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Audiobooks Narrated by Mary Ann Jacobs
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"Heartwarming Holiday Tales of Love, Faith, and Family.
Experience the joy of love and faith in this heartwarming Amish Christmas collection. This delightful box set brings together three captivating stories that celebrate the magic of Christmas, the strength of family, and the journey to finding love during the most special time of the year.
Book 1: In Time For An Amish Christmas When an unexpected time slip sends Heidi back to the past, she must navigate a Christmas unlike any she’s ever known. Caught between two worlds, she discovers that love can bloom across time—but only if she has the courage to embrace the season’s greatest gift.
Book 2: Amish Christmas Bride Matt Yoder, the most handsome Amish bachelor in the county, invites Jane back to the community she left behind, and she believes her prayers for love have been answered. But her dream shatters when she learns he wants her help to choose a bride from five women, with plans to marry by Christmas. Matt has always overlooked Jane—can she make him realize that she's been his perfect match all along?
Book 3: Amish Bachelor’s Christmas Delia Kauffman is excited to begin her new life as Stinterton’s schoolteacher—until she runs into Joe, the man who broke her heart. As the stand-in bishop, Joe can't avoid her, and when they are forced to work together on the Christmas play, old feelings resurface. Can the spirit of Christmas break down the walls between them? Amid the festivities, will they find that the greatest gift is a new beginning together?
Enjoy these charming stories filled with love, hope, and the true meaning of Christmas in the Amish tradition. Perfect for cozy winter nights!"
"Days before the Pearl Harbor attack plunges the U.S. into World War II, private investigator Maggie Sullivan is hired to find a vanished engineer and missing data in Dayton, Ohio. Has Gil Tremain been kidnapped, or has he turned traitor — to his employer and maybe his country?
As Maggie starts to trace his last movements, an intruder in Tremain’s apartment bashes her over the head, and kills a woman as he flees. Thugs try to abduct Tremain’s daughter. There’s an ugly secret in Tremain’s past which his ex-wife wants to keep hidden. And the men who hired Maggie aren’t leveling with her.
Meanwhile, a rival P.I. who once stole a case of Maggie’s suddenly wants her to work for him. A flamboyant woman from the past of an aging cop friend may be involved. Most chilling of all, Maggie’s poking attracts the attention of a local crime kingpin.
The attack in Hawaii presses every cop in the city into service safeguarding manufacturing and research facilities. People grapple with new uncertainty, and fear the mainland itself may be bombed. Amidst it all, and alone, Maggie fights to save a man who has now become a liability to his captors."
"Many said Matt Yoder was the most handsome Amish bachelor in the county, maybe even the country. When he contacted Jane and asked her to return to the community where she grew up, she was convinced all her prayers had been answered. She'd always dreamed of marrying Matt and having a large family.
Her dream turned into a nightmare when she discovered he asked her to come home to help him select a bride. He was tired of being single and declared he would be married by Christmas. He had narrowed his search to five women and was having trouble deciding between them.
Since Matt had always overlooked Jane, was it already too late?
Or can she find a way to make him see that she is and always has been his perfect Amish match?"
"When a man offers 1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan twice her usual fee to look into a 'possible' jewelry theft from his hotel safe, she’s skeptical — until a maid’s body tumbles out of a trash can and a jeweler known for high quality fakes is murdered.
Does a hotel guest who vanished without a trace hold a piece of the puzzle in this fourth novel in the author's historical mystery series? Or does it have to do with the Polish count and his family fleeing the start of World War Two in Europe? Could the cops be right that it’s all a trick devised by Maggie's client?
More at ease in Dayton, Ohio’s, streets and alleyways than in the posh Hotel Canterbury, and chafing under the need to hide her true occupation, the scrappy detective threads her way through an unfamiliar array of suspects: Hollywood luminaries in town for a hush-hush project; an international Lothario whose shady local past she unearths; the count’s embittered valet.
Meanwhile, preparations for a visit by FDR preoccupy the city’s police. The Irish cop who long has wooed Maggie suddenly departs for Chicago. Alone and bruised, Maggie faces adversaries whose motives stun her... and a killer who will stop at nothing."
"Tea with two spinsters thrusts 1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan into an explosive mix of murder, political rivalries and family secrets. Pursuing their case means risking not only her life, but her detective license.
The Vanhorn sisters want her to learn the fate of their father, who vanished more than a quarter century earlier in Dayton, Ohio’s, catastrophic 1913 flood. They believe he was murdered. They think they know the killer. But before Maggie can question the suspect, he winds up dead.
With a nip of gin to cheer her and a Smith & Wesson for company, Maggie follows a trail all but obliterated by time. It leads her to a local politician with bigger ambitions — and possibly secrets to hide. It takes her into dime stores, cheap hotels, and a violent ambush by men wearing brass knuckles.
A determined cop wages a wily campaign to win her affections. A rag-tag newsboy pushes to be her assistant. As crimes of the past explode in the present, Maggie fights foes who must destroy her to destroy each other."
