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(0)Peg Herring
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Shortly after learning his brother-in-law, Will Clark, was murdered, Simon Maldon is called into Queen Elizabeth's presence. Trusting her old friend's judgment, the queen wants Simon to go with her delegation to Scotland and make an objective assessment of the character of Mary, Queen of Scots. Despite his pleas of family concerns, Elizabeth insists he must go. Reluctantly, Simon obeys his monarch's command. After Simon sails for Scotland, his
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Paranormal mystery--When newly-arrived soul Cassie Parker refuses to believe she's no longer alive, Dead Detective Seamus is sent from the Afterlife to learn what happened to her. He soon suspects it was murder, but why would someone kill the costume mistress at a small Toronto theater?
The Dead Detective Series (this is Book #3 but they can be read as stand-alones) is in the realm of Magical Realism, which means they're pretty normal murder mysteries...
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Simon Maldon is a physician's son. Elizabeth Tudor is Henry VIII's daughter. Thrown together by circumstances, the two form an odd friendship. When it's learned that murdered women are being left in public dressed as nuns, no one can say what it means. Is the killer mocking the king, who ordered two of his former wives beheaded? Is it a message concerning England's religious controversy between Protestants and Catholics? Is it a madman, whose motives...
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In this third book of the Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries, Elizabeth Tudor is declared a traitor and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Visiting the princess secretly, her friend Simon Maldon discovers another cause for worry. His friend Peto the Pope has been arrested for a murder he swears he did not commit. As Simon frets over Elizabeth's peril and Peto's certain execution, his wife Hannah deals with her own mystery after taking in a frightened
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As England's young king struggles with illness, one of his advisors is poisoned. Elizabeth Tudor, fearing her brother was the target, asks her old friend Simon Maldon to investigate the crime. Aided by his fiancée, Hannah, Simon, now an apothecary's apprentice, braves the corridors of power to protect the king. Power is all-important to the inhabitants of Whitehall Palace. Families band together to collect and keep it, from the well-known Dudley
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How do years of sharing everything, from genetics to hairbrushes, result in people so different from each other?Three sisters raised in Michigan follow completely different pathways. The oldest, Nettie, threw away every advantage she had when she was still in her teens, and her mystified parents and siblings watched in horror as she spent years in squalor and degradation. Middle sister Ruth fell in love with a wealthy man and now has a life beyond...
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From the author of mysteries such as Killing Silence and Her Highness' First Murder comes a compelling women's fiction story of friendship, love, loss, and the life-changing power of helping others. This powerful novel, which spans the decades from the 1960s to the present, plays out in two primary locations, Thailand and Michigan's Mackinac Island.On a cruise ship in the Gulf of Thailand, passenger Elvera Tharp has a reputation for being difficult-almost...
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When a long-time friendship dies, does murder follow?
Decades past junior high in a small, northern Michigan town, Caroline Batzer is snubbed by her best friend. At first confused, she's later stunned to learn Sarah Leigh betrayed her in a way she'd never have suspected. In an all-too-public setting, Caroline airs her anger at the woman everyone else in town considers saintly. When Sarah disappears soon afterward, it looks like Caroline murdered her....
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Scotland's King Macbeth has been dead for a decade, yet his legacy changes forever the lives of his twin nieces, Jenna and Jessie MacFindlaech. Viking raiders on a blood feud come to their home in the Cairngorm Mountains, intending to kill all males of Macbeth's line. Finding only female descendants in the clan-hold, the Vikings declare they will seek out the older sister, who has two sons. Knowing she must somehow warn Tessa, Jenna escapes the marauders....
11) Killing Silence
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Loser washes up in gas station restrooms, wears Salvation Army giveaways, and eats what she can find, beg, or filch. Life on the streets of Richmond, Virginia, is hard, but it's better than facing her demons. That is, until she meets Bryn, a little girl who steals her heart. When Bryn's daddy is accused of murder, there's no one willing to help except Loser. Penniless, almost mute, and terrified of failure, Loser attempts to gather her resources and...
