Murder by the Bay (A Jordan Taylor Novel Book 1)
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Jacinda is strong and spunky, just like her story. An ethereal series start, Firelight should not be missed. Also suitable for young adults. Psycho-sexual thriller charged with eroticism and menace. This story of two sisters begins in Bar Harbor, Maine, where Suzie is murdered.
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It continues three years later as her sister Penny, now living in New York, finds Suzie's sex diary, propelling her toward a horrifying secret. Stories From the Coast of Maine A Tale of the Great Northeast Juvenile A fictional account of St. Set from the sea country of Maine to Newfoundland. Novel about growing up black in Maine and in Harlem, examines what it feels like to be black in a predominantly white society.
Silhouette Special Editions Though she'd spent a lifetime in her flamboyant twin's shadow, Rachel Hale adored selflessly, single-handedly raising her late sister's son. But with no time for dating, Rachel couldn't give her beloved nephew the daddy he deserved, until stubborn granite-eyed Jared Carlisle from Maine discovered little Dylan was his.
Set in Maine. The members of the Lamont family are looking for personal fulfillment and freedom. A story of ethical values, greed, and personal motivation, told through the perspectives of the chief of snowmaking for the White Woods Ski Resort, the owner of White Woods, and an environmental activist with a past. Set in New York City and Maine. Marian Bartolph, a year-old Maine mother, housewife and would-be poet, runs into her first love, Myles, whom she has not seen or heard of since her youth, at a convention in New York.
She is exposed to some of the seamy side of Greenwich Village and to sexual situations both wild and predictable. She also learns something about her parents' death many years ago, with which Myles was involved. She is convinced that when she returns home, nobody in Maine will know she has changed, and she will be free to begin exploring her life.
But when the designer-turned-renovator finds clues that lead to a missing professor, she wonders if she can finish the house without getting finished off herself in the process. Avery Baker and her boyfriend, Derek Ellis, are flipping a seriously stigmatized house rumored to have ghosts. As Avery renovates an old carriage house on behalf of a soon-to-be wed friend, she stumbles across a lifeless body -- someone known all too well by the blushing bride. Avery finds a mystery behind the walls of a centuries-old house on an island that has more than its share of deadly secrets.
Full Circle series, 2. After inheriting her family's lighthouse and mansion, heiress Julia Rierdon, sister of Jake Rierdon Refuge , travels to the coast of Maine to restore the estate and turn it into a lavish inn. Temporarily separated from her wealthy fiance, Julia turns to a mysterious stranger for assistance. Motorcycle-riding handyman Trevor Kenbridge is gorgeous, infuriating, and just the man she needs to help her prepare the inn. Could he also be the right man to claim her heart? Northern Lights series, 1. Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a new life with their closest friends.
A Play in Two Acts Play set in an island on the Maine coast. Maddie Brogan, fleeing her deranged ex-husband, returns to a remote island off the coast of Maine where a childhood tragedy, which she does not remember, stirs up some of the islanders who want to make sure that she never remembers. From the moment Eden Chase arrived at Hunter's Hill in Maine, the lovely young woman fell under the dark spell of the owner and master of the isolated old mansion, Tony Hunter.
In this house of fear she was held captive by love. New England tales from the rocky headlands of Maine to the surf swept shores of Cape Cod to the quiet villages of Connecticut. Blackington was an NBC Radio broadcaster and this is a collection of tales of Yankees accumulated over his career. Atmospheric novel of literary suspense and romance. The morning after When Maisie Thomas, 17, arrives to spend the summer with her parents at Grange House, a hotel off the coast of Maine, local fishermen make a gruesome discovery: It's only the first in a series of events that cast a shadow of Maisie's summer.
Thrilling debut novel of a writer who won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for a book of short stories. A young girl is murdered in the small town of Flowering Dogwood, Maine. Eighteen years later, the murderer's identity is still a mystery and a second killing has occurred. Rachel Storrow, the investigating officer, is the daughter of the police chief who held that office at the time of the first murder. His inability to solve the case, together with his suspicions, led to his suicide. As Rachel's investigation continues, it points in directions she'd rather not go. Cassie was coming to Camp Casmaran to fulfill her mother's dying wish, not knowing that she would be initiated into a hellish occult secret society!
The Down East Murders: A Mystery Set on the Coast of Maine Second in the series. Sarah Deane, the English teacher amateur detective, is on summer holiday on a small island off the coast of Maine and finds herself investigating the murder of a cranky local artist. The Student Body The tranquil flaculty life at a Maine college is shattered for Sarah Dean and Dr.
