|  | Shelley Freydont [1949-]
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    |  | Lindy Haggerty, a rehearsal director and
      retired dancer, in New Jersey: |  | 
  
    |  | Backstage
          Murder (1999) High
          Seas Murder (2000) Midsummer
          Murder (2001) | Halloween
          Murder (2002) A
          Merry Little Murder (2003) |  | 
  
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    |  | Katie McDonald, a mathematician and Sudoku
      whiz who returns to her hometown of Granville, New Hampshire: |  | 
  
    |  | The
      Sudoku Murder (2007)  Sudden
          Death Sudoku (2008) | Serial
          Killer Sudoku (2009) |  | 
  
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    |  | Liv Montgomery, a burned out New York City
      event planner, moving to a small lakeside town in rural New York, in the
      Celebration Bay series: |  | 
  
    |  | Foul
          Play at the Fair (2012) Silent Knife (2013) | Independence Slay (2014) Trick or Deceit (2015) |  | 
  
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    |  | Deanna Randolph, a headstrong heiress, in 1890s Newport, Rhode Island, in the Newport Gilded Age series: |  | 
  
    |  | A Gilded Grave (2015) 
 | A Golden Cage (2016) |  | 
  
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    |  | Written as Shelley Noble Lady Dunbridge, a widow turned sleuth in turn-of-the-20th-century New York City:
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    |  | Ask Me No Questions (2018) Tell Me No Lies (2019) | A Resolution at Midnight (2020) |  |