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The Devil in the Details,
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“It’ll keep. There’s always time for dessert.”
Acknowledgements
My good friend and much-loved mystery maven Cheryl Freedman always gives me the benefit of her keen editor’s eye for early versions of my manuscripts, and I am grateful for her help and continuing support, not only to me but also to the wider Canadian crime-writing community.
Thanks also to Sandy Harding, who pointed out all my errors and omissions and general goofs. As well as to the good people at Crooked Lane Books and my marvellous agent, Kim Lionetti of Bookends.
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The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime
The Sign of Four Spirits
The Game Is a Footnote
A Three Book Problem
A Curious Incident
There’s a Murder Afoot
A Scandal in Scarlet
The Cat of the Baskervilles
Body on Baker Street
Elementary, She Read
Lighthouse Library Mysteries (writing as Eva Gates)
Shot Through the Book
The Stranger in the Library
Death Knells and Wedding Bells
Death by Beach Read
Deadly Ever After
A Death Long Overdue
Read and Buried
Something Read, Something Dead
The Spook in the Stacks
Reading Up a Storm
Booked for Trouble
By Book or by Crook
Ashley Grant Mysteries
Coral Reef Views
Blue Water Hues
White Sand Blues
Year Round Christmas Mysteries
A Slay Ride Together With You
Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas
Dying in a Winter Wonderland
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Hark the Herald Angels Slay
We Wish You a Murderous Christmas
Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen
Author Biography
Vicki Delany is a bestselling author of more than thirty novels/novellas in several of mystery’s subgenres. Born in Manitoba and raised in Ontario, she is the former president of the Crime Writers of Canada, a member of Capital Crime Writers, and a member of Sisters in Crime.
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This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, organizations, places and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real or actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2026 by Vicki Delany
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