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 | | A Zukie Merlino Mystery Trio
A trio of mysteries plus a bonus short story at a bargain price.
Meet Zukie Merlino, a totally tactless, seriously snoopy widow with a talent for getting herself involved in mysteries. This book includes the first three novels in the series, 'Zukie's Burglar', 'Zukie's Witness' and 'Zukie's Suspect', plus 'Halfbaked,' the R&P Labs short story in which she first appeared.
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|  | | Angelwood (R&P Labs Mysteries 4)
A case of wine with a mysterious message inside sends the R&P Labs team off to find a killer.
It was a generous gesture for Angel Winery to send their lawyer a complementary case of wine at Christmas, but it probably would have been better if it hadn't contained two bottles of moldy Merlot and a scribbled note pleading for help. The lawyer is intrigued, and fortunately, he knows where to go for help in solving the mystery. Soon the five scientists turned detectives are off on another case, this one involving a body in a wine barrel, a sexy blonde with a talent for espionage, questionable activities in the bushes and some very sour grapes.
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|  | | Because of the Bees (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 12)
Why were so many people trying to get their hands on a derelict piece of land?
Another mystery for Jacob Silver and Sarah Simm.
Businessman Hector Kirby had ambitious plans for a derelict piece of land along the River Windrush, but the current residents were determined to stop him.So was the person who had hidden something there that was never meant to be discovered. As a rare summer heatwave envelopes Oxfordshire, the local police once again enlist the help of clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah in an effort to find who has been stung into action by Kirby's plan. |
|  | | Bedrock (R&P Labs Mysteries 11)
The battle to save an old building threatens to destroy the family who owns it.
Property developer Leslie Henderson wants to demolish a quirky 1940s building and erect a modern office block in its place. But the building happens to be occupied by R&P Labs, and now its staff members face their biggest challenge yet. Mitch has an explosive evening, Phil hits a rocky patch and Virginia finally gets a piece of the action as the five scientific sleuths race the wrecker's ball to uncover a secret that will rip a family apart and cost two people their lives. |
|  | | Bolt from the Blue (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 7)
Lightning can strike in many different ways ...
Luke Alden had everything to live for -- a good job, a loving wife and a child on the way -- until the events of one stormy night destroyed it all. Some people said it was an act of God, but police in the Cotswold market town suspect it was a very human hand that started a fire and left Alden to die inside a burning building. Did someone resent Alden's good fortune enough to kill him, or was there another motive? Clock repairer Jacob Silver and his housemaid Sarah Simm join forces with the police to track down a killer who is as elusive as a bolt of lightning, and just as destructive.
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|  | | Boneflower (R&P Labs Mysteries 5)
A killer hides his crime for 35 years -- until an accidental discovery brings it to light.
A bachelor party camping trip takes an unexpected turn when the participants discover they are sharing their mountain campsite with a skeleton -- a biologist who was murdered three decades earlier. Glen Russell had been on the trail of some extremely rare flowers, and someone was determined he shouldn't find them. As the R&P staff are reluctantly drawn into the ensuing homicide investigation, witness after witness disappears, reputations are smeared and they begin to wonder if some things would have been better left buried.
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|  | | Childproof (R&P Labs Mysteries 6)
Sandra Lewis was hired as a temporary employee at R&P labs. Very temporary, as it turned out ...
Things are not going well at R&P Labs. Not only is there a body in the biology lab and a staff member suspected of murder, but someone has broken in and wrecked their most important piece of equipment--the coffeemaker. This is one case that is too close for comfort, so the scientists turned detectives swing into action again to find out what's in two mysterious bottles, why a quiet health-food advocate has a secret life as a mojito-drinking flirt and why vitamins have turned out to be very bad for someone's health.
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|  | | Cream of the Crop (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 19)
An mysterious death and an unusual crop ...
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|  | | Diamond in the Dust (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 14)
A diamond found in an unusual place brings another case for Jacob Silver and Sarah Simm.
Having been implicated in several burglaries, the notorious Bishop brothers fled the Oxfordshire countryside to disappear into the streets of Victorian London. They might have remained more or less forgotten in their home town, but twenty years on, two suspicious deaths and the discovery of a hidden jewel worth a small fortune bring them to the attention of the police again. Clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah join forces with the police in a case that takes them from the Cotswolds to London and back again to learn why the Bishops fled and why they have returned home to die.
