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Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, uses a Halloween-themed marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana. Five local plantation B&Bs will host "Pelican's Spooky Past" packages, featuring regional crafts, unique menus, and a pet costume parade. Topping it off, the derelict Dupois cemetery is the suitably sepulchral setting for the spine-chilling play Resurrection of a Spirit. When someone costumed as a rougarou-- a...
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Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body. Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly...
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As Halloween approaches, Nora Pennington decides to showcase fictional heroines like Roald Dahl's Matilda and Madeline Miller's Circe. A family-values group disapproves of the magical themes, though, and wastes no time launching a modern-day witch hunt. They're targeting not only Nora and Miracle Books, but a new shopkeeper, Celeste, who has been selling CBD oil products. When a local death is declared an accident, the ruling can't explain the old...
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Three novellas from three cozy mystery writers all feature murders that happen at Halloween parties, including a fête in a Victorian home where someone overdoses on tainted drugs and a teenage sleepover where the attendees discover a murdered neighbor.
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Alliance vampires volume 5
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English
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Megan O'Casey and her husband Finn still make good music together. Which is why they head to Salem, Massachusetts, Megan's hometown; booked to perform a weeklong series of concerts culminating on Halloween? But as soon as they arrive, Finn seems different; sensual beyond belief one moment; cold and ruthless the next. As the full moon approaches, Megan senses that she, too, is in mortal danger.
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Farrar Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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The pout-pout fish loves dressing up for Halloween. His spooktacular costumes will turn pouts into big smiles!
11) Howloween murder
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When a tenured colleague is accused of poisoning her famous marshmallow puffs to murder an elderly neighbor, Melanie Travis finds her investigation challenged by the boisterous Halloween festivities at Howard Academy.
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Pen and ink volume 3
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English
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When the celebrity medium she hired for an event declares that there is a murderer in their presence, bookstore manager and coloring book creator Florrie Fox finds herself drawn into a strange mystery where she must expose a killer's true colors.
13) Walking dead
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Walker papers volume 4
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
c2009
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376 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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For once Joanne Walker's not out to save the world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she's got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead. But it's Halloween and the undead have just crashed Joanne's party.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
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Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
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295 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Halloween is approaching, and the co-owners of Zydeco Cakes, Rita Lucero and her former mother-in-law, Miss Frankie, help their neighbor Bernice solve a ghost/murder mystery that becomes dangerous when Bernice's cousin soon goes missing in the swamp.
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Witch City mysteries volume 4
Mrs. Claus mystery volume 3.5
Witch City mystery volume 12.5
Irish village mystery volume 9.5
Mrs. Claus mystery volume 3.5
Witch City mystery volume 12.5
Irish village mystery volume 9.5
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"From Galway, Ireland to Salem, Massachusetts, all the way up to the North Pole, a trio of Halloween mysteries from USA Today bestselling author Carlene O'Connor, Liz Ireland, and Carol J. Perry prove that the spookiest season knows no international borders--and neither do cupcakes!"--
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"Everyone in Chouteau Forest knows the legend of the Cursed Crypt. It's claimed that the restless spirit of a professor nicknamed Mean Gene Cortini, buried in Chouteau Forest University's crypt, has been causing death and destruction in the Forest for almost two centuries. Local residents are used to disease and natural disasters striking every seven years. But not murder. When Trey Lawson outbids the wealthy Du Pres family at the university's annual...
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"Halloween is approaching in Briar Creek, and things get spooky when a skeleton is found and connected to a decades-old cold case. Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary of the Dorchester family's vast book collection. However, when Lindsey and the library staff arrive at the old Victorian estate to gather the books, things take a sinister turn. One of the bookcases reveals a secret passage,...
18) All hallows
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New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is best known for his supernatural thrillers set in deadly, distant locales...but in this suburban Halloween drama, Golden brings the horror home. It's Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who...
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Lyla Moody and her book club, the Jane Does, are hosting a Halloween party at Magnolia Manor, tailored after Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced, but when the lights come on after the staged murder, a real victim lies dead from a gunshot wound in her chest. The victim was an estranged relative of Elaine Morgan, operator of the B&B, who'd earlier been seen arguing with her about the fate of the property. Suspicion immediately falls on Elaine, and...
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Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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350 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Halloween 1861. A special train with two carriages steams across the Lake District at night on its way to a place notorious for its record of supernatural incidents. Most of those on board have been fortified by alcohol so the mood is boisterous. Lighting inside the carriages is poor and without warning, the lamp goes out in the last compartment of the second carriage, plunging it into darkness. When the special reaches the end of its journey, the...
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