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The third book in a charming and heartfelt inspirational series for young readers, starring a young girl and her guardian angel. Amelia and Lily, her guardian angel, set out to help Grace, a girl so lonely that she is starting to take up with the wrong crowd, a group of teenage shoplifters.
The first book in Craig's evocative series starring Jeff J.W. Jackson, a former Boston cop now retired on Martha's Vineyard, is now back in print. When a young drifter is killed in a mysterious boat explosion, Jackson finds himself drawn back into the investigative trade. Reissue.
For countless readers, Christmastime means a delicious new holiday mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. A Christmas Escape, her thirteenth noel to the season, transports us to the Mediterranean island of Stromboli for an unconventional Yuletide adventure--and an unforgettable volcanic encounter. Lonely Charles Latterly arrives at his small hotel hoping that the island's blue skies and gentle breezes will brighten his spirits. Unfortunately, there's no holiday cheer to be found among his fellow guests, who include a pompous novelist, a stuffy colonel, a dangerously ill-matched married couple, and an ailing old man. The one charming exception is orphaned teenager Candace Finbar, who takes Charles under her wing and introduces him to the island's beauty. But the tranquility of the holiday is swiftly disrupted by a violent quarrel, an unpleasant gentleman's shocking claims of being stalked, and the ominous stirrings of the local volcano. Then events take an even darker turn: A body is found, and Charles quickly realizes that the killer must be among the group of guests. Captivating in its depiction of untamed nature in all its awesome power, and of the human heart in the throes of transformation, A Christmas Escape gifts readers with Anne Perry's talent for making the season brighter--and more thrilling. Praise for the Christmas novels of Anne Perry
"Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat."--The Wall Street Journal A New York Christmas
"A thoroughly enjoyable mystery set against the wonderful historical backdrop of 1904 New York City at Christmastime."--Library Journal (starred review) A Christmas Hope
"Very much recommended . . . a wonderful story."--Historical Novel Review
A Christmas Garland "In Anne Perry's gifted hands, the puzzle plays out brilliantly."--Greensboro News & Record A Christmas Homecoming "Could have been devised by Agatha Christie . . . [Perry is] a modern master."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A Christmas Odyssey "[Perry] writes with detail that invades the senses."--Lincoln Journal Star
"Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat."--The Wall Street Journal A New York Christmas
"A thoroughly enjoyable mystery set against the wonderful historical backdrop of 1904 New York City at Christmastime."--Library Journal (starred review) A Christmas Hope
"Very much recommended . . . a wonderful story."--Historical Novel Review
A Christmas Garland "In Anne Perry's gifted hands, the puzzle plays out brilliantly."--Greensboro News & Record A Christmas Homecoming "Could have been devised by Agatha Christie . . . [Perry is] a modern master."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A Christmas Odyssey "[Perry] writes with detail that invades the senses."--Lincoln Journal Star
We have frightening enemies living among us, known by their strange dress. These so-called Shakers are shrewd and canny. . .a scourge; a tumor that must be sliced from our side . .
Sister Rose Callahan read the printed flyer and shivered. Its message terrified her. She was aware that Believers had sometimes been objects of resentment from the outside world, but nothing like this. Who could write such things? And who could be responsible for recent acts of violence directed against the peaceful Shaker community?
A sister had suffered a mysterious wound to the head; a sackful of rats were set loose in the schoolroom, food had been stolen -- and now a hate-filled message points to continued mischief. Sister Rose, recently honored with the position of Eldress despite her youth, seeks clues in the journals of her aged predecessor. She discovers a shocking similarity to outrages perpetrated years before, as well as a scandalous secret about a present-day sister. Now Rose must look both outside and within the cloistered religious community to find clues that link an old murder, a recent death, and an unknown enemy whose thirst for revenge overrides the ultimate sin...of murder.
When the President of the United States vacations on Martha's Vineyard, his daughter, sixteen-year-old Cricket Callahan, yearns for a Roman holiday of sorts, far from the Secret Service agents who regulate her every move. While fishing alone on South Beach early one August morning, sometime investigator and full-time food and fishing enthusiast J. W. Jackson sees a teenage girl strolling along the shore. They chat, and he lets her land a bluefish, but as soon as she spots some approaching headlights, she asks directions to Edgartown and trots away down the beach. She's out of sight by the time a Jeep full of armed and anxious Secret Service agents pulls up. The young woman is Cricket Callahan, the Secret Service has lost her, and the President and First Lady must be informed that their child is missing. J. W. heads for home and a good breakfast with wife, Zee, his encounter with Cricket already taking on anecdotal possibilities. One thing's for sure: He's glad he's not the agent who has to tell the President the bad news. J. W.'s amused detachment is short-lived, however, when, arriving at his cottage, he discovers Cricket hiding under the tarp in his truck. She had ducked behind a sand dune until the Secret Service disappeared, then hid in J. W.'s old land Cruiser. What do you do when the U.S. Secret Service is searching the neighborhood for a possibly kidnapped young woman who is now standing in your kitchen? If you are J.W. and Zee, you teach her how to cook blueberry pancakes before calling the police to report her whereabouts. J.W. fully expects Cricket to return to the presidential compound after a few hours in his cozy kitchen, so he's surprised when Cricket asks and receivespermission to stay on for a few days. Could there be a reason the President wants Cricket living incognito with J.W. and Zee? Could she be in danger if her actual whereabouts are known? And could the danger possibly come from within the Secret Service itself? Working with a wide net
When a journalist investigating former Prime Minister Richard Lavender is murdered, past and present collide with dark intent. Crimes both old and new insinuate themselves into this case, which in the end proves what Coffin already knows: that the past never leaves us--it is buried, only to resurface in shocking, surprising and sometimes menacing ways. Martin's Press.
A note found next to a murdered police officer read, Ask Coffin. But what is John Coffin, Commander of London's Second City Police, supposed to know? The victim was investigating counterfeit pharmaceuticals and internal police corruption. As Coffin probes into his colleague's investigation, he makes a connection to the disappearance of four schoolboys.
Edwina Goodman teaches physics at an elite college in a picturesque New England town. Driven by an imagination that pushes her thinking well outside the box of conventional logic--and an ability to see patterns of cause and effect where others can't--Edwina helps uncover the sinister underbelly in her Police Detective boyfriend's investigation into a suspicious death at the nearby headquarters of GHN ("Gotta Have It Now" home shopping network). Her snug and comfortable world of afternoon tea in the Physics Department library explodes like a supernova when the disturbing truth of the case is revealed.