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Meet the widow,
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Penelope
After her husband’s suicide, young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure moves herself and her young son from New York City back to her little New England hometown of Quindicott, Rhode Island. When she arrives, however, she finds her aunt Sadie Thornton in financial trouble and about to lose the family's old bookshop.
Unwilling to allow the business to fail, Pen cashes her late husband’s life insurance money and uses every penny to overhaul the inventory and remodel the place. As fate would have it, the construction rouses the spirit of a dead man, a private investigator from New York who’d been gunned down on the premises in 1949 while investigating a murder.
Waking from a half-century of slumber, the hard-boiled ghost is less than thrilled to find himself cosmically imprisoned within the fieldstone walls of Pen’s bookstore...
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In life, Jack's pulse pounded to the rhythm of the city streets: the smoky dice joints and swingin’ suds clubs. Why couldn’t he have been gunned down in a joint like that? Instead, he got lead poisoning in the god-forsaken sticks, eternity in cornpone alley. There's only one thing that makes this backwater existence tolerable. Her name is Penelope...
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Okay, so the broad is one of those annoying do-right, fair-play Jane types, but she has a nice face, a sweet voice, and Jack always had been a sucker for redheads. If he hears her thoughts right, Penelope doesn't even believe in ghosts. Well, he never believed in them, either. But, brother, had he been wrong.
Now he's a disembodied spirit, sentenced for his sins to exist in a world he hardly knows. Lucky for him his purgatory comes with an auburn-haired angel, a doll named Penelope he can't stop watching or watching over...
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Haunted
Bookshop #1
The Ghost and
Mrs. McClure
The spirit is willing...
to catch a killer.
Young widow Penelope and her Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by running their newly remodeled mystery bookshop, a quaint New England landmark, rumored to be haunted. Pen may not believe in ghosts, but she does believe in good publicity—like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a book signing. But soon after the bestselling thriller writer reveals a secret about the store's link to a 1940's murder, he keels over dead, right in the middle of the store's new Community Events space. Who gives Mrs. McClure the first clue that it was murder? The bookstore's full-time ghost, a PI who was murdered on the very spot more than fifty years before. Is he a figment of Pen's overactive imagination? Or is the oddly likeable fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime? You can bet your everlasting life on it.
Excerpt:
“Listen to me, baby, all that counts now is you and your son. You’re in it together. Isn’t that what you told the kid this morning?”
“I don’t believe it," I told the ghost. "You were there this morning? With us? Upstairs, in Spencer’s bedroom? You heard me say that?”
“Uh, so anyway, doll, let’s get back to the case—”
“Oh, no you don’t. I want you to answer my question. Were you spying on us? On me? Upstairs in our private rooms?”
“I like to think of it as surveillance.”
“Well I forbid you to go up there again.”
“Lady, you can’t lay down house rules to a man with no body.”
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Haunted
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The Ghost and
the Dead Deb
Don't haunt the
customers!
This was the only rule that bookshop owner Penelope had given her resident ghost, hard-boiled private eye Jack Shepard. "Don't haunt the customers!" But when the hot young author Angel Stark arrives at the store to promote her latest—a book of true crime—Jack can hardly contain himself. After all, crime is his specialty. Angel's books is an unsolved mystery about a debutante found strangled to death, and it's filled with juicy details that point a finger at a number of people in the deb's high society circle. But when the author winds up dead too—in precisely the same way—Pen is fast on the case...which means Jack is too. After all, a ghost detective never rests in peace.
Excerpt:
“In my day, dames with money from well-heeled families hired me to help them duck scandal on the QT. The last thing they’d ever do was write a book about it and tart it up in front of a ham-handed audience for applause.”
The booming, masculine voice in my head was either the ghost of PI Jack Shepard or a delusion of my half-demented mind. Which was true? Take your pick.
“It’s a different world than the ’40’s, Jack,” I silently replied.
