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USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In a charming cozy mystery series debut, Leslie Nagel’s irrepressible small-town heroine finds that her fellow book club members may be taking their Agatha Christie a bit too literally—and murder a bit too lightly.. Charley Carpenter has poured heart and soul into her clothing store, Old…

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This book isn’t as light-hearted as most cozies, but I found the premise intriguing. Charley will do anything to make her vintage clothing store a success, even if it means joining The Agathas Book Club, whose members she can hardly stand. But they are her most prominent customers, so what else can she do but grin and bear it?  

It turns out she’s not the only one who dislikes the members, for one by one, they start turning up dead. Charley notices something odd that the police have overlooked; the murders are made to look like the ones in the…

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