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|  | | Dreamwheel (R&P Labs Mysteries 7)
Very odd things are happening in a hospital's sleep lab -- as the R&P staff are about to find out.
When Gabriel Webb volunteered for a sleep lab experiment, he didn't expect to find himself pursued by the Grim Reaper on a bicycle. And when, on a cold October morning, Rob Mangan offered a cup of hot coffee to a shivering stranger in R&P Labs' parking lot, he never dreamed what the consequences of his act of kindness would be. Soon the scientists turned sleuths are dodging homicidal bicyclists and exploring the fine line between dreams and reality as Virginia contemplates retirement, Mitch contemplates fatherhood and Ellis gets in touch with his inner lumberjack.
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|  | | Ends of the Earth (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 18)
Three strangers come to town; only two will leave it alive.
Three visitors check into the best hotel in a Cotswold market town, coming from far flung destinations and with no obvious connection to each other. But only two of them will leave it alive. As the links between the trio begin to emerge, clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah find themselves untangling a web of secrets and lies to discover a solution that is much closer to home than imagined.
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|  | | Fit as a Fiddle (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 21)
The quartet brought an evening of cultural enrichment to the town. Unfortunately, they also brought a killer.
The Maximus Quartet of Oxford had been invited to provide an evening of cultural entertainment to the residents of a small Cotswold market town. It all went well until the interval, when the audience was shocked to learn that the second half of the performance would not take place, due to the unexpected death of one of the musicians. Motives appear, evidence disappears and accusations fly as clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah join the town's police to discover why someone has decided the quartet would be better off as a trio. |
|  | | Forged in the Fire (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 2)
A second case for the two unusual amateur detectives in 1860s Oxfordshire.
Jacob Silver’s wrought iron garden gate disappears, and two lovers vanish into the night with a stolen horse and cart. There appears to be no connection between the events, until the gate reappears, along with a corpse and a terrified girl. Although Jacob and his housemaid Sarah Simm are both viewed with suspicion in their Cotswold market town, the local police inspector enlists their help in discovering what happened that fateful night. With the stolen gate, a stray nail and a few whispered words as the only clues, they follow a trail that leads to a murder forged in a fire of |
|  | | Four by Five (R&P Labs Mysteries Short Stories)
Five scientific sleuths, four short stories
The five staff members at R&P Laboratories have an uncanny knack for finding themselves in the middle of mysteries when they should be concentrating on scientific research. In these short stories, they tackle four cases involving a possibly poisoned pie, an unusual Christmas gift, a harmonica-playing uncle and a stolen Volkswagen Beetle. Halfbaked,Potluck,Livewire and Scoreboard were previously published under their individual titles.
'Halfbaked' introduces Zukie, the main character in the Zukie Merlino Mysteries series, and the team of Rob, Phil, Ellis, Virginia and Mitch are |
|  | | Ghost on the Green (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 5)
A man returns from the dead -- or does he?
Strange things are said to happen on Twelfth Night, although few as strange as the ghost of a man believed drowned years earlier appearing in the midst of the town's celebration, vowing revenge on his killers.
The sighting might have been blamed on the potent punch being served, but after two bodies are found, the ghost's threat has to be taken seriously. Old secrets come back to haunt more than one person as clock repairer Jacob Silver and housemaid Sarah Simm help the police follow a trail that leads to killers past and present.
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|  | | Grains in the Glass (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 16)
A spate of anonymous letters leads to murder, and another case for Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah.
The anonymous letter suggesting a respectable factory owner had broken his marriage vows was just the start. Then other letters began arriving, all hinting at misbehavior or worse, each accompanied by a drawing of a rapidly emptying hourglass. Those receiving the letters all insist the accusations are false, but a suspicious death seems to indicate there may be more than a grain of truth to them. Clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah join the police in their Cotswolds market town to discover who wrote the letters, and which one may have revealed a secret worth killing over. |
|  | | Halfbaked (R&P Labs Mystery short story)
Mrs Merlino's pie is to die for - at least that's what her neighbor says.
