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The dream and the glory
Par Barbara Cartland. 1994
Lady Cordelia and her brother, the Earl of Hunstanton, had sailed with Captain Mark Stanton to Valetta where the Earl…
was to become a Knight of the Order of St John. Afterwards he wanted his sister to enter the Convent of St Romanica. As Cordelia remembered and felt again the strange wonder that Stanton's kisses had aroused in her, she realised she could never contemplate becoming a nun. 1994.The disciple of Las Vegas: an Ava Lee novel (Ava Lee. #2.)
Par Ian Hamilton. 2011
Forensic accountant Ava Lee is hired by the richest man in the Philippines to recover $50 million from a Canadian…
land swindle. She follows the money from Vancouver to Las Vegas, to the Costa Rican accounts of the Moneida, a First Nations band that owns The River, a poker web site, and uncovers an illegal online gambling ring. Meanwhile, Jackie Leung, an old target of Ava's, has made it rich, wants revenge, and is going after Ava to get it. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, and some strong language. 2011. (Ava Lee novel ; 2)The difficult saint (Catherine LeVendeur. #6.)
Par Sharan Newman. 2003
The 12th century French sleuth, Catherine LeVendeur, travels to Germany to save her sister who is facing a charge of…
murder. After marrying a lord who was a winegrower, the sister is said to have killed him by poison, or worse, by witchcraft. Sequel to "Cursed in the blood", followed by "To wear the white cloak". 2003.The dream carvers
Par Joan Clark. 1995
While on an expedition with his father to get lumber to take back to Greenland, Thrand is captured by the…
native Osweet, who have taken him to replace one of their own who was killed by a Greenlander. For junior and senior high readers. 1995.The comforts of a muddy Saturday (Isabel Dalhousie. #No. 5)
Par Alexander McCall Smith. 2008
Scottish journalist Isabel Dalhousie helps Dr. Marcus Moncrieff to clear his name after he is censured for falsifying data in…
a drug test that resulted in the death of a patient. Meanwhile Isabel ponders her relationship with her child’s father - who was once her niece Cat’s boyfriend. 2008.The demon of Dakar
Par Ebba Segerberg, Kjell Eriksson. 2008
Uppsala, Sweden. A naked man is unearthed from a river with a lacerated neck and the only clue to his…
identity is the remains of a tattoo that has been sliced off his arm. When a local drugs deal goes awry and another man is hospitalised with a similar wound, Inspector Ann Lindell and her team are called in to investigate. Winner of the Swedish Academy Award for Best Crime Novel. 2016. Uniform title: Mannen från bergen.The delicate storm (John Cardinal series. #2.)
Par Giles Blunt. 2003
When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eaten by bears in the woods near Algonquin Bay, Detective…
John Cardinal is assigned to the case. Usually his small-town cases practically solve themselves, but not only does he not have a single lead this time, but both the RCMP and CSIS get involved. Then a well-respected woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders might well be linked. Some strong language. Sequel to "Forty words for sorrow", followed by "Blackfly season". 2003.The dead-house (Alexandra Cooper mystery.)
Par Linda A Fairstein. 2001
New York D.A. Alexandra Cooper, last seen in “Cold Hit”, investigates the death of an anthropology professor being stalked by…
her ex-husband. New suspects emerge as Alex learns more about the woman’s colleagues and her interest in the ruins of a former island prison. Violence and strong language. 2001.The cranefly orchid murders (Martha's Vineyard mysteries. #2.)
