When Peter Michaels, the forty-two-year-old rising star of Boston's architectural world, stumbles upon an old shoebox of mementos from his first love, he is thrown into a tailspin that could cost him his upcoming marriage, his career, and even the love of his life. It's 1985, and Peter is bidding on the greatest architectural project of his career, just weeks shy of his wedding to Boston's most ambitious socialite. And yet he is still secretly tormented by memories of Maddy Marsden, the young woman he loved passionately twenty years earlier. Maddy and her family mysteriously disappeared years ago. Although he is unable to forget her, Peter has moved on with his life—until the shoebox resurfaces, and he realizes that his feelings for his current fiancée can't possibly compare to his feelings for the soul mate he loved and lost so long ago. Under deadline pressure from his career-changing project and caught up in the whirlwind of his domineering fiancée's... Views: 228
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Olivia is curious about the people moving into 16 Olcott Place. The last family there moved out in the dead of night, and the new family, the Donahues, has no idea why. Olivia becomes fast friends with Janie Donahue . . . so she's there at the house when the first of the letters arrives:—I am the Sentry of Glennon Heights. Long ago I claimed 16 Olcott Place as levy for my guardianship. The walls will not tolerate your trespass. The ceilings will bleed and the windows will shatter. If you do not cease your intrusion, the rooms will soon smell of corpses.—Who is the Sentry? And why does the Sentry want the Donahues out of the house badly enough to kill? As Olivia and Janie explore the house, they find a number of sinister secrets . . . and as they explore their town, they find a hidden history that the Sentry wants to remain hidden forever. You can lock the doors. You can close the windows. But you can't keep the Sentry out. . . . Views: 228
Death stalks the Blue Ridge Mountains as a centuries-old mystery resurfaces and murder mars the lead-up to an annual beagle competition, in a thrilling new tale from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown."As feline collaborators go, you couldn't ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown."—The New York Times Book Review A massive nor'easter has hit northern Virginia, where Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen joins groundskeeping efforts at the National Beagle Club at Aldie as the date for its springtime Hounds for Heroes veterans' benefit approaches. Harry's fellow volunteers, including her oldest friend, Susan Tucker, comprise a spirited group of hunting enthusiasts, some former service members themselves. But things take a sinister turn when, after a routine tree cleanup along the Club's hunting trails, retired foreign services officer Jason Holzknect is found dead, throat slit from ear to ear. Soon enough, another murder in their midst... Views: 228
Bethany Bradstreet is boiling mad.Business at Bethany's little soup kiosk in the train station is simmering along, but a competitor has the nerve to open up right next door!Worse than stealing her customers—they're stealing her recipes! It's not all bad for Bethany. The fresh rivalry draws the attention of a certain handsome local food critic, and she's definitely not mad about that.But when her competitor is not-so-accidentally hit by a train, Bethany is the prime suspect in an investigation that will throw Newbridge—and Bethany's tight circle of quirky friends—into a stew of suspicion.Rest In Split Peas is the second book in the Death du Jour series. If you like cozy mysteries full of soup and suspense by the sea, this is the book for you.Books in the Death du Jour series:Crime Chowder (Book One)Risky Bisqueness (short story, Book 1.5)Rest In Split Peas (Book Two)Chili con Carnage (Book Three)Lentil Death Do Us Part (Book Four) Views: 228