“I liked my world better," Jack said. "The uptown crowd kept their trashy messes in the back alley, not on their bookshelf.”
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Haunted
Bookshop #3
The Ghost and the
Dead Man's Library
Sleuth,
Nevermore?
Jack Shepard didn’t have much use for books when he was alive. Now that he's dead, he has even less interest in the crate of dusty old tomes that arrive at the bookshop he’s been haunting. Penelope, on the other hand, is thrilled with the delivery. The rare old Poe library was willed to her shop by an elderly admirer of her aunt Sadie’s. The dead man’s library is so valuable that Pen is inundated with astronomical offers for every volume in the set. Everything appears rosy, until Pen begins to sell the books, one by one…and one by one each buyer dies. The police don’t believe Pen’s theory—that these deaths are linked to the rare book purchases. In fact, the police don’t believe these deaths are murders at all. Pen, of course, knows differently, which means it’s time to persuade her hard-boiled haunter to stop resting in peace, start cracking some clues, and make sure this twisted Poe freak kills...nevermore.
Excerpt:
“Need a bedtime story, baby?”
“Jack?” I whispered into the dark.
“Well, it ain’t Clark Gable.”
I closed my eyes and sighed, happy to hear his voice. “Strange,” I whispered.
“What?” the ghost asked.
“I never would have thought there’d be so many things in life more disturbing than talking to a dead man.”
“Such as?”
My eyes opened again. I turned onto my side, hugged a pillow to me. “I can’t get the image out of my head.”
“You mean, Peter Chesley’s broken old body, lying like a pretzel at the base of the staircase he couldn’t climb?”
“I was right there, Jack...I was right there with Mr. Chesley, and I heard that crash upstairs. I knew something was wrong, but I left! I drove away!...He didn’t deserve to die like that. Nobody does.”
“Baby…who do you think you’re talking to?”
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Haunted
Bookshop #4
The Ghost
and the
Femme Fatale
Haunted
by her past...
The Movie Town Theater is holding its first ever Film Noir Festival, with Penelope Thornton-McClure handling book sales for the guest speakers, including screen actress Hedda Geist. The legendary femme fatale has been out of the spotlight for decades. Unfortunately, the moment she steps back into it, she's nearly killed. Then other guests start to die, and Penelope wants to know why her little town's film noir weekend has taken a truly dark turn.
With local police on the wrong track, Penelope enlists the help of Jack Shepard, PI. Okay, so Jack hasn't had a heartbeat since 1949, when he was gunned down in what is now Pen's store. But the hard-boiled ghost actually remembers Hedda's dark past and Penelope is sure he can help solve this case--even if he and his license did expire more than fifty years ago...
Excerpt One:
“Keep it down, Jack," I warned. "I’m watching a movie."
“I can see that, doll. I’m just surprised Hollywood took a turn for the worse. I thought by now they’d be making new pictures, not recycling the same old lamp-lit celluloid...”
“We’re not in your day anymore, Jack. This film isn’t being recycled for lack of product. It’s part of a retrospective on the film noir genre.”
“The film WHAT genre?”
“Film noir. Don’t tell me you’ve never heard of it. I know you were alive when it first emerged.” I named some of the genre’s titles to jog his memory.
“Yeah, okay...” Jack admitted. “I remember seeing some of those movies, but I can’t believe twenty-first century eggheads are getting hot and bothered about a bunch of B pictures that couldn’t afford color. Fancying them up with a French name’s about on the level with your generation’s buying water in a bottle...”
Excerpt Two:
I paced the bookstore’s aisles, passing McBain and McCrumb, Paretsky and Poe, Sayers and Spillane, while considering the myriad motives for murder.
“Is the killing over now? Or just getting started?”
“Listen, baby, you can’t solve a puzzle when half the pieces are missing.”
“People guess at half-solved puzzles all the time!” I pointed out. “What about Wheel of Fortune? You can buy a vowel and sound out the words. You don’t need all the pieces.”
