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Maggy Thorsen mysteries
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In her delightful debut, Balzo puts a 21st-century spin on the traditional cozy, replacing tea with coffee as the comfort beverage of choice. Maggy Thorsen, a divorcée whose husband left her for his 24-year-old dental hygienist, and two women friends are eager to open a coffee shop, Uncommon Grounds, in the small Wisconsin town of Brookhills, whose inhabitants include such recognizable types as the local gossip and tennis moms. In a world where Starbuck's...
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| 2008, c2007 | 1st world ed. published in the USA | Severn House | 217 p. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Rancho Cordova MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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| 2009 | Hoopla | NYLA | 1 online resource (318 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Exactly how hot is the competition at the annual coffee trade industry conference in Milwaukee? Scaldingly hot. What's not hot? Finding Marvin LaRoche, owner of the HotWired coffeehouse chain store stone-cold dead under a banquet table in the middle of the convention. And everybody knows that Maggy was no great fan of Mr. LaRoche, nor of his overly competitive business practices—so it's up to Maggy's own amateur sleuthing skills to get herself
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| 2008 | Severn House | 184 p. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Rancho Cordova MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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Here's a tip: if your ex-husband's mistress-cum-missus asks for your help in proving that he cheated on her while he was married to you, just say no. And you most certainly should not invite this new missus, Mrs. Rachel Thorsen, in for a cup of coffee. But big-hearted Maggy can't seem to help her own hospitality.Unfortunately, most unfortunately, this mistress-cum-missus disappears shortly after her coffeehouse confab with Maggy and is later found
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| 2009 | Severn House | 188 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf Rancho Cordova MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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A torrential spring snowstorm leaves Maggy and her friendly (and not so friendly) neighboring tenants stuck in the strip mall where her coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, leases space in Brookhills, Wisconsin. Shut up in her coffeehouse with little light and no heat, Maggy looks for help from her neighbors in the plaza...but while crossing the snow-filled parking lot, Maggy nearly trips over the mall's landlord, Way Benson, who has a hatchet in his
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| 2009 | Severn House | 184 p. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf North Highlands-Antelope MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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| 2011 | Hoopla | NYLA | 1 online resource (320 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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When a freak spring snowstorm destroys her beloved coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, Maggy Thorsen resolves to reopen. With her best friend, Sarah, as an ally, they find the perfect spot right near the train station—and lucky for Maggy that she's just in time for the opening of a new commuter route. Seems things are finally looking up for the amateur sleuth and barista extraordinaire! But then Sarah's uncle dies under suspicious circumstances...and
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6) A cup of Jo
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| 2010 | Severn House | 188 p. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Arcade MYSTERY Balzo, S. Carmichael MYSTERY Balzo, S. Rancho Cordova MYSTERY Balzo, S.
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| 2010 | Hoopla | NYLA | 1 online resource (192 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Maggy Thorsen, cynic extraordinaire, has a few things to feel optimistic about lately. After her original coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, was destroyed in a freak May blizzard, Maggy and her best friend, Sarah Kingston, have found the perfect spot to relocate—right next to the new commuter train in Milwaukee. After successfully securing the spot, Maggy and Sarah plan to piggyback the city's celebrations for the train and re-open Uncommon Grounds
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| 2011 | Severn House | 201 p. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Central MYSTERY Balzo, S. Martin Luther King, Jr. MYSTERY Balzo, S. Rio Linda MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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"There's a chill in the Wisconsin air and it's a shot in the arm--or 'triple shot' in this case--to Uncommon Grounds, the Brookhills coffeehouse owned by Maggy Thorsen and real estate maven Sarah Kingston. Not only is their relocation to the town's historic train station a success, the store's autumn drink, a 'Triple Shot, fully-leaded Espresso', is taking off, fueled by hefty doses of caffeine and sugar. All seems well, if a little jittery, in Brookhills...
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| 2013 | First world edition | Severn House | 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | On Shelf Carmichael MYSTERY Balzo, S. Central MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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| Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2013 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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When Maggy Thorsen and her husband set out on a theatrical recreation of Murder on the Orient Express on a train ride through the Everglades, a real life mystery soon unfolds.