Par Cynthia Riggs. 2006
Searching the woods for an endangered plant, feisty ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbull is rewarded with the discovery of a little nest…
of cranefly orchids--and a body. Sequel to "Deadly nightshade", followed by "The cemetery yew". 2006.The chocolate box
Par Leslie Elizabeth Watts. 1991
Edna Heathcott has had a difficult day. Finding the body on the stairs was bad enough, but now Detective Owl…
suspects her of being involved in the murder. And her boss, art dealer Gerald Fineberg has disappeared. Edna knows that she is the only one who can get to the bottom of this. c1991.The dark room
Par Minette Walters. 1995
British photographer Jinx Kingsley is in trouble. She awakens in a clinic to the news that she tried to kill…
herself twice after her fiance left her for her best friend, Meg. Although she has amnesia, Jinx is certain she would not have done this. Now she learns that she is suspected of murder. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1995.The chocolate book bandit: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic mystery. #13)
Par JoAnna Carl. 2013
Lee McKinney Woodyard, owner of Warner Pier's famous chocolate shop, is considering joining the library board. To help her decide,…
she checks out the board's monthly meeting . . . but someone has placed murder on the agenda. c2013.The chocolate moose motive: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic Mystery Ser. #12)
Par JoAnna Carl. 2012
Lee’s newest hire at Tenhuis Chocolates is making tongues wag, because Forsythia “Sissy” Smith is the granddaughter of Warner Pier’s…
only remaining resident hippie, and lives out at the Moose Lodge - once an informal commune in the forest east of town. The previous winter, Sissy’s husband, Buzz, was found shot to death, and local talk named Sissy the number one suspect, even though her alibi was airtight. Then the chief gossip is found dead, with Sissy on the scene. Was she lured there? Or is she the killer? Includes strong language. 2012.The chocolate castle clue: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic mystery. #11)
Par JoAnna Carl. 2011
Lee McKinney Woodyard discovers a dusty trophy inside TenHuis Chocolade that belongs to her aunt Nettie and her old high…
school singing group, the Pier-O-Ettes. It's a trophy that brings back terrible memories of an unsolved murder years ago, but before Lee takes aim at the past, someone is murdered. Lee needs to keep her eyes on the prize, hoping the trophy is a clue to finding the killer - before she's a target herself. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. 2011.The chocolate pirate plot: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic mystery. #10)
Par JoAnna Carl. 2011
Ever since ‘Young Blackbeard’ became a hit movie, everyone has caught pirate fever, including the residents of Warner Pier. When…
Lee McKinney Woodyard and her husband take their boat out on Lake Michigan, they're stunned when a mischievous band of pirates hops on board. Lee's is the first boat boarded that summer, and the town couldn't be more amused by the mysterious buccaneers, but when a body washes up on shore, the pirates' antics stop being so entertaining. Includes violence and strong language. 2011.The chocolate cupid killings: a chocoholic mystery (Chocoholic Mystery Ser. #9)
Par JoAnna Carl. 2009
TenHuis Chocolade has chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day, but Lee is getting no love from Private Detective Derrick Valentine. He's…
looking for their employee - a woman Lee and her Aunt Nettie have been harbouring for an underground railroad-type organization that aids abused women – so they tell him nothing. Then Valentine meets his end, Aunt Nettie becomes a suspect, and Lee has to find a way to free Nettie of guilt without exposing the innocent - and find a killer. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2009.The daughter of the manor
Par Betty Neels. 1997
Leonora Crosby was irritated to be always caught out in awkward moments by the new village GP, James Galbraith. She…
was engaged to Tony, but James's stalwart support as Leonora tried to keep her parents' decrepit manor house running smoothly made her doubt the wisdom of her engagement. Even so, there was little point in admitting she loved James, when he showed so little sign of caring for her. 1997.The convenient wife
Par Betty Neels. 1990
"You have no family, no home and no prospect of marrying". Professor Duert ter Laan-Luitinga's solution to Venetia's problems was…
for her to marry him; a marriage of convenience for both partners. Foolishly she agreed, and found herself wishing with all her heart that the stranger whom she had married would one day grow to care for her as much as she loved him. 1990.The case of the missing Morris dancer (WISE Enquiries Agency mysteries. #2.)
Par Cathy Ace. 2015
The Anwen Morris Dancers are to play a pivotal role in the imminent nuptials of Henry, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth.…
But it looks as though the wedding plans might go awry unless Mavis, Annie, Carol and Christine can help Althea, the Dowager Duchess, by finding a missing Morris man and a set of ancient and valuable artifacts in time for her son's wedding. Anwen-by-Wye might look like an idyllic Welsh village where family values reign and traditions still mean something in a modern world, but what will the WISE women find when they peer behind the respectable net curtains? 2015.The body in the bouillon (Faith Fairchild mystery. #4.)
Par Katherine Hall Page. 2015
Minister's wife, sometime sleuth, and culinary artist Faith Sibley Fairchild is intrigued by rumors of mysterious doings at Hubbard House…
- an elegant, secluded retirement home for the well-heeled Yankees of Aleford, Massachusetts. Determined to do some surreptitious snooping, she joins the pricey retreat's flu-depleted kitchen staff, only to witness an aging resident collapse face-first into a bowl of Faith's hot and savory bouillon. But it isn't until a blackmailing drug dealer turns up dead in Faith's bedroom that the amateur investigator realizes that murder not only happens at Hubbard, it's the specialty of the house! And Faith's own demise might very well be the next item on the menu. 2015.