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Murder Checks Out, November 2023
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A Cryptic Clue, July 2023
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Death in the Margins, December 2022
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A Fatal Booking, June 2022
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Reserved for Murder, May 2022
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Renewed for Murder, December 2021
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Reserved for Murder, June 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
A Deadly Edition, December 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Booked for Death, August 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Bound for Murder, January 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Past Due for Murder, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Shelved Under Murder, January 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Shelved Under Murder, July 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
A Murder for the Books, June 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
A Murder for the Books, December 2017
Hardcover / e-Book

Murder Checks Out
Victoria Gilbert

Blue Ridge Library Mystery
Crooked Lane Books
November 2023
On Sale: November 14, 2023
272 pages
ISBN: 1639105204
EAN: 9781639105205
Kindle: B0BVTPMT8S
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Cozy | Mystery Book Lover

It’s not all snowflakes and sugarplums when murder crashes Taylorsford’s first Winterfest in the eighth installment of the Blue Ridge Library series, perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Ellery Adams.

Returning to her role as an amateur detective is the last thing library director Amy Muir wants. She’s already buried under an avalanche of responsibilities, including sharing the directorship of the local public library, parenting her holiday-obsessed five-year-old twins, and helping her choreographer husband, Richard, present The Nutcracker as part of the town’s festivities. With her frosty mother-in-law, Fiona, visiting for the holidays, Amy definitely has enough on her Christmas cookie plate.

But when the chair of the festival committee is found as dead as Dickens's proverbial doornail at the town’s ice rink, Amy is determined to uncover the real perpetrator to protect her brother-in-law, Ethan Payne, who was placed at the scene. The clock is ticking down as Sheriff Brad Tucker is equally sure that Ethan is guilty.

It's beginning to look a lot like the murderer hasn’t wrapped up his killing spree, and now, it might just be “lights out” on the holiday festivities—and on Amy’s life.