Fran Stewart
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Bestselling mystery writer Fran Stewart shares her sense of adventure with you as she discusses not only bees of all sorts, but the ghosts in the Tower of London, moon photos and chicken eggs, vultures and dammit dolls, car wrecks and appendicitis, and a real-life cow car wash.
She continues her well-loved BeeAttitudes at the end of each daily entry, and rollicks along on this joyous journey through life. In this sixth and final volume of her beekeeping...
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While business is booming at the ScotShop in Hamelin, Vermont, proprietor Peggy Winn doesn't have time to toast her good fortune thanks to her hot-tempered, fourteenth-century Scottish companion. Being thrust into the modern world hasn't been easy for Dirk, but Peggy is at her wit's end trying to keep the ghostie galoot in line. But when the local police chief finds the body of Peggy's friend Karaline's college professor in a deserted mountain cabin,...
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Meet Marmalade and Biscuit. This saucy cat and her human find a body in the library, and the fun begins. No one in Martinsville, a small town in northeastern Georgia, admits to knowing why Harlan Schneider was in the library. Clues seem to point to someone local, but nobody asks Marmalade. Then, when Biscuit's accident-prone sister visits, pursued by a creepy former boyfriend, Marmalade sees what's happening, but her humans just won't listen to her....
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Fran Stewart, award-winning and national best-selling author of the Scot Shop Mysteries and the Biscuit McKee Mystery Series, delights us with her unique take on life through these "mini-memoirs," a collection of her daily musings from the first few years of her Facebook author page. Since nobody wants to scroll back and back and back, we've compiled most of her posts in this CLEAR Series. Clear as Mud Part 1 and Part 2 cover up through 2018 Her 2019...
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What do avalanches, colanders, and stinky feet have in common? Each of these seemingly unrelated nouns is the subject of a writing tip from Fran Stewart, national best-selling and award-winning author of the 11-book Biscuit McKee Mystery Series and the 3-book Scot
Shop mysteries. She delivers essential writing techniques with charm, humor, and frequent brilliance. Whether you're a budding author or a seasoned professional, you'll profit from Stewart's...
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Meet Marmalade and Biscuit. This saucy cat and her human find a body in the library, and the fun begins. No one in Martinsville, a small town in northeastern Georgia, admits to knowing why Harlan Schneider was in the library. Clues seem to point to someone local, but nobody asks Marmalade. Then, when Biscuit's accident-prone sister visits, pursued by a creepy former boyfriend, Marmalade sees what's happening, but her humans just won't listen to her....
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Sam returns to Martinsville after an absence of several decades, just in time for the annual Halloween celebration at the town library. Biscuit, the town librarian, is the only one who's not in on the joke as long-time residents recall some of Sam's antics as a kid-antics apparently shared with Biscuit's relatively new husband Bob. When a grisly murder is discovered the next day, with a body tangled in the storm wreckage of the town dock, Bob and...
8) Clearly Me
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Fran Stewart, award-winning & national best-selling author of three ScotShop mysteries and eleven Biscuit McKee mysteries, delights us with this second volume of her unique take on life through these "mini-memoirs," a collection of her daily musings from her no-longer-available Facebook author page. The first two volumes, Clear as Mud parts i and 2, covered many of her posts through 2018. Now you can enjoy all of the year 2019, as seen through the...
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Fran Stewart, award-winning and national best-selling author, delights us with her unique take on life through these "mini-memoirs," a collection of her daily musings from the first few years of her Facebook author page. Since nobody wants to scroll back and back and back, we've compiled most of her posts in this CLEAR Series. Clear as Mud Part 1 and Part 2 cover up through 2018 Her 2019 mini-memoirs will be found in Clearly Me, and the ones from...
11) Pink as a Peony
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The stakes keep getting higher for Mary Frances and Hubbard, who were separated soon after their secret marriage. The dangers of the trail seem insurmountable at times, not only lost goats, broken axles, and fires, but disease, accidents, the threat of starvation, and an occasional murder. Glaze and Tom's wedding provides a welcome respite, but as the women delve deeper into Biscuit's attic, they find a great deal more than they were bargaining for.In...
12) Black as Soot
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Continuing the saga that began in Red as a Rooster, Biscuit and her friends (and me too!) and the cat Marmalade uncover more ways the 200-year-old story of the founding of Martinsville is woven through their own lives. They find, too, that not all treachery is ancient. Not all murders are history. Why does Sadie always wear yellow? Where is the hidden room? And why are the star-crossed lovers kept apart? Stewart's masterful weaving of this multi-generational...
13) Crystal Clear
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Fran Stewart, award-winning & national best-selling author of three ScotShop mysteries and eleven Biscuit McKee mysteries, offers here the final volume of her "mini-memoirs," daily musings taken from the popular Facebook author page she posted on from 2012 through 2020. Her unique take on life continues this four-volume legacy: Clear as Mud (parts 1 & 2), Clearly Me, and now the concluding book, Crystal Clear. If you're the kind of person who would...
14) Gray as Ashes
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Martinsville, Georgia has always been a sleepy little town, where nothing much ever happens, except a few murders...There's a firebug in Martinsville. Town librarian Biscuit McKee isn't too worried when a garbage bin at the grocery store is set on fire. But when it's her beloved garden shed that goes up in flames, the fur begins to fly.Biscuit's feline companion Marmalade comments frequently, ...Yes, I do.... (even though her humans think she's only...
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Things get scary for Beekeeper Fran as she gradually realizes that there's a problem brewing in her beekeeping paradise. It's possible to love bees, support bee culture, encourage others in their beekeeping journeys, and still have a major roadblock along the way.
It's also possible to surmount that roadblock.
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1932 – The Great Depression lingers on. Hoover is up for re-election, but a small-town murder trial gains national attention and eclipses the presidential race. Already serving a life sentence for poisoning a state senator, Susannah Lou Packard is now on trial for slitting the throat of a state representative. How could such a quiet, demure, unprepossessing woman execute such heinous deeds?
Newspaper reporter Nancy Remington resolves to uncover...
17) White as Ice
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In this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated conclusion of the Biscuit McKee Mystery Series, Fran Stewart has reached the pinnacle of her writing career. As we say goodbye to Biscuit and Marmalade, the mysteries surrounding the town of Martinsville, Georgia are finally revealed. The women who've sheltered from the ice storm at Biscuit and Bob's house have spent three days rummaging through the attic, and on this fourth day they continue to find treasures...
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Was it suicide or murder? Bob investigates Diane Marie's death, but Biscuit and Marmalade (the orange and white cat who adopted Biscuit in the first book in this series, Orange as Marmalade) become entangled in the hunt. The diary of the dead woman gives hints of her haunted life, hints that may not be read in time to save the lives of Biscuit and Marmalade.
19) Red as a Rooster
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No-one has ever known why the original Martins settled in a dead-end valley that is so difficult to find. When a set of two-hundred-year-old diaries are found in the bottom of a trunk, the mysterious history of Martinsville - all of it based on a lie - begins to come to life! When the biggest ice storm of the century hits Martinsville, Georgia and knocks out all the power, Biscuit and Bob's huge old house with its wood-burning stove becomes a shelter...
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There isn't a clue as to the one who pushed town librarian Biscuit McKee off the town dock into the raging Metoochie River or whether he will strike again. There isn't a clue to the whereabouts of Charles Zapota, and his mother is getting frantic. There isn't a clue about why Melissa Tarkington's fiancé went to Atlanta for a mysteriousmeeting or why a lost dog suddenly latches onto Biscuit's sister, Glaze. VIOLET AS AN AMETHYST continues the saga...