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Holidays and holy days overlap as the angels work overtime on the island of Heavenly Daze. Vernie Bidderman, owner of the Mooseleuk Mercantile, is flabbergasted when the phone rings with a message from her husband Stanley, who went bowling twenty years ago and never came home. Seventy-year-old Salt Gribbon, the cantankerous lighthouse keeper, is living with a secret - two of them, in fact: his grandchildren. As December draws to a close, will Vernie...
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Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn't know died by suicide. A tenuous link--one text--bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve years later, college friends gather to celebrate an engagement...
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YOU CAN RUN...;
The police said it was an accident-;a late-night crash on afog-drenched Mississippi highway that took the life ofRobin Spinney's deputy sheriff husband, Mac.
Two years later Robin stumbles across his journal-;and thefrantic final entry-;and she is certain Mac's death was noaccident. Terrified, she goes to the only person she can trustwith the damning evidence. In less than twenty-four hours he,too, is dead. Convinced she is in grave...
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When I looked up again, Mr. Halworth's red cap was gone. I wondered if his daughter had watched him disappear, and I turned to look at her. It took a little time for me to see that she was staring at her shoes. They were shiny shoes, and she was holding them up off the floor. One had slipped off her heel and was balancing from her toes. We sat there long enough for me to begin to feel responsible for her. At last I moved close enough to reach down...
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A note from Delia Blanchard
So many things have been happening here at our family's mansion,I can't go home to Hawaii: I've met my long-lost grandparents; learnedthe woman shot to death in the library was my aunt, not my mother;and been threatened by a blackmailing loan shark! And Shaun Murphyis back in my life-;he was hired to repair the damage after theshooting. He's been rather distant with me, but I think, with God's help, I can convince him...
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The briefest month on the calendar presents the angels with the biggest challenges on Heavenly Daze. Edith Wickam, married to the pastor of the Heavenly Daze Community Church, has her heart set on wearing a designer dress to the wedding of the year. Trouble is, the zipper won't close! Will she find a diet - and the determination - to shed those pounds? Annie Cuvier is at peace with her world until tragedy presents her with a series of life-changing...
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"EASTER BASKET MURDER by LESLIE MEIER Tinker's Cove businesses are clashing over a new Easter Basket-themed promotion to boost in-store sales, with tensions boiling over the grand prize--a mysterious golden egg crafted by a reclusive Maine artist. When the one-of-a-kind art piece is stolen, it's up to part-time reporter Lucy Stone to investigate three struggling entrepreneurs who stick out in the local scene. But a huge town scandal comes into focus...
9) On thin ice
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Twenty years ago, two weeks before their intended wedding day, tragedy tore Megan Brooks and Alec Black apart. They haven't seen each other since. Someone has been watching them, though, and attacking the members of the would-be bridal party. Megan knows she must confront her past by coming home and facing Alec, now the sheriff of Whisper Lake, Maine. He's the last man she wants to see, yet he's the only one who can keep her safe.
10) The busy body
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"It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about person in the country right now, though largely for the wrong reasons. As an independent candidate for President of the United States, Dorothy split the vote and is being blamed for the shocking result. After her very public defeat, she's retreated to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her. Her collaborator is impressed by Dorothy's...
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"Grace Holloway keeps to herself. Since narrowly escaping death at the hands of the man who kidnapped her, she's thrown herself into the small inn she runs in Rock Harbor, Maine. It's quiet, quaint and, in the off-season, completely isolated--the perfect place for Grace to keep her own secrets. But Grace isn't the only one with something to hide, and Rock Harbor isn't just a sleepy vacation town. Someone is taking young women--girls who look an awful...
12) Critical impact
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When an explosion at City Hall kills two people, all the evidence of wrongdoing points to shy make-up artist Anna Barker. Hardly the type of person you'd think of as a killer, Anna hopes with all her heart that Sheriff Stu McCabe, the lead detective, will be able to clear her. But Stu has a tormented past of his own, and he isn't inclined to trust anyone--not eve sweet, lovable Anna. He'd learned the hard way that people are not always what they...
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"They say Mackerel Sky was founded when Captain Burrbank first saw Nimuë the Mermaid and forgot the sea. Stricken by love, he moored his tall ship and made camp on the highest cliff, hoping to forever gaze upon her beauty. That camp became a settlement, the settlement a town, the town a community both blessed and cursed by their tempestuous affair. Three hundred years later, the legend of the Mermaid and the Captain who loved her still invigorates...
14) Underburn
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"Iris Flynn is an acerbic, self-sufficient seventy-three-year-old widow with a minor Hollywood career in her past and some streamlined kitchen cabinets inspired by Marie Kondo. Her composed and simplified existence is disrupted when her son Frank lands on her doorstep after his rental home is destroyed in a wildfire, the latest in a string of personal setbacks for Frank. He arrives with Logan, his young and handsome boyfriend, a featured extra on...
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Dee Rommel mystery volume 3
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"Despite her life-changing injury, Dee Rommel is as determined and scrappy as ever. Still adjusting to her new life working for her godfather, private investigator Gordy Greer, Dee is ready to try out her hi-tech running blade, returning to the annual 10K competition. A mysterious car crashes and burns in the middle of Portland, Maine's Casco Bay Bridge. A young, once-sex-trafficked woman is killed and Dee finds herself protecting orphaned Yuusuf,...
16) Megan's mate
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Calhoun sister-in-law Megan O'Riley and her young son have traveled far to become the Towers' newest residents and begin a fresh chapter in their lives. Cool as an Atlantic breeze, Megan buried her passions deep and vowed never to let her heart lead her astray again. But when boat captain Nate Fury set his course for her, not even Megan's toughest resistance could divert him. The practical lady seemed destined to be swept away by the rugged seaman's...
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Fall in Portland, Maine usually arrives as a welcome respite from summer's sweltering temperatures and, with the tourists gone, a return to normal life, usually. But when a retired cop is murdered, things heat up quickly, setting the city on edge. Detective Sergeant John Byron, a second-generation cop, is tasked with investigating the case at the very moment his life is unraveling. On the outs with his department's upper echelon, separated from his...
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When the body of prominent Portland attorney Paul Ramsey turns up in the bottom of Casco Bay, following his loss of a multimillion dollar civil trial, Byron knows it's no accidental drowning. Golden boy Ramsey had a dark side--and Byron believes the key to solving his murder lies in uncovering those secrets someone wanted buried along with him. With the brilliant Detective Diane Joyner by his side, Byron takes on Ramsey's former employer, the powerhouse...
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A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than anything. But when a teenager accuses Maeve--Maeve!--of spying on her romantic escapades in the mezzanine bathroom, she winds up laid off and humiliated. Stuck...
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"When a community center opens in town, many embrace it as a space where locals of all ages can gather and create. Others view it as a waste of taxpayer dollars. The director, Darleen Busby-Platt, is no less controversial. Intense and showy, Darleen has huge plans for her new role. But Lucy believes the woman isn't exactly as warm hearted--or qualified--as she seems. That hunch deepens when Darleen and a young employee vanish... and dismembered remains...
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