“That’s a game show, dollface. Guessing’s fine when you’re playing for Cracker Jack prizes, not when you’re dealing out life and death—and believe me, sweetie, I’m the voice of experience.”
“Wait a second, Jack! You’re on the other side. Dr. Lilly is, too, now. Can’t you...I don’t know, commune with the spirit world? Maybe you can get in touch with Dr. Lilly. Ask her what happened when she was alone in the store.”
“Sorry, baby, but this tomb’s all mine. Unless you take me places, I’m a prisoner in this glorified library, like some poor yegg left in Sing-Sing solitary. And as far as 'communing' with my fellow dead, nobody’s ever stuck around here to tell me squat. I wish I could call up some company, sweetheart. I can think of a few hot skirts from my past I wouldn’t mind looking up...”
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Haunted Bookshop
Mystery #5
THE GHOST AND
THE HAUNTED MANSION
Bookshop owner Penelope never
believed in ghosts, until she met the spirit
of Jack Shepard. Then Pen’s mailman,
Seymour Tarnish, gets into deep trouble,
and Pen not only believes in her ghost,
she asks for his help...
An elderly lady has been found dead on posh Larchmont Avenue, her will recently (and suspiciously) revised to name Seymour as heir to her mansion. Many eyes turn to the hapless mailman as the murderer, but Seymour doesn't care. He's too busy settling into his new digs.
Unfortunately, Seymour's new mansion appears to be haunted and when the ghosts begin plaguing him, he tries to hire a team of parapsychologists to exorcise every last spirit from the town of Quindicott. Now Pen must not only solve a murder, she must act fast to save her beloved ghost, because if these spirit zappers actually do their job, then the ghost of Jack Shepard finally will be history. And that scares Pen a lot more than rattling chains and cold spots.
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"Top Innovator"
DETAILS magazine named Counter Culture Coffee as #1 (of North Carolina) among five industry "innovators creating coffees that have the complexity of fine wines."
I'm a big fan of Counter Culture and have written about them on this site and in my books. Read my Coffeehouse Mystery: French Pressed or scroll down this column to my "Coffee Pick" list.
Says Counter Culture: "We hope that such media coverage helps spread awareness that coffee can not only be an authentic, delicious food experience, but also a conduit for community, sustainable agriculture, and cultural exchange."
~ Cleo
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Cleo's 4th Coffeehouse Mystery gave her amateur sleuth, Clare Cosi, a summer job as a "coffee steward" at a posh new eatery in the Hamptons, the fabled seaside escape for New York's rich and famous.
When a co-worker is gunned down, she's on a case that leads her to strange clues on the beach, a rogue Navy SEAL, and a suspicious manager at the restaurant where she's pouring gourmet cups of joe...
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Peter Pans
"Overstaying the
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New York
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Mike Phillips, our U.S. Barista Champ, finished among the top 3 baristas in his first World competition, held in Atlanta, Georgia. The following year, in Olympia, London, he won FIRST PLACE and is now THE WORLD CHAMPION FOR 2010! Way to go, Mike!
How did he get there? "I really care about coffee and the entire chain of things, from where the coffee is grown and processed, all the way to the shop where it's prepared and the customers who enjoy it."
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Coffea arabica
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Linda also says: "Gurney's Plant and Seed catalog has small coffee plants for $8.95 each. Click here and look for item # 11295 for coffee plants."
WAKE UP AND SMELL...
THE CANVAS!
"I started painting with coffee because I wanted a cheaper medium that was accessible to me," says Filipino artist Sunshine Plata. A tube of oil paint costs at least 500 pesos ($11), while a jar of instant coffee is only around 150 pesos ($3). Click here to read more about Sunshine and her coffee art.
Caffeine
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In Memoriam
Sheena
2.21.2009
Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony!
Yes, like the Japanese with their tea traditions, the Ethiopians have a very special way of enjoying coffee. Click here to learn more!
