NoveList Reading Challenge: September 2024Like this list

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• Glory Be

  Arceneaux, Danielle,

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  It's a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine: meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop where she works as a small-time bookie. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears that her best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Clutter Corpse

  Brett, Simon

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  Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people declutter their space. Regularly being in other people's homes, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mimi Lee Gets a Clue

  Chow, Jennifer J.,

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  Mimi Lee is in over her head. There's her new Los Angeles pet grooming shop to run, her matchmaking mother to thwart, her talking cat Marshmallow to tend to — oh, and the murder of a local breeder to solve — now if only Mimi hadn't landed herself on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death By Dumpling

  A Noodle Shop Mystery

  Chien, Vivien

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  The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family's restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together. When…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Arsenic and Adobo

  Manansala, Mia P.,

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  When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, not only is she subject to her matchmaking aunties. but she is tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's restaurant. When a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death Overdue

  Brook, Allison

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  Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost.

• A Deadly Inside Scoop

  Collette, Abby,

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  Bronwyn "Win" Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to basics; restoring the shop to its former glory and filling the menu with delicious, homemade ice cream flavors. On her opening day…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mango, Mambo, and Murder

  Reyes, Raquel V.,

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  Miriam's move from New York to Miami puts her academic career on hold but she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. When two murders happen in quick succession Miriam is recruited to help the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bangalore Detectives Club

  Nagendra, Harini,

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  While Kaveri, a 19-year-old woman with a passion for mathematics, and her physician husband, Ramu, are attending a reception at the prestigious Century Club, the body of a pimp is found murdered in the garden. When the deputy inspector of the local…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Most Agreeable Murder

  a Novel

  Seales, Julia,

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  Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady and she harbors a frightful secret: she loves to solve crimes. Neither she nor her sisters can inherit the family estate — it can only go to a man — so Beatrice must be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Marlow Murder Club

  a Novel

  Thorogood, Robert,

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  Judith Potts is 77 years old and blissfully happy. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder and is incensed by the police's lackadaisical response and decides to investigate for herself. She is joined in her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

  Sutanto, Jesse Q.,

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  Nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. This is why Vera, a 60-year-old widow snatches a flash drive from the body she finds in her tea shop before the police arrive. Seeing her customers as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Her Royal Spyness

  Bowen, Rhys

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  Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, has been educated to curtsey, host lavish fetes and marry well. After being cut off from her allowance, she leaves home determined to become a liberated woman. When she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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