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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Thread and Dead by Elizabeth Penney

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Also by Elizabeth Penney:

Dungeons And Danger, June 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Vows and Villainy, December 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Bodies and Battlements, June 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Madrigals and Mayhem, December 2024
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Fatal Folio, November 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Cozy Case Files, August 2023
e-Book
A Treacherous Tale, September 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Chapter and Curse, October 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Bodies and Bows, April 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Thread and Dead, September 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Hems and Homicide, January 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book

THREAD AND DEAD
By: Elizabeth Penney

The Apron Shop #2
St. Martin's Paperbacks
September 2020
On Sale: August 25, 2020
320 pages
ISBN: 1250257972
EAN: 9781250257970
Kindle: B084F8ZGSM
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery Cozy

Iris Buckley is busier than ever this July, with the town’s annual Lobster Festival fast approaching. In just a matter of days her apron shop Ruffles & Bows, will be jam-packed with tourists--and Iris’s inventory is running low. Then Iris gets a call from Eleanor Brady, a wealthy, reclusive spinster who just happens to have trunks full of vintage fabrics. Would Iris like to come down to Eleanor’s cottage estate Shorehaven and have a look?

Before long Iris is on the scene--and on the case. Turns out that Eleanor has rented Shorehaven to the handsome, charismatic environmentalist Dr. Lukas de Wilde and his flock of students. What begins as an apron-scouting endeavor soon morphs into a full-blown murder investigation when Dr. de Wilde’s beautiful young teaching assistant turns up dead. Now it’s up to Iris--along with her partner-in-love-and-crime Ian Stewart--to unravel the mystery before the Blueberry Cove killer strikes again.

Apron Shop

Hems and Homicide
HEMS AND HOMICIDE
#1.0 β€’ January 2020
Thread and Dead
THREAD AND DEAD
#2.0 β€’ September 2020