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Death, Guns, and Sticky Buns (Tori Miracle Mysteries, No. 3)

Valerie S. Malmont

When a quaint Pennsylvania town hosts a Civil War reenactment, only the blood will be real....

How does a once-hip New Yorker get used to living in a quaint Pennsylvania town famous for its gooey, oversized sticky buns? For Tori Miracle, it means kissing her diet good-bye, always showing up in the wrong clothes, and struggling with a love life. And now that she's filling in for the editor of the Lickin Creek Chronicle and has the town newspaper to look after as well as her own dear fastidious felines, sometimes it means cosponsoring public events like a Civil War reenactment for the local women's college.

But when this charmingly authentic reenactment is done, and each man and woman has played his or her part to the hilt, it's clear that Tori has miscalculated again. Someone used one live bullet in an antique gun. And with a man dead, it's going to be up to the only city slicker in Lickin Creek to unravel a mystery of murder in a town where calories don't count, but murder does....
Death, Snow, and Mistletoe (Tori Miracle Mysteries, No. 4)

Valerie S. Malmont

Murder in the holiday spirit

It was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn't let a living baby be part of the town's living crèche. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly the season went sour. A boy was missing. A thirty-year-old mystery resurfaced. And now two people have been murdered. With her boyfriend--the town police chief--out of town, Tori must help his befuddled replacement. And what she finds out, or should be finding out, is making Tori the next target--of someone only in the mood for murder....
Death, Bones, and Stately Homes (Tori Miracle Mysteries, No. 5)

Valerie S. Malmont
Death Pays the Rose Rent (Tori Miracle Mysteries, No. 1)

Valerie Malmont

When New York author Tori Miracle visits a small town in Pennsylvanias Amish country, she uncovers a dark web of secrets surrounding the towns history. As corpses turn up, each with a single red rose nearby, Tori realizes she is the killers prime target. In the maze of caves beneath Lickin Creek, she discovers an invention of Thomas Edisons reflecting his interest in communicating with the dead, and comes face-to-face with a killer determined to keep age-old secrets buriedforever."...think of the English village mystery, with its strange people and hidden memories and transplant it to Pennsylvania Dutch country, and you have the Tori Miracle series."Barbara Franchi, reviewingtheevidence.com"Malmonts characters are a joy and light mystery lovers will get a kick out of Toris adventures (and misadventures)."Faye Dasen, The PilotSouthern Pines, N.C."Death Pays the Rose Rent is Valerie S. Malmonts debut novel. Her sense of humor is crisp and Tori Miracle is good fun."Corabel Alexander, Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY"...her creation of the confining hothouse atmosphere of the small town where everyone knows everyones business is intriguing; and Tori makes a resourceful heroine."Anna Wentworth, Roanoke Times & World-News
Death, Lies and Apple Pies (Tori Miracle Mysteries, No. 2)

Valerie S. Malmont

Tori Miracle has her cats, her sexiest nightgown, and the highest hopes a jaded New Yorker dares have as she sets off for Lickin Creek, Pennsylvania. Chosen as a celebrity judge of the annual Old Fashioned Apple Butter Festival, Tori is really looking forward to spending quality time with police chief Garnet Gochenauer. Then the dying begins.

The first victim was poisoned. Or so Tori is told by an eccentric herbalist who lives outside of town. When Tori discovers the next body, skeletons start coming out of closets. Now the good housewives of Lickin Creek are readying their recipes and Tori is sleeping with her cats in her coziest nightwear. Because she and her chief of police aren't looking for a night of passion anymore, they're looking for a killer. . . the one who has a recipe for murder--and a Miracle on his mind. . . .