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Title: Sleigh Belles  Author: Beth Albright  Series: Sassy Belles, #3   Published: September 2013 Harlequin MIRA  Format: ARC, e-copy, 336 pages  Source: Netgalley Join the Sassy Belles this holiday season—it’s Christmas, Southern-style! With her hair perfectly coiffed, nails freshly manicured and a heavy trail of perfume wafting behind her, local news reporter Dallas Dubois is sure she’s about to kick her career—and maybe her love life—into high gear. The director…

Title: The Other Woman  Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan Series: Jane Ryland/Jake Brogan, #1 Published: September 2012 Forge Books Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Publicist Jane Ryland was a rising star in television news…until she refused to reveal a source and lost everything. Now a disgraced newspaper reporter, Jane isn’t content to work on her assigned puff pieces, and finds herself tracking down a candidate’s secret mistress just days before a…

Title: Banana Split Author: Josi S. Kilpack Series: A Culinary Mystery, #7 Published: February 2012, Shadow Mountain Format: Paperback, 372 pages Source: Personal copy Welcome to Paradise! We hope you enjoy your stay her in Hawai’i. If you’ve never visited the islands before, treat yourself to a delicious slice of grilled pineapple, take a walk along the beach or sample the tasty cuisine offered at one of our famous luaus.…

The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen Series: Rizzoli  & Isles, #6 Ballantine Books August 2007 Format: Paperback, 429 pages Source: Personal copy PECCAVI The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to the sinister Mephisto Club, a cult of…

A Fitting End by Melissa Bourbon Series: A Magical Dressmaking Mystery, #2 Signet February 2012 Format: Paperback, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Former Manhattan fashion designer Harlow Jane Cassidy has a gift for creating beautiful dresses. But when Harlow becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation, she’ll need more than her sewing skills to unravel the mystery… Business is booming at Harlow’s custom-dressmaking boutique, Buttons & Bows, even with…

Cloaked in Malice by Annette Blair Series: Vintage Magic Mystery series, #5 Berkley Prime Crime July 2012 Source: Personal copy There’s nothing Maddie loves more than fabulous vintage clothes, but the visions she gets while touching them are starting to wear her down. Even so, when a beautifully dressed girl comes to Vintage Magic in search of her past, Maddie isn’t about to turn her away, especially since she bears…

Hunting Eve by Iris Johansen  Series: Eve Duncan #19  St. Martin’s Press  July 2013  Format: Hardcover, 400 pages  Source: Library She’s broken free. But danger is in hot pursuit. And rescue is nowhere in sight…  Eve Duncan is on the run. Kidnapped by Jim Doane, a mysterious man who wants her to complete a sinister forensic sculpture, she now has no time to savor the victory of escaping from him.…

Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen Barnes & Noble Classics Oct 2004 (Originally published 1811) Format: Hardcover, 312 pages Source: Personal copy Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm, her younger sister is emotional and wildly romantic. Both are looking for a…

Beautiful Day by Elin Hilderbrand Reagan Arthur Books June 2013 Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Library A summer wedding stirs up trouble on both sides of the family in this new novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. The Carmichaels and Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a wedding. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the bride’s late mother, who left behind The Notebook: specific instructions for every…

The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley William Morrow Paperbacks February 2013 Format: Paperback, 432 pages Source: Personal copy Matt Beaulieu was two years old the first time he held Elle McClure in his arms, seventeen when he first kissed her under a sky filled with shooting stars, and thirty-three when he convinced her to marry him. Now in their late 30s, the deeply devoted couple has everything-except the baby…

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen Series: Rizzoli & Isles, #5 Ballentine Books January 2005 Format: Hardcover Source: Library A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the…

The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs Series: Bella Vista, #1 Harlequin MIRA April 2013 Format: e-book, 432 pages Source: Netgalley #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings readers to the lush abundance of Sonoma county in a novel of sisters, friendship and how memories are woven like a spell around us. Tess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who…