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(0)Charlotte (Charlotte C.) Carter
1) Jackson Park
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Charlotte Carter, acclaimed author of the Nanette Hayes mysteries, sets her dazzling new series amidst the social and racial tumult of late 1960s Chicago. Cassandra, grandniece to Woodson and Ivy Lisle, is a college student caught up in the highly charged atmosphere of the days following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. When the granddaughter of Woodson and Ivy's friends goes missing, Cassandra is sucked into a dangerous mystery that threatens...
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On the North Side in December of 1968, Cassandra Perry feels stifled by her doting granduncle and grandaunt, Woody and Ivy, and longs for a change. She moves into a multiracial commune for free spirits working for the good of humankind. But then something unfathomable happens: the commune is rocked by the discovery of two well-liked activists' mutilated bodies. With Woodie and Ivy backing her up, Cassandra begins to investigate only to find herself...
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"A riveting, eerie novel about two families caught up in a centuries-old curse. Sarah Toomey is afraid she's losing her mind. Ever since her mother's death, she's found herself acting upon strange urges, losing track of time, and coming to in odd places. There's a dark force that seems to be haunting her, and leaving death in its wake. Yvonne Howard has reinvented herself. After years of unhappiness as a guard in a women's prison she's finally pursuing...
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"The first book in the Nanette Hayes series introduces us to jazz-loving, street busker Nanette, whose love life leads her into some very hot water. Nan's day is not off to a good start. Her on-again, off-again relationship with Walter is off... again, and when she offers a fellow busker a place to stay for the night he ends up murdered on her kitchen floor. To make matters worse, the busker turns out to have been an undercover cop. And his former...
5) Coq au vin
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"In the second installment of the Nanette Hayes series, Nan is on her way to Paris in search of a missing relative. . . but will she lose more than just her heart in the city of love?Nanette's life is finally getting back to normal when her mother calls her with some upsetting news: Nan's beloved bohemian Aunt Vivian has gone missing. Normally this is par for the course with Viv, but this time the circumstances surrounding Vivian's disappearance are...
6) Drumsticks
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"Nanette is on the rocks. Heartbroken and alone, she finds what comfort she can in the bottom of a bottle. But Nan's life seems to turn around when she's given a voodoo doll, so much so that she seeks out the doll's creator, Ida, to thank her. That's when Nan's luck seems to run out, and Ida ends up with a bullet in her head. Guilt-ridden, Nan resolves to get justice for her new friend, only to find that Ida was hiding some dark skeletons in her closet....
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Secrets of Mary's bookshop volume 3
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Mary's sister Betty receives notice that she is being sued and that the Emerson Grist Mill, which has been in her late husband's family for hundreds of years, actually belongs to the Hopkinses, with whom the Emersons have feuded for generations. Betty is sure that it can't be true, but Mary isn't so certain and sets out to unravel the mill's forgotten history. As Mary digs in the Ivy Bay archives, she hears rumors of a murder that started the feud....