Spirits, Tales & a Body by the Bales
Lily & Cassie By the Sea Mysteries, Book 2
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Nellie H. Steele
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Haunting happenings. A shocking murder. Will a mother-daughter duo discover the buried truth before an innocent life is destroyed?
Lily and Cassie are desperate to be welcomed into their new town. But their back-breaking work constructing a Halloween maze keeps getting waylaid by odd events. And when haunting events continue at their new home, the mother and daughter duo suspect they may be facing a mischievous spirit.
When a body is found on opening night, their hard work is cast aside for the murder investigation. Surprising secrets and dark truths lurk around every corner, leading the ladies further in a web of lies and deceit.
Will Lily and Cassie sort fact from fiction and discover the truth before the trouble turns deadly for them?
Spirits, Tales & a Body by the Bales is the second installment in the charming seaside mother-daughter cozy mystery series by Nellie H. Steele.
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Even with her life in ruins in New Mexico, Shay feels uneasy about settling into the small seaside town where she grew up on California's Monterey Peninsula, and taking over an estate bequeathed to her by Bridget Early, a woman she had barely known. Her heightened senses—an empathic gift she's had since childhood—go into overdrive upon touring Crystals & CuriosiTEAS, Bridget's eclectic tea and psychic shop brimming with Irish lore and Celtic symbols. They reach a boiling point when Shay looks up to discover a stranger's body sprawled across the shop's greenhouse roof . . .
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Great start to the series!
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Arsenic with Austen: A Mystery
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When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great-aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart 35 years before, and nearly lose her own life. Emily travels to the sleepy coastal village of Stony Beach, Oregon, to claim her inheritance, centered on a beautiful Victorian estate called Windy Corner but also including a substantial portion of the real estate of the whole town.
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Starts with great promise, but....
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The Undoing of Saint Silvanus
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- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like they were close. She hadn't seen him - or her grandmother, the ice queen - in almost 20 years. But when Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, called and said her expenses would be paid if she'd fly in for the burial, a free trip to New Orleans was too intriguing to resist.
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Classic Beth, highly recommend!!
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By: Beth Moore
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A Ghostly Undertaking
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- By: Tonya Kappes
- Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
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Bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she's suffering from "funeral trauma." It's trauma all right, because the not-so-dearly departed keep talking to her. Take Ruthie Sue Payne - innkeeper, gossip queen, and arch-nemesis of Emma Lee's granny - she's adamant that she didn't just fall down those stairs. She was pushed. Ruthie has no idea who wanted her pushing up daisies, but she can't cross over until the matter is laid to eternal rest. Emma Lee's high-school crush, Sheriff Jack Henry Ross, isn't ready to rule out foul play.
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GOOD READ
- By Debbie Lacey on 12-28-19
By: Tonya Kappes
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Daisies for Innocence
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Elliana Allbright's life has blossomed in Poppyville, California, since she opened Scents & Nonsense, a custom-made perfume store. Her skills with aromas and botanical essences - some from her very own garden - seem almost supernatural. Her perfumes can evoke emotions, bring about change, or simply make people happy. Customers are flocking to the store to buy her wares or just to sit in her beautiful garden, sip tea, and enjoy homemade cookies.
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Difficult Narrator but loved the story
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Books Can Be Deceiving
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Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey's friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children's book, but Beth's boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he's found murdered - and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast - before they throw the book at the wrong person.
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Loved it
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Witch Slapped
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Hello. My name is Stevie Cartwright, and I've been witchless for 30 days. If only there was a support group for down-on-their-luck ex-witches who've had their powers slapped right out of them (literally). Just as I was licking my wounds after returning to my hometown of Ebenezer Falls, Washington, and navigating my suddenly nonmagical existence with the help of my familiar, Belfry, things got sticky. Enter an ex-spy and newly departed spirit named Winterbottom, who's infiltrated my life with his sexy British accent and a couple of requests....
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Enjoyed this cozy tremendously!
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By: Dakota Cassidy
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A Deadly Grind
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When vintage cookware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton spies an original 1920s Hoosier brand kitchen cabinet at an estate auction, it's love at first sight. Despite the protests of her sister that the 19th-century yellow-brick house they share in Michigan is already too cluttered with Jaymie's "junk," she successfully outbids the other buyers and triumphantly takes home her Hoosier.
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History can be deadly in this cozy mystery!
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All the Dark Places
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Snow falls softly outside Molly Bradley’s home on a frigid January night. Inside, half a dozen close friends are gathered to celebrate the fortieth birthday of Molly’s psychologist husband, Jay. Candlelight gleams against dark wood, wine flows, and the house rings with laughter. Everybody loves Jay, Molly most of all. Yet next morning, Molly discovers Jay dead on the floor of his office, his throat brutally slashed.
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Story meh, Rita was GREAT
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By: Terri Parlato
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Last Wool and Testament
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Thank Goodness It's Fiber: That's the name of the spunky group of fiber and needlework artists founded by Ivy McClellan, Kath's beloved grandmother. Though Ivy has recently passed on, the members still meet regularly at her fiber and fabric shop, The Weaver's Cat, which Kath has now inherited. But that's only the first in a series of surprises when Kath returns to the small town of Blue Plum, Tennessee, to settle her grandmother's affairs
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Not even light reading
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A Dark and Stormy Murder
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Lena London's literary dreams are coming true - as long as she can avoid any real - life villains.... Camilla Graham's best-selling suspense novels inspired Lena London to become a writer, so when she lands a job as Camilla's new assistant, she can't believe her luck. Not only will she help her idol craft an enchanting new mystery, she'll get to live rent-free in Camilla's gorgeous Victorian home in the quaint town of Blue Lake, Indiana.
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Human or computer reading?
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By: Julia Buckley
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- Kathy V.
- 10-06-24
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There was a whole lotta screeching going on, which was quite annoying. The character of Cassie comes across as very immature & high-strung, both of which I dislike in a lead character. Cassie behaves more like an angsty teen than a nature adult widow.
Apart from the screeching, I very much enjoyed the story.
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- 09-26-23
looking forward to the next in the series
great book this is number two in a series and now I wait for number three. storyline moves very well mother-daughter Duo has a great flow and is enjoyable to read about,. other characters are interesting, with a good storyline and a sheriff that isn't made out to be stupid and inept. the book has mystery and moments of comedy.
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- ddreamer
- 01-09-24
I should have learned with the first book
The first book in this series was bad enough with the monotone narrator. I saw someone wrote that the second book was much better.
I cannot say it was. I believe the storyline was much worse and the narrator, although not monotone absolutely horrible.
The Lily and Cassie characters are supposedly widowed as mother and daughter. The father and the daughter’s husband supposedly crashed in a plane in the opening of the first book in this series. After listening to the first book and this one, I do not believe this was an accident. I believe they purposely crashed a plane not to have to live with these two anymore.
Cassie is bad enough but Lily is downright annoying. The suspense the narrator believe she’s creating every few minutes of the book just to have it comically wiped away is so frustrating.
I’m trying to finish the book, but at this point, I’m rooting for the bad guys and the ghost to finish these two off!
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