Kate Collins
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"After her divorce, Athena has returned to coastal Michigan to work in her family's garden center and raise her son, while also caring for a mischievous wild raccoon and fending off her family's annoying talent for nagging. Working alone at the garden center one night, Athena is startled by a handsome stranger who claims to be the rightful owner of a valuable statue her grandfather purchased at a recent estate sale. But she has even bigger problems...
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Flower shop mystery volume 20
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After being hired to deliver poinsettias to Churchill's department store in downtown New Chapel, feisty flower shop owner Abby Knight finds herself mixed up in the disappearances of everyone's favorite Santa Claus, Mr. Churchill himself. Promising Churchill's daughter that the legendary Christmas Eve celebration will not go on without her father, Abby must recruit her whole staff at Bloomers, and even her family. to help. But while the excitement...
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"The entire family has been put to work when a big fat Greek wedding rehearsal is booked at the Parthenon. All hands are needed for rolling grape leaves, layering moussaka, and keeping the bride calm. But then the groom goes M.I.A. and there's far more to worry about than just whether Yiayia's lemon rice soup has gone cold. No matter how tangy the tzatziki, everyone's appetite is ruined when the groom is found dead, a pair of scissors planted in his...
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Abby's latest gig is the perfect marriage of her talents. Not only does her bride-to-be-cousin, Jillian, want Abby to be a bridesmaid - she also wants her to sign on as floral designer and sleuth...
Though nearly once a year Jillian has agreed to marry a different man, she has yet to make it to the alter. But this time, it's cold dead feet that may stop the wedding. Before the couple says "I do," one of the groomsmen...
Though nearly once a year Jillian has agreed to marry a different man, she has yet to make it to the alter. But this time, it's cold dead feet that may stop the wedding. Before the couple says "I do," one of the groomsmen...
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Flower shop mystery volume 21
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After arriving late for a tulip delivery, Bloomers Flower Shop owner Abby Knight Salvare stumbles upon a homicide in action. When her long-time friend, Sergeant Sean Reilly accidentally releases information to the press, he is forced to step away from the case and even his position. Having nowhere else to turn and armed with a list of evidence that the detectives refuse to investigate, Reilly enlists the heap of Team Salvare to solve the case.
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Kate Collins
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2011
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Bodyguard and...
Determined to help a friend in need, pretty Eliza Lowe groans at the thought of having to be escorted by a stodgy Pinkerton detective — then she meets Case Brogan. Broad-shouldered and lean-hipped, he is the most gorgeous man Eliza has ever met! Suddenly, sharing a wagon with him feels like a real adventure — especially when she sees the desire in his eyes!
Lover?
This journey is turning into a nightmare for Case
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Hallmark Channel's Flower Shop Mysteries continues her delightful, new spin-off series featuring a single mom, her Greek-American family, and the gardening nursery they operate together.
Athena Spencer works with her big Greek-American family (whom she also anonymously blogs about) at their garden center near Lake Michigan. She's also gained a reputation for crime-solving-and that's what brings flower-shop...
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The dazzling debut novel from Kate Collins-a feminist gothic mystery spanning decades, in the vein of Mexican Gothic and The Essex Serpent.
Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want....
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Flower shop mystery volume 3
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Abby has her hands full at her cousin Jillian's wedding as florist, bridesmaid, and grandma-sitter-all while wearing a hideous dress. Then the groom's ninety-year-old grandmother goes missing from the reception. On her search, Abby finds the corpse of guest Jack Snyder. Now she must find out who killed Jack in the pulpit.
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The dazzling debut novel from Kate Collins-a feminist gothic mystery spanning decades, in the vein of Mexican Gothic and The Essex Serpent.
Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want....
12) Mum's the Word
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Abby Knight is the proud owner of her hometown flower shop, but a new low-cost competitor is killing her profits-and a black SUV just rammed her vintage Corvette in a hit-and-run. She's determined to track down the driver, but when the trail turns deadly, the next flower arrangement might be for her own funeral...
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In a tourist town on Lake Michigan, Athena Spencer keeps busy raising a son (and a pet raccoon named Oscar) while working at her family's garden center. But sometimes, she also has to get the dirt on a murderer, in the new series by the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mysteries...
Athena has invited Case Donnelly, recently relocated from Pittsburgh and awaiting his PI license, to accompany her to a Save Our Dunes fundraiser and...
14) Kick the bouquet
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Kate Collins
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Thanksgiving is right around the corner and everything in Abby's life seems to be falling apart. The last thing she needs to worry about is where to eat. Does she go to her parents' house for dinner or break with tradition and go to her mother-in-law's house instead? Abby's mom is in a tizzy and Abby is desperately seeking a solution. But she has a bigger problem when hunky hubby Marco becomes a suspect in the murder of his landlord, realtor Arthur...
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Enjoy her wedding shower, or receive a cold dunking? In addition to running her flower shop, planning her wedding, and juggling two mothers who both want to host an elaborate bridal shower, Abby Knight is facing another complication. Her ditzy cousin Jillian asks her and her longtime beau, Marco, a private detective, to find a woman who's gone missing from the exclusive beach house belonging to Jillian's in-laws, the Osbornes. The missing woman is...
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2014.
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Flower shop owner Abby Knight has just returned from a romantic honeymoon with the man of her dreams. There's no reason for the bloom to be off the rose just because she and Marco are returning to normal life. But when Marco discovers a skeleton buried in the basement of his bar, it is a bit of a mood killer. When the body is identified as a carpenter who went missing back in the 1970s, Abby and Marco decide to cultivate the clues to solve the cold...
19) Seed no evil
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Kennebec Large Print
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2014.
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431 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Kennebec Large Print
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2016.
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439 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Flower shop owner Abby Knight and her husband, Marco, are ecstatic to finally be moving into their new home, despite the prospect of unpacking a seemingly infinite number of boxes. After all, Brandywine their new subdivision seems like an oasis with its welcoming neighbors and beautifully manicured lawns. But their idyllic community is suddenly uprooted when a body is found floating in a nearby pond. The police think Abby and Marco s helpful next...