In the first in Agatha Award-winning author Toni L. P. Kelner's smart, witty mystery series, amateur sleuth Laura Fleming finds her trip going South—in lethal ways...
They say you can't go home again, and Laura Burnette Fleming thinks they may have a point. Moving to Boston has made her a bona fide Yankee in the eyes of her Byerly, North Carolina family. Yet Laura—forever Laurie Anne to her kin—still rushes back to see her ailing grandpa.
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With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque.

In this cozy mystery by a New York Times—bestselling author, a Boston woman is ready to show her visiting cousin around town, until murder mars their plans. You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of Laura Fleming. Though she's happily settled in Boston, Laura is thrilled to hear that her cousin Thaddeous is visiting from North Carolina. Before she can begin, showing him the best of Beantown, however, bad news...

A crafty killer lurks among the prized collectibles of a Southern smalltown flea market in this cozy mystery by a New York Times—bestselling author. There's nothing Laura Fleming's Southern family likes better than a get-together, and cousin Augustus returning from the army is a perfect reason to gather for a party in Byerly, North Carolina. While Laura and her scholar husband, Richard, are in town, her formidable great-aunt Maggie has an assignment...

Your worst school nightmares will pale in comparison to these thirteen original stories of academic anxiety. You'll need more than an apple to stave off the creatures in Harris's never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story, Ilona Andrews' tale of "exceptional" children, Thomas Sniegoski's "Bad Hour" at dog obedience school, and ten more. Remember your first lesson: resistance is fruitless!

The editors of the New York Times best selling Death's Excellent Vacation bring home a new collection with a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story. There's nothing like home renovation for finding skeletons in the closet or otherworldly portals in the attic. Frightening and funny fixer-upper tales guaranteed to shake foundations and rattle listeners' pipes.

"...though Sookie's story has come to an end, these tales of her and the characters who populated her world will give you a different perspective on the series you thought you knew..."--Book jacket.

The editors of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns deliver a new collection-including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story.
New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns.
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TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT...

...And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing with not just the torrid weather, but all different kinds of heat. From a retired police chief pitching in on a missing dog report that

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