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From the author of KIDNAP.org and Pharma Con comes Book #3 of the Kidnap Capers. Readers of the series know the lovable misfits who make up the Kidnap Gang: Robin, a former legal secretary; Cam a guy with developmental delays; Hua, a former victim of human trafficking, Tom, a disabled veteran; and Luca, a woman with an "interesting" past. In an earnest desire to right wrongs for the little guys, the Kidnap Gang abducts cheaters, shows them the error...
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When Dead Detective Seamus is asked to investigate the death of wealthy businessman William Dunbar, he is more than willing. Seamus finds the Afterlife pleasant but a little boring, and he looks forward to chances to return to Life and find out for murder victims why they died and who is responsible. This time there's an additional request: Will he take a detective-in-training along? Reluctantly he agrees to meet Mildred, who seems charming if a little...
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The three following tales complete the story of Seamus, Dead Detective, as he comes to terms with Life, Death, and What Happens Next.
THE DEAD DETECTIVE AGENCY: Tori wakes up dead, and she needs to know why. Seamus is there to help her find out.
DEAD FOR THE MONEY: Mr. Dunbar was pushed off a cliff, and he's pretty, sure it was someone after his money… Seamus takes on the job of finding out the truth, along with an apprentice detective, who isn't...
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Mercedes' boyfriend/co-adventurer Colm disappears somewhere in Britain. His last call is cryptic, the last mail he sends even more so: copies of papers once owned by Charles Dickens. They have nothing to do with the famous writer, but when his namesake and current owner of the documents is murdered and the originals stolen, police think Colm might be responsible.
In order to find Colm, Mercedes has to retrace his steps and learn secrets the great...
16) Killing Memories
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Hailed as the "Homeless Hero" after her adventures in Book #1, Loser, also known as Beth Lousiere, needs to recuperate from the stress and her injuries. She returns to West Virginia, where her foster mother left Beth her home and property. When another of Marta's foster daughter's shows up, Loser is drawn back into danger, with a teenage boy to rescue and a criminal operation, to uncover and defeat.
Loser has people, who want to help: her lawyer Bert,...
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Uneasy and bored with life on the ship, Seamus decides it's time to do what he's been avoiding for decades of Earth Time. Though he knows his wife and best friend teamed up to murder him, there are things about the crime he doesn't understand, as well as emotions he hasn't yet been able to face. With fellow Dead Detective Ronnie to assist, Seamus returns to 1953 to face his memories and answer questions that remain about his death.
In a world much...
18) Macbeth's Niece
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Tessa MacFindlaech meets three witches on a Scottish hillside as she leaves her home to join the household of her uncle, Thane Macbeth. The weird women make predictions for her future, but Tessa sees no likelihood of truth in them. After all, the first crone claims Tessa is on her way to England, which is in the opposite direction.
Surprises await that make her reconsider the prophecies. When Tessa discovers that Jeffrey Brixton, a guest in her uncle's...
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Secretive men, ancient spies, a huge cache of treasure, and, most amazing of all, secrets concerning England's greatest playwright await readers in SHAKESPEARE'S BLOOD.
While vacationing in Britain, Mercedes Maxwell discovers a corpse in an old castle. Soon afterward, her traveling companion is murdered, and Mercedes is horrified to learn the police find her their most likely suspect.
An old journal discovered in her luggage might connect the two...
20) Pharma Con
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In the follow-up to *KIDNAP.org*, Robin and her gang take on an unscrupulous pharmaceuticals manufacturer, Neil Preston, who lives on a fortress-like estate and is a big fan of Josef Stalin. As their plan for making Preston change his dishonest ways develops, Robin runs into an old lover. Seeing Darin again makes her question her future. Should she leave crime-fighting behind and try to return to normal life?
As the gang members work out their roles...