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Product: Mid-Century Modern Murder (A Flamingo Realty Mystery Book 5)
Description: One of my favorite series!""Another home run by James.
Stella’s mid-century modern listing was on track to be her easiest commission ever… until the buyers asked about the rumors of a girl who drowned nearby.
As part of her due diligence, Stella starts searching for answers and finds a cold case that makes no sense. A teenage girl who was a State swim team champion… drowned. Something about the case keeps tugging at the edges of her memory but Stella can’t quite put her finger on it.
Meanwhile, Stella’s quest to find out exactly what happened with her mother is finally gaining some traction. She’s close to getting the whole story; she can feel it. But the more determined she is to find out the truth, the more her family members warn her that she won’t like the answers.
As the decades-old drowning case becomes clearer, Stella is shocked to find her own history entwined with that of the dead girl. With each new revelation about her mother, she starts to wonder if her family is right but she just can’t stop herself until she knows every secret.
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Product: The Last Resort (A Flamingo Realty Mystery Book 7)
Description: What does a missing mother, Oscar from Baker Street, and Maisie Swenson (with Bingo and Momma) from Oceanside have to do with this mystery?

Stella O’Neil thought she’d lost her mother forever, but now, she’s getting out of jail and ready for her big return. Stella isn’t sure if she’s more excited or terrified, but one thing is for sure, the chaos is over… or so she thinks.

As with everything else in her life, nothing is ever easy. When she arrives at the prison to pick her mother up, she’s shocked to learn her mom has already left.

Now, instead of focusing on repairing their relationship, she has tounravel a tangled web of clues of where her mother went and why or risk never getting the mother-daughter connection she’s always wanted.

Can she solve the mystery and have the relationship she wants or is this just another obstacle she’ll never cross?

This cozy small town mystery is also available as a paperback.
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Product: Mooved to Murder: A Milk It For All It's Worth Mystery (A Chelsea Lawson Cozy Mystery Book 1)
Description: Chelsea is already in over her head before the dead body turns up…

When Chelsea Lawson's best friend Tilly asks her to stay at her place to watch her six-year-old daughter and pets, Chelsea doesn’t hesitate. Turns out she agreed to manage a micro-farm and "a few pets" included a cow and two goats as well as a little girl too smart for her own good.

When the local community tries to run her out of town, Chelsea realizes something big and rotten hides under the surface of the idyllic small town. The mayor makes it clear she's not wanted and the townspeople give her the cold shoulder, but that only makes Chelsea more determined to uncover their secrets.

No one expected the repercussions those secrets would have, or that murder would be the result. Now life, the animals, and the farm, hangs in the balance. Can Chelsea figure out who did the deed before she—and her new home—are the next victims?

Find out more in the first book of this cozy murder mystery series, the Chelsea Lawson Cozy Mysteries!
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Product: Farmer in the Dead: A Hog Wild Mystery (A Chelsea Lawson Cozy Mystery Book 2)
Description: Farmer in the Dead

Mayhem follows Chelsea Lawson like baby ducks chase their mama.
Chelsea’s thrilled when her best friend, Tilly, returns home from overseas. The joy’s short-lived, though, because before she’s even settled back in, the police show up, and they’re full of questions. Turns out Tilly’s ex has turned up dead, and she’s the last one to see him alive.

Now, it’s up to Chelsea to find the real killer and clear her friend’s name. But that’s not the only mystery on her plate. Chelsea’s digging into her own past, and the more she learns about it, the less sure she is of the future.

Has everything in her life been a lie?

With quirky characters, crazy farm animals, and an amateur sleuth with a tendency for trouble, this cozy whodunit will have to turning pages late into the night. Download it today!
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Product: Terror on Top (Baker Street Cozy Mysteries Book 7)
Description: A Flamingo Cozy and Baker Street Mystery partnership. Stella O'Neil and Georgie Tanner are on the case.
Free recipes!

When Georgie agrees to help her friend Stella O'Neil clean up a house she's listing, neither of them are prepared for the dead body that tumbles out of a closet. Stella suspects it's the house's previous owner but is shocked to see it's the man who hired her, the bank representative.

As Georgie and Stella dig for answers, they find that everyone involved in the prior sale of the house is now dead... and they could be next.

But Georgie can't walk away from this mystery. The secrets that unfold shake her to her core as they involve her fiancé who died years ago. How does this derelict house connect to her life? What else will she find out... and does she even want to know?
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Product: With Killer Views (A Flamingo Realty Mystery Book 6)
Description: "Those of you familiar with James' wonderfully quirky Flamingo Realty mysteries will love the latest twists and turns."
"Suspenseful and funny!"
Stella O’Neil has found a treasure of a house to list... a house possibly full of treasure, that is. Her new listing belonged to a man who died from a seemingly innocent accident. He also was embroiled in a bank investigation involving missing property and many enemies. The rumors have gone wild and people will stop at nothing to search it out.

If keeping treasure hunters out of her listing and avoiding being killed wasn't enough drama, Stella has finally found her mom and a way to rescue her. With the rest of her family in place, and the neighbor and a hunky policeman friend to help, she’s determined to get her mom out. But someone is just as determined to stop her, even through murder.

