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When Holly Kelly moves from Miami to the lavish Laguna Palms neighborhood, seeking community and friendship-with her husband and rambunctious triplets in tow-she finds it in spades. She is soon drawn into the intimate lives of almost everyone in their beachfront cul-de-sac, especially her three new ride-or-dies: Gina, Greta, and Chloe. But when the neighborhood's holiday fruitcake exchange takes a dark turn, the bodies start piling up. The deaths seem like accidents-at first.

Walter has a rubbish job, so has Margaret. But when they meet through a dating agency, neither is who they seem. Margaret's married for a start, and Walter's encounter with her husband, Billy, leaves him black and blue. Billy's a dodgy accountant for politician and racketeer Pink Harrison, who is about to come unstuck.

When Sadie Hoffmiller receives a threatening, anonymous text message just days before her wedding, she's determined not to let it interfere with the celebration she has carefully planned for months. But when the threat changes from a distant fear to a frightening reality, Sadie realizes just how much she's underestimated the situation. Desperate to put an end to the game she's been forced to play, Sadie, her fiancé, Pete, and her children pull out all the stops.

In the quaint British seaside town of Plympton-on-Sea, Hilda, and Pearl now own a tearoom. A watching sinister figure seeks to cause them trouble. In the USA, someone murders a young woman. It sets in motion events that reverberate back and forth across time and the Atlantic. Just as well Hilda can bring her inimitable humour, focus and detecting skills to the case. Buckle up for a second Hilda Mystery.

Evaleen Bechmann is too busy running Human Resources for the billion-dollar company, Mimir, to even consider dating. As for emotions, she refuses to discuss that, too. It doesn't matter anyway. She's invisible to men, especially one man in particular. Evaleen is fine with that. Not everyone gets their happily ever after; that's only for novels.

Belonging to the Midnight Writers group seemed easy to Charlie Prince, show up and share, or critique. Unfortunately, he couldn't be more wrong. He thought 2 years ago they had put the Sunny murders behind them. Yearning for a bestseller, or a pedestrian life with Chantelle he struggled to put his past behind him. In two years he had thought that he had made a lot of progress, until the kidnapping of a model brought him to a crime scene of a kidnapping of a model tied to his day job.