Kaitlyn Dunnett
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Kensington Books
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English
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A Scottish dancer returns to small town Maine, where a killer keeps her on her toes in this "blithe and bonny" cozy mystery series debut (Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries).
Liss MacCrimmon was a professional Scottish dancer until a knee injury ended her career. Now she's back in her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, helping her aunt run a local Scottish emporium. Nestled in the hills of Northwest...
Liss MacCrimmon was a professional Scottish dancer until a knee injury ended her career. Now she's back in her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, helping her aunt run a local Scottish emporium. Nestled in the hills of Northwest...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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While spending a week at her friend's Christmas tree farm, Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin is drawn into a mystery involving a dead body in a shipment of Scotch pine, a series of "accidents," and a strange maze of trees.
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English
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A former Scottish dancer turned small-town shop owner must search for a killer among her former company in this cozy mystery by the author of Kilt Dead.
After a knee injury forces professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon to give up her life of performing strathspreys, reels, jigs and Highland flings she returns to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, where she runs a Scottish Emporium. With one solved murder case under her...
After a knee injury forces professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon to give up her life of performing strathspreys, reels, jigs and Highland flings she returns to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, where she runs a Scottish Emporium. With one solved murder case under her...
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Kensington Books
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English
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Halloween is approaching and newlywed Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin is tapped by the Moosetookalook Small Business Association to organize a community fundraiser. Liss throws herself into plans to turn an abandoned mansion into a "haunted house." And then, to Liss' horror, the fake skeleton she's acquired for a special effect is replaced with a real body -- and it's someone she knows.
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Deadly edits volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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When perky novice writer Tiffany Scott knocks at her door holding a towering manuscript, Mikki expects another debut novel plagued by typos and sloppy prose. Instead, she finds a murder mystery ripped from the headlines of Lenape Hollow's not-too-distant past. The opening scene is a graphic page-turner, but it sends a real chill down Mikki's spine after the young author turns up dead just like the victim in her story. Mikki refuses to believe that...
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Deadly edits volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Forgotten on the outskirts of quaint Lenape Hollow, Feldman’s Catskill Resort Hotel has outlasted its heyday as a popular tourist destination and now awaits demolition. But once Mikki is hired to edit a revealing memoir by Sunny Feldman, the last living relative of its original owners, the doomed resort quickly ends up back in the spotlight . . . Unfortunately, everyone’s attention shifts to Mikki when a body is discovered at the demolition site....
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Deadly edits volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Inheriting a nearby farm with a big catch—forgotten diaries must be recovered, edited and published across the internet within one month—Mikki stumbles upon an eerie cold case from the past that she must solve in order to complete her task"--
9) Scotched
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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When her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine hosts the First Annual Maine-ly Cozy Con, a mystery book conference, Liss MacCrimmon and her fiancée Dan discover that the truth is stranger--and deadlier--than fiction when a muckraking reviewer with a grudge supposedly jumps to her death.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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In Moosetookalook, Maine, Liss MacCrimmon wants a simple wedding ceremony when she marries Dan Ruskin on the same weekend as the Western Maine Highland Games. However, her mom demands a tartan celebration instead of vanilla as her daughter prefers. Someone murders charming history professor Alfred Leon Palsgrave using the academic's broadsword. Liss has solved homicides before (see The Corpse Wore Tartan and Scotched) but plans to stay out of this...
11) Clause & effect
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Deadly edits volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When construction at the historical society of Catskills village Lenape Hollow reveals a shocking discovery--human remains walled up in a fireplace--professional editor and amateur sleuth Mikki Lincoln shifts focus from cold-reading to solving a cold case.
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Kensington
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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When Liss and the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society get snowed in during a gathering for the Robert Burns Night Supper, old grudges and whiskey heat up the atmosphere. Then a tartan-covered body is discovered in a storage room, and Liss helps her friends sort out the facts before more tempers--and lives--are lost.
14) Overkilt
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Liss MacCrimmon's meddlesome mother is back in Moosetookalook, Maine, to serve a hefty portion of trouble in time for Thanksgiving. But when a scandalous murder case threatens to leave Liss alone at the table, family drama takes on a terrifying new meaning . . . While Liss preps the Scottish Emporium for November's inevitable shopping rush, other local businesses aren't half as lucky. Year after year, her father-in-law's rustic hotel can barely...
15) X marks the Scot
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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After she hires an archivist to help her research a treasure map that she found at the Chadwick estate in Moosetookalook, Maine, Scottish Emporium owner Lisa MacCrimmon is horrified when the archivist is murdered, and takes it upon herself to find the killer.
17) A view to a kilt
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A series of blizzards have kept tourists away from Moosetookalook, Maine, and shoppers out of Liss MacCrimmons Scottish Emporium. But as warmer weather brings promises of tartan sales and new faces, melting snow reveals cold-blooded murder . . . Liss has suddenly found herself in charge of the March Madness Mud Season Sale, a town-wide celebration created to boost the local economy during the slushy weeks of early spring. With businesses ailing after...