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The Novel Inn is filled withguestsasmurderstrikes Skirmish Cove during the coastal town's winter carnival. Jillian Tunney, part owner of the Novel Inn, discovers the body of a clerk at her favorite bookstore.

With her sister Kate and brother, Officer Rick Gage, she assist the police in solving the murder. Meanwhile, Jillian is immersed in redecorating one of the themed rooms, but Kate is annoyed when a mysterious guest at the inn doesn't want to leave his room.

The innkeepers find they have way too many secrets to solves. Plenty of danger and suspense and some romance inthenovel ThePlotThickens

a Skirmish Cove Mystery by Susan Page Davis.

Paris, 1939: Young mother's Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither women suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.

When Elise becomes a target oftheGermanoccupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life - her young daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet bookshop like Juliette's Librarie des Reves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette's world is destroyed along with it.

More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend's bookstore reduced to rubble - and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments?

Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise's desperate search leads her to New York and to Juliette one final, fateful time. The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel is a novel of motherhood and unconditional love. Receiving orders to clean up a huge swath of west Texas, the Rangers begin encountering outlaws and renegades before they even reach the heart of the crimeinfested range. In saloons, at camp, on steam trains and stagecoaches, Will and Jonas face down bandits, fugitives, crooked lawmen and triggerhappy drunks in loads of tough, bloody excitement.

The author’s thorough research into Texas Rangers, weapons, geography and historical events lend authenticity to his rollicking style of story-telling.

Desperate Ride by James J. Griffin is a series of adventures for veteran Texas RangerWillKirkpatrick,and his young Ranger recruit, Jonas Peterson.