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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.

The Expectant Detectives by Kat Ailes

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The Expectant Detectives, January 2024
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THE EXPECTANT DETECTIVES
By: Kat Ailes

Expectant Detectives Mystery #1
Minotaur Books
January 2024
On Sale: January 9, 2024
Featuring: Alice; Joe
384 pages
ISBN: 1250322707
EAN: 9781250322708
Kindle: B0C1X61S1F
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Cozy | Mystery Amateur Sleuth

Can they solve the mother of all murders?

For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she’ll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they’d hoped for doesn’t quite pan out when a dead body is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation.

With a cloud of suspicion hanging over the heads of the whole group, Alice and her new-found pregnant friends set out to solve the mystery and clear their names, with the help of her troublesome dog, Helen. However, there are more secrets and tensions in the heart of Penton than first meet the eye. Between the discovery of a shady commune up in the woods, the unearthing of a mysterious death years earlier, and the near-tragic poisoning of Helen, Alice is soon in way over her head.

Expectant Detectives Mystery

The Expectant Detectives
THE EXPECTANT DETECTIVES
#1.0 β€’ January 2024