“The library frame, plot twists, a library cat, a ghost (former library aide Evelyn), a romance, and, of course, the principled Carrie in the lead make this cozy, set during the December holiday season, a delight.” —Booklist
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- Read and Gone
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Read by Mia Gaskin
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Release Date: 9/11/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Twenty million dollars’ worth of missing gems bring Carrie Singleton’s long-lost and larcenous dad back into her life, and it’s up to Carrie to clear his name.
A devoted dad is as precious as diamonds, but Carrie Singleton wouldn’t know since her dad Jim’s been on the lam most of her life. In an unusual family reunion, she finds Jim breaking into her cottage in the middle of the night. The fun really starts when he begs her to help him recover his half of a twenty-million-dollar gem heist he pulled off with the local jeweler, Benton Parr. When she refuses, Jim takes off again.
Carrie finds her father again behind bars for the recent murder of Benton Parr. Who made the connection? Unbeknownst to her, Carrie’s boyfriend Dylan, an insurance investigator, has been searching for the gems. Determined to find the jewels herself, she starts examining every facet of Parr’s life. She turns up a treasure trove of suspects, one of whom bashes her on the head as she’s searching the victim’s country cabin.
Retreating to the quiet confines of the library where she works, Carrie watches as Smoky Joe, the resident cat, paws at a hole in the wall. Is he after the library’s ghost, Evelyn, or something shinier?
- Read and Gone
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Read by Mia Gaskin
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Release Date: 9/11/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Death Overdue
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Read by Mia Gaskin
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Release Date: 10/10/17
Formats: Digital Audy
For fans of Miranda James and Jenn McKinlay comes an enthralling series debut featuring a librarian who solves mysteries with the help of a ghost in the stacks.
Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut, until she is offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly keels over and dies.
The medical examiner reveals that poison is what did him in, and Carrie feels responsible for having gone forward with the program despite pushback from her director. Driven by guilt, Carrie is determined to discover who murdered the detective, convinced it’s the same man who killed Laura all those years ago. Luckily for Carrie, she has a friendly, knowledgeable ghost by her side. But as she questions the shadows surrounding Laura’s case, disturbing secrets come to light, and with each step Carrie takes, she gets closer to ending up like Al.
- Death Overdue
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Read by Mia Gaskin
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Release Date: 10/10/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Penelope
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By M. C. Beaton
Read by Mia Chiaromonte
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Release Date: 9/15/14
Formats: Digital Audy
Penelope—golden haired, azure eyed, fresh from the country—has stolen the heart of the most desirable Earl of Hestleton. Rich and startlingly handsome, he is the most eligible lord in the realm. He had planned to toy with her affections and then toss her aside, but when the earl discovers that he is a pawn in her aunt's social-climbing scheme, he begins to doubt Penelope's true love. Can the belle keep her beau, or will Aunt Augusta's ambitious plans force Penelope to flee?
- Penelope
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By M. C. Beaton
Read by Mia Chiaromonte
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Release Date: 9/15/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Sins of Lady Dacey
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By M. C. Beaton
Read by Mia Chiaromonte
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Release Date: 6/15/14
Formats: Digital Audy
The local society could only speculate how a pair of turtledoves would cope as the guests of the scandalous Lady Dacey. Surely she would attempt to corrupt them—an act that both Pamela Perryworth and Honoria Goodham would see as welcome entertainment in their rigid, joyless lives.
Though Mrs. Perryworth is married—most unhappily—and the young Honoria has a cloying tendency to read too much scripture, the purity and loveliness of both ladies nonetheless inflames the senses of two notorious lords. Mr. Sean Delaney loses his heart at first sight of the fair Mrs. Perryworth, while the disreputable Duke of Ware is quite disturbed by the innocent Honoria, who unknowingly dares to tempt his jaded heart.
- The Sins of Lady Dacey
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By M. C. Beaton
Read by Mia Chiaromonte
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Release Date: 6/15/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Lady Lucy’s Lover
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By M. C. Beaton
Read by Mia Chiaromonte
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Release Date: 5/27/14
Formats: Digital Audy
"Why don't you take a lover, my dear? It would serve that feckless husband of yours right."
"But I don't want a lover. I am in love with my husband."
Poor deluded Lucy. She married a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunkard, and she refuses to admit that his frequent overnight absences are of significance. It is not until he reveals that Lucy's parents "bought" him for her that it really stings.
And then one night at a ball she meets the charismatic Duke of Habard—and suddenly anything seems possible.
- Lady Lucy’s Lover
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By M. C. Beaton
Read by Mia Chiaromonte
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Release Date: 5/27/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Pretty Polly
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By M. C. Beaton
Read by Mia Chiaromonte
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Release Date: 4/15/14
Formats: Digital Audy
Blessed with beauty, Mrs. Manners never bothered with the lesser skills of grammar and spelling. So, in order to entrap a second husband, namely the dashing Duke of Denbigh, she needed Miss Verity Bascombe. Surely the modest chit would be honored to write her love letters.
Poor Verity! Her old schoolmate was as selfish as ever. But the lovely girl's gilded pen soon had the duke most intrigued by the poetic Mrs. Manners!
But alas, what began as a tiny deception became troublesome indeed—for Verity soon found herself enamored of the handsome duke!
- Pretty Polly
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By M. C. Beaton
Read by Mia Chiaromonte
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Release Date: 4/15/14
Formats: Digital Audy