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    Constance (Connie)
      Laux 
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        Written as Miranda Bliss 
        
     
        
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    Annie Capshaw, recently divorced, and her
      ex-beauty queen best friend, Eve DeCateur, in Arlington, Virginia, in the
      Cooking Class mysteries: | 
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    Cooking
          Up Murder (2006) 
        Murder
            on the Menu (2007) 
      Dead
          Men Don’t Get the Munchies (2007)  | 
    Dying
          for Dinner (2008) 
        Murder
            Has a Sweet Tooth (2009)  | 
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        Written as Casey Daniels
        
     
     
        
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    Penelope “Pepper” Martin, a
      tour guide at a cemetery, who can talk with a mob boss ghost, in Cleveland,
      Ohio: | 
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    Don
          of the Dead (2006) 
        The
            Chick and the Dead (2007) 
      Tombs
          of Endearment (2007) 
      Night
          of the Loving Dead (2009) 
      Dead
          Man Talking (2009)  | 
    Tomb
            with a View (2010) 
      A
          Hard Day’s Fright (2011) 
      Wild
          Wild Death (2012) 
      Supernatural
          Born Killers (2012) 
      Graveyard Shift (2017) 
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    Miss Evie Barnum, running her brother P.T.’s museum, in 1840s New York City:  | 
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    Smoke and Mirrors (2017)  | 
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        Written as Kylie Logan
        
     
        
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    Josie Giancola, a leading expert on
        buttons with a button shop in Chicago, Illinois, in the Button Box mysteries:  | 
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    Button
          Holed (2011) 
      Hot
          Button (2012)  | 
    Panic
          Button (2012) 
      Buttoned Up (2013)   | 
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    The League of Literary Ladies series:  | 
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    Mayhem at the Orient Express (2013) 
      A Tale of Two Biddies (2014) 
      The Legend of Sleepy Harlow (2014)  | 
    And Then There Were Nuns (2016) 
      Gone with the Twins (2017)  | 
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    Maxie Pierce, an amateur sleuth on the chili cook-off circuit:  | 
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    Chili Con Carnage (2013) 
      Death by Devil’s Breath (2014)  | 
    Revenge of the Chili Queens (2015)  | 
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    Laurel Inwood, a former Hollywood personal chef now helping her aunt Sophie run a restaurant, in Hubbard, Ohio, in the Ethnic Eats mysteries:  | 
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    Irish Stewed (2016) 
      French Fried (2017)  | 
    Italian Iced (2018)  | 
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    Jazz Ramsey, an administrative assistant at an all-girls school who trains cadaver dogs, in Cleveland, Ohio:  | 
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    The Scent of Murder (2019) 
      The Secrets of Bones (2020)  | 
    A Trail of Lies (2021)  | 
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     Written as Anastasia Hastings  
      
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    Violet Manville, taking over the Miss Hermione agony aunt column, beginning in 1885 London, England, in the Dear Miss Hermione mysteries:  | 
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    Of Manners and Murder (2023)  
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    Of Hoaxes and Homicide (2024)   | 
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