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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.

Lead a Horse to Murder by Cynthia Baxter

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Also by Cynthia Baxter:

Game of Cones, November 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Last Licks, September 2020
Trade Size
Last Licks, January 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Hot Fudge Murder, December 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Hot Fudge Murder, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Murder with a Cherry on Top, December 2018
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Murder with a Cherry on Top, April 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Housesitter, May 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Crossing the Lion, September 2010
Paperback
Murder Had A Little Lamb, November 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Too Rich and Too Dead, April 2009
Mass Market Paperback
Murder Packs A Suitcase, November 2008
Mass Market Paperback
Monkey See, Monkey Die, August 2008
Paperback
Who's Kitten Who?, October 2007
Mass Market Paperback
Right from the Gecko, April 2007
Paperback
Hare Today, Dead Tomorrow, May 2006
Paperback
Lead a Horse to Murder, May 2005
Paperback
Putting on the Dog, September 2004
Mass Market Paperback
Dead Canaries Don't Sing, February 2004
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book

LEAD A HORSE TO MURDER
By: Cynthia Baxter


Reigning Cats & Dogs #3
Bantam
May 2005
On Sale: May 1, 2005
Featuring: Dr. Jessica Popper
368 pages
ISBN: 0553586432
EAN: 9780553586435
Paperback
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Mystery Cozy | Mystery Amateur Sleuth

WHEN IT COMES TO SLEUTHING, SHE’S NOT HORSING AROUND...

When full-time vet and part-time sleuth Jessica Popper is asked to treat a billionaire's ailing horse, she gets a deadly glimpse into the lifestyles of the rich and felonious….

Murder gallops after Jessie when an emergency call sends the traveling vet to a posh Long Island estate with her one-eyed Dalmatian, Lou, and her tailless Westie, Max. A prized Arabian steed needs minor medical care–but it’s the rider who grabs Jess’s attention. The handsome young horseman exudes plenty of animal magnetism as he canters across the field…and then takes an inexplicable, fatal fall.

The dead man was one of the finest polo players in the world, but it was no accident that killed him. The culprit was poison. And as Jess soon discovers, a number of people had the means, motive, and opportunity for foul play, from the hostile barn manager to the businessman’s disgruntled wife. But Jess will have to temper her feline instinct with good old-fashioned horse sense if she’s going to stop a killer from leading a certain sleuth to her death.