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THE WASH-ASHORES
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Snowbound secrets, shifter wars, family lies, and epic battles — September delivers it all.

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Some promises cost you the one you love.

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The Temple of Kronos wants her dead. The Stoneslayer wants her destroyed. Neither will have her.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.

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Betrayal runs in her blood. Justice runs in his. Together, they burn it all down.

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"ANOTHER WINNER!"
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Bestselling Cleo Coyle

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Running from her past, she finds a killer, a protector, and her faith.

The Big Chili by Julia Buckley

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Also by Julia Buckley:

Death on the Night of Lost Lizards, June 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Death of a Wandering Wolf, July 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Death with a Dark Red Rose, March 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Death in a Budapest Butterfly, August 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Death Waits in the Dark, April 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Dark and Twisting Path, August 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Pudding Up With Murder, September 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Death in Dark Blue, May 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Cheddar Off Dead, September 2016
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
A Dark and Stormy Murder, July 2016
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Big Chili, October 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Madeline Mann, August 2007
Paperback
The Dark Backward, July 2006
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THE BIG CHILI
By: Julia Buckley

An Undercover Dish Mystery #1
Berkley
October 2015
On Sale: October 6, 2015
Featuring: Lilah Drake
304 pages
ISBN: 0425275906
EAN: 9780425275900
Kindle: B00SI027O6
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Mystery Cozy

First in a delicious new mystery series filled with casseroles, confidences, and killers...

Lilah Drake’s Covered Dish business discreetly provides the residents of Pine Haven, Illinois, with delicious, fresh-cooked meals they can claim they cooked themselves. But when one of her clandestine concoctions is used to poison a local woman, Lilah finds herself in a pot-load of trouble…

After dreaming for years of owning her own catering company, Lilah has made a start into the food world through her Covered Dish business, covertly cooking for her neighbors who don’t have the time or skill to do so themselves, and allowing them to claim her culinary creations as their own. While her clientele is strong, their continued happiness depends on no one finding out who’s really behind the apron.

So when someone drops dead at a church Bingo night moments after eating chili that Lilah made for a client, the anonymous chef finds herself getting stirred into a cauldron of secrets, lies, and murder—and going toe to toe with a very determined and very attractive detective. To keep her clients coming back and her business under wraps, Lilah will have to chop down the list of suspects fast, because this spicy killer has acquired a taste for homicide…

An Undercover Dish Mystery

Cheddar Off Dead
CHEDDAR OFF DEAD
#2.0 • September 2016
Pudding Up With Murder
PUDDING UP WITH MURDER
#3.0 • September 2017

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