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    "title": "The Antique Store Detective and the Deadly Inheritance",
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    "collection_title": "Bella Winter Mystery",
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    "description": "A mysterious death and a missing ruby necklace\u2026 it\u2019s clearly a case for antique store owner and amateur sleuth Bella Winter!\n\nNobody was surprised when Clemmie Crowe passed away \u2013 she\u2019d been sick for a long time. But Bella Winter isn\u2019t sure it\u2019s as simple as it seems. Why was Clemmie so agitated the day she died \u2013 and why did she ask a local policeman to call on her?\n\nBella\u2019s certain Clemmie knew something about her relatives, the powerful Powell family. They used to own half of Hope Eaton, but now they\u2019re planning to sell what remains\u2026 Including the Steps Caf\u00e9, owned by Bella\u2019s best friends.\n\nThe sale has to be stopped. Where else will Bella get her sausage sandwiches? Perhaps Clemmie\u2019s secret will be enough to put a spanner in the works. So when matriarch Althea Powell invites her to value their possessions, Bella jumps at the chance. She can find some gems, investigate Clemmie\u2019s death, and stymie the sale all at once.\n\nIt seems to be going swimmingly\u2026 until it\u2019s proved that Clemmie was murdered, and Althea\u2019s priceless ruby necklace vanishes. The list of suspects is as long as Bella\u2019s arm. Was it Althea\u2019s shady stepson, desperate for cash? His older brother, who wants to sell up? Or even her husband, who keeps changing his will?\n\nThen Bella finds the necklace in the last place she expects, upsetting everything she thought she knew. Where there\u2019s a will, there\u2019s bound to be a quarrel. But can Bella figure out whose inheritance means murder, before things turn deadly for her?",
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