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THIRD SON'S A CHARM
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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—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.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder by Ally Carter

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The Blonde Identity, July 2024
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All Fall Down, February 2015
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United We Spy, September 2013
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Double Crossed, February 2013
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Perfect Scoundrels, February 2013
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Uncommon Criminals, July 2011
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Only the Good Spy Young, June 2010
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Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover, May 2010
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Heist Society, February 2010
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Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover, June 2009
Hardcover
Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy, December 2008
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, March 2007
Paperback (reprint)
Learning to Play Gin, November 2006
Trade Size
Cheating at Solitaire, December 2005
Trade Size

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE MURDER
By: Ally Carter

Narrators: Brittany Pressley, Will Damron

A Novel – A Christmas Mystery-Romance of Childhood Enemies-to-Lovers

Kiss Merry Kill #2
Avon
October 2026
On Sale: October 13, 2026
Featuring: Ella Chambers; Liam Montgomery
304 pages
ISBN: 0063387026
EAN: 9780063387027
Kindle: B0GFPYDJ1K
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
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Mystery Cozy | Mystery Hobbies

A billionaire’s grandson and the housekeeper’s daughter square off in this cat‑and‑mouse holiday romance‑mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year.

Ella Chambers didn’t kill Liam Montgomery.

If she had, she certainly wouldn’t have done it outside his family’s mansion during the Christmas party of the year. She definitely wouldn’t have loaded his body into the trunk of her car. And she absolutely would not have announced to the town that the boy who ruined her life ten years ago was “so dead to her.”

But now Liam is missing—nothing but a bloody spot on the drive and a host of unanswered questions—and Ella is the only person who knows he’s still alive.

So it’s up to her to prove it.

Liam Montgomery didn’t want to die.

But, it turns out, when you’re the sole heir to a billionaire, someone might want you dead. Luckily for Liam, being dead works for him.

Now he’s on the hunt for a killer. Unfortunately, Ella is on the hunt for him.

She’ll have to prove he’s still alive to clear her name, but that’s easier said than done in a quaint mountain town where everyone knows your story but no one knows the truth. Can the billionaire’s grandson and the housekeeper’s daughter join forces to catch a killer? Or is their past too steeped in secrets and lies?

As the storm of the century blows in, every step will bring these two childhood rivals closer to a killer—and each other.

Because, this Christmas, only one thing is certain: it’s beginning to look a lot like murder.

Tropes:

• Holiday Romance
• Childhood Enemies‑to‑Lovers
• Cat and Mouse
• Slow Burn
• Forced Proximity