Alice Duncan, Author . Zebra $5.99 (315p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7277-5
Set against the backdrop of the Chicago World's Fair, this genteel romance sets prissy Rowena Belle Monroe on a collision course with Yankee photographer Win Asher. Forced by financial circumstances to earn her living as a nanny, Belle is...
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Alice Duncan, Five Star, $25.95 (216p) ISBN 978-1-59414-926-9
Duncan, who has written romances, mysteries, and westerns under a variety of names, combines all three genres in this slight effort. In 1923 New Mexico, 19-year-old Annabelle Blue works in her family's dry-goods store, reads voraciously, and dreams...
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Alice Duncan. Five Star, $25.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-59414-959-7
Upper-crust Bostonian Mercy Allcutt, who works as a secretary for policeman-turned-PI Ernest Templeton, walks a fine line between endearing naïveté and annoying simplemindedness in Duncan's by-the-numbers third cozy set in 1920s Los Angeles (after...
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Alice Duncan. Five Star, $25.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2570-6
In Duncan’s sixth 1920s mystery featuring Pasadena, Calif., spiritualist medium Daisy Gumm Majesty (after 2011’s Genteel Spirits), Daisy’s wealthy pal, Harold Kinkaid, invites her on a Middle Eastern tour. Daisy’s unhappy WWI-vet husband, Billy, has
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Alice Duncan. Five Star Publishing, $25.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2798-4
In Duncan’s amiable seventh Daisy Gumm Majesty cozy (after 2012’s Ancient Spirits), her heroine, a church choir member and medium living in 1923 Pasadena, Calif., is surprised when a séance she’s leading attracts a real ghost. Daisy, whose husband,...
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