Alex McKenzie when they find a campus ice sculpture of a Viking ship contains a well-frozen body of a girl super-student. Bodies of Water A luxury cruise along the beautiful Maine coast hits rough waters when someone plots a course for murder. The Bridled Groom Dolly Is Dead Everybody loves Dolly Beaugard. At least that's what everybody thought until Dolly's bloated body washed ashore on the same spot as the drunken Gattling brothers the day before.
Coup de Grace Academic backstabbing and murder at a bucolic New England girls' boarding school. Sarah is hired to teach English at Miss Merritt's, only to land in the epicenter of legendary French professor Grace Carpentier's reign of terror. Her passion for excellence has inspired universal fear and loathing. A student discovers Carpentier's cloaked hanging effigy, then Sarah finds a bludgeoned body wearing Carpentier's trademark cape, but the victim is not Carpentier.
Is it a case of mistaken identity?
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Murder in the Rough Takes place in Maine, partly on a golf course. Intensive Scare Unit Sarah's year-old cantankerous aunt, Julia Clancy, proprietor of the High Hope horse farm, is in the hospital in Bowmouth, Maine, for open heart surgery. While she's recovering, she is the last person to see a patient alive before he's found strangled in the lavatory, and then a shadowy figure in hospital garb slips into her room and tries to strangle her. During rehearsals at Bowmouth College in Maine of the gender-bending Romiette and Julio, student actors engaging in horseplay leave Todd Mancuso, the brilliant actor playing Mercutio, wounded.
When Sarah stumbles on a badly injured student hidden away in a stockroom on Halloween night, events take a turn for the worse. By the time the production is finally staged, a member of the faculty has been badly injured and a student has been killed. When police don't seem to care, McMorrow investigates, only to learn his new home town is a haven for hidden alliances, secret pasts, and murderous intentions.
While researching an article on unwed teenage mothers for an upscale New England magazine, McMorrow discovers what he believes to be a success story in a teenage mother named Missy Hewitt. But when Missy is murdered soon after talking with McMorrow, he begins to investigate and finds that the facts just don't add up. McMorrow's girlfriend takes a job in Portland, Maine, leaving behind an ultimatum. McMorrow rises to the challenge, signing on as the court reporter for the Kennebec Observer.
What he doesn't realize is that he is about to become a suspect when a young woman is murdered. McMorrow's search for the truth about some hemp-growing hippies in rural Maine leads him into the darkest side of the drug trade - and human nature. McMorrow travels to the sleepy town of Scanesett, Maine, when a man disappears from a tour bus.
No one seems to care, except McMorrow, who knows there's a story too good to pass up. When news breaks of the mayor's murder and police arrest Jack's longtime friend, an ex-cop, Jack's plans quickly change. Set in New York City and in Maine. McMorrow investigates the murder of a woman with ties to a very wealthy and prominent Boston family -- who might have buried their dirty secrets with the victim. McMorrow -- now working as a copywriter for the Bangor Clarion and living in a small town called Propsperity -- tries to help a runaway teen and ends up delving into the dark underworld of street teens.
Jack, his wife a social worker , and their young daughter become the target of a deranged satanist after his wife's inquiry into a child abuse case; and, McMorrow pursues a story involving a woman whose newspaper ad offers companionship for hire. Brandon Blake series Port City Shakedown: A Brandon Blake Mystery First in a new series. Set in and around the dark waterfront of Portland, Maine. Blake is a loner who lives on his old wooden cruiser. A steel magnate is murdered before he can cut his philandering wife out of his will. An astute young attorney and his friend, Korean War vet Capt.
Cal Kent, look beyond the obvious to find the murderer. Set on the rocky coast of Maine. A man watched Callie all evening long as if he knew her. That night her roommate was murdered and her nightmare began. She fled to a remote island to hide but it was also the perfect place for another murder. Cloak of Darkness Romantic suspense, set in Maine. Run for Your Life When murder strikes amongst ten people trapped on an island that has been desolated by a weapon more fearful than the atom bomb, the threat of extinction hangs over them all.
Manhattan veterinarian Gracie Taylor returns to her hometown of Idle Point, Maine, only to find that the man she loved and left on the night of their planned elopment has returned, too. Highlights the destructive side of obsessive love on innocent future generations. A Soft Place to Fall But when Kevin dies suddenly, Annie is left with bittersweet memories, never-fulfilled dreams of children and artistic fame, and massive debt from Kevin's secret gambling addiction. Planning her high-society wedding, she meets a rugged lobsterman.
