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Bookstore: Mystery
Ivy League Chronicles:9 Squares
By E.K. Prescott, Ph.D.

A former detective from Scotland Yard, Richard Wikki is now a professor at Yale University, and misses his days of crime solving. Maize Judson hopes to become an investigative journalist. When Maize and her friend find a skeleton buried in the sand at the beach with a mysterious amulet wrapped around its fingers, she and Richard set out to solve a murder. But Richard soon finds himself following well-planted illusionary clues, and as he continues to investigate, a series of events shake the depths of his philosophical, religious and spiritual beliefs, as well as his perspective on life-forever.
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UNA VIDA Paperback Edition
By Nicolas Bazan, M.D.

A recurring dream leads neuroscientist Alvaro Cruz on a quest to uncover the eerie past of Una Vida, a New Orleans jazz performer stricken with Alzheimer’s. Believing that unlocking her mind is key to his own life’s mysteries, Cruz instinctively tries to reassemble her fragmented memories before they fade forever.
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Forget About Murder
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire

Moonshine and forbidden passion are but two of the clues for the absentminded sleuth Peaches Dann as she solves another mystery by employing creative memory tricks. Peaches goes undercover as a reporter for a country newspaper in this thriller that includes a gun collection and a very determined dog.
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Where There's a Will
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire

Absentminded sleuth Peaches Dann's relatives inherit a fortune, making them all multimillionaires. Eccentric Uncle Hiram's will, however, stipulates that they must take an ocean cruise and that, should any of them die within a year, the others get their share. Soon, two are dead. Can Peaches uncover who did it?
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Is There a Dead Man in the House?
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire

Absentminded sleuth Peaches Dann learns that houses have memories. Her newfound knowledge helps her solve the mystery of the skeleton discovered beneath the floorboards of an historic home. The story is based on the restoration of an actual home built around 1795 in Tennessee. Artifacts found at the site become clues.
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Whose Death Is It Anyway?
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire

Absentminded detective Peaches Dann is attending a lively family reunion in the mountains of North Carolina when her cousin Fern stops conversation cold by announcing that several members of the clan have “The Mark of Murder” in their hands. Although Peaches knows it’s only a mark that hand-readers call a sign of great originality, Fern’s palm-reading proclivities make trouble anyway when a real murder rocks the family.
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Memory Can be Murder
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire

A flatlander cousin admits to Peaches Dann that she's scared to be living in the mountains. Her fears prove well founded when a body is discovered stuffed in a laundry bin. To solve this mystery, Peaches must contend with rattlesnakes, an exceptionally eccentric Broadway actress, and a sneaky marijuana farmer.
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Remember the Alibi
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire

A serial killer is swindling the elderly, then killing them. The conman makes a mistake, however, when he targets Peaches Dann's father. The suspects include the wife of a gun-crazy mountaineer who runs a doll hospital, a history professor who shows Peaches some bizarre memory systems, and a suspicious fortune-teller.
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Who Killed What’s Her Name?
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire

In this first Peaches Dann Mystery, set near Asheville, North Carolina, absentminded sleuth Peaches is writing a book about memory tricks. Meanwhile, her aunt is found dead in her father's pond wearing a dress exactly like the dress Peaches is wearing. Can she find the killer before he strikes again?
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UNA VIDA Hardcover Edtion
By Nicolas Bazan, M.D.

A recurring dream leads neuroscientist Alvaro Cruz on a quest to uncover the eerie past of Una Vida, a New Orleans jazz performer stricken with Alzheimer’s. Believing that unlocking her mind is key to his own life’s mysteries, Cruz instinctively tries to reassemble her fragmented memories before they fade forever.
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Kill the Messenger
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire

In Elizabeth Daniels Squire's first mystery, a legendary newspaper publisher's bourbon has been laced with cyanide. Because he had dirt on just about everyone, there is no shortage of suspects. His son must find the killer before the deadline runs out and the Paper is sold to a shady Conglomerate.
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