"Hairstylist sleuth Marla Shore goes undercover in a hair-brained scheme to catch a killer in this adventurous cozy mystery.
In a story braided with unexpected twists and curls, salon owner Marla Shore takes on a role as nurse’s aide for wealthy Miriam Pearl. While Marla snoops into the elderly matriarch’s affairs, her boyfriend, Detective Dalton Vail, is afraid that the only affair she’ll snag is with her ex-spouse, Stan. Juggling work at her salon, crime solving, and two amorously inclined males, Marla fights a race against time to save Stan before the dashing detective nails him for murder.
Winner of the RONE Award from InD'Tale Magazine
“Ms. Cohen's plot has more twists than a French braid, and Marla is a shear delight.” Joanne Fluke, author of the Hannah Swensen mysteries
“In Nancy J. Cohen’s fourth bubbly Bad Hair Day mystery, Florida hairdresser Marla Shore agrees to help her snake of an ex‑husband, Stan Kaufman, who's been arrested for the murder of his third wife, Kimberly, find the real killer.” Publishers Weekly
“This follow‑up to Murder by Manicure moves right along and will make good reading for the holidays.” Library Journal
“In Body Wave, Marla faces more shades of guilt and malice than she has colors of nail polish in her salon—and exposes herself to a hidden killer who may decide that eliminating Marla is a permanent solution for getting away with murder.” Barnes & Noble Ransom Notes"
"Salon owner Marla Shore discovers a whirlpool of secrets when she joins a sports club and ends up solving another nail-biting murder in this humorous cozy mystery.
Hairstylist Marla Shore joins a fitness club to get in shape but discovers a dead body instead of an exercise routine. Jolene Myers—a client at Marla’s salon—has drowned beneath the frothing waters of the whirlpool. When Homicide Detective Dalton Vail determines Jolene's death was no accident, Marla decides to give her deductive skills a workout and help solve the case.
Jolene had few friends at the fancy athletic club. As Marla gets to know everyone, she wonders who might have targeted Jolene for a lethal soak in the hot tub. The shady pharmacist? The smarmy city councilman? Or maybe the vocal animal rights activist? The fitness club staff had no fondness for Jolene, either. How far would they go to keep their secrets? When another member turns up dead, Marla intensifies her efforts to nail the killer and wrap the case. If she fails, the next buff body on its way to the morgue might be hers.
ABR Audiobook Listener Award Finalist; RONE Award Finalist; IMBA Bestseller List
“Marla Shore is a beguiling, very clever sleuth who teases out every clue. Absolutely delightful!” Jill Churchill, author of the Jane Jeffry & Grace and Favor Mysteries"
"Hairstylist Marla Shore gets drawn into a culinary caper that involves murder, sabotage, and fowl play in this delectable cozy mystery.
When hairstylist Marla Shore volunteers for Taste of the World, a fundraiser for her cousin’s favorite charity, she quickly discovers that mixing scissors and sauté pans can be a recipe for disaster. First Chef Pierre's rum-soaked Bananas Foster erupts in his face. Then more chefs drop from the roster like overcooked soufflés and the nonprofit's attorney becomes the victim of fowl play. It’s clear as a consommé that someone is stirring up trouble. With a cunning killer on the loose, Marla has a lot more to worry about than which canapés her chefs should serve.
She teams up with Detective Dalton Vail to untangle the clues. He believes someone from the nonprofit’s board of directors might be involved, but Marla has her own suspicions. As she digs deeper, she realizes their upcoming gala could be more perilous than a hot stove. She’d better sift through the suspects to stop the saboteur before the entire event goes up in flames.
Nominated for a Reviewer’s Choice Award by RT Book Reviews
“Curl up with Nancy Cohen’s stylishly witty and chillingly suspenseful tale of murder on the Florida coast—Hair Raiser is a cut above.” Joanne Pence, author of the Angie Amalfi Mysteries
“Hair Raiser kept me guessing until the very end. Hats off to Nancy Cohen and her engaging sleuth, Marla the hairdresser!” Laurien Berenson, author of the Melanie Travis mystery series"
"Hairstylist Marla Shore untangles a snarl of secrets when she’s suspected of poisoning her client’s coffee creamer in this debut cozy mystery.
Hairstylist Marla Shore is already having a bad hair day when one of her clients dies in the shampoo chair at her salon. Then Detective Dalton Vail accuses her of putting poison in the wealthy woman’s coffee creamer. Grumpy Bertha Kravitz might not have been Marla’s favorite customer, but she wouldn’t have murdered the lady. With her reputation at stake, Marla decides it’s up to her to unmask the killer.
Combing the woman’s privileged world for clues, Marla discovers the town is crawling with potential suspects. As the case grows more snarled, she determines to unravel the clues. She’d better hurry before the smart detective discovers her scandalous secret, or he’ll pin her with a motive and lock her away in a place where a bad hair day will become permanent.
“Marla the beautician is a delight!”—Tamar Myers, author of the Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries
“Fast-paced and jaunty.” Publishers Weekly
“A plot with more tangles than an uncombed perm.” Kirkus Reviews"
