|  | Kate Kingsbury Doreen Roberts Hight
 [1934-]
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    |  | Cecily Sinclair, Edwardian hotel owner
      in Badger’s End, England, in the Pennyfoot Hotel mysteries: |  | 
  
    |  | Room
          with a Clue (1993) Do
            Not Disturb (1994) Service
          for Two (1994) Eat,
          Drink and Be Buried (1994) Check-Out
          Time (1995) Grounds
          for Murder (1995) Pay
          the Piper (1996) Chivalry
          Is Dead (1996) Ring
          for Tomb Service (1997) Death
          with Reservations (1998) Dying
          Room Only (1998) | Maid
      to Murder (1999) No
          Clue at the Inn (2003) Slay
          Bells (2006) Shrouds
          of Holly (2007) Ringing
          in Murder (2008) Decked
          with Folly (2009) Mistletoe
          and Mayhem (2010) Herald
          of Death (2011) The
          Clue Is in the Pudding (2012) Mulled Murder (2013) A Merry Murder (2019) |  | 
  
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    |  | Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, in Sitting
      Marsh, England during WWII, in the Manor House mysteries: |  | 
  
    |  | A
          Bicycle Built for Murder (2001) Death
          Is in the Air (2001) For
          Whom Death Tolls (2002) Dig
          Deep for Murder (2002) Paint
          by Murder (2003) | Berried
          Alive (2004) Fire
          When Ready (2004) Wedding
          Rows (2006) An
          Unmentionable Murder (2006) |  | 
  
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    |  | Melanie West, after a messy divorce, running a B&B with her grandmother at a purportedly haunted mansion on the Oregon coast, in the Merry Ghost Inn mysteries: |  | 
  
    |  | Dead and Breakfast (2017) Doom with a View (2017) | Be Our Ghost (2018) |  | 
  
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    |  | Vivian Wainwright, a middle-aged widow running the Misty Bay Tearoom, an English-accented shop on the Oregon coast: |  | 
  
    |  | In Hot Water (2021) | In Too Steep (2022) |  | 
  
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    |  | Written as Rebecca
        Kent Meredith Llewellyn,
      the headmistress of Bellehaven House, a finishing school in the Cotswolds,
      and her two cohorts, no-nonsense Felicity Cross and timid ex-socialite
      Esmerelda Pickard, in Edwardian England:
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    |  | High
        Marks for Murder (2008) Finished
          Off (2009) | Murder
          Has No Class (2010) |  | 
  
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    |  | Written as Allison Kingsley Clara Quinn, returning home from New York City to work in Raven’s Nest
      Bookstore owned by her cousin Stephanie, in rural Maine:
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    |  | Mind
          Over Murder (2011) A
          Sinister Sense (2012) | Trouble Vision (2013) Extra Sensory Deception (2014) |  |