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Jim, Qwilleran, Koko and Yum Yum go to Peaceful Pear Island to investigate suspicious happenings that resulted murders around the island.

Summer is here and Julia Ducharme is ready for another season at the campground her family owns and runs. But this year, a wealthy developer wants to turn the property into a casino, and her parents are considering the offer-- it would help pay her brother's medical bills. Julia looks to the stars to give her some perspective, and taking her telescope down to the dock one night has a chance encounter with a guitar-playing boy who offers her a friendly...

"With nothing but brains, ambition and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real-estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain ... but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family so completely that she's totally lost touch with her only daughter. One terrifying day, facing her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost...

"Will Martin has returned to his boyhood hometown to run the family real estate business. As they approach their first wedding anniversary, he and Renee are deeply in love but their inability to communicate threatens their happiness."--Jacket.

Farberville, Arkansas is normally a quiet college town, where bookseller Claire Malloy tends her small store and raises her somewhat dramatic teenage daughter Caron. But this week, it's gone a bit out of control. A local group of activists calling themselves the Farberville Green Party is protesting a developer's plan to remove a copse of trees by having retired schoolteacher Miss Emily Parchester camp out in one of them while chained to it by the...

As Noelle Van Doren and her parents engage in a child custody case against her estranged husband, they "peel away layers of mystery surrounding Robert and a thirty-year-old suicide. But they also find themselves on the path of a cold-blooded killer. It soon becomes plain that this battle is not just to regain custody, but to keep loved ones alive."--Jacket.

No one is crying into their tea over Parke Stockard's murder. Certainly not retired schoolteacher Myrtle Clover. Discovering the corpse, Myrtle is struck with a brilliant idea! Solving the murder would prove to everyone that she is still sharp as a tack. Myrtle can't throw a gaudy garden gnome without hitting potential suspects. When another murder takes place, Myrtle forges on--armed only with a heavy cane, a venomous tongue, and her sidekick.

Explosive sabotage and the startling unearthing of a hundred-year-old skeleton on a Nevada ranch thrillingly start off this debut novel in a tail-wagging new series from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. With the ruins of her high-powered Wall Street job now far in the rearview mirror of her rented silver Camaro, thirty-two-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeeps sprawling Wings Ranch to reassemble her life. In...