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Sink your teeth into the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse seriesโ€”the books that gave life to the Dead and inspired the HBOยฎ original series True Blood.


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The bear is unleashed. The danger is real. The attraction is impossible to resist.

A Cryptic Clue by Victoria Gilbert

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A Cryptic Clue, July 2023
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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
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A Deadly Edition, December 2020
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Booked for Death, August 2020
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Bound for Murder, January 2020
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Past Due for Murder, February 2019
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Shelved Under Murder, January 2019
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Shelved Under Murder, July 2018
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A Murder for the Books, June 2018
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A Murder for the Books, December 2017
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A CRYPTIC CLUE
By: Victoria Gilbert

Hunter and Clewe Mystery #!
Crooked Lane Books
March 2024
On Sale: March 5, 2024
320 pages
ISBN: 1639106413
EAN: 9781639106417
Kindle: B0BHXZKP44
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Mystery

A retired librarian gets back to the books—and into a devilish murder case—in acclaimed author Victoria Gilbert’s new series, the perfect literary adventure for fans of Kate Carlisle and Jenn McKinlay.

Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she’s about to discover, a retiree’s life can bring new thrills—and new dangers.

Cameron “Cam” Clewe, an eccentric thirty-three-year-old collector, is also seeking something—an archivist to inventory his ever-expanding compendium of rare books and artifacts. Jane’s thrilled to be hired on by Cam and to uncover the secrets of his latest acquisition, a trove of items related to the classic mystery and detective authors. But Jane’s delight is upended when a body is discovered in Cam’s library. The victim, heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, was the last in line of Cam’s failed romances—and now he’s suspect number one.

Cam vows to use his intelligence and deductive skills to clear his name—but with a slight case of agoraphobia, rampant anxiety, and limited social skills, he’ll need some help. It comes down to Jane to exonerate her new boss—but is he truly innocent?

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