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  • Phoning in a Murder
    Elaine L Orr
    Lots of teachers are irritated by students paying more attention to their cell phones than what’s going on in the classroom. Some would like to see their school ban cell phones during the school day. They don’t hold out a lot of hope for a cell phone ban, so they work around them.More than most faculty, the band director at Ocean Alley High School doesn’t want students to have ...
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    7,62 €

  • Long Held Lake Secrets
    Elaine L. Orr
    Fifth Family History Mystery!A dinner invitation for Digger, who is accompanied by the very pale Uncle Benjamin, gets her involved with a recently discovered relative of their elderly friend Thelma, whose brother died during World War II. DNA testing has led his until-now-unknown great-grandson, Peter, to Maple Grove in the Western Maryland Mountains. Thelma enlists Digger’s he...
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    9,17 €

  • FInal Cycle
    Elaine L. Orr
    Marti and Nick have inherited The Bully Pulpit Diner in Logland, Illinois, and their first Christmas season has town grounch, Louella Belle Simpson, as a regular customer. She point out calorie content to other diners and lectures people on their weight. This doesn’t encourage people to order pie. When Louella Belle turns up dead, there are plenty of people who were tired of li...
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    8,36 €

  • Holidays in Ocean Alley
    Elaine L. Orr
    Opening your apartment door to see a woman sliding down it is distressing. Especially when that woman has a knife in her chest. After all the times she has encouraged Jolie to mind her own business, Aunt Madge has had a change of heart.It’s Jolie’s boyfriend Scoobie Madge turns to to help her figure out who the murderer is. Not that being temporarily in an assisted living apart...
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    7,89 €

  • Tip a Hat to Murder
    Elaine L. Orr
    When the owner of the Bully Pulpit Diner decided to stop letting servers accept tips, he figured the raise he gave them would keep them happy. Apparently not. Or was a side-hustle that got Ben Addison killed?Police Chief Elizabeth Friedman’s investigation collides with frat brothers at the local college who keep goats in the dining room and throw rowdy Halloween parties. Marti ...
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    8,40 €

  • Ground to a Halt
    Elaine L. Orr
    When Jolie Gentil goes to buy a cup of coffee the morning after a storm knocks out power at her house in Ocean Alley, she finds Java Jolt unlocked and minus its owner. A bigger surprise is seeing proprietor Joe Regan a few minutes later, badly injured. It seems a potential killer thinks Jolie has something Joe was hiding. The normal routine of appraising houses and volunteering...
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    9,21 €

  • Final Operation
    Elaine L. Orr
    City Clerk Donald Dingle is a pest. He’s a tightwad with the city budget and criticizes the police department to the point that Police Chief Elizabeth Friedman would love to see him retire. And she did mean retire, not expire. When he dies soon after having stents implanted, it’s natural to wonder why he didn’t recover. When the reason becomes apparent, people in town wonder if...
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    8,42 €

  • Vague Images
    Elaine L Orr
    Bad enough that Jolie ends up in the emergency room because she tried to avoid hitting a deer. Worse to find a dead woman in the hospital restroom after Jolie gets patched up.As the chief budget cutter at the hospital, Tanya Weiss was unpopular, especially in the Radiology Department, where Scoobie works.In between appraising houses and feeding her pet skunk, Jolie’s on the loo...
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    9,02 €

  • The Unexpected Resolution
    Elaine L. Orr
     A midnight wedding, Army veterans who face repercussions of two different wars, and a very startling wedding guest.    Wedding days are special, but they don’t usually pack as big a surprise as Jolie and Scoobie’s New Year’s Eve nuptials. Scoobie never knew much about his family -- and after the way he grew up, who could blame him for liking it that way? A 9-1-1 call during...
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    8,39 €

  • Sticky Fingered Books
    Elaine L. Orr
    It isn’t every day that you find a body at your kids’ school. Unless you’re Jolie Gentil. Then it’s more of an option. Someone broke into Sand and Sea Daycare, leaving a broken window and plenty of rain in the director’s office. When Jolie hears an angry man say the intruder must have been looking for some books, she remembers the center hadn’t deposited money raised a...
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    8,56 €

