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GHOST ACROSS THE WATER
Joanna Larne is driving to her new cottage at Spearmint Lake when two young men, fueled by road rage, try to force her off the freeway. She escapes without harm, but that was only the summer’s first threat. After going to the aid of a tourist who has been shot in the local cemetery, Joanna learns of the town’s resident ghost, Lieutenant Ned Seymour, a policeman whose twenty-year-old murder has never been solved. With the sound of water haunting her cottage, a vanishing tourist, and a killer whose mask is beginning to slip, Joanna can only hope that she will survive her vacation. Available from Wings ePress Amazon
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TREASURE AT TRAIL'S END
When Mara Marsden inherits a ranch from the mysterious Jules Carron, she travels to the Colorado Territory, hoping to learn more about him and about her mother's past. In the process of her search, Mara finds a frightening apparition, danger, and two suitors, one of whom may be her enemy. Amazon |
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THE CAMEO CLUE
On her first day in Maple Creek, Michigan, Katherine Kale attends the annual Apple Fair where she meets Cora Valentine at a yard sale. Later that afternoon, Cora dies after eating a poisoned caramel apple. Because Katherine was the last person to speak to Cora and almost ate a contaminated apple herself, she feels a connection to the murdered woman. The next day Katherine discovers a crushed cameo brooch buried in her yard and hears scratching sounds in the empty attic of her new house. One night she thinks she hears footsteps on the stairs. Her attempts to solve Cora's murder lead to the discovery of another murder that no one suspected had taken place. Available now from Hilliard and Harris |
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A SHADOW ON THE SNOW
Krista Marlow’s plans for a quiet winter vacation in Huron Station, Michigan, go awry when she finds a body hanging from a tree on an isolated, wooded road. An arrow has pierced the victim’s chest, and at his feet lies a bloodstained poster bearing the anti-hunting slogan, ‘Ban the Kill’. Krista’s discovery brings her in contact with a taciturn Alcona County sheriff, Mark Dalby, who alternately intrigues and infuriates her. In the cabin she inherited from her aunt, she discovers an antique radio that airs broadcasts from the past. Equally unnerving are the gunfire of the hunters who trespass on her property and the arrow she finds in the snow. One man watches her cabin from the edge of the woods, while another wants to buy her acreage. In the meantime, she learns that several people in Huron Station had a motive and the opportunity to kill the murdered man. Does one of them intend to kill her? Available from Hilliard and Harris |
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SECRET FOR A SATYR
When Libby Dorset drowns in her backyard fountain, the neighborhood children spread wild tales of a living statue, while their parents gossip about suicide. Only her next door neighbor, Cressa Hannett, suspects that a flesh-and-blood killer forced Libby into the water to her death. Puzzled by strange happenings in Libby’s now deserted house and plagued by the vandalism of a mysterious young girl, Cressa sets out to unravel the mysteries that surround Libby and her white Victorian house. Available from Hilliard and Harris. |
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SNOWHEDGE
Reeling from the fire that destroyed her collie kennel and death threats from the arsonist, Susanna Kentwood accepts an offer from a distant relative to watch over an old country house, known as Snowhedge, until it sells. Once settled in the house Susanna finds herself assailed by mysterious occurrences that culminate in the amazing transformation of the empty parlor into a room furnished and decorated for a long-ago Christmas holiday. Soon she discovers that she is sharing Snowhedge with an unhappy spirit. But does the danger to Susanna lie in the supernatural or with the vengeful arsonist who may have discovered where Susanna has gone? Available from Hilliard and Harris.
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LOVE, LOVE DEADLY LOVE
When Linnet Shellwin moves into a picturesque
Victorian house known as Valentine Villa, she looks forward to a
long and successful career teaching English in the town's middle
school, getting to know her fellow teacher, Ned Glint, better, and
adding a long-desired collie puppy to her household. Then some members
of her out-of-control ninth grade class concoct a plot to kill her,
the disconnected phone begins to ring at strange hours, and she
learns that the previous owner of the house died after eating a
poisoned cherry tart. Most terrifying of all, the phantom voice
on the dead phone tells Linnet that she is going to die in two weeks. Coming from Hilliard and Harris
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THE FOXGLOVE CORNERS MysteriesTo learn more about this series, visit the Foxglove Home |
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(book 1 in The Foxglove Corner Mysteries) When a tornado damages Jennet Greenway’s house, she moves to Foxglove Corners She's barely moved in when she encounters Deputy Sheriff Crane Ferguson, a staunch believer of law and order. While walking her collie, Halley, Jennet meets her neighbor, Camille Forester, when she stops to admire her garden. When a hidden diary surfaces, describing a wife's plans for her husband's murder, Jennet begins to suspect her new friend. As a shadowy avenger moves closer, Jennet tries to solve the mystery, thereby finding herself at odds with Crane and in great danger. Excerpt follows.
