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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.

Well Read, Then Dead by Terrie Farley Moran

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Also by Terrie Farley Moran:

Murder, She Wrote: The Body in the Trees, December 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas, November 2025
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
Murder, She Wrote: A Killer Christmas, October 2024
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Murder, She Wrote: Murder Backstage, April 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Murder, She Wrote: Fit for Murder, February 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Murder, She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle, January 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Murder, She Wrote: Debonair in Death, November 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Glitter Bomb, September 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Crepe Factor, October 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Read to Death, July 2016
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Caught Read-Handed, July 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Well Read, Then Dead, August 2014
Paperback / e-Book

WELL READ, THEN DEAD
By: Terrie Farley Moran


Read Em and Eat #1
Berkley Prime Crime
August 2014
On Sale: August 5, 2014
Featuring: Bridget Mayfield; Mary "Sassy" Cabot; Augusta Maddox
304 pages
ISBN: 0425270289
EAN: 9780425270288
Kindle: B00I3N5Z4C
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Mystery Cozy

Nestled in the barrier islands of Florida’s Gulf Coast, Fort Myers Beach is home to Mary β€œSassy” Cabot and Bridget Mayfieldβ€”owners of the bookstore cafΓ©, Read ’Em and Eat. But when they’re not dishing about books or serving up scones, Sassy and Bridgy are keeping tabs on hard-boiled murder.

Read ’Em and Eat is known for its delicious breakfast and lunch treats, along with quite a colorful clientele. If it’s not Rowena Gustavson loudly debating the merits of the current book club selection, it’s Miss Augusta Maddox lecturing tourists on rumors of sunken treasure among the islands. It’s no wonder Sassy’s favorite is Delia Batson, a regular at the Emily Dickinson table. Augusta’s cousin and best friend Delia is painfully shyβ€”which makes the news of her murder all the more shocking.

No one is more distraught than Augusta, and Sassy wants to help any way she can. But Augusta doesn’t have time for sympathy. She wants Delia’s killer foundβ€”and she’s not taking no for an answer. Now Sassy is on the case, and she’d better act fast before there’s any more trouble in paradise.

Includes a buttermilk pie recipe!

Read Em and Eat

Well Read, Then Dead
WELL READ, THEN DEAD
#1.0 β€’ August 2014
Caught Read-Handed
CAUGHT READ-HANDED
#2.0 β€’ July 2015