Coffee Health News!
Coffee May Boost Memory
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Women older than 65 who drank more than three cups of coffee a day — or the caffeine equivalent in tea — showed better memory retention than men, a French researcher reports. To read more in a Scientific American article, click here.
COFFEE NEWS!
Ethiopia announces commercial culitvation of low-caffeine coffee plants! Ric Gostwick's "dream" coffee from Decaffeinated Corpse is no longer fiction! To read about this amazing breakthrough, click here.
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SEPTEMBER '07
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
MAGNOLIA GRILL BLEND
With the tip of a chef's hat to the married couple who run Magnolia Grill, Cleo's coffee pick for SEPTEMBER 2007 was Magnolia Grill Blend sold by Counter Culture Coffee roasters. Visit the Counter Culture website by clicking here.
OCTOBER '07
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
GOMBE RESERVE
Cleo's pick for OCTOBER 2007 was Gombe Reserve sold by Green Mountain Coffee Co. and endorsed by Dr. Jane Goodall.
NOVEMBER '07
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
MAJOR DICKASON'S BLEND
In tribute to the late, great Alfred Peet, Cleo's pick for NOVEMBER 2007 was Major Dickason's Blend sold by Peet's Coffee and Tea. Learn the story of this delicious and popular Peet's blend as well as the story of its odd name by clicking here.
JANUARY '08
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
"YIRG" - ETHIOPIAN YIRGACHEFFE
Cleo's pick for JANUARY 08 was Ethiopian Yirgacheffe sold by Counter Culture Coffee Company. This coffee was also featured in Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mystery: FRENCH PRESSED. Visit Counter Culture Coffee and order their coffee online by clicking here.
FEBRUARY '08
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
RWANDAN VILLAGE BLEND
Cleo's FEBRUARY '08 pick was Rwandan Village Blend, and outstanding coffee, sold by Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co. Visit their website to order online by clicking here.
MARCH '08
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
KENYA
Cleo's MARCH '08 pick was Kenya, sold by Counter Culture Coffee, Co. and Peet's Coffee. This coffee was also featured in Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mystery: FRENCH PRESSED.
APRIL '08
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
PURPLE PRINCESS
Cleo's April '08 pick was the amazing "Finca El Puente" from a coffee in Honduras nicknamed "Purple Princess" by the coffee director of Counter Culture Coffee of Durham, NC. This coffee was also featured in Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mystery: FRENCH PRESSED.
MAY - JUNE '08
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Cleo's June '08 pick was the "Jamaica Blue Mountain" of the South Pacific. An award-winning coffee grown on the exotic island of Papua New Guinea (north of Australia).
JULY - AUGUST '08
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
SOLAR ROAST COFFEE
Cleo's July - August '08 pick was Solar Roast Coffee of Pueblo, Colorado, the only company in the world that roasts its coffee using solar energy! Meet Dave and Mike, the two brothers who invented this one-of-a-kind solar roaster, and learn how you can purchase their delicious coffees for yourself by clicking here or typing SolarRoast.com into your browser.
SEPT. - OCTOBER '08
Cleo's Coffee Pick:
JOE'S VIENNA ROAST
from the NYC coffeehouse:
Joe, The Art of Coffee
(Now "Joe Coffee Company)
The September-October '08 pick was Joe's Vienna Roast, sold by Joe, The Art of Coffee café in Greenwich Village, New York, recently named one of the best coffee bars in the country by Food and Wine magazine (and one of Cleo Coyle's inspirations for her fictional Village Blend!). CLICK HERE to visit Joe online.
NOV. - DECEMBER '08
Cleo's Coffee Pick
BOUCHON BLEND
This smooth, delicious coffee is the House Blend served at Bouchon Bakeries, which are owned and run by award-winning chef Thomas Keller. This coffee was featured in Cleo Coyle's 7th Coffeehouse Mystery: ESPRESSO SHOT. It is blended and roasted by Equator Estate Coffee and Teas, a women-owned company based in northern California. Click here to visit the company and try their coffees for yourself.