A vacation from the pressures of her upcoming wedding brings Allison more entanglements than she's ever known.
A collection of haunting short stories set in fictional Vaughan, a small town on the Kennebec River in Maine. Jessica arrives in Bridgeport, Maine, from Oxford to collect the remains of her little sister, who had been tracing their family's native American roots, and to collect her nine-year-old daughter.
What she finds is a police investigation that is finding its way through tribal traditions and shape-shifting shamans. Tells the story of adolescent Esther Hastings who accepts a teaching position in the Aroostook County backwoods when her father's death leaves her and her stepmother in poverty. Another key part of the plot is set in Belfast. Christine, or Woman's Trials and Triumphs The first novel to promote every demand of the women's movement. Christine is a women's right's lecturer who founds a women's employment bureau.
One of her trials is being duped by her father and aunt who imprison her in the Augusta Mental Asylum. The Kristiana Killers Set in Maine and Canada. Two films in and were based on the book. On a Darkling Plain Samuel Jellerson, 56 and forced into early retirement, is walking in the woods behind the family farm in Maine one fall day when he witnesses a priest molesting a boy. A novel dealing with the integration of mentally-ill halfway house residents back into society, racism, infidelity, and the struggle to survive economically in a small Maine town. A sea-faring novel of Maine in the s, by a Maine actor and author and playwright.
Death by Crystal A Johannah Wilder mystery lesbian sleuth. Well-plotted mystery, evokes the romance of Maine Portland area and addresses underlying serious issues of government power and individual freedom. A Womansleuth Mystery A simple job takes Johanna into life she's been trying to forget, peopled with Russian emigres and dissidents. Waugh and Martin H. Alexandra, married to a famous painter, Phillip Barton, struggles to reclaim her new husband from the shadows of the past -- the tragic death of his first wife while walking a treacherous path.
An Emma Fielding Mystery Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years, and she's very, very good at it. A soon-to-be-tenured professor of archaeology, she has recently unearthed evidence of a 17th-century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years. But the dead body that accompanies it -- a corpse washed ashore near the site -- has embroiled Emma and her students in a different kind of exploration.
At the turn of the century, a Maine fisherman sends his three sons to sea in June, with orders not to return before September. A woman descendant of the family recounts the boys' adventure in their schooner -- storms, shipwreck, murder --as well as the father's motive and the mystery of the mother's absence. A haunting tale of a man, who while grieving the loss of his twin sister, is visited by the ghost of a young Irishwoman who died in a shipwreck off the coast of Maine in On All Hallows' Eve, a restless spirit is beckoned into the home of tortured artist Oisin MacDara, who lives in self-imposed exile on Tiranogue Island, by a candle flickering in the window.
It is the ghost of the girl whose brief life ended in a shipwreck on the island's shore more than a century earlier.
Police guard restaurant where 'Russian' couple fell ill with nerve agent-style symptoms - as male diner is in 'critical condition' How one murder left a bloody trail that led detectives to arrest dealers who were trapped by gangs Frail year-old screamed 'Why has this happened to me? Well-plotted mystery, evokes the romance of Maine Portland area and addresses underlying serious issues of government power and individual freedom. Includes utopian short story of an idealised Bangor where there's no slavery, good transportation, worldwide communication, and women remain tied to their households. Highlights the destructive side of obsessive love on innocent future generations. Our Croze Nest Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. In the Maine woods, wealthy computer guru Ty Winsloe keeps 'mythological' creatures in a glass prison, employing witches and a shaman to help him find his prey.
Love in the Asylum A manic-depressive writer and a self-deluding junkie find love and salvation in a mental hospital. Set in small-town Maine. Lucky Lunt is a third-generation lobsterman, but his world is changing too fast for him. His wife has begun selling sea-glass sculptures to tourists, his daughter is college-bound and his son has turned angry and lawless.
Lucky's own heart is failing him, too, so much that he must hire a female deckhand, the not-quite-divorced wife of the local lobster wholesaler. In short order, Lucky is in a lobster war and has kicked over all the rules: Novel about four southern Maine families during the period to As the Earth Turns Portrayal of Maine rural life in the s of one family, their children, and the decisions they make.
Fictional history and genealogy of the Emery's Bridge area of South Berwick. West of the Hill Heart-warming novel about Maine people two generations ago, simple Americans, the salt of the earth; and their experiences One White Star A novel concerned with the fundamental relationship that exists between man and God and which features a normal American woman, aged 39 in Sing Out the Glory Romance of Althea and Owen, set in a Maine valley town.