A street party on a hot summer evening takes a deadly turn when one of the revellers dies, apparently from food poisoning. But there’s more to the death than first meets the eye, and in this R&P Labs Mystery short story, the staff members find themselves drawn into a case of love, loathing and lemon meringue pie.
'Halfbaked' introduces Zukie Merlino, who goes on to be featured in the 10-book Zukie Merlino Mysteries series.
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|  | | Heard on High (Time Traveller Trilogy 3)
A third trip into the past takes Allie to the London Blitz -- and a decision about her future.
Alexandra Barton's Christmas is going to be different this year. She's accidentally traveled back in time to 1940, and the sound she hears is not church bells, but German warplanes over London. With bombs falling and a spy-hunting black marketeer as her companion, this promises to be a Christmas she will never forget. Or will she? |
|  | | Icefox (R&P Labs Mysteries 8)
Some family arguments heat up. The Gardeners' family feud has cooled down. Way down.
Unusual ingredients found in their products are threatening the good reputation of Gardener's Spice & Herb Company, so R&P Labs agree to investigate. But what seems like a simple job takes a deadly twist when one member of the Gardener family has a fatal accident on an icy road and another is freeze-dried along with the herbs. Before long, the scientists turned sleuths are separating a pair of battling brothers, babysitting a lively septuagenarian and finding themselves on very thin ice as they race against time to discover who is killing off their clients one by one.
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|  | | Last Seen in London (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 20)
A romantic triangle in Victorian Oxfordshire spells trouble
It was to be the society wedding of the season, but one crucial element was missing – the groom. The Honorable Thomas Stoddard was last seen on a rail platform in London, preparing to embark for Oxford, but he never arrived. Meanwhile, a laborer with a connection to Stoddard has met a sticky end on a farm in west Oxfordshire. With two bereaved fiancées, two furious fathers and a pugnacious newspaper editor involved, clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah are called upon to help the police separate the warring parties and unravel the mystery of Stoddard’s disappea |
|  | | Letter of the Law (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 11)
A matrimonial triangle spells trouble in Victorian Oxford.
Alfred Sutton's past is catching up with him -- in the form of the wife he thought he'd left behind twenty years earlier. But now she stands between him and the wealthy woman he wants to marry, and no one will emerge unscathed from this legal and marital triangle, least of all Sutton. When Sutton collapses and dies on the street of a Cotswold market town, one of the eyewitnesses is clock repairer Jacob Silver. But what exactly did he see? Jacob and his wife Sarah join forces with the police to probe Sutton's tangled love life and discover who has managed to commit a murder without leaving |
|  | | Mossfire (R&P Labs Mysteries 1)
First book in the R&P Labs Mysteries series, featuring a quintet of scientific sleuths
Rob Mangan has problems. His small independent research laboratory is on the verge of bankruptcy and his wife's gone off with the fish tank cleaner. So when Rob and his brother Phil are offered a small fortune to develop surgical dressings using sphagnum moss, they jump at the opportunity. But things that seem too good to be true usually are. In Mossfire, the first novel in the R&P Labs series, the five scientists-turned-detectives match wits with a mysterious, mint-sucking millionaire as their supposedly innocent project leads to an unexplained death, a fire and a search for a weapon o |
|  | | Nothing but her Name (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 9)
A lovers' triangle, a heated competition and a lucrative prize at stake -- what could go wrong?
Clock repairer Jacob Silver usually prefers to stand on the sidelines of life, but he gets more action than expected when he agrees to replace a missing player at a village fete 'Aunt Sally' competition. Play comes to an unexpected end when a body is discovered and the promised prize money is snatched away. Blackmail, bribery and an old secret all play their part as Jacob and his wife Sarah help find out who in their Cotswold town is determined to win at all costs -- and what the ultimate prize might be.
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|  | | Otherwise Engaged (Time Traveller Trilogy 2)
A second trip through a tear in the curtain of time
Finding a husband is the main occupation of many young ladies in 1803 Bath, and Alexandra Barton is no exception. But her situation is a little different. She is already engaged to someone, and he's waiting for her, more than 200 years in the future. Allie is determined to find her way back to him, but to do that, she must first negotiate the minefield of Georgian manners -- and avoid being arrested for murder.
'Otherwise Engaged' is the second book in the Time Traveller Trilogy.
