Nancy Pickard
Author
Language
English
Description
One beautiful summer afternoon, from her bedroom window on the second floor, Jody Linder is unnerved to see her three uncles parking their pickups in front of her parents' house. "What is this fearsome thing I see?" the young high school English teacher whispers, mimicking Shakespeare. Polished boots, pressed jeans, fresh white shirts, Stetsons- her uncles' suspiciously clean visiting clothes are a disturbing sign. The three bring shocking news: Billy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a cattle baron leaves a huge ranch in his will to the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, amateur sleuth Jenny Cain leaves Massachusetts for the wilds of Kansas to investigate the bizarre bequest and finds herself probing the brutal murder of the foundation's benefactor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jenny Cain was thrilled about the Liberty Harbor Restoration, a picturesque collection of shops, museums and restaurants. But when a runaway trunk barreled into the project committee, it seemed someone in Port Frederick was out to sink Liberty Harbor. Then a wooden cross raised in unholy wrath made the message clear. Murderously clear. As director of the town's Civic Foundation, Jenny should have been glad when police detective Geof Bushfield reeled...
7) I.O.U
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Cain searches for answers surrounding her mother's death and the bankruptcy of the family business.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
504 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Cain is shocked by the appearance of David Mayer, who claims to be her policeman husband's son and wants him to help investigate his parents' alleged murder/suicide, until carefully placed clues lead them to another violent murder.
Author
Series
Jenny Cain mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ordinarily Jenny would be overjoyed at the prospect of spending time in New York, her favorite city in the whole world. But her good friend Carol Margolis has just been killed - a mugging gone wrong, according to the police - and Jenny's been tapped to step into Carol's shoes as director of the Hart Foundation. The position is temporary, but it could become permanent. It seems a fitting tribute to Carol, and more important, a chance to find out whether...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ever-agile Jenny is currently juggling the first ever Port Frederick Fall Festival and the request of her friend Nellie Kennedy, who wants help in getting rid of "God's Highway," a controversial hiking/bike path. Lately, a series of fatal accidents on the path has caused the town to look at closing it, a move environmentalists, hikers, and bikers vehemently oppose. A mysterious fire, strange goings-on in the town, and murder prove almost too much...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1987.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
New England sleuth Jenny Cain must discover who murdered Sylvia Davis and hid her body in John Rudolph's coffin and why 130 bodies are missing from the local cemetery.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years after the discovery of a female murder victim near Small Plains, Kansas, the girl's grave has become the source of strange miracles and legends, until the return of prodigal son Mitch Newquist threatens to bring old secrets to light.
14) The whole truth
Author
Series
A Marie Lightfoot mystery volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A true crime writer investigating the case of a child killer uncovers some unsettling facts while probing the evidence and soon finds herself in the sights of a killer who is still very much at large.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While visiting the Rhode Island coast, cook/sleuth Eugenia Potter cohosts a tasting party with an old acquaintance--but he's late. Unfortunately, someone has murdered the would-be cookbook writer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When one of her guests dies after eating her twenty-seven ingredient chili con carne, Eugenia Potter makes it her quest to find the person or persons who added a twenty-eighth--and fatal--ingredient to the recipe.
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
iv, 262 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Nurse Keate arrives at the Thatcher estate to care for a man with a bullet in his shoulder, she's told that he shot himself accidentally--but when the convalescing man is murdered soon thereafter, it becomes clear that the only "accident" was his not being fully killed the first time around. A murderer stalks the manor and yet the rest of the family isn't the slightest bit alarmed; instead, they seem intent on concealing the crime and adding...
19) Manhattan mayhem
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From Wall Street and Greenwich Village to Chinatown, Harlem and beyond, the streets and skyscrapers of Manhattan are brimming with crimes and misdemeanors.