Valerie Tate

• Oct-2019
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Cookies and corpses, not the picture-perfect Christmas Chris and Alicia Mallory had planned.Recipe for a Christmas MurderTake one gingerbread competition, one mayor looking for publicity, one egocentric celebrity chef and a killer with an axe to grin...

• Nov-2017
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With a missing reindeer, a murdered elf, and a mayor one Christmas Carol short of a breakdown, it looks like Christmas festivities in Dunbarton are in danger of being cancelled - especially since Santa is in jail, charged with murder!

It's c...

• Sep-2017
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Deception, intrigue and murder come to town when a sinister art trafficking organization sets up shop in Dunbarton. No one is who they appear to be. Masks are being worn, roles are being played, and both Good and Evil are walking the streets. The ...

• Sep-2016
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Chris and Alicia Mallory said the next time trouble came knocking, they weren’t answering the door. But sometimes trouble doesn’t knock. Sometimes it’s slipped into the mailbox where it sits and waits and festers until someone comes to open ...

• Jun-2016
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The body was found in the early morning, face down in the murky waters of the marsh. There was no question that he had drowned. The question was did he have help? And if he did, who, among the many, irate people upon whose toes he had trod, had he...

• Aug-2014
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"The colt is grey!" Words that will lead Chris and Alicia Mallory once again into mystery and murder.

"What exactly did she say?" Chris asked, for the umpteenth time. "I told you. She said, 'The colt is grey.'" Chris shook his head in exasp...

• Jul-2012
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What can go wrong when an elderly matriarch leaves the family fortune to her cat? Just about everything, including ‘catnapping’ and murder! CATNIP is a mystery set in the picturesque town of Dunbarton, Ontario, and tells the story of what befalls...