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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.

Murder Passes the Buck by Deb Baker

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Also by Deb Baker:

Ding Dong Dead, December 2008
Paperback
Murder Talks Turkey, May 2008
Paperback
Dolly Departed, March 2008
Paperback
Goodbye Dolly, September 2007
Paperback
Murder Grins and Bears It, May 2007
Paperback
Dolled Up For Murder, October 2006
Paperback
Murder Passes the Buck, August 2006
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MURDER PASSES THE BUCK
By: Deb Baker

A Yooper Mystery
Midnight Ink
August 2006
Featuring: Gertie Johnson
240 pages
ISBN: 0738708720
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Gertie Johnson may be outspoken, distrustful of banks, and a quick draw with the pepper spray, but she hasn't lost her marbles. Her son Blaze, the sheriff in a backwoods community of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is petitioning to become her legal guardian, but Gertie, a sassy sixty-six- year-old widow with a taste for detective work, has got bigger fish to fry: solving the murder of Chester Lampi who was shot dead in his deer blind. Blaze--who's more interested in retiring than investigating--rules Chester's death as a hunting accident. So, Gertie takes on the case with help from her friends, man-hungry Cora Mae and pin- curled Kitty. Interrogating neighbors, spying, impersonating the FBI...the stubborn, spunky grandmother won't give up the chase even when the killer takes aim at her.