Stella has come this far fighting to unite her family. She won’t stop until she’s finished. But will she regret it?
"Those of you familiar with James' wonderfully quirky Flamingo Realty mysteries will love the latest twists and turns."
"Suspenseful and funny!"
Stella O’Neil has found a treasure of a house to list... a house possibly full of treasure, that is. Her new listing belonged to a man who died from a seemingly innocent accident. He also was embroiled in a bank investigation involving missing property and many enemies. The rumors have gone wild and people will stop at nothing to search it out.

If keeping treasure hunters out of her listing and avoiding being killed wasn't enough drama, Stella has finally found her mom and a way to rescue her. With the rest of her family in place, and the neighbor and a hunky policeman friend to help, she’s determined to get her mom out. But someone is just as determined to stop her, even through murder.

Stella has come this far fighting to unite her family. She won’t stop until she’s finished. But will she regret it?

No graphic violence, sex, or strong language. Other books in the series:
Mind Your Manors
A Dead Market
Home Strange Home
Duplex Double Trouble
Mid-Century Modern Murder
and linked series, Cherry Pie or Die, the Bakerstreet cozy mysteries.
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Product: Duplex Double Trouble (A Flamingo Realty Mystery Book 4)
Description: "Mystery with characters I could be friends with!"
Stella's newest client, Charlie Booker, wants to sell his half of a duplex but before he can sign the listing papers, he's murdered.
Even stranger, there are only one set of footprints leaving the house, with none showing up as entering the home.
The police mark it as a robbery gone wrong and target a local group of petty thieves.

Stella can't shake the feeling that it’s someone much closer. There’s his neighbor, the owner of the other half of the property, and a girlfriend who was overheard threatening the poor victim. The girlfriend is overly polite and friendly while being really passive aggressive about keeping her out of the house.

Stella doesn't have any evidence to give the police- she can't have anyone arrested on bad vibes. So, Stella does some sleuthing
and the more she digs around, the more convinced she is that there's something hidden in that house. What could be in there that's worth committing murder for?

Meanwhile, Stella finds out more about her past... and her mother. The secrets are starting to unfold and Stella is holding all the men in her life accountable. She's just as determined to know the whole truth as they are determined to keep her from finding out.
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Product: Kicked the Bucket: A Crying Over Spilled Milk Mystery (A Chelsea Lawson Cozy Mystery Book 3)
Description: Kicked the Bucket

Chelsea Lawson is a magnet for trouble.

Sure, she’s making a life for herself on her best friend’s farm. But feeding the pets and milking the cows doesn’t prepare you for finding a dead body floating in the pond.

Even stranger? The bucket of flowers left on the shore. Flowers that then seem to show up everywhere.

The more Chelsea learns about the dead man, the more she suspects he’s tied up in her own knotted past. And as the clues pile up, she starts to wonder if she’s better off leaving this one to the police.

Then a letter arrives, threatening everything she’s ever loved, and Chelsea realizes she can’t stop now or someone close to her will pay the ultimate price.
Can she figure out how all the pieces fit together before it’s too late?

With fun twists, quirky surprises, and nail-biting moments, this cozy whodunnit will keep you guessing. Grab your copy today!
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Product: Mind Your Manors (A Flamingo Realty Mystery Book 1)
Description: Are small towns the safest place? Or are they the best at covering up unwanted mysteries?

Meet Stella O'Neil, retired FBI agent Oscar O'Neil's granddaughter. She's got a lot on her plate, trying to figure out her crazy, stubborn family, the hidden secrets that caused her grandfather's estrangement from her dad, and starting out as a real estate agent. Throw in a dead body found in what used to be the town's "royalty" family's manor, and she's neck deep in a mystery.

As Stella's curiosity leads her from one town resident to the next, a dramatic tale of family secrets starts to appear, but is she getting too close to the truth? A scary car chase in the dark has her nerves on edge, but she won't give up until she finds out who the skeleton once was. She's so close... but someone... maybe more than one person... will do anything to stop her.

Stella has to solve the murder and figure out the riddle so she can untangle herself from this legal and personal mess... before things go too far.

This 7 book small town cozy mystery series is also in paperback and audio book.
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Product: Drizzle of Death (Baker Street Cozy Mysteries Book 4)
Description: Includes free recipes from USA Today Best Selling Author, CeeCee James.

Georgie Tanner didn’t expect much more than old world charm when she led a group of tourists on a visit to a local Amish township. But when a young girl pulls her aside, she discovers a dark underbelly to this peaceful village.

A young man, just returned from Rumspringa – the Amish rite of passage to adulthood – has been found murdered. The girl is terrified to tell any of the elders for fear she’ll be banished from her community. With nobody else for her to turn to, Georgie reluctantly agrees to help.

