title: Belle Ruin (Emma Graham Mysteries)
author:  Martha Grimes 
description: Spirit Lake has some deep, dark secrets, and the heroine of Grimes's new series, spunky, precocious 12-year-old Emma Graham, is determined to uncover them, no matter the cost. Kim Mai Guest's delicate voice makes listeners believe that the young narrator really is a teenager, albeit one with extraordinary gifts of perception. Guest never overdoes characterizations in the third of Emma Graham's escapades. As the irrepressible Emma investigates Belle Rouen, a once ornate, now burned-out mansion, Guest endows her with all the curiosity of a natural snoop trying to put together the pieces of a forty-year-old unsolved puzzle. Martha Grimes creates an atypical mystery adventure, and Guest's performance makes its heroine judicious and delightful. S.J.H.  AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- <i>Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine</i>
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  Till Death Do Us Tart
  
  
  Oxford Tearoom Mysteries ~ Book 4
  
  
  
  
  
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  When Oxfordshire tearoom owner, Gemma Rose, enters her little tabby, Muesli,
  in the cat show at the local village fair, the last thing she expects is to
  stumble across a murder.
  
  
  And when her meddling mother and the nosy Old Biddies decide to start their
  own investigation, Gemma has no choice but to join in the sleuthing. She soon
  finds there’s something much more sinister sandwiched between the home-made
  Victoria sponge cakes and luscious jam tarts …
  
  
  But murder isn’t the only thing on Gemma’s mind: there’s the desperate house-
  hunting that’s going nowhere, the freaky kitchen explosions at her quaint
  English tearoom and an offer from her handsome detective boyfriend that she
  can’t refuse!
  
  
  With things about to reach boiling point, can Gemma solve the mystery before
  the killer strikes again?
  
  
  ** Traditional Victoria sponge cake recipe at th