Kate Forbes
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2005."This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--P. [4] of cover.After learning about the American Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Massachusetts, Judy Moody makes her own Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough to have more freedoms, such as a higher allowance and her own bathroom. "Early Chapter Books" collection--look...
3) Beachcomber
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christy Petrino hadn't planned on a vacation on Ocracoke Island, but when she learns her fiancé and boss, suave Michael DePalma, is a "made man" and the Philadelphia law firm where she works is a front for the mob, she breaks her engagement and quits her job. But no one walks away from the DePalma family business so easily....Only if she delivers a locked briefcase to a motel on Ocracoke Island will she -- and her mother and sisters -- be free.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 9
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a puppy who is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 217 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a wave of spring tilling and planting sweeps over Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen is especially excited: this is her first year harvesting grapes to sell. But then a health crisis sends her reeling into the forbidding world of hospitals and doctors, treatments and procedures. Although surviving this journey will be tough, Harry will have lots of support. Others will have worse luck.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rita Mae Brown and her feline coauthor Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. As feline collaborators go, you couldn't ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown." The New York Times Book Review. With the New Year just around the corner, winter has transformed the cozy Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia, into a living snow globe. It's the...
7) Hiss & tell
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a series of mysterious deaths spoil the Christmas season in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her beloved cats and dogs lend the police a helping paw in this exciting holiday mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Christmas is coming and Harry's to-do list is a mile long. The days are filled with delivering holiday baskets to neighbors in need, chopping down the perfect tree with her best friend,...
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth has discovered that navigating the rules of high society is the biggest con of all. She knows she can play the game, but so far, her only success is Priscilla Knight, a dedicated young suffragist recently widowed for the second time. Her beloved first husband died in a tragic accident and left her with two young daughters--and a sizable fortune. While she was lost in grief, Priscilla's pastor convinced her she needed a man to look after...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
305 pages; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An exciting new book in the series featuring Elizabeth Miles, con woman turned Lady, from the beloved national bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries. Elizabeth Miles finds herself in a position no con can help her escape. Her beloved fiancé, Gideon Bates, is awaiting his turn in the draft to fight in the Great War. Elizabeth is finding it hard to think of anything else, but Gideon has thrown himself into his work, preparing wills for soldiers...
11) Breathing room
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 369 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Isabel Favor is at her lowest. Her fiance has found someone else, her accountant has run off with her money, and her self-help empire is in shambles. She flees to Italy but disaster lies ahead in the form of actor Lorenzo Gage, Hollywood's favorite villain.
Author
Series
Nikki Boyd files volume 4
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During Garrett Addison's first week on the job as a criminal investigator for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, his team is called out to a murder scene of a young girl. She's the third victim in a string of disappearances with one thing in common -- a Polaroid photo of each victim left behind at the crime scene. The FBI is pulled into the case to help, and Garrett finds himself working with Special Agent Jordan Lambert, the woman he once loved....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sarah Booth has traded in hosting this Christmas season for a road trip with her besties. Each little Delta town has a special Christmas activity, and Sarah Booth's bff and detective partner, Tinkie, has arranged to rent a limo for the gang and drive to Columbus, MS, to stay in a B&B. Visions of Christmas shopping, parade floats, and romantic rendezvous are already dancing in their heads. But Christmas cheer soon turns to Christmas fear when, at...
14) Charmed bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Private detective Sarah Booth Delaney doesn't quite know what to expect when she's urgently called to a school board meeting for Sunflower County, Mississippi. But she certainly wasn't expecting this: three Wiccan sisters are in the midst of a showdown with the Board of Education. They want to open a Wiccan school in Zinnia, Mississippi, and the conservative town vows to do anything necessary to stop them from opening their school. Sarah Booth and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 237 p. ill. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch a Christmas tree at the tree farm run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients, when they find the tree they've chosen grimly decorated with a dead body. Can Harry, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and corgi Tee Tucker save the season from a killjoy who's decided to gift the festive little town of Crozet, Virginia, with murder?
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Alala Diakos, a visiting professor of Greek literature, comes to teach at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, it doesn't take long for controversy to follow. With her fervent feminist ideals and revolutionary leanings, she quickly earns the admiration of many- and the ire of others. During a speech in the park, in which Alala tries to organize the women of Zinnia to demand equal pay, the crowd gets unruly, with men heckling the professor. And...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; [large print] 23 cm
Language
English
Description
""Detective Josh Solomon always believed his wife's death was the result of a home invasion. But when he is pulled into a case with striking similarities, it doesn't take long for him to realize the chilling truth--the attack that took his wife's life was far from random"--Provided by publisher"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second honeymoon of Harry and Fair Haristeen in Shelbyville, Kentucky, goes awry when they attend a saddlebred show and their friend Joan's treasured pin goes missing, a horse groomer is found murdered, a movie star's mare is abducted, and the INS arrives looking for illegal aliens.
19) Whisker of evil
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xiii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, her cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and her dog Tee Tucker, decide to do their own investigating when they stumble across the body of handsome local horse breeder Barry Monteith while out for a morning walk.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A busy holiday season for Harry, her husband, and her posse of pet detectives is interrupted by dark secrets from the community's past involving a cold case and a twenty-five-year-old love triangle.