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Barbara Ross

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Barbara Ross is the author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries. Her books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and have won the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. Barbara and her husband live in Portland, Maine. Readers can visit her website at Maine Clambake Mysteries.
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	Clammed Up (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 4,337 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boiled Over (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 2,726 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iced Under (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #5) 4.27 avg rating — 2,309 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Musseled Out (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #3) 4.19 avg rating — 2,291 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fogged Inn (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #4) 4.09 avg rating — 2,050 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stowed Away (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #6) 4.17 avg rating — 1,717 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steamed Open (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #7) 4.23 avg rating — 1,672 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shucked Apart (A Maine Clambake Mystery #9) 4.22 avg rating — 1,466 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sealed Off (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #8) 4.17 avg rating — 1,477 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muddled Through (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #10) 4.36 avg rating — 1,060 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Easter Basket Murder Cover Reveal and a #giveaway

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This is a bit of a sideways cover reveal, as some of you may have seen the cover in graphics promoting Barnes & Noble’s recent pre-order promotion. Anyway, this is the official announcement.

Easter Bunny Murder is the latest holiday novella collection by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and me, coming January 24, 2024.

As we’ve been doing all month, there

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Barbara Ross answered Beth's question: Barbara I loved this latest in your Clambake mysteries! I live in mid-coast Maine and knew a John and Kitty Fenwick. Are your characters named for them? Seems too strange if not! Hi Beth! I didn't know John and Kitty Fenwick. In fact the Kitty part comes from someone else entirely. Isn't that funny? Truth is stranger than... Barb
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Barbara Ross and 41 other people liked James's review of Halloween Party Murder: "Halloween Party Murder is the latest in-between novella from a trio of authors. I've read one book each by Leslie Meier and by Lee Hollis, but I have finished the entire series from Barbara Ross... so I could only read her entry, Scared Off, in this " Read more of this review »
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“Try as often as you can to give tribute to your friends, to stay in contact, to be at their momentous occasions. Drive across the country and go into debt to go to their weddings, fly across the country and be with them when their parents pass away. You cannot make any new old friends.”
― Barbara Ross, Fogged Inn

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“The paintings never made me think, but they always made me feel.”
― Barbara Ross, Fogged Inn

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“the screen door, Morgan began barking from down in Bud’s yard. The black lab was so loud Bunnie had to shout through her sniffles. “Don’t let Reggie bother you, Julia. He’s trying to protect me. He wants me to be happy in my new life. To fit in.” She stared toward Bud’s yard in exasperation. “That damn dog.” “Bunnie, do yourself two favors. Tell the cops about your connection to Stevie before they find it. And then take a plate of”
― Barbara Ross, Boiled Over

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What is your favorite cozy mystery series?

Donna Andrews, Murder With Peacocks (Meg Langslow)

16 votes, 17.4%

Krista Davis, The Diva Runs Out of Thyme (Domestic Diva)

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Ngaio Marsh, A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn)

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Carolyn Hart, Death On Demand (Death on Demand)

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Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity's Death (Aunt Dimity)

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Barbara Ross, Clammed Up (Maine Clambake)

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