Nancy Pickard
Author
Series
Publisher
Phoenix Books, Inc
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard dishes up a perfectly delicious new feast of original mystery stories, served up in classic Agatha Christie style. Celebrating the enduring legacy of the most beloved crime writer of all time, Malice Domestic, Volume 3 features some of the most distinguished mystery writers of our time.
Author
Language
English
Description
One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder receives shocking news: The man convicted of murdering her father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-three years since that stormy night when her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed dead. Neither the protective embrace of Jody’s three uncles nor the safe haven of her grandparents’ ranch could erase the...
Author
Language
English
Description
“Engrossing . . . beautifully written and carefully crafted . . . [a] work that explores the healing power of truth.”—The Boston Globe
For seventeen years, a rural community in Kansas has faithfully tended the grave of an anonymous teenage girl christened the Virgin of Small Plains. And some claim that, perhaps owing to the girl’s intervention, strange miracles and unexplainable healings have occurred....
For seventeen years, a rural community in Kansas has faithfully tended the grave of an anonymous teenage girl christened the Virgin of Small Plains. And some claim that, perhaps owing to the girl’s intervention, strange miracles and unexplainable healings have occurred....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A DINNER TO DIE FOR
Summoned from her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great-nephew and his twin sister, Genia Potter takes a rental on the Rhode Island coast. Old acquaintance Stanley Parker is only too happy to welcome her. And soon Genia is busily preparing for the tasting party that she and Stanley are hosting that evening at her cottage.
An avid cook and recipe collector, Stanley has already roped Genia into collaborating...
Summoned from her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great-nephew and his twin sister, Genia Potter takes a rental on the Rhode Island coast. Old acquaintance Stanley Parker is only too happy to welcome her. And soon Genia is busily preparing for the tasting party that she and Stanley are hosting that evening at her cottage.
An avid cook and recipe collector, Stanley has already roped Genia into collaborating...
10) Bum steer
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a cattle baron announces his intention to leave a huge ranch in his will to the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, amateur sleuth Jenny Cain leaves Massachusetts for the wilds of Kansas to investigate the bizarre bequest, and instead finds herself investigating the brutal murder of the millionaire.
11) I.O.U
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an anonymous voice among the crowd of mourners offering her their condolensces at her mother's funeral whispers to Jenny, ""Forgive me. It was an accident, "" the young woman must try to find the truth behind the death she had thought was an accident.
14) The truth hurts
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
E-mails arrive for Marie Lightfoot stating that a man has fallen in love with her. At first she thinks it is a joke, but as his E-mails get more vicious even threatening her friends children, she realizes it is no joke.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The ever-agile Jenny is currently juggling the first ever Port Frederick Fall Festival and the request of her friend Nellie Kennedy, who wants help in getting rid of "God's Highway," a controversial hiking/bike path. Lately, a series of fatal accidents on the path has caused the town to look at closing it, a move environmentalists, hikers, and bikers vehemently oppose. A mysterious fire, strange goings-on in the town, and murder prove almost too much...