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|  | | Out of the Ordinary (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 17)
Nothing about the Latimer case was ordinary ...
A tragic accident, murder or suicide? Amy Latimer's death was not an ordinary one, puzzling the police in her Cotswold town as they try to determine why a young woman from a wealthy family should have gone off into a forest to die. Nor was her will an ordinary one, leaving the surviving family members angry and frustrated. In an effort to unravel the true circumstances of Amy's death, clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah join the police to track down a mysterious woman and a hidden fortune, finding a motive for murder that is also out of the ordinary.
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|  | | Oxford Aqua (Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries 6)
A romantic triangle takes a tragic turn in Victorian Oxford.
On a rainy April day, an old school friend of Theo's comes seeking help from the Milestone Agency. Simon Cordell has found himself accidentally involved in a romantic triangle, an awkward situation that turns to tragedy when one of the parties is found drowned in the Thames. Theo and Rose agree to try and clear Cordell from suspicion, but with flood waters threatening to engulf Oxford, the duo find that for once, they may be in over their heads. |
|  | | Oxford Blue (Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries 1)
A chance encounter -- a new adventure in 1880s Oxford.
Rose Miles was young, wealthy, recently widowed and bored out of her mind. Theodore Stone was trying to find a way to avoid joining the family business. When their paths crossed in dramatic fashion, it seemed logical for them to join forces -- and the Milestone Investigative Agency was the result.
Oxford Blue' is the first novel in the Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries series.
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|  | | Oxford Brass (Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries 2)
Fact and fiction mix in another case for Theo and Rose.
Truth can be stranger than fiction, as Rose Miles and Theo Stone discover when the success of Theo's first published novel leads the Milestone Investigative Agency into a case involving a packing crate with unusual contents, a runaway girl terrified into silence and a businessman with a guilty secret.
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|  | | Oxford Copper (Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries 9)
Two cases ... one solution.
A young police constable is shot while walking through an Oxford park. A wealthy woman hires the Milestone Agency to find a valuable missing ring. The two events would seem to have absolutely nothing in common, but that’s before Theo and Rose discover a unexpected connection, one that could have fatal consequences. 'Oxford Copper' is the ninth novel in the Milestone Agency Victorian Mystery series. |
|  | | Oxford Crimson (Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries 4)
House hunting can be murder...
As Christmas approaches, Theodore Stone and Rose Miles are house hunting, but the property they want to buy comes with some unexpected and unwelcome features. Holiday spirit is in short supply as the Milestone Agency duo discover the deadly secrets hidden in an ordinary house on an ordinary Oxford street.
'Oxford Crimson' is the fourth novel in the Milestone Agency Victorian mystery series.
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|  | | Oxford Ivory (Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries 3)
A gambler in 1880s Oxford makes one wager too many.
It seemed a simple job for the Milestone Investigative Agency; find an undergraduate who had failed to write home since arriving in Oxford. But nothing about student Felix Burton was quite as it first appeared, and Rose Miles and Theodore Stone soon find themselves involved in the biggest gamble of their lives. |
|  | | Oxford Jade (Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries 5)
Hiring a cab in Oxford can be murder ...
When Timothy Holt hailed a hansom cab in the center of Oxford, he had no idea it would be the last ride he ever took.Neither did Irene Appleby, who only learned of it when she was arrested for his murder. Hired to clear Irene's name, Milestone Agency operatives Rose Miles and Theodore Stone enlist the help of some old friends, take part in a dramatic crime scene reconstruction and discover that traveling by cab can be far more dangerous than they ever imagined. 'Oxford Jade' is the fifth novel in the Milestone Agency Victorian Mystery series.
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|  | | Oxford Smoke (Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries 8)
A rumor proves as hard to pin down as grabbing a handful of smoke.
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|  | | Oxford Snow (Milestone Agency Victorian mystery short story)
A Victorian Christmas mystery
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|  | | Oxford Violet (Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries 7)
Theo and Rose are called upon to investigate a marriage of inconvenience.
Asked to stop an elderly relative making a fool of himself by marrying a servant, Theo and Rose soon find the Milestone Agency involved in a case of murder where everyone seems to be hiding a secret. How genuine is Harold Wright's love for the young woman he rescued from a life of poverty? Is Violet as innocent as she appears to be? And more importantly, who wants to make sure the wedding never takes place?