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(book 2 in the Foxglove Corner Mysteries) When Jennet witnesses the murder of an animal rights activist during an anti-fur demonstration and meets controversial Caroline Meilland, she is drawn into a dangerous mystery. Hoping to find a place for herself in the animal rights movement, she attends a meeting of Caroline's organization, M.A.R.A. Although Crane cautions Jennet about recent violence directed toward female activists, she wants very much to help animals. On the night of the Harvest Ball, Jennet finds a body on the fox trail beside a bloodstained toy fox. Jennet's involvement in the murder is now definite and deadly.
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(book 3 in the Foxglove Corner Mysteries) Soon after she rescues
a wounded collie from an isolated country road, Jennet Greenway
learns about the presence of dognappers in Foxglove Corners.
On Christmas morning, Dr. Randolph, the town's beloved veterinarian,
is murdered in his own home, and Jennet meets a sinister man,
Grimes, who becomes her enemy when she prevents him from stealing
the shelter dogs. As Jennet tries to unravel the secrets surrounding
the murder and protect her collies from the thieves, a blizzard
moves into the area. So does Grimes, determined to make Jennet
pay for interfering with his business.
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A Shortcut Through the Shadows (book 4 in the Foxglove Corner Mysteries) When Jennet's rescue collie, Winter, saves a child from drowning, he attracts the attention of a mysterious man who offers Jennet $1000 for him. Another man believes that Winter belongs to his missing sister, Alexandra. Life in peaceful Foxglove Corners turns deadly when Jennet and her dogs find the body of a young woman buried in the woods. With her possession of Winter in jeopardy, Jennet determines to find her collie's original owner, thereby interfering with a killer's plan. Amazon
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The Witches of Foxglove Corners (book 5 in the Foxglove Corner Mysteries) When aspiring book burner, Marla Holland, falls to her death on the stairs of the Foxglove Corners Public Library, nobody realizes that she has been poisoned. During her life Marla antagonized several people, including Jennet Greenway only a short time before the murder, but which one of her enemies killed her? Distracted by a battle to save Marla's collie from will-ordered euthanasia and a Halloween prankster who threatens Jennet and her dog, Jennet doesn't realize that she is in line to become the poisoner's next victim. Click here to learn more
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(book 6 in the Foxglove Corner Mysteries) When an ice storm forces Jennet Greenway off her usual route home, she finds herself involved in murder and the mysteries that surround a strange, off-the-beaten-path antique shop. A haunted painting, a puzzling apparition, a creature that prowls through the woods of Foxglove Corners, and a second murder – the mysteries pile up with the snow, until Jennet finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which there is no apparent escape.
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The Collie Connection (Winner of the Golden Wings Award, June 2009) (book 7 in the Foxglove Corner Mysteries) When she sees a blue Volkswagen stopped on a lonely, foggy country road, Jennet Greenway doesn't hesitate to go to the aid of the woman behind the wheel. But her Good Samaritan act backfires, leaving her injured, without her beloved black collie, Halley, and ultimately in grave danger.
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(book 8 in the Foxglove Corner Mysteries) When Gage Howard, new resident of Foxglove Corners, threatens to shoot Jennet's collie, Candy, for upsetting his turkeys and swimming in his pool, Jennet discovers that she is only one of the many people Howard has angatonized, bullied, and deeply wronged. Then Gage himself is shot, and, incredible though it may be, Jenet finds herself on a list of possible suspects. In the meantime, as she seeks to understand the strange haunting in a vacant Victorian house, storm clouds, both figurative and literal, began to gather, and she realizes that there is another threat in Foxglove Corners, alive and well and waiting for her.
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When Jennet rescues an abused collie tied to a tree in the woods and left for dead, she vows to see that the person who committed this outrage is prosecuted. Elsewhere in Foxglove Covners, a young girl vanishes without a clue. Ironically she had also rescued an abused collie. Is there a connection between these two incidents? And how does the mysterious woman who seeks to resurrect a defunct animal rights organization fit into the emerging puzzle? |
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