But when the community moves to cover things up, Georgie discovers her only witness has gone missing. With no evidence and no one willing to listen to her, it’s up to her to find the missing girl before she becomes the next murdered victim..
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Product: Cherry Pie Or Die (Baker Street Cozy Mysteries Book 1)
Description: Love mysteries with humor, good friends, and fun clues? Add in free recipes and you have the Baker Street Mysteries.
Gainesville, Pennsylvania is as American as apple pie, steeped in rich Revolutionary history, Amish settlements, ghost stories, and colonial manors. Georgie has a job as a tour group leader in the historic downtown. She knew it was a safe place to go to piece back her memories. After all, what could go wrong in a sleepy town like this?

Her first guided tour of the Three Maidens’ Manor battle site and museum proves her deathly wrong. When the power goes out mid-commentary, she has enough to handle keeping everyone calm. Until the power returns and she discovers she now has not only six panicked guests, but a mysterious dead guy to deal with. Which one of them committed murder? And, more importantly, why is she the next target? This small town mystery series is also available in large print paperback.
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Product: Cookies and Scream (Baker Street Cozy Mysteries Book 2)
Description: Ready for a book that delivers a sweet mystery, wrapped in humor? Grab this sweet treat.
Tour guide Georgie Tanner has always encouraged her clients to enjoy the realism of an American Revolutionary War reenactment - but today things get a little too real. When one of the actors doesn't get back up after the battle, the crowd is horrified to find out he's been shot for real. Patrick Armstrong, local high school teacher, is dead. Georgie's old high school friend, Terry Brooks, is arrested for the murder, because hundreds of witness can’t be wrong. There's no denying he was the one who pulled the trigger. When he pleads innocence and begs Georgie for help, she agrees because there’s no way he’d do something like this, is there? Her sleuthing skills uncover other possible suspects, sure, and she wants to believe him. So why then is the one piece of evidence she can’t shake pointing right at her friend’s guilt? This small town mystery is available in large print paperback.
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Product: Fatal Vacancy (An Oceanside Mystery Book 4)
Description: Maisie Swenson was thrilled to host the premiere party for the hottest new movie release in Hollywood at the five-star Oceanside Hotel, but she had no idea how difficult Hollywood types could be. Dramatic and demanding, she could handle but… murder? She needs to charge more for these events.

Everyone assumed it was an accident when the stunt went wrong, until they saw the body wasn’t the stuntman. Now everyone is a suspect – the stuntman who despised the victim, ex-lovers, actors--the list goes on and on.

None of this is Maisie’s business until her friend Kristi Bentley, the police officer in charge of security that night, gets suspended for not providing adequate protection. As the circumstantial evidence grows against Kristi, Maisie can’t help getting involved to clear her best friend.

The more she digs, the more dirt she finds. Did anyone NOT want this person dead?
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Product: Deadly Reservation (An Oceanside Mystery Book 2)
Description: When Maisie Swenson stumbles onto the site of an ancient church steeped in pirate folklore, she's thrilled to explore it. She never expects to find a young woman lying in the churches yard clutching flowers like a real live Snow White. And just like the cartoon Snow White, this woman cannot be awakened.

As Maisie tries to puzzle through that situation, one of her guests is found in a coma, too. Only this one is mysteriously clutching a necklace.

Can she ever sort through all the crazy clues to find where the pirate and ghost stories end and a real life killer begins? Or are the folklore tales true after all?

"Another Awesome Book in this Series!"
"Kept me wondering who was the culprit and enjoyed the dialogue. She is a real person with real responsibilities and foibles. Good read."
"So good!"--Amazon reviewers
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Product: A Dead Market (A Flamingo Realty Mystery Book 2)
Description: What would you do for a perfect home?

Everyone wants that place they can walk into, slip off their shoes, and feel instant peace. Real Estate agent Stella O’Neil has just listed that perfect home, and now all she has to do is find its new owner.

Nestled in the heart of eighty stunning acres, this cozy cabin with a gorgeous lake view isn’t for everyone, but Stella knows she’ll find its perfect match. But first, she’s got to figure out what to do about the body floating in the lake.

When her phone won’t stop ringing—with potential buyers—Stella’s stress level kicks up a notch. It seems the home is shrouded in legend, and the lake on the property just might hold the key to the truth.

But selling a house and solving a murder are only part of Stella’s problems in this small town. When a potential buyer proves to know too much about her, Stella realizes there’s more going on than she thought, and if she doesn’t figure it out soon, she might just end up the next body in the lake.

Find out more in the 7 book cozy murder mystery series, the Flamingo Realty Cozy Mysteries!
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Product: The Tempting Taste of Danger: An Angel Lake Mystery (Walking Calamity Cozy Mystery Book 5)
Description: The only thing worse than a noisy bookstore is patrons literally dying to get out.

Elise Pepper has landed her dream job at the Capture The Magic book store. Peace and quiet and thousands of books to herself – including a $2m first edition of Alice in Wonderland. What more could she ask for?

It can’t last of course. Her blissful solitude is rudely interrupted when someone turns the second floor of the building into a Down the Rabbit Hole-themed escape room.

But the noise is the least of her worries – what’s worse is the dead bank executive upstairs and the missing first edition. Now Elise is suspected of both theft and murder, even as the killer taunts her with Alice in Wonderland clues. Can she find out who did it before she takes the fall for the crime?
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