title: Vampires, Bones and Treacle Scones (Liss MacCrimmon Mystery)
author:  Kaitlyn Dunnett 
description: Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin, proprietor of the Moosetookalook Scottish Emporium in small-town Moosetookalook, Maine, is in charge of planning the towns All Hallows Festival. She and her husband determine that the Chadwick mansion, rumored to contain gangster Blackie OHares hidden fortune, will be the perfect setting for the haunted house, so she and her committee begin the transformation. As they work on the house, items disappear and reappear, and then Liss finds her cousin Neds bloody body on a couch. There is also evidence that someone is digging for treasure in the basement. When the police arrest Hilary, Neds former girlfriend, Liss investigates at her aunt Margarets request, while Margaret takes in Hilarys 12-year-old son, Boxer. Liss ultimately solves Neds murder and identifies the treasure hunter and prankster, but not before she almost loses her own life tying all the loose ends together. Small-town life, a sympathetic main character, and well-developed secondary characters, all framed by preparations for Halloween, compensate for the rather easily identifiable killer. --Sue OBrien
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  ## Soulless
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Parasol Protectorate - 1 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Gail Carriger
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First,
  she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and
  dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of
  social etiquette.
  
  
  Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally
  kills the vampire — and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous,
  and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.
  
  
  With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing,
  everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is
  actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to
  negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally,
  who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?
  
  
  SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in 