Trouble is brewing in the sleepy hamlet of Morning Shade. Multiple chain letters are circulating throughout town, and a local resident is to blame. Little old ladies are being victimized by empty promises of vast riches and rejuvenated...
Fiction
- Author:Copeland, LoriSummary:
- Author:Copeland, LoriSummary:
A Case of Bad Taste, set in a small Arkansas town, brims with homespun humor and unforgettable characters. When a series of break-ins shakes up the town, novelist Maude Diamond spots fresh material for her next book. A crook is sneaking...
- Author:Gist, DeeanneSummary:
Tobacco brides--women prisoners shipped from England--are a hot commodity with farmers in 1643 Virginia. Drew isn't concerned about marriage--he just wants a servant to keep his house. Yet fate brings him to Constance, who claims...
- Author:Jagears, MelissaSummary:
Impatient to meet her intended groom and help him grow his general store, mail-order bride Eliza Cantrell sets out on her travels a week early. But her plan goes sadly awry when her train is held up by robbers who steal her dowry and...
- Author:Winters, RebeccaSummary:
Prince Alexius of Hellenica will do anything to help his four-year-old daughter learn to speak--which is why the intensely reserved and private royal finds himself opening up to bubbly children's speech therapist Dottie Richards....
- Author:Jagears, MelissaSummary:
After three failed attempts, Everett Cline is not happy when another--uninvited--mail-order bride steps off the train in his Kansas farming community. But is she the wife he's been waiting for?
- Author:Harris, CharlaineSummary:
Aurora "Roe" Teagarden unexpectedly inherits a house and a fortune when a fellow Real Murders Club member dies. But things take a turn for the macabre when Roe discovers a human skull hidden in her new home's window seat.
- Author:Miller, JudithSummary:
With the Great War fueling anti-German hysteria, agents of President Wilson's Council of National Defense threaten to disfigure Jutta Schmidt, torch her family's bakery, and butcher her parents unless she returns to the Amana...
- Author:Ford, G. M.Summary:
Disgraced journalist turned true-crime writer Frank Corso disappears into the upper Midwest with his photographer (and former lover), Meg Dougherty after a snowstorm and car accident strands them in an abandoned Wisconsin farmhouse....
- Author:Granger, Ann.Summary:
The late October fog obscures the streets of 1867 London, providing cover for vicious crimes. Early one morning, the mist lifts to reveal the beautiful Italian wife of an art dealer dead in Green Park and Inspector Ross is called in to...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
Phoebe Von Bergen is excited to accompany her father when he travels from Germany to purchase sapphires in Montana. Little does she know that her father's plans--for the gemstones and his daughter--are not what they seem. Ian...
- Author:McAdam, ColinSummary:
Told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth is about Looee, a chimp raised by a compassionate human couple in Vermont who cannot conceive a baby of their own. When Looee’s two natures collide, this...
- Author:Nunn, MallaSummary:
Police officer Emmanuel Cooper is dispatched to a remote town after a police captain is found murdered in a creek. Even though Cooper judges the crime open and shut, the government's feared Special Branch is summoned.
- Author:Feiffer, JulesSummary:
In this humorous story, the court magician thinks a quest will cure Prince Roger's unkinglike tendency to laugh constantly. Soon Roger's annoying people in faraway lands, and someone is unfortunately clever enough to escape...
- Author:Wiley, MichaelSummary:
After a run-in with a crew of thieves that includes some dirty cops, Chicago private detective Joe Kozmarski joins the gang and works as an inside man, facing suspicion from both sides of the law.
- Author:Dash, Ava, Roy, RachelSummary:
When her beloved grandmother dies, Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer before college at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true...
- Author:Macomber, DebbieSummary:
92 Pacific Boulevard Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Listener: I'm not much of a letter-writer. As the sheriff here, I'm used to writing incident reports, not chatty letters. But my daughter, Megan, who'll be making me a...
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there...
- Author:Ferguson, WillSummary:
Step into the world's most insidious Internet scam that begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help ... ". When Laura's father gets caught up in one such...
- Author:Magoon, KeklaSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Ellis recalls her favorite things as her mother's desire to turn off the machines that have kept Ellis's father alive for two years fill the last four days of her sophomore year with major changes in herself...