  • Trouble on the Doorstep
    Elaine L. Orr
    From Hurricane Sandy to Cozy Corner B&B repairs to Aunt Madge’s wedding in three weeks. If Jolie can handle that surely she can deal with a sobbing woman who shows up at midnight playing a scary message on a cell phone. Pooki is frantic about her husband’s whereabouts and more than a little ’ditzy,’ according to Jolie’s best friend, Scoobie. After taking Pooki to the police sta...
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    9,20 €

  • Any Port in a Storm
    Elaine L. Orr
    Someone is breaking into the houses Jolie appraises. When she realizes a new face in town is leading high school kids into trouble in those houses, Jolie’s mad and lets him know it. Hayden offers to help her mind her own business, and a lot of people at the Talk Like a Pirate Day fundraiser for the food pantry hear her give him what for.A hurricane’s on the way to disrupt Talk ...
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    9,92 €

  • Behind the Walls
    Elaine L. Orr
    There’s something hidden behind the walls of the hurricane damaged house Jolie bought in her New Jersey beach town. Something someone seems willing to kill for. After Jolie and Scoobie find a small sack of jewelry as they do a mold attack on her bungalow, Jolie is pursued by a purse thief and a burglar. But the guy she’s most worried about is the one who left an elderly auction...
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    9,71 €

  • When the Carny Comes to Town
    Elaine L. Orr
    Though she never liked the idea of sitting on the plank above the dunk tank for the food pantry’s fundraiser at the carnival, Jolie never dreamed what Scoobie saw that day would leave him battling for his life. Scoobie’s ex-con mother shows up and there’s a murder to add to the mix. Soon Jolie is doing a lot more than appraising real estate, though even that is complicated by h...
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    9,08 €

  • Rekindling Motives
    Elaine L. Orr
    It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Ocean Alley and Jolie Gentil is attending her 10th high school reunion and appraising the vacant Tillotson-Fisher house. She is surprised by the skeleton of Richard Tillotson hidden in an antique attic wardrobe. He vanished just after his sister married his business partner in 1929. Jolie sees a link to the Fisher family’s Prohibition era business a...
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    8,28 €

  • New Lease on Death
    Elaine L. Orr
    Jolie always has her hands full appraising houses, running the food pantry, and enjoying her family. Enter Buck Brock - an annoying landlord who likes to skimp on amenities and wants Jolie to lowball appraisals on properties he’s buying. He makes Lester Argrow -- usually Ocean Alley’s most annoying realtor -- look like a polite uncle. She and Scoobie also decide to let a troubl...
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    8,16 €

  • The Unscheduled Murder Trip
    Elaine L. Orr
    B.R.A.G. Medallion HonoreeDigger is bouncing back from a tough year. With the new graphic design firm she and her friend Holly started, things are looking up. But then life throws her a curve when she trips over a body while she and her friend Marty are taking photos at an abandoned train depot.As she tries to piece things together, Digger begins to think the body she found is ...
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    9,44 €

  • Gilded Path to Nowhere
    Elaine L. Orr
    Family History Mystery Series, Book 4When a Maple Grove resident discovers some old gold coins in the woods near town, it’s an intriguing event -- but not one that seems dangerous. However, the article Digger’s friend, Marty, wrote for the Maple Grove News , seems to have attracted unwarranted attention. Did the coins come from a long-ago bank robbery or burglary, or was someon...
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    9,30 €

  • Appraisal for Murder
    Elaine L. Orr / Elaine LOrr
    Jolie Gentil moves to Great Aunt Madge’s bed and breakfast at the Jersey shore, taking her cat Jazz, and joining Madge’s pair of prune-eating dogs. Jolie does not view this as a retreat from her embezzling ex-husband, just a smart change. She had no idea her life was about to get even more complicated. Jolie finds work as a real estate appraiser, but a low-life named Joe Pedone...
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    8,30 €