The Light Here Kindled A multigenerational story that starts and ends in an old Maine farmhouse. North Carolina author's first novel, set in the town of Locke Horn, Maine, tells the story of Evelyn Hungerford, her gifted artist brother Forrest, Ruth Benson who is in love with Forrest, their parents, and their families and friends as they go about their lives. On assignment, a photographer goes to the coast of Maine to photograph a lighthouse and is confronted with an old love.
Novel inspired by the murder of Charles Howard in Maine, and what took place in gay and lesbian communities after the crime. When actress Johanna Brady goes to Maine, where her new love, novelist Matt Lang, is writing his next best-selling thriller, she finds herself playing the role of her life as he becomes a secretive, irritable stranger, and Johanna descends into a world of betrayal, madness, and cold-blooded murder.
Novel takes place at a bass fishing lake in Bridgton, Maine. When a plane crash strands brilliant scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger, Greylen MacKeage, a sexy, medieval warrior who's been tossed through time to find the woman he's destined to love. Loving the Highlander During the chaos of time transformation, Daar lost his magical staff in a Maine pond. Since arriving and settling in their new century, Greylen, now known as Michael, has married his modern day lover. Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond.
6 Results Murder by the Bay is a new novel by Lloyd Finch. In recent years he has Murder by the Bay (A Jordan Taylor Novel Book 1). $ Kindle Edition. Upon arriving at Jordan's impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than novels. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen.
She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlander trapped in the modern world by a wizard's spell. The Seductive Impostor The first in a dazzling duo of romances featuring two sisters from the ruggedly beautiful Maine coast fictional Puffin Harbor and the men who sweep them away. This one features Rachel Foster. Tempting the Highlander She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeeper while he travels back in time to medieval Scotland.
The Dangerous Protector May Second in a duo of sister romances, set in fictional Puffin Harbor, Maine. Duncan Ross tries to wiggle his way into Willow Foster's heart -- assuming he can get past the granite wall she's erected around herself.
Only With a Highlander Oct. Story of a Maine seafaring family. The story of 4 generations of a Maine seafaring family, from young clipper captain to would-be physician who goes to work in herring factory during Great Depression. Three generations of family life on the Maine coast. A young Maine woman, reared aboard a ship, moves ashore and lives through the decline of the days of sail.
The Edge of Darkness Set in Maine, the story develops around the death of Sarah Holt, the matriarch of a small coastal village. A Wesleyan parson who at the turn of the century brings his wife and three children from England when he takes over a Methodist church in downeast Maine. Gifted with a beautiful soprano voice, a Korean-American child Fee growing up in Maine sings in a professional boys' choir.
When the choir director molests several boys in the choir, Fee and his friends are consumed by grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the choir director is arrested and imprisoned for his crimes. Years later, as Fee tries to move forward in his life, he meets a student named Warden -- the choir director's son, who knows nothing of his father's heinous crimes -- and is left with no choice but to confront the demons and ghosts of his brutal past. The Beans of Egypt, Maine The author's first novel, she writes of the olden days and the poverty in Egypt, Maine.
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts The main character runs the only going business around so by blood or money, he's pretty much got everybody by the neck. Novel examines the social climate of small town Maine. Third in the series. Presents thirty years in the lives of four main characters: Novel about a senator's wife and daughter held hostage by a wounded ultra-right wing terrorist from Maine wanted for the murder of another senator.
After California's hectic trendiness palls on them, writer Cassie Randall and her boyfriend, pop psychologist Greg Wier, settle in quaint Castine, Maine, where she meets a Czechoslovakian chaplain of Castine's Maine Maritime Academy. Historical novel set in 17th century England and in the colonial province of Maine. A daughter of Francis Martin Not sure whether this is set in Maine? Skinned , based on her research into the child trafficking trade. While bagging sawdust for mulching her strawberries, Amy Creighton uncovers the body of a young man who had come to rural Granton, Maine to locate his birth parents.
Three dramatic stories, all set in a time when the waters off the coast of Maine were dotted with the sails of working vessels, worked by men whose lives depended on the sea, and of their struggles with its capriciousness and its ruthlessness. Tales of Cedar River Short Stories set in fictional Cedar River, Maine. The Hills of Maine and Other Stories More stories of Cedar River folk. Gwen ends an affair and moves to a Maine island with her widowed mother. A Maine Novel Set in the early s.
