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61) Room for murder
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Lighthouse Inn mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2003
Summary
New York Times Bestselling Author and Agatha Award Nominee!First Published by Penguin/Berkley/Prime Crime!Lighthouse Inn Mystery #4Alex is thrilled when his best friend, Mor Pendleton, is engaged to Emma Sturbridge. He and his maid, and budding love interest, Elise Danton, are already talking about holding the wedding at the base of the Hatteras West Lighthouse, but those plans are ruined when Emma's ex husband is found murdered on the grounds of...
62) Sierra Falls
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When the discovery of her ancestor's secret love letters puts the town of Sierra Falls on the map, Sorrow Bailey, the proprietor of Bailey Lodge, is plagued by strange "accidents" that bring the new sheriff, Billy Preston, into her life.
63) Sweep with me
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Series
Innkeeper chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
2020
Summary
"Every winter, Innkeepers look forward to celebrating their own special holiday, which commemorates the ancient treaty that united the very first Inns and established the rules that protect them, their intergalactic guests, and the very unaware/oblivious people of [planet] Earth. By tradition, the Innkeepers welcomed three guests: a warrior, a sage, and a pilgrim, but during the holiday, Innkeepers must open their doors to anyone who seeks lodging....
64) From this day
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Taylor Reynolds, head of a large and profitable hotel chain, travels to his recent acquisition, the quaint Lakeside Inn in rural Vermont. There he meets the inn's manager, B.J. Clark. Sparks fly as their differing ideas concerning the hotel's future emerge. Taylor wishes to turn the inn into a sleek hotel, while B.J. wishes to preserve its rustic nature. As the relationship develops, B.J. finds herself torn between her professional antagonism and...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
Jenny and Brian are planning their wedding. The house that brought them together, Emily's Country Inn, is filled to capacity with happy guests. Then a distant relative of Emily's arrives and stakes a claim to the house. The pressure is on as Jenny and Brian are plagued with financial issues, and try to raise enough money to hang onto their home.
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"Jane's boyfriend is missing, and she thinks she may find him at North Carolina's historic Biltmore Estate. Officially, she's there to learn about luxury hotel management, but she's also prowling around the breathtaking buildings and grounds looking for secret passageways and clues. One of the staff gardeners promises to be helpful . . . that is, until his body turns up in the reading room of his cottage, a book on his lap.When she finally locates...
67) Be my ghost
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Series
Haunted Haven mystery volume 1
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"Maureen Doherty and her golden retriever Finn have taken possession of a charming old inn--only to discover that it's already possessed by tenants whose lease on life already ran out . . . Maureen's career as a sportswear buyer hits a snag just before Halloween, when the department store declares bankruptcy. Meanwhile, Finn's lost his way as a guide dog after flunking his test for being too friendly and easily distracted. Sadly, only one of them...
69) Heartbreak hotel
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"When retired actor and irrepressible ladies' man Buffy decides to leave London and move to rural Wales, he has no idea what he is getting himself into. In possession of a run-down bed and breakfast that leans more toward the shabby than the chic, Buffy realizes that he needs to fill the beds--and fast. Otherwise, his vision of the pastoral countryside will go up in smoke. So he has the bold idea of starting "Courses for divorces." Enter a motley...
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"Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted. But is it? And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married, a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye...
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"Commissaire Georges Dupin, a Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is not happy when he is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local village of Pont-Aven--a sleepy community by the sea where everyone knows one other and nothing much seems to happen--is in shock. The legendary ninety-one-year-old hotelier Pierre-Louis Pennec,...
73) Room Service
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Summary
Maid service was something she required...
Jet-setter Katya Morgan believes that love comes in gilt-wrapped packages tied with neat red bows. So when her father disinherits her, her first priority is to get her money and her cushy life back. Meanwhile, having no way to pay the enormous bill she racked up at the Royal Palmetto Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, poses a slight problem-and the manager has the gall to suggest the unthinkable: that she pay...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Summary
Lauren Voss has a nice, quiet, orderly life running her grandmother's Heron Bay Resort on the Texas coast. Three years removed from a break-up that left her ex - and her life - behind in San Diego, she's adjusted to the slow pace in Rockport, seeking out neither new friends nor lovers. Vandalism at the resort's clubhouse - and a cryptic message written in blood - brings Detective Harley Shepherd, with her obnoxious Hawaiian shirts, into her life....
75) Autumn skies
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Bluebell Inn romance volume 3
Summary
"The Bluebell Inn is turning a profit, and it's time for the Bennett siblings to sell it and move on. Only Grace has plans to stay in the small lake town of Bluebell, North Carolina, where she hopes her growing outfitters business will save her from the loneliness of her siblings' departure and the persistent sense of unworthiness in her life. A gunshot wound resurrects the past for Secret Service agent Wyatt Jennings, and a mandatory leave of absence...
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Love on the Santa Fe volume 1
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"Is her compassion doing more harm than good? Recently widowed Susanna Jenkins has decided to follow her family to the booming town of San Marcial, New Mexico, for a fresh start and to aid in her family's sudden change in fortune. They are tasked with managing her uncle's new Grand Hotel, and it takes all her patience to try to help her parents see the good of their circumstances and relinquish their sense of entitlement. She's hopeful when her brother...
77) Hotel Rwanda
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Pub. Date
c2005
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Based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a five-star-hotel manager who uses his wits and persuasion in striving to save more than 1,200 Tutsis and Hutus from being massacred by the Interahamwe militia during the 1994 Rwandan conflict.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
"Bill Marriott, son of J. Williard Marriott who opened a root-beer stand that grew into the Hot Shoppes Restaurant chain and evolved into the Marriott hotel company, grew up in the family business. In his more than fifty years at the company s helm, Bill Marriott was the driving force behind growing Marriott into the world s largest global hotel chain. His vision and leadership expanded the family business to more than 6,500 properties across 127...
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Amish brides of Birch Creek volume 3
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"When Selah Ropp returns to Birch Creek, she is a different person than when she left. I know I haven't done much listening in the past, Lord, she prays. But I'm listening now. Her new friend, Cevilla Schlabach, urges her to let go of regrets and allow this to be a fresh start. Cevilla herself, though, hides a secret longing behind her weathered face. Levi Stoll and his family spent a year transforming a large English house into a small inn. Now that...