Corpse in the Coulee


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Mystery, murder, missing people, and Bunco. Who could ask for anything more? When Vangie brings a few fancy custard tarts to her Bunco group, she's hoping to impress the guest of honor with her pastry skills. But when the guest of honor never shows up and her body is discovered, everyone at the Bunco group is a murder suspect. Wrong place at the wrong time. Vangie Vale finds herself in another predicament trying to solve a murder in a neighboring small town before her mugshot shows up in the local anonymous gossip blog. And just when she hoped her Sherlocking days were done. No rest for the wicked…or the clergy. Pick up your second book in The Vangie Vale Mysteries today. You’ll never guess whodunit. “R.L. Syme is a fresh voice in the cozy mystery genre.” - Zara Keane, USA Today bestselling author of the Movie Club Mysteries series Corpse in the Coulee used to be titled Vangie Vale and the Corpseless Custard. This is the second version of this book. RECIPE INCLUDED: The Corpseless Custard




The Ancient Dead


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Amanda Doucette searches desperately for the connection between bones discovered in a remote Alberta coulee and an uncle who went missing thirty years ago. Photographer Todd Ellison is engrossed in a photo shoot deep in Alberta’s dinosaur country when he stumbles upon human bones buried in the sand of a remote coulee. Not far away, while driving through the Alberta prairie, Amanda Doucette glimpses an abandoned farmhouse that reminds her of an old photograph hanging on her aunt’s wall. Who is the cocky young cowboy in the photo? Could it be connected to Amanda’s uncle, who went missing in Alberta thirty years ago? As Amanda starts to make connections between his disappearance and the body in the coulee, she discovers more questions than answers. To make matters worse, a mysterious person will stop at nothing to get her to abandon the investigation.




New Spun Yarns From Across the Big Divide


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Will Rogers wrote, "Charlie Russell is the only author a true cowboy can't find fault with." Rogers also considered Charlie America's best story teller, cowboy humorist, and sagebrush philosopher. Though Charlie was under-schooled and semi-literate, his salty Rawhide Rawlins yarns still delight readers almost nine decades after he "crossed the big divide." Richard Baker has long striven to bring Russell's wit, humor, cynicism, and horse sense back to life. In this collection of Western yarns, Mr. Baker utilizes Charlie Russell as his narrator, depicting Charlie telling yarns in his personal style, utilizing ample dry humor expressed in colorful cowboy lingo. These yarns cover many facets of late-nineteenth-century cowboy life, the good times and the hardships, the joys and sorrows, and above all, the humor and good nature of the western folk icon, the American cowboy. This book is a must for fans of cowboy humor, salty western metaphors, and sagebrush philosophy.




Victim in the Valley


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I never thought Edward would come back... When the court case against my ex was finished, I thought we were finished, too. But it turns out, it was only the beginning. Victim in the Valley is Book Four in the Vangie Vale Mysteries Series and provides so many answers about what really happened "back then" with Vangie. I hope you enjoy!




Black John of Halfaday Creek


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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Black John of Halfaday Creek" by James B. Hendryx. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.




Fugitive in the Forest


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Even in the great white North, Vangie gonna Vangie. She just cannot keep herself out of trouble, no matter where she goes. And when an old nemesis shows up and surprises her on her vacation, she can't help but investigate. This was originally written as a novella for the Passport to Murder anthology in Summer of 2021, but it's on its own now, and we hope you enjoy!




Penance On The Prairies


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Small towns and gossip go together like flaky crust and sweet pastry cream. Between the police scanners, the coffee ladies, and the senior center, no secret is safe for long. But Vangie Vale wants nothing more than to stay under the radar...especially the police radar. So when her new bakery is linked to a murder investigation, nothing will stop the gossip mill from connecting her to the dead body. Can't have that. In order to clear her good name and keep her face off the front page, this bakery owner becomes extra nosy...with a little side of breaking-and-entering. But when she comes face-to-face with the Sheriff, Vangie can't ignore the fact that one of her macarons was involved in a murder. She has to find the real murderer. SECOND EDITION First published as: Vangie Vale and the Murdered Macaron. RECIPE INCLUDED: The Murdered Macaron




Body on the Beach


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Just when you think you’re turning over a new leaf... surprise! It’s the old leaf. Yeah, I can't help myself. Even when I'm on vacation in the Outer Banks, if there's even a sniff of a crime... even the whiff of a murder... I can't help but get drawn into it. In another life, I should have been a cop. Instead, I'm gonna follow this tattooed guy with a gun all the way down this beachy road because he said something weird in the bakery once. It's like I'll never learn... (RECIPE INCLUDED: The Dismembered Donut!) This book used to be titled Vangie Vale and the Dismembered Donut and this is the second edition.







The Country Gentleman


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