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Severn House Publishers | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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A café owner tries to figure out who might have sent someone flying out a tenth-floor window:“Entertaining…Maggy makes an appealing amateur sleuth.”—Publishers Weekly
First, Maggy Thorsen is shocked to find her ex-husband Ted in a fight with William Swope, an oral surgeon at Ted's dental practice, outside Uncommon Grounds, the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse she co-owns. But she’s even more...
First, Maggy Thorsen is shocked to find her ex-husband Ted in a fight with William Swope, an oral surgeon at Ted's dental practice, outside Uncommon Grounds, the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse she co-owns. But she’s even more...
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| 2017 | First world edition | Severn House Publishers LTD | 183 pages ; 23 cm. | On Shelf North Natomas MYSTERY Balzo, S. Valley Hi-North Laguna MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Severn House Publishers | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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"The choice of an antique silver coffee urn as the final resting place for elderly Celeste Bouchard's ashes might seem a cruel joke. After all, the wealthy boutique owner was taken ill and died while daughter Hannah was off having lattes at Uncommon Grounds. But Maggy Thorsen, the coffeehouse's owner, has more pressing things on her mind: a jail break and subsequent shoot-out has forced her main squeeze, Sheriff Jake Pavlik, to take refuge with her....
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| 2019 | First world edition | Severn House | 198 pages ; 23 cm | On Shelf Belle Cooledge MYSTERY Balzo, S. Central MYSTERY Balzo, S. Pocket-Greenhaven MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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| Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2018 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Severn House | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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"Coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen's dinner with fiance Sheriff Jake Pavilk's parents takes an unfortunate turn when Jake's mother falls ill. Driving home alone at midnight, Maggy barely avoids a terrified Chihuahua crossing the highway ramp in front of her car. She rescues the pup, intending to return "Mocha" to her owners the next morning. But when Maggy arrives at the Satterwite house, she finds the Satterwite's dog-sitter, Arial -- her partner Sarah's...
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| Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2020 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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Trouble is brewing for coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen when her barista's wealthy beau is murdered. Maggy Thorsen's head is spinning thanks to partner Sarah Kingston's latest idea - selling luxe espresso machines in their Wisconsin coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds. But Maggy soon faces a far bigger problem when her fiancé, sheriff Jake Pavlik, makes an official call on the coffeehouse's star barista, Amy Caprese. Amy's wealthy new beau, investment adviser...
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13) Flat white
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| 1 of 1 | Central | MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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| 1 of 1 | Sylvan Oaks | MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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| 2021 | First world edition | Severn House | 203 pages ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Central MYSTERY Balzo, S. North Sacramento-Hagginwood MYSTERY Balzo, S. Southgate MYSTERY Balzo, S.
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| Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2021 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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"Maggy Thorsen and her business partner Sarah Kingston have taken on a new barista at their Wisconsin coffee house, Uncommon Grounds, to fill Amy Caprese's boots while she takes a much-needed vacation. Unfortunately Christy Wrigley's barista skills are as underwhelming as her love life, but is her luck about to change with her new beau?Christy gushes about her long distance, online relationship with Barry Margraves from Denver, leading Maggy to urge...
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14) The big steep
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| 2022 | First world edition | Severn House | 219 pages ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Belle Cooledge MYSTERY Balzo, S. Central MYSTERY Balzo, S.
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| Severn House | Hoopla | Severn House | 2021 | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | Abridged |
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"Maggy Thorsen's new neighbours, Philip and Vivian Woodward, are forging ahead with their plans for The Big Steep tea shop. Philip's enthusiasm to turn the neglected cottage once owned by Vivian's reclusive grandparents, the Koepplers, into a tea lover's paradise is infectious, but Vivian seems less excited. And when Maggy's sheepdog Frank arrives at Uncommon Grounds coffeehouse bearing a 'gift' he discovered in the Woodwards' compost heap, the tea...
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15) French roast
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North Highlands-Antelope
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| 1 of 1 | Central | MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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| 1 of 1 | Walnut Grove | MYSTERY Balzo, S. |
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| 2022 | First world edition | Severn House | 204 pages ; 23 cm. | On Shelf Central MYSTERY Balzo, S. North Highlands-Antelope MYSTERY Balzo, S. Sylvan Oaks MYSTERY Balzo, S.
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| 2022 | OverDrive | Severn House | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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Wisconsin coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen helps uncover the truth when a fire tears through her cousin's market and a gruesome discovery is made in the apartment upstairs.
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Any pot in a storm
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