<div>Her new canine companion is a lot more loyal than her ex-husband&mdash;but that doesn&rsquo;t mean she wanted him dead&hellip;. Lilly may be losing a husband but she&#39;s gaining a toy poodle. That could be seen as a win-win, since her new adopted pooch Aggie (named after Agatha Christie) is cute and adorable, and Lilly&#39;s dirty dog of a spouse is cheating on her with a blond bimbo&mdash;except for one problem: Albert Echosby&rsquo;s just been murdered, and Lilly is the number-one suspect. With the cops barking up the wrong tree, it&#39;s a good thing her best friend Scarlett &quot;Dixie&quot; Jefferson from Chattanooga, Tennessee, decided to take a break from the dog club circuit to pay a visit, along with her own prize pair of poodles. With help from Dixie, her defense attorney daughter, and a blue-eyed man in blue with a K-9 partner, Lilly is determined to collar the real killer. But when a second murder occurs, it&#39;s clear they&#39;re dealing with one sick puppy . . .</div>

In the Dog House

<div>A bookstore owner tries to keep her grandmother from spending her golden years in an orange jumpsuit in a novel by the Agatha Award finalist. The small town of North Harbor, Michigan, is just not big enough for the two of them: flamboyant phony Maria Romanov and feisty Nana Jo. The insufferable Maria claims she&#39;s descended from Russian royalty and even had a fling with King Edward VIII back in the day. She&rsquo;s not just a lousy liar, she&#39;s a bad actress, so when she nabs the lead in the Shady Acres Senior Follies&mdash;a part Nana Jo plays every year in their retirement village production&mdash;Nana Jo blows a gasket and reads her the riot act in front of everyone. Of course, when Maria is silenced with a bullet to the head, Nana Jo lands the leading role on the suspects list. Sam&rsquo;s been writing her newest mystery, set in England between the wars, with her intrepid heroine Lady Daphne drawn into murder and scandal in the household of Winston Churchill. But now she has to prove that Nana Jo&rsquo;s been framed. With help from her grandmother&#39;s posse of rambunctious retirees, Sam shines a spotlight on Maria&rsquo;s secrets, hoping to draw the real killer out of the shadows&hellip; Praise for The Plot Is Murder &ldquo;Readers of Carolyn Hart and Vicki Delany will appreciate the lively seniors, the humor, and the bookstore environment.&rdquo;&mdash;Library Journal</div>

The Novel Art of Murder

<div>Agatha Award Finalist: &ldquo;Readers of Carolyn Hart and Vicki Delany will appreciate the lively seniors, the humor, and the bookstore environment.&rdquo;&mdash;Library Journal The small town of North Harbor on the shores of Lake Michigan is about to have a new mystery bookstore. But before the first customer can browse its shelves, the store&rsquo;s owner is suspected of her own murder plot&hellip; Samantha Washington has dreamed of owning her own mystery bookstore for as long as she can remember. And as she prepares for the store&rsquo;s grand opening, she&rsquo;s also realizing another dream&mdash;penning a cozy mystery set in England between the wars. While Samantha hires employees and fills the shelves with the latest mysteries, quick-witted Lady Penelope Marsh, long overshadowed by her beautiful sister Daphne, refuses to lose the besotted Victor Carlston to her sibling&#39;s charms. When one of Daphne&#39;s suitors is murdered in a maze, Penelope steps in to solve the labyrinthine puzzle and win Victor. But as Samantha indulges her imagination, the unimaginable happens in real life. A shady realtor turns up dead in her backyard, and the police suspect her&mdash;after all, the owner of a mystery bookstore might know a thing or two about murder. Aided by her feisty grandmother and an enthusiastic ensemble of colorful retirees, Samantha is determined to close the case before she opens her store. But will she live to conclude her own story when the killer has a revised ending in mind for her? &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll love this delightful debut mystery with its charming and wacky cast of characters and a mystery within a mystery just to keep things interesting.&rdquo;&mdash;Victoria Thompson, USA Today-bestselling author of Murder on Pleasant Avenue &ldquo;A great addition to the ranks of cozy mysteries.&rdquo;&mdash;Laurien Berenson, author of the Melanie Travis Mysteries &ldquo;A charming read&mdash;with murder, romance, and lots of mouthwatering desserts.&rdquo;&mdash;Laura Levine, author of Death of a Gigolo</div>

The Plot Is Murder

<div>A divorcee and her toy poodle find a fresh start in Chattanooga, Tennessee&mdash;until the dog digs up a dead man&hellip; Having solved the shooting death of her cheating husband, Lilly&#39;s left behind the drama of Lighthouse Dunes, Indiana, to start over in the hometown of her best friend, Scarlett &quot;Dixie&quot; Jefferson. As she gets settled in her new rented house, Lilly gives Aggie, short for Agatha Christie, her own fresh start by enrolling her in the Eastern Tennessee Dog Club, where Dixie is a trainer. But drama seems to hound Lilly like a persistent stray. Her cranky new neighbor appears unfamiliar with Southern hospitality and complains that Aggie barks too much and digs up his prized tulips. But what the poodle actually unearths is the buried body of a mysterious man who claimed ownership of the lost golden retriever Lilly recently rescued. Now it&#39;s up to Lilly and Dixie to try to muzzle another murderer . . .</div>

The Puppy Who Knew Too Much

<div>Bookstore owner Samantha Washington finds it&rsquo;s not so easy to play Monday morning quarterback after a murder: &ldquo;Her characters are absolutely riveting.&rdquo; &mdash;Suspense Magazine To the town of North Harbor, Michigan, MISU quarterback Dawson Alexander is a local hero. To Samantha Washington, owner of the Market Street Mysteries Bookstore, Dawson is more than a tenant&mdash;he&rsquo;s like an adopted son. But to the police, he is their prime suspect after his ex-girlfriend is found murdered. It&rsquo;s more than enough real-life drama for Sam to tackle, but her role as a mystery writer also calls. Returning to the English countryside between the wars, she finds Lady Daphne Marsh in quite the quandary. Someone has tried to murder the scandalous American divorc&eacute;e Wallis Simpson, for whom Edward VIII so recently abdicated his throne. It seems finding a suspect is no small challenge when most of England has a motive . . . While Sam&rsquo;s lawyer sister Jenna rushes in to build Dawson&#39;s defense, Sam and her lively grandmother, Nana Jo, huddle up to solve the mystery and blow the whistle on the real killer. With the tenacious members of the Sleuthing Senior Book Club eager to come off the sidelines, Sam and her team just might stop a killer from completing another deadly play . . . Praise for Agatha Award finalist V.M. Burns and The Plot Is Murder &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll love this delightful debut mystery with its charming and wacky cast of characters and a mystery within a mystery just to keep things interesting.&rdquo; &mdash;Victoria Thompson, bestselling author of Murder in Morningside Heights</div>

V.M. Burns

Books By V.M. Burns (5 Books)

In the Dog House

The Novel Art of Murder

The Plot Is Murder

The Puppy Who Knew Too Much

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