Washoe County Library System

"In this contemporary novel, widowed orchestral violinist Isabel Delancey finally finds true serenity and love only when she loses what she thought she needed most"--

"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller,"* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is helped...

Strange things happen when Nancy investigates threats against her father and an old house said to be haunted. Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.

With the generous inheritance from an elder client, estate lawyer Sarah Anderson buys a majestic old house that was build in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah's passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home's every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes...

Having finished transforming Windy Corner, the grad Victorian mansion she inherited from her great aunt, into a writers' retreat, widowed literature professor Emily Cavanaugh is ready to receiver her first set of guests during Christmas week. But her careful planning is thrown into disarray by the unexpected arrival of outrageous true-crime writer Cruella Crime, whose unpardonable rude behaviour is causing great offence. As a ferocious ice storm...

In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden clues, interview witnesses, and find the killer before she...

Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...

Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs-- a cozy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of motel rooms-- and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But when Odd Thomas and company stop to spend the night, they discover that there's more to this secluded haven than meets the eye-- and that between life and death, there is something more frightening...

Lea's friend Camila visits from Brazil and together they make a mysterious discovery in an old mansion, but when Lea's best friend Abby hits it off with Camila, Lea feels left out and tries to reconnect with her friends and solve the mystery, too.