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Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene
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Joyce and Jim Lavene are award-winning photojournalists, which somewhere along the way, they decided to write novels and since then, they have been hooked on that genre. They started out publishing romance and mystery novels in 1999 as themselves, and under the pseudonyms Joye Ames, J.J. Cook, and Ellie Grant. The bestselling marriage writing team have written and published more than 65 novels for Harlequin, Berkley, Amazon and Gallery Books along with hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications.
They live in rural North Carolina with their family.
Full Series List in Order
Missing Pieces Mysteries
1 - A Timely Vision (May-2010)2 - A Touch of Gold (Mar-2011)
3 - A Spirited Gift (Dec-2011)
4 - A Haunting Dream (Dec-2012)
5 - A Finder's Fee (Oct-2013)
6 - Dae's Christmas Past (Oct-2014)
Peggy Lee Garden Mysteries
1 - Pretty Poison (May-2005)2 - Fruit of the Poisoned Tree (May-2006)
3 - Poisoned Petals (May-2007)
4 - Perfect Poison (May-2008)
5 - A Corpse for Yew (May-2009)
Pet Psychic Mysteries
1 - Telltale Turtle (Oct-2008)Renaissance Faire Mysteries
1 - Wicked Weaves (Sep-2008)2 - Ghastly Glass (Sep-2009)
3 - Deadly Daggers (Sep-2010)
4 - Harrowing Hats (Aug-2011)
5 - Treacherous Toys (Sep-2012)
A Retired Witches Mystery
1 - Spell Booked (Dec-2014)2 - Looking for Mr. Good Witch (Oct-2015)
3 - Putting on the Witch (Oct-2016)
Sharyn Howard Mysteries
1 - Last Dance (Jan-2000)2 - One Last Good-Bye (Oct-2000)
3 - The Last To Remember (Feb-2001)
4 - Until Our Last Embrace (Dec-2001)
5 - For the Last Time (Aug-2002)
6 - Dreams Don't Last (Dec-2002)
7 - Last Fires Burning (Aug-2003)
8 - Glory's Last Victim (Feb-2004)
9 - Last Rites (Nov-2004)
9 - Before The Last Lap (Sep-2005)
10 - Last One Down (Mar-2005)
10 - The First Shall Be Last (Jul-2007)
Stock Car Racing Mysteries
1 - Swapping Paint (May-2007)2 - Hooked Up (Jan-2008)
Book List in Order: 57 titles
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Last Dance
- Jan-2000
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When the local prom queen is found murdered in the high school parking lot, Sheriff Sharyn Howard gets a double shock. The crime scene, complete with the victim laid out in pristine fashion, is eerily similar to another prom-night murder that occurre...
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One Last Good-Bye
- Oct-2000
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Half a century ago, in Sheriff Sharyn Howard's small Colorado town, a Navy plane piloted by a local war hero plunged mysteriously into a Diamond Mountain lake. The plane and the two servicemen inside were never recovered. Now a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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The Last To Remember
- Feb-2001
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Bones of Contention The skeleton of a young boy is unearthed and hung in the chapel of an old reform school. Soon afterward, one of Diamond Spring's wealthiest citizens storms into Sheriff Sharyn Howard's office to confess to the forty-year-old crim...
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Until Our Last Embrace
- Dec-2001
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By all accounts, it looked like Darva Richmond's death was simply a tragic accident. Her body, mauled by a bear, was found by her husband, Donald, near their campsite in Diamond Springs, North Carolina. To everyone's shock, the dead woman was the sis...
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For the Last Time
- Aug-2002
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Buried in the past An unsolved murder closed the Bell's Creek campground twenty-five years ago, and now, despite rumors that the land is haunted, the camp is about to be reopened. Final preparations are under way when a woman's bloodstained dress ...
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Dreams Don't Last
- Dec-2002
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More like a nightmare… Diamond Springs sheriff Sharyn Howard is up for reelection and it's tough going for the no-nonsense lady lawman. With her good ol' boy opponent in the lead, a crime spree hits her small North Carolina town. First a popular...
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Last Fires Burning
- Aug-2003
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It’s one week before the election in Diamond Springs when an old car rolls down Main Street with flames shooting out of it and a dead body in the backseat. A day later, a man is found dead on Diamond Mountain, trapped in a net that was supposed ...
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Glory's Last Victim
- Feb-2004
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A Legacy of Murder The elusive Silver Dollar Gang is robbing homes in Diamond Springs, North Carolina, keeping Sheriff Sharyn Howard and her deputies busy. Adding to the tension, an arrest in nearby Rock Springs leads Sharyn to investigate a deat...
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Last Rites
- Nov-2004
- / Law Enforcement
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Things are heating up in Montgomery County, North Carolina. The new police department is having trouble with the local sheriff's office in Diamond Springs--feuding over jurisdiction and a new murder case. An old Mercedes with a corpse inside is fo...
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Last One Down
- Mar-2005
- / Law Enforcement
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Reluctantly, Sheriff Sharyn Howard has been forced to attend a training school for the local law enforcement officers. For years she's managed to skirt around it, but now it's time for her to take a helicopter up to Sweet Potato Mountain to attend a ...