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|  | | Potluck (R&P Labs Mysteries short story)
Christmas presents come in all sizes and shapes ...
The R&P Labs staff are planning their Christmas potluck lunch when a stranger arrives on the doorstep with an announcement that threatens to turn several lives upside down. 'Tis the season to be wary, and the five scientific sleuths have to do some rapid research to see if one of them will be getting a very unusual Christmas present. |
|  | | Pound to a Penny (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 6)
Two fraudsters come to a small market town. Only one will leave it alive.
Gideon Young was a fast-talking con man who could convince gullible people to gamble on almost anything. But even Young wouldn't have bet on being outwitted by a clock repairer and a thief turned housemaid, as his plans to fleece the residents of a Cotswold market town go terribly wrong. A woman with a mysterious past and a sheep shearer with a grudge add to the mix as Jacob Silver and Sarah Simm help the police solve a mystery involving love, loyalty and loaded dice.
'Pound to a Penny' is the sixth book in the Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries series.
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|  | | Proof of the Pudding (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 15)
A wealthy widow, dishonest relations and a deadly dessert create a new case for Jacob and Sarah.
It was thoughtful of William and Imogen Pascoe to come to look after their Aunt Eleanor, an elderly widow in poor health. It didn't hurt that she also possessed a considerable fortune and her only son was three thousand miles away. But then things begin to go wrong, starting with the sharp-eyed neighbor who questions their motives, followed by an unexpected arrival and an equally unexpected death. As more uncomfortable truths are revealed, clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah are drawn into another criminal case, where a pudding may provide the proof needed to solve it. /p |
|  | | Pushover (R&P Labs Mysteries 10)
A mini-break at a scientific conference in California turns out to be anything but relaxing for the R&P Labs staff.
The five R&P Labs staff members travel south for a three-day scientific conference in San Diego, expecting nothing more exciting than sunshine, salsa and swimming pools. At least, they certainly aren’t expecting one staff member to disappear and another to become a murder suspect when a controversial and unpopular scientist is found dead in his hotel room. Although the R&P staff have traded the rainy Northwest for sunny California, they haven’t lost their ability to stumble over homicides, and now they’re caught up in a mystery whose solution is closer to home tha |
|  | | Return of a Rascal (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 22)
Can a rascal become respectable?
No one expected good behavior from Marcus Alden, an artist who had always enjoyed shocking the residents of his home town. But to become involved in a murder almost as soon as he returned from a four-year absence was too much to tolerate, even for those who found him amusing rather than outrageous. Can a rascal ever become respectable? That's the question, as clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah help the police discover who wants the artist permanently out of the picture. |
|  | | Sarah's Story (A Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries companion)
The town 'heretic' and a young thief team up to solve a mystery.
Hunger drove 13-year-old Sarah Simm to steal a valuable gold pocket watch. Kindness prompted Jacob Silver to offer her a job rather than see her jailed for the theft. Those two acts changed both their lives forever. 'Sarah's Story' is a companion book to 'Tools of the Trade', the first book in the Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries series, re-telling the story of their meeting and their first case from Sarah's point of view. |
|  | | Shellshock (R&P Labs Mysteries 3)
An old grudge threatens to ruin the holiday season for the R&P Labs staff in the third book in the series.
It's the season of peace on earth and goodwill toward men, except at R&P Labs, which has been drawn into the middle of a feud between two Seattle seafood restaurants. A customer has died from an unusual form of food poisoning found in oysters, and the restaurant where he had his last meal is in trouble. So is R&P, who had just tested its food and given it a clean bill of health. So as Christmas approaches, the R&P team once again find their scientific jobs interrupted by an urgent need for some detective work. Mitch goes undercover as a waiter as he and his colleagues join |
|  | | Shotglass (R&P Labs Mysteries 9)
Rich and gullible, Jason Drake seemed like the perfect client for R&P Labs. A little too perfect, in fact.
