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Stirring Up Strife

A Killer Collection

ISBN - 0425207455
Price - $6.99
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The first in a new antiques and collectibles series featuring Molly Appleby.

Raised by her antiques-loving mother, Molly is carrying on the tradition as a writer for Collector's Weekly magazine. Her new assignment: cover the kiln opening of a rising star in Southern pottery-making . No one worth his weight in clay would miss it. That includes George Bradley-Staunton, North Carolina 's most obnoxious collector. Pity he should drop dead so soon after the festivities.

Ruled an accident, the case is closed. But Molly suspects it's a carefully crafted case of murder?especially when Staunton 's most ruthless rival disappears along with some valuable pieces from the victim's collection. Now, along with her inquisitive mother, a handsome marketing director, and the notoriously catty “Queen of Classifieds,” Molly sets out to find the cracks in an unstoppable killer's handiwork..

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Path of the Wicked

A Fatal Appraisal

ISBN - 0425212645
Price - $6.99
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Amateur sleuth Molly Appleby is in Richmond, Virginia, to cover a taping of the hit antiques show Hidden Treasures. But after the show's main appraiser inspects an 18th-century desk with hidden compartments, she finds him dead. Molly thinks that the antique desk holds the key to this 21st-century crime. It's up to her to collect the clues before more new blood is shed over old rarities.

A Deadly Dealer

ISBN - 0425216705
Price - $6.99
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Covering the famous Heart of Dixie antique show for Collector's Weekly, amateur sleuth Molly Appleby gets an unwelcome scoop when she finds the dead body of an antiques dealer in her hotel's lush conservatory.