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Pretty Poison
- May-2005
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Meet Peggy Lee: botanist, detective's widow, and owner of The Potting Shed, an urban gardener's paradise in downtown Charlotte. Mild winters keep the store thriving all year round, but at least one person in the city has colder intentions... It's ...
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Before The Last Lap
- Sep-2005
- / Law Enforcement
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This time the mystery for Sheriff Sharyn Howard and her Diamond Springs deputies hits a little bit closer to home. After a speeding boat flies up over the pier and onto the street, the sheriff's department investigates. They become personally involve...
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Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
- May-2006
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Meet Peggy Lee: botanist, detective's widow, and owner of the Potting Shed, an urban gardener's paradise in downtown Charlotte. Mild winters keep the store thriving all year round, but there are plenty of people with colder intentions... What made...
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Poisoned Petals
- May-2007
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Meet Peggy Lee: botanist, detective's widow, and owner of The Potting Shed, an urban gardener's paradise in downtown Charlotte. With the beautiful spring weather, business is booming--and death is in full bloom... Peggy Lee is just about to delive...
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Swapping Paint
- May-2007
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You don't argue with a woman like Ruby. At least I try not to. She's got a race car engine inside a Rolls Royce body. She's not a little thing, but she's someone you can hold on to. Unless she's up and running in another direction, like now. QUALIFY...
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The First Shall Be Last
- Jul-2007
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As the snow falls in Diamond Springs, the mood shifts, bringing with it a string of suspicious events. The death of deputy David Matthews has Sheriff Sharyn Howard more determined than ever in her quest to find his killer and solve the murder of her ...
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Perfect Poison
- May-2008
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Meet Peggy Lee: part-time forensic botanist, detective's widow, and owner of the Potting Shed, an urban gardener's paradise in downtown Charlotte. While the summer heat is stifling her shop's business, death is always in season... While attending ...
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Wicked Weaves
- Sep-2008
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Hail ye, hail ye, and welcome to the Renaissance Village. Here, Jessie Morton, an assistant professor at a local college, spends her summers honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf whodunit. But this time she gets tangled in a deadly we...
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Telltale Turtle
- Oct-2008
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Mary Catherine has a rare gift - she can talk to animals. A flamboyantly dressed four-time widow, Mary Catherine pulls top ratings for her pet psychic radio show and helps run an animal shelter. Then one day Mary Catherine hears pitiful thoughts of a...
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A Corpse for Yew
- May-2009
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No rain means profits are wilting at The Potting Shed, so Peggy Lee joins her mother on a "bone harvest" expedition for the local historical society. But she stumbles upon a perplexing mystery--how a fellow volunteer became a corpse with curiously re...
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Ghastly Glass
- Sep-2009
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Hail ye, hail ye, and welcome to Renaissance Village. Here, Jessie Morton, an assistant professor at a local college, spends her time honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf whodunit. But now she's in water hotter than the fiery glass s...
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A Timely Vision
- May-2010
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Meet Dae O'Donnell, a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes it leads her to lost keys or earrings -- and sometimes it leads her to murder... A TIMEPIECE OF TROUBLE The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O'Donnell wears many hats. She...
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Deadly Daggers
- Sep-2010
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Hail ye, hail ye, and welcome to, the Renaissance Village. Here, Jessie Morton, an assistant professor at a local college, spends her time honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf whodunit. But this time she finds herself in the midst of...
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A Touch of Gold
- Mar-2011
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Long before he became curator of the Duck Historical Museum, Max Caudle discovered its greatest treasure-a wooden chest full of gold. But a thief with his eye on the gold fires a cannonball into the museum, destroying the building-and killing Max. ...
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Harrowing Hats
- Aug-2011
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Hail ye, hail ye, and welcome to the Renaissance Village. Here, assistant professor Jessie Morton spends her summers honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf whodunit. When the village chocolatier is murdered, Jessie finds herself in a v...
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A Spirited Gift
- Dec-2011
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As the mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae is playing host to twenty North Carolina elected officials attending her first Mayors' Conference Weekend at the Blue Whale Inn. When the body of Mayor Sandi Foxx is discovered the morning after a severe stor...
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Treacherous Toys
- Sep-2012
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Hail ye, hail ye, and welcome to the Renaissance Faire Village. Here, associate professor Jessie Morton spends her summers honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf whodunit. But when she comes for Christmas, will murder mean a very unhap...
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A Haunting Dream
- Dec-2012
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The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O’Donnell, is a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes it leads her to lost keys or earrings -- and sometimes it leads her to murder… LITTLE GIRL LOST When her boyfriend Kevin’s ex-fia...
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A Finder's Fee
- Oct-2013
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The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O'Donnell, is a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes it leads her to lost keys or earrings--and sometimes it leads her to murder... DIRTY CAMPAIGNING Two weeks before the mayoral election,...
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Murderous Matrimony
- Jan-2014
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Includes Perilous Pranks, a novella in the Renaissance Faire Mystery series, PLUS Book Six, Murderous Matrimony. A prank too far: Wanda Le Fey is dead, and Renaissance Faire lover, Jessie Morton, looks suspiciously like the person who killed her. Jes...