R&P Labs want a mass spectrometer, but their bank account is running on empty. Wealthy Jason Drake wants a product to remove barnacles from his yacht and is willing to pay handsomely for its development. It seems like an ideal trade-off until a corpse turns up on the waterfront and Drake disappears, leaving a trail of unpaid bills and furious women behind him. So the quintet of scientists turned sleuths go in search of their missing client, a mission complicated by a vanishing aquarium, virtual pirates and a very considerate burglar. |
|  | | Sins of the Sisters (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 10)
Why would anyone want to murder two respectable sisters? Jacob and Sarah have to find out -- quickly.
Three sisters in a quiet Cotswold town, each one hiding a secret. Three outwardly unconnected deaths. And one person silently manipulating events, as each death brings them a step closer to a potential fortune. It isn't until clock repairer Jacob Silver and his wife Sarah are drawn into the police investigation that the link between the three deaths becomes clear -- and that discovery could put one of them in danger of becoming the next victim. Sins of the Sisters is the tenth book in the Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries series. |
|  | | Spanish Sails (Time Traveller Trilogy 1)
From 2018 to 1588 -- a tale of time travel, mystery and romance.
Spain threatens to invade England, and the people of Plymouth are understandably fearful. They watch for enemy sails on the horizon and worry about spies and traitors in their midst. But one person in the city already know how events will unfold, and she has more on her mind than a potential invasion. A tear in the curtain of time has stranded Alexandra Barton in 1588, with no idea of how she got there or how to return to the present. If that weren’t enough, she has to decide whether the handsome adventurer she meets is a spy, a murderer, a figment of her imagination – or all th |
|  | | Spirit of the Season (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 8)
Death gatecrashes a Christmas Eve party in Victorian Oxfordshire.
In a season of peace and goodwill, it was shocking for residents of the Cotswold town to learn a stranger had been murdered in their midst. It was even more shocking that he died on the doorstep of the town's police inspector's home as he was entertaining guests on Christmas Eve. It appeared Daniel Keegan's only failing had been to fall in love with the wrong person, something that sends a chilling message to two of the inspector's guests. Newlyweds Jacob Silver and Sarah Simm are used to criticism, but does Keegan's death mean their own lives may be in danger? 'Spirit of the Season' is th |
|  | | Stitched Up In Style (Silver and Simm Victorian Mysteries 4)
In 1860s Oxfordshire, a new dressmaker is the talk of the town. Lucille DuBois is French, fashionable and ... framed?
French dressmaker Lucille DuBois brought a touch of glamour to the provincial Cotswold market town – at least until a corpse was discovered in her elegant establishment. Now she insists she’s being framed for murder, but the townspeople are saying they knew all along a Frenchwoman couldn’t be trusted. It falls to two other outsiders, clock repairer Jacob Silver and housemaid Sarah Simm, to find if Lucille is as innocent as she claims to be and help the local police sew up all the details of a puzzling case.
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|  | | Sweetwater (R&P Labs Mysteries 2)
A romance that started in the 1960s leads the R&P Labs staff into a hunt for both a treasure and a murderer.
Back in the swinging 60s, Virginia McClain and Neil Brewer were lovers. Four decades on, Neil is recovering from a heart attack and his thoughts return to Virginia, now the senior bacteriologist at Seattle's R&P Labs. He suggests a romantic reunion, but Virginia turns him down, only to find, when Neil is murdered, that he has left a substantial legacy to the lab. But there's a catch -- they can only receive it if they first solve a series of clues. So the R&P staff reluctantly embark on their treasure hunt and try to track down Neil's killer, while Ellis fends off the advances of an |
|  | | The Ash Cloud (China Cove Mystery 2)
A fictional crime set against the backdrop of a true event in 1980.
Brian Connell was a photographer with a short attention span where wives were concerned; he went through three of them in five years. But that didn't mean he was guilty of murder, and it didn't stop him from dashing off to photograph an erupting volcano, accompanied by writer turned detective Jessica Hughes. Her job is not only to report on the eruption, but to keep Brian out of the clutches of the law until she and partner Philip Burgess can track down a killer who is as hard to pin down as a cloud of volcanic ash.
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|  | | The Jigsaw Project
Zach lost four years of his life as the result of a scientific experiment that failed. Or did it?
Scientist Carl Zachary has just returned from the journey of a lifetime, traveling 30 years into the past as part of a telepathy project to be used by the military. Unfortunately, he can't remember any details of his trip and the top-secret experiment is branded a failure. But as he is about to discover, some journeys never end.
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