Story of courageous young Margaret Winslow, who chose to face life alone, against almost unbelievable odds, when she decided to stay at her home on Horn Pond in Maine rather than push westward to the Ohio country in the Western Reserve. A Novel in Stories Winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. In a prison in Maine, a woman art therapist begins a relationship with a convict serving time for murder.
Her marriage is strained because her husband is a womanizer and she welcomes the convict's attention, but what if he falls in love with her? The Squabbin Bay locals meet visitors to Maine: Wayne is intimidated by Dena, a world-traveling photographer. Randi is afraid to trust Jordan, an apprentice artist. Jess is being sued by Krispin, a tourist she hit with her boat. Will rocky beginnings lead to mayhem or romance? A realistic view of a coastal Maine village. Day of the Trumpet Novel based on Colwell's ancestors' experience as one of the first Maine lobster families.
Twenty-four hours in the lives of two young women who have just graduated from high school, set in a small Maine coastal town during the s. Novel set in a small coastal Maine town, during one summer, from the point of view of three women: The mansion was cold and eerie, deliberately hidden by a thick forest and left to decay in darkness. But if they expected peace and quiet, they had come to the wrong place. In their dream house in Maine, their worst nightmates come true. Detective Holly Winter thinks a week at Waggin' Tail, a camp for canines in the scenic Maine woods, will be a vacation in pet heaven.
When a dog owner turns up dead in a freak accident, and the suspect is the victim's own dog, Holly suspects a frame-up. When Holly Winter awakens clinging to a boulder on the side of a cliff in Acadia National Park, she doesn't recognize her own beloved Malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi. She follows clues back to the guest house of a woman surrounded by an eccentric band of preservationists.
Soon, Holly finds out that she is about to become a killer's next victim. Charlie 'Bird' Parker returns in a moody thriller set in the beautifully evoked Maine woods where Bird has come to lick his wounds and recover from the murder of his wife and daughter explored in a previous book, Every Dead Thing. The Killing Kind When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots in her family history and the origins of the shadowy organisation known as the Fellowship.
Thriller set on an island 'Sanctuary' in Maine's Casco Bay. Elements are an ancient massacre, a clannish populace, a 7-foot 2-inch sheriff and a woman hoping to escape a hideous past, and revenge. The Black Angel Investigating the disappearance of a young prostitute, Charlie Parker encounters the myth of an object known as the Black Angel. Story partly set in Maine. Charlie Parker thriller set in Maine. Charlie Parker thriller, set on the border between Maine and Canada where a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place, run by a group of disenchanted former soldiers, newly returned from Iraq.
Places in the Dark In autumn of , a mysterious woman appears in the sleepy little seaside village of Port Alma, Maine, and changes the lives of two brothers forever. Set on a rocky Maine island, this novel features year-old Hannah Bryant, a successful artist who relishes her seclusion and privacy, and her relationships with her great-uncle, half-sister, and others. In , friends and relatives of the Mowlan family of Tibbetston, Maine, are shattered by a brutal murder that is rooted not only in personal animosity but also in the growing unrest in the American colonies. The Island Of Heavenly Daze To a casual visitor, the island of Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen others off the coast of Maine.
It is filled with graceful Victorian mansions, carpeted with grey cobblestones and bright wild flowers, and populated by sturdy, hard- working folks -- most of whom are unaware that the island is inhabited, according to divine decree, by angels. Unexpected hijinks and heart-warming results occur when mortals and immortals cross paths. Grace In Autumn As the townspeople prepare for winter, sacks of undeliverable mail are pouring in with different requests but the same salutation: When news of the letters spread, the townspeople divide over what to do.
Will the angels that watch over Heavenly Daze be able to help? A Warmth in Winter Story centers on Vernie Bidderman, owner of Mooseleuk Mercantile, and Salt Gribbon, lighthouse operator, who despite the vast differences in their struggles are being taught about the ultimate failure and frustration of self-reliance. Set in an island village off the Maine coast.
A coming-of-age story of a young woman who is orphaned, has an affair with an older man, marries a local boy, and is faced with a difficult decision when her former lover reappears. Author lives in Castine. Langdon Mainely Power Mystery set in Brunswick, Maine. Concerns the murder of a security supervisor at a power plant. Maggie May's Diary The discovery of a diary she wrote 18 years ago, when she was fifteen, leads Maggie May to a new awareness of who she is and what she values. Brian Kelly is leading a normal teenage life in Lowell, Mass.
In the landscape of his new home, Brian falls in love for the first time with the clever, sharp-tongued Maggie May Keogh.