JANUARY 2009
Cleo's Coffee Pick
NOT KOPI LUWAK!
One of the rarest coffees on the planet, Kopi Luwak is also one of the most expensive. Kopi Luwak was also a featured coffee in Cleo's 7th and most recently released Coffeehouse Mystery: ESPRESSO SHOT.
SPRING 2009
Cleo's Coffee Pick
ROOSTER BROTHER's
LA MINITA ESTATE
(Costa Rica)
This outstanding single-origin bean is treated with love by the coffee team at Rooster Brother, a store for cooks housed in a historic Victorian building in Ellsworth, Maine. Master Roaster Gene (pictured) does a masterful job of bringing out the very best in this smooth, bright, delightful coffee with the kind of hints of citrus and berry usually found in high-quality African beans. Click here to visit George and Pamela Elias's Rooster Brother store online and order some of this superb coffee for yourself! (Thanks to Coffeehouse Mystery reader Bud Knickerbocker of Bangor, Maine, for suggesting it!)
MAY - JUNE '09
Cleo's Coffee Pick
BISHOPS BLEND
Creating blends is a culinary art, and I'm happy to report that the roasters for Bishops Blend have done a masterful job at creating theirs. The beans are roasted medium dark and the package came to me (via UPS) freshly roasted, beautifully oily, and smelling of chocolate. The coffee is perfectly balanced; and as it cools, the notes include a slight vanilla flavor and a touch of cinnamon. Even better, when you purchase a bag, a percentage of the money goes toward ERD, a charity that provides disaster relief around the world as well as enabling people in the poorest communities on our planet to climb out of poverty.
SUMMER 2009
Cleo's Coffee Pick
DALLMAYR PRODOMO
Imported from Munich, Germany
A beloved German coffee brand.
FALL 2009
Cleo's Coffee Pick
AMARO GAYO
(Ethiopia)
roasted by
Gimme! Coffee
An exotic Ethiopian coffee sold by the outstanding roaster Gimme! Coffee, which takes pride in getting it to you expertly and freshly roasted. Visit the roaster by clicking here.
SPRING 2010
Cleo's Coffee Pick
FRENCH LAUNDRY
ESTATE BLEND
roasted by
Equator Estates Coffee
"Roaster of the Year"
~ Roast Magazine
This "chef's blend" was created especially for award-winning Chef Thomas Keller's world-renowned French Laundry restauant. The roaster is Equator Estates. Visit the roaster by clicking here.
Summer-
Fall 2010
Cleo's Coffee Pick
Kafe Lespwa
"Coffee of Hope"
from Haiti
To purchase this coffee
or learn more about it,
CLICK HERE.
To Read Cleo's
feature post on
this coffee, CLICK HERE
and scroll down
Spring-
Summer 2011
Cleo's Coffee Pick
Cops Coffee
COPS
COFFEE
"Midnight
Shift"
dark roast
"Your safest cup
of brew..."
Fall 2011
Cleo's
Coffee Picks
from
Batdorf &
Bronson
Coffee
Roasters
Mocha Java
Blend
To learn
more or buy,
click here.
and...
Dancing
Goats Blend
To learn
more or buy,
click here.
Winter
2011 - 2012
Cleo's
Coffee Picks
from
Rooster
Brother
A boutique
roaster in
Ellsworth,
Maine
Costa Rica's
La Minita Estate
"The Lafite of coffees."
An amazing cup
of joe from
To visit the
Costa Rican farm
where this coffee
is grown,
click here...
To read more
about this coffee
or purchase it
for yourself,
click here.
and...
100% Kona
Coffee
Grade:
Extra Fancy
Grown by
Kona Star Farms
of Kona, Hawaii
To learn
more, click here.
