity, but we both knew that that ticket was probably the only way I'd ever get off Cenclare.He surprised me with ...
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The George Assignment
- Sep-2022
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Janet and Edward are enjoying life in Doveby Dale, planning their carriage house remodel, when Mr. Jones arrives with a new and rather urgent assignment. Another agent has disappeared. While there are any number of possible explanations for the disap...
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The Howard File
- Oct-2022
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Police Inspector Andrew Cheatham is back on the island with another murder investigation for the cold case unit. On paper, it seems as if the case should have been solved decades earlier. Craig Howard was stabbed to death in a small pub, leaving behi...
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Anxious in Nevada
- Nov-2022
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I'm Holly Parker, and on my fiftieth birthday I decided that it was about time I stopped adding things to my bucket list and started trying to cross a few items off instead. Visiting all fifty states was at the top of the list. I just had to find a c...
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Xylophones and X-Rays
- Nov-2022
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Margaret Woods, Fenella's niece, is back on the island, and she's planning to stay this time. A late-night stroll on the promenade that leaves Fenella with a broken arm isn't a great start to Margaret's new beginning, though. When Fenella's doctor, R...
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The Hamilton Assignment
- Dec-2022
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Edward and Janet are enjoying themselves in London when they get given their next assignment. This one sounds simple enough. All they need to do is get inside a museum after hours and exchange some buttons on display with another, seemingly identical...
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The Body in the Boathouse
- Jan-2023
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When Barry Cuda arrives at Sunset Lodge to talk to Abigail about running a boat rental business for her, she's eager to take a look at exactly what watercraft was left in the boathouse that's been locked up for over ten years.Neither she nor Barry is...
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The Irving File
- Feb-2023
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It's time for Bessie and her friends to consider another cold case. This time, one of Andrew's work colleagues has come over to the island to observe the cold case unit at work. He's going to be starting his own unit soon, and he wants to learn all t...
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Bodies in Beta Sector
- Mar-2023
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I've been keeping myself busy studying coding and playing with my cat, Singer. Long-distance space travel has turned out to be incredibly boring, but at least the food on the Lady Elizabeth is good. When we finally reach the second sector of our twen...
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The Ingram Assignment
- Apr-2023
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Janet is happy to be back in Doveby Dale, under the same roof as her sister, Joan. The arrangement is only temporary, as Janet and her husband, Edward, are planning to move out to the carriage house on the grounds of the bed and breakfast that Joan a...
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Bewildered in Florida
- May-2023
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After everything that happened in Las Vegas, I wasn't one hundred percent sure that I wanted to keep traveling. But I couldn't let one isolated incident ruin my plans. Having ticked off one item on my bucket list, I wanted to do more.It turns out tha...
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The Body in the Cottage
- May-2023
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Abigail is delighted when her sister, Mandy, the co-owner of Sunset Lodge, arrives to spend a week with her. Both sisters are excited to finally have an opportunity to really talk about their plans for renovating, remodeling, and redecorating just ab...
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Yachts and Yelps
- May-2023
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Fenella Woods and her niece, Margaret, are surprised to find visitors waiting for them at their luxury apartment building when they return home from a walk. Thornton DeVries had been friends with Fenella's aunt, Mona, and was unaware that she'd passe...
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The Jordan File
- Jun-2023
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July brings sunshine and warm weather to the Isle of Man. It also brings Aunt Bessie and her friends another cold case to solve. This time, though, the police may know exactly what happened. It appears that Leo Jordan killed his wife and then himself...
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Corpses in Chaos Sector
- Sep-2023
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I suspect everyone on the Lady Elizabeth was excited when we finally reached Chaos Sector. For the first time since we'd left Cenclare, the ship actually stopped for a planetary excursion. Odontotyrannos is famous throughout the galaxy for its shops,...
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The Body in the Dunk Tank
- Sep-2023
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It's time for the annual Nightshade Winter Festival, and Abigail Clark is happy to volunteer her time to help out at the week-long charity fundraising event. She's only been at the fairgrounds for a short while before she stumbles across a dead body ...
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The Keller File
- Oct-2023
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Andrew is back on the island for the next cold case unit meeting, and this time he's brought his son Matthew along. When Andrew shows Bessie the stack of listings he's been sent by his island-based estate agent, Bessie is shocked to see that one of h...
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Zephyrs and Zombies
- Nov-2023
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Fenella Woods is busy planning her wedding and trying to help her niece, Margaret, get settled on the island. Fenella and her fiancé, Daniel, are planning on taking a long honeymoon, and Fenella wants to help Margaret find a nice place to live w...
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The Body in the Elevator
- Jan-2024
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Abigail Clark and her boyfriend, Mark Cooper, are hoping for a romantic dinner together at one of Nightshade's fanciest restaurants. What they get is front-row seats for huge drama at the table next to theirs. Spencer Manning's retirement celebration...