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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly, The Secret Staircase is the third Victorian Village Mystery, which finds Katherine Hamilton discovering a long-dead body on a hidden staircase. Kate Hamilton is feeling good about her plans to recreate Asheboro, Maryland as the Victorian town it once was. The town is finally on her side, and the finances are coming together. Even two recent murders aren't enough to discourage her: after she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The first in a brand-new series from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! Katherine Hamilton's goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheford, Maryland. Fifteen years later she's got a degree in hospitality management and a great job supervising every aspect of the day-to-day operations of a high-end boutique hotel on the Baltimore waterfront. Then her high school best friend asks her to come talk with the...
3) Fatal roots
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Series
Language
English
Description
A few months ago, Boston expat Maura Donovan was rekindled with her mother after more than twenty years of absence. Since then, Maura has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan's. But now, her mother has returned--and she's brought Maura's half-sister in tow. To make matters more confusing, a handful of Cork University students are knocking on Maura's door asking about a mystical fairy fort...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2010], ©2010
Language
English
Description
"At The Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques, fundraiser Eleanor "Nell" Pratt solicits donations-and sometimes solves crimes. When a collection of George Washington's letters is lost on the same day that an archivist is found dead, it seems strange that the Society president isn't pushing for an investigation. Nell goes digging herself, and soon uncovers a long, rich history of crime. "--Author's website.
5) A late frost
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Seeds of Deception returns with a story of orchard owner Meg and the search for a poisoner.The usually quiet town of Granford, Massachusetts, is even drowsier during the colder months. But this year its in for a jolt when Monica Whitman moves into town. Shes a dynamo who wants to make friends fast in her new home, and she throws herself into community activities. Meg Corey, now Chapin after her marriage to...
Author
Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a construction worker who found a peculiar metal object while excavating an old privy in the museum's basement is murdered, Nell Pratt, president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society, investigates in order to stop a killer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Boston expat Maura Donovan came to Ireland to honor her grandmother's last wish, but she never expected to stay in provincial County Cork -- much less to inherit a house and a pub, Sullivan's, in the small village of Leap. After a year-long struggle to stay in the black, Sullivan's is finally thriving, and Maura has even brought back traditional Irish music to the pub. With a crop of new friends and a budding relationship with handsome Mick Nolan,...
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Language
English
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Description
While visiting the small Irish village where her Gran was born, Maura Donovan takes a job in one of the local pubs where she can get to know the people who knew her Gran, but instead, finds herself mired in a homicide investigation when a body is discovered in a nearby bog.
Author
Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society discovers it owns some unique real estate, a deadly plot unfolds . . . Society president Nell Pratt believes life is finally going her way. Everything’s running smoothly at work, and her love life is thriving. Then some unexpected news rocks her foundation. Two members of a local neighborhood rescue program, Tyrone Blakeney and Cherisse Chapman, inform Nell that her society owns an abandoned row house...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Winter still has a firm stranglehold on the small town of Granford, and newly married orchard owner Meg Chapin is restless to begin her spring pruning and planting, while Seth busies himself with a new project of his own. But their relative peace is shattered when a gunshot breaks the winter silence and they discover the body of a dead woman on their land. What's just as troubling is that the state police have hushed up the murder and are warning...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Kate Hamilton's plans for recreating Asheboro, Maryland as a Victorian village and tourist attraction are progressing nicely, and most of the townspeople have become supporters. There's only one problem: money. Kate had laid out what she thought was a reasonable plan and had built in a financial cushion in her estimates, but the over-runs had exceeded everybody's expectations, and the town coffers are empty, while the opening date looms closer and...
13) Fire engine dead
Author
Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the entire collection of the Fireman's Museum ironically goes up in flames, Nell Pratt discovers one of the charred pictures isn't the one that was originally exhibited. But getting to the bottom of the mystery is bound to get Nell burned.
14) An early wake
Author
Series
County Cork mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
"Pub owner Maura Donovan may have Irish kin, but she doesn't seem to have the luck of the Irish. Who could have foreseen that bringing live music back to Sullivan's Pub would lead to a dead musician? Summer is ending in County Cork, Ireland, and with it the tourist season. Expat Maura Donovan is determined to keep Sullivan's Pub in the black as the days grow shorter--but how? When she hears that the place was once a hot spot for Irish musicians who'd...
Author
Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When Nell reads the obituary of a former board member, Adeline Harrison, she makes a mental note to send flowers and doesn't think twice about it - until FBI agent James Morrison shares his suspicions about the nature of Adeline's death. It turns out that a number of other members of the local cultural community have died in the last few months, under similar circumstances. Soon Nell uncovers what seems to be a plot to rid Philadelphia of harmless,...
16) Razing the dead
Author
Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a powerful developer approaches the Society to make sure the old dairy farm he wants to level is not hiding any archeological or historical surprises that could derail the project he's planning, Nell Pratt decides to make time to personally accompany him to the proposed site. But when they get to the property, they stumble upon a startling discovery--a body floating facedown in a pond. The dead man turns out to be an amateur history enthusiast,...
Author
Series
County Cork mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"After calling Ireland home for six months, Boston expat Maura Donovan still has a lot to learn about Irish ways -- and Sullivan's Pub is her classroom. Maura didn't only inherit a business, she inherited a tight-knit community. And when a tragedy strikes, it's the talk of the pub. A local farmer, out for a stroll on the beach with his young son, has mysteriously disappeared. Did he drown? Kill himself? The child can say only that he saw a boat. Everyone...
18) Sour apples
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Pub Group
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Language
English
Description
Apple orchard owner Meg Corey steps in to investigate after her neighbor, local dairy dame Joyce Truesdell, is found dead. At first it was believed Joyce was killed by a kick to the head by one of her cows, but then the autopsy shows the fatal blow came from a weapon.
19) Let's play dead
Author
Series
Museum mysteries (Sheila Connolly) volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"When Nell Pratt is invited to the beloved Philadelphia children's museum, Let's Play, for a sneak preview of a newly installed exhibit based on the Harriet the Hedgehog book series, she's in for quite a shock. In the middle of her visit, one of the installers gets a severe jolt from working on an electrically animated forest creature. He recovers, but when a second man gets zapped—this time fatally—it sparks a homicide investigation, with Nell...
Author
Series
County Cork mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bostonian Maura is beginning to feel settled in her new Irish home, just in time for summer tourist season to bring fresh business to her publishing But the first traveler to arrive is thirsty for more than just a pint of Guinness. Althea Melville is hot on the trail of a long-lost Van Dyck painting. Maura agrees to help Althea meet with the residents at the local manor house, the most likely location of the missing art. But when the manor's gardener...
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