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Mindy Starns Clark
Mindy Starns Clark started her writing career by trial and error, writing plays, technical manuals, articles and textbooks before her debut into Christian fiction. Her plays and musicals are still performed in schools and churches across the United States. Her fast-paced, suspenseful and inspirational writing, with a hint of romance and a strong heroine, delights readers everywhere. She is the author of the popular "Million Dollar Mysteries" series, which consists of A Penny for Your Thoughts, Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels, A Dime a Dozen and A Quarter for a Kiss. Her recent books, The Trouble with Tulip, Blind Dates Can Be Murder, Elementary, My Dear Watkins and The House That Cleans Itself, were published by Harvest House, as well as her newest title, Whispers of the Bayou.

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Book Cover The House That Cleans Itself: Creative Solutions for a Clean and Orderly House in Less Time Than You Can Imagine
by Mindy Starns Clark

If you and your family have struggled with disarray and general messiness, Mindy Starns Clark has found an inspired solution: If you alter your home to your family's habits and demeanor, you can create "a house that cleans itself". In this step-by-step guide, Mindy offers tips, encouragement and instructions to transform any household into an orderly home.

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Book Cover Elementary, My Dear Watkins
by Mindy Starns Clark

For Jo Tulip, the resourceful blonde with the high household IQ, everything's off-kilter these days. With her health and her home already in question, Jo's family and her past suddenly take center stage. An attempt is made on her life, forcing her former fiance to sacrifice himself to save her. As his life hangs in the balance, Jo must learn what he was trying to tell her - and what family secrets are hidden within the walls of her grandmother's mansion.

Life is good for Danny Watkins. The woman of his dreams loves him back, and he's finally moving forward in his photography career. It seems things couldn't be better until someone tries to interfere with Danny's internship at Scene It. Trapped an ocean apart, Jo and Danny try to figure out two sides of the same puzzle. As they long for answers - and for each other - they must learn to depend fully on God and the strength that only He provides.

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Book Cover Blind Dates Can Be Murder
by Mindy Starns Clark

Blind dates give everyone the shivers… with or without a murder attached to them. Jo Tulip is a sassy single woman full of household hints and handy advice for every situation. Her first romantic outing in months is a blind date - okay, the Hall of Fame of Awful Blind Dates - but things go from bad to worse when the date drops dead and Jo finds herself smack in the middle of a murder investigation.

With the help of her best friend, Danny, and faith in God, Jo attempts to solve one exciting mystery while facing another:  Why is love always so complicated?

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Book Cover The Trouble with Tulip
by Mindy Starns Clark

Josephine Tulip is definitely a smart chick, a 21st century female MacGyver who writes a helpful hints column and solves mysteries in her spare time. Her best friend, Danny, is a talented photographer who longs to succeed in his career... perhaps a cover photo on National Geographic?

When Jo's next-door neighbor is accused of murder, Jo realizes the police have the wrong suspect. As she and Danny analyze clues, follow up on leads, and fall in and out of trouble, she recovers from a broken heart and he discovers that he has feelings for her. Will Danny have the courage to reveal them, or will he continue to hide them behind a façade of friendship?

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Book Cover The Buck Stops Here
by Mindy Starns Clark

When Callie learns that the man she loves is somehow connected to the man who killed her late husband, she confronts Tom. But he informs her that his hands are tied by the National Security Agency and he can tell her nothing.

Despite the secrecy surrounding Tom and the NSA, Callie decides to find out for herself exactly what is going on and how Tom may have been involved in her husband’s death. Using her investigative skills, Callie throws herself into the most important mystery she has ever attempted to solve.

Will their affection be able to stand the strain? And what was God’s plan in bringing Tom and Callie together - marriage or merely answers for her questions about Bryan’s death?

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Book Cover A Quarter for a Kiss
by Mindy Starns Clark

It’s April, spring is in the air, and Callie and Tom have just spent a wonderful few weeks getting to know each another after years of a telephone–only relationship. But as their time together draws to a close, they are called to the hospital bed of mutual friend Eli Gold, who has just been shot.

Eli asks Callie to find out who is responsible for the shooting and begs Tom to help her. The search leads Tom and Callie to the beautiful island of St. John in the Virgin Islands. There they face a sinister enemy among the ruins of an old sugar plantation - an enemy who’s willing to do anything to keep his identity secret and the past deeply buried.

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Book Cover A Dime a Dozen
by Mindy Starns Clark

Callie Webber has come to the beautiful Smoky Mountains hoping to award a million–dollar grant to the charity set up in her late husband’s honor. But in the search for a missing migrant working, a body is discovered, which puts the grant on hold and her new romance with her mysterious boss in peril. Trusting in God, Callie forges steadily ahead through a mire of clues that lead her deeper and deeper into danger.

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Book Cover Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels
by Mindy Starns Clark

Working to provide quality work clothes to women who can’t afford to buy their own, Callie becomes involved with one young woman trying to come out of drug rehabilitation - just as she’s charged with murder.

What appears to be a routine murder investigation in her sleepy waterside village suddenly becomes complicated amid international intrigue, cutting–edge technology, and deadly deception. In a desperate moment at what could be the end of her life, Callie cries out to the God who is as close as a whispered prayer.

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Book Cover A Penny for Your Thoughts
by Mindy Starns Clark

Callie’s latest assignment - go to Philadelphia and present an old family friend of Tom’s (her employer) with a check for $250,000. Wendell Smythe heads a relief organization and needs immediate funds. When Callie goes to his office, check in hand, she discovers him dead on the floor. At Tom’s request, Callie moves into Smythe’s home and begins a murder investigation. But it’s a dangerous place to be, for the family has secrets they would rather not have uncovered.

Callie’s only hope is that God will help her use her investigative skills to discover the murderer and escape the web of deceit that surrounds her.

This fast–paced, inspirational mystery series will delight readers with its hint of romance and strong heroine

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