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Broken Hearted Ghoul
- Feb-2014
- / Fantasy
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Read the first novel in the Taxi for the Dead Paranormal Mysteries: Broken Hearted Ghoul It’s been two years since Skye Mertz agreed to drive Abe’s Taxi for the Dead, transporting his zombie workers back to the man who gave them an additional twe...
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Lethal Lily
- May-2014
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Part-time garden shop owner/part-time forensic botanist, Peggy Lee is trying to discover if the death of Ann Fletcher 20 years ago was an accident - or foul play. In return, she hopes to receive more information about her late husband's death. She kn...
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Bewitching Boots
- Aug-2014
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Jessie Morton is thrilled when she finds Bill Warren, an old fashioned shoemaker, and he agrees to come back to Renaissance Faire Village with her. She’s not so thrilled when claims to have elf magic, and he falls for Princess Isabelle. The dancing...
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Dae's Christmas Past
- Oct-2014
- / Fantasy
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Featuring Pet Psychic Mary Catherine Roberts! When wild horse rescue director Tom Watts is found dead on Duck Road, psychic mayor Dae O’Donnell is determined to find out who killed him. Her friend, Jake Burleson, is accused of killing Tom even thou...
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Spell Booked
- Dec-2014
- / Cozy Mystery
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Once upon a time in Wilmington, North Carolina, three witches ran a curio shop named Smuggler’s Arcane. But as the years passed, their magical powers started to fade -- leaving them no choice but to conjure up a retirement package... Before t...
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Dead Girl Blues
- Apr-2015
- / Urban Fantasy
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National Bestselling Authors of Broken Hearted Ghoul and Dae’s Christmas Past When Nashville cop Skye Mertz and her husband, Jacob, are killed in a wreck, Skye is given the opportunity to come back for twenty years to raise her five-year-old daught...
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Killing Weeds
- May-2015
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It’s spring in Charlotte, North Carolina, home of forensic botanist and garden shop owner, Peggy Lee. This spring has been beautiful, as always, with flowering trees and blue skies. But a killer is on the loose, and seems determined to destroy ever...
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A Watery Death
- Jun-2015
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It’s the Fourth of July weekend in Duck, North Carolina and twenty-thousand visitors are on hand to enjoy the parade, the festivities â€" and learn about the murder of Captain Bill Lucky. Lucky is the captain of the new gambling ship, Andalusia II,...
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Fatal Fairies
- Jul-2015
- / Fantasy
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When a fairy named Apple Blossom is found dead in a fountain, Ren Faire lover Jessie Morton makes a wish she lives to regret -- that her husband, Chase Manhattan, is no longer the Renaissance Faire Village Bailiff so he doesn’t have to look for the...
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Give 'em Pumpkin to Talk about
- Jul-2015
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First in a New Series Richmond attorney Sarah Tucker returns to sell her family’s abandoned farm in Misty River, Virginia despite unanswered questions about her grandparents’ disappearance sixteen years earlier. Sarah was only twelve when she wen...
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Be My Banshee
- Aug-2015
- / Urban Fantasy
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The Purple Door Detective Agency is hiring. Those without magic need not apply. Salary commensurate with experience. Apply at the agency. No phone calls or psychic links. Sunshine Merryweather is a young witch with a passion for colorful clothes and ...
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Looking for Mr. Good Witch
- Oct-2015
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Everyone’s favorite retired witches from Spell Booked have returned and are diving into troubled waters to find a sinister sea witch… WITCHY WOMAN A sea witch has been leaving bodies in her wake up and down the Carolina coast, baffling auth...
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A Dickens of a Murder
- Nov-2015
- / Mystery
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Christmas at Canterville! Lisa Wellman and Simon Canterville are surprised to find a dead man on their roof in the midst of rushing to open the Canterville Book Shop in time for the holidays. And not just any dead man â€" Ebenezer Hart â€" the man wh...
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Murder Fir Christmas
- Dec-2015
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Down the mountain from Sweet Pepper, Tennessee is Christmas Tree Valley, a place filled with hundreds of Christmas tree farms where generations of growers have made people’s lives brighter. Yet even here in this quiet, postcard-perfect corner of th...
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Gone by Midnight and Other Stories
- Jan-2016
- / Fantasy
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Fans of Joyce and Jim Lavene will thrill at this collection of thirteen short stories -- many are set in the worlds of their national bestselling mystery series, including the Missing Pieces Mysteries, the Renaissance Faire Mysteries, the Retired Wit...
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Those Who Walk in Darkness
- Mar-2016
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Three years ago in 1867, Julia Jackson was a well to do young woman from Boston whose fiancé, Jonathon, was killed right before her eyes. Obsessed with finding the killer, a man whose face she saw only in a flash as he walked up and shot Jonathon, s...
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Putting on the Witch
- Oct-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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In the latest mystery from the bestselling authors of Looking for Mr. Good Witch, the retired witches of Wilmington, North Carolina, are ready to kick up their heels... With their coven’s spell book still missing, Molly and Elsie -- along with ...
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