NOW
SOLD OUT
Cleo's
Spring 2012
Coffee Pick
Brazil's
Poco Fundo
"Almond joy
in a cup"
Roated by
Seattle
Coffee Works
Cleo's
Summer 2012
Coffee Pick...
From the
"Coffee Goddesses"
of Maine
Bistro Blend
&
Fireside Blend
Roasted by
Carpe Diem
Coffee Roasters
To learn more
or purchase,
click here.
Cleo's
Fall 2012
Coffee Pick...
Kenyan
"Lenana"
This coffee was named after one of the peaks of Mt. Kenya. It was sourced and roasted by Terroir Coffee, a company created by one of the most respected names in the trade: George Howell.
Cleo's
Spring 2013
Coffee Pick...
Fonte
Coffee
Fonte is a micro
roaster in Seattle,
Washington, whose
clients include
The Four Seasons
and Wynn Las Vegas.
Fonte is an
outstanding roaster
and their AA Blend
makes a smooth,
rich cup.
To learn more
or purchase,
click here.
Cleo's 2014
Coffee Picks...
Boneyard
Coffee
"Specialty Blend"
This high-quality blend includes Rwandan Beans, among my favorite on planet earth, as well as beans from Papua New Guinea and Guatemala. It's smooth, rich, and absolutely delicious! Boneyard Coffee is a fantastic find!
To learn more or
purchase Boneyard's
"Specialty Blend,"
click here.
Cleo's 2014
Coffee Picks...
Laughing Man
Coffee
"184 Blend"
Actor Hugh Jackman co-founded the Laughing Man Coffee Company to support developing world coffee farmers. The freshly roasted coffee from Laughing Man is absolutely delicious, and their Manhattan store front in TriBeCa isn’t very far from the fictional Village Blend of my Coffeehouse Mystery series.
CLICK HERE to view a short video where Hugh stands in for Matteo Allegro and takes you to an African coffee farm. You'll also see links to learn more or purchase this delicious coffee.
Cleo's 2014
Coffee Picks...
One Good Woman
Coffee and Tea
"One Good Woman"
Signature Blend
This is the fresh coffee blend that Holly O'Connor used to start her business in a coffee truck. She now has 18 employees in her successful and beloved Pennsylvania shop, celebrating nearly 20 years in business.
The "One Good Woman" blend is a hand-crafted coffee blend of smooth Columbian Supremo, Sumatra Mandheling and Ethiopian Harrar
medium roasted coffee beans.
To learn more
or purchase,
click here.
and...
Vintage
Diner Mug
"One Good Woman"
A great cup of coffee
needs a great cup.
To learn more
or purchase,
click here.
Cleo's Latest
Coffee Pick...
BILLIONAIRE'S
BLEND
A rich, smooth, AMAZING coffee blend hand-crafted for Cleo by a Master Roaster as a tribute to the fabulous coffee created in her bestselling, star reviewed Coffeehouse Mystery BILLIONAIRE BLEND.
CLICK HERE to learn more or buy this excellent coffee, created as a tribute to Cleo's book.
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For the Love
of Our Vets
HONOR FLIGHT was created by a VA doctor when he discovered that his elderly patients (veterans of WW II) could not afford to make the trip to Wash. D.C. to see the WWII war memorial that is dedicated to them. Now a national organization, Honor Flight raises money to help WWII vets make the trip to visit the memorial that would not exist without their bravery and sacrifice. Cleo has proudly donated. To learn more about Honor Flight, click here.
COFFEEHOUSE
BOOKS IN
ORDER
FREE TITLE CHECKLIST
OF COFFEEHOUSE
BOOKS IN ORDER:
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Coffeehouse Mysteries
title checklist.
click here.
HAUNTED
BOOKS IN
ORDER
HAUNTED
BOOKSHOP
MYSTERIES
BOOKS IN ORDER
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Click here for free
Haunted Bookshop
title checklist.
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