Barbara D'Amato, Author, Jeanne M. Dams, Author, Mark Richard Zubro, Author Forge $24.99 (299p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2266-1
Mystery authors D’Amato, Dams and Zubro try their hand at a thriller with less than stellar results. After 9/11, Brenda Grant and Daniel Henderson, who worked in the World Trade Center’s north tower but were in a nearby coffee shop when...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $23.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3341-2
After building a readership with her stories of a contemporary American sleuth, Dorothy Martin, plying her skills in England (The Body in the Transept, Trouble in the Town Hall, etc.), Dams launched a new series with last year's Death in Lacquer Red.
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Jeanne M. Dams. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8629-3
The English Channel island of Alderney provides the setting for Dams’s charming 18th Dorothy Martin mystery (after 2015’s Blood Will Tell). Dorothy, an American who has long lived in England, and her husband, retired policeman Alan Nesbitt, start...
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Jeanne M. Dams. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8555-5
Dams’s delightful 17th Dorothy Martin mystery (after 2015’s The Gentle Art of Murder) takes the American schoolteacher and her retired policeman husband, Alan Nesbitt, to a police conference in Cambridge, England. While exploring (the fictitious) St.
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Jeanne M. Dams. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8481-7
Murder strikes the art department of England’s Sherebury University in Dams’s sedate 16th mystery featuring American expat schoolteacher Dorothy Martin (after 2014’s Day of Vengeance). Soon after Dorothy and her retired policeman husband, Alan,...
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Jeanne M. Dams. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8397-1
In Dams’s captivating 15th Dorothy Martin mystery (after 2013’s Shadows of Death), Dorothy’s husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbitt, is serving on the Crown Appointments Commission to select the next bishop of Sherebury Cathedral. When one of
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Jeanne M. Dams. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8280-6
Orkney, the group of islands just off the north Scottish coast, provides the setting for Dams’s enticing 14th Dorothy Martin mystery (after 2013s Murder at the Castle). While on holiday, Dorothy and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbitt,
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Jeanne M. Dams. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8259-2
Despite its contemporary setting, Dams’s enjoyable 13th Dorothy Martin mystery (after 2012’s The Corpse of St. James’s) features many hallmarks of the traditional British cozy. Retired American teacher Dorothy is vacationing in Wales with her...
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Jeanne M. Dams. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8185-4
Dams’s underwhelming 12th mystery featuring American-born, English-residing amateur sleuth Dorothy Martin (after 2011’s The Evil That Men Do) takes Dorothy and her husband, former Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, to London to attend a ceremony honoring
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Jeanne M. Dams. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8090-1
Dams’s mild 11th Dorothy Martin mystery (after 2011’s A Dark and Stormy Night) takes American-born Dorothy and her British husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbitt, to the Cotswolds, where they stumble on a body in an abandoned quarry. After...
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Jeanne M. Dams. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-56474-503-3
Set in the sweltering summer of 1905 in South Bend, Ind., Dams's absorbing seventh Hilda Johansson mystery (after 2008's Indigo Christmas) finds Hilda, a Swedish immigrant who's moved up the social ladder from housemaid to lady, pregnant with her...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6983-8
Dorothy Martin, with her recent knee replacements, doesn't move as fast as she used to in Dams's stately 10th mystery to feature the retired American schoolteacher living in England (after 2004's Winter of Discontent). Dorothy and her retired chief...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3373-3
Mystery NOTES Swedish maid and sometime South Bend, Ind., sleuth Hilda Johansson has a personal stake in solving her latest mystery: her brother Erik is having trouble getting used to their adopted country, and he may be hiding a deadly secret....
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3355-9
In her third mildly pleasant encounter with villainy (after 2000's Killing Cassidy), full-time housekeeper and part-time sleuth Hilda Johansson suggests that ""once upon a time"" wasn't always what it was cracked up to be. Take turn-of-the-century...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3337-5
Dorothy Martin of eccentric hat fame finds another dead body in this fifth installment in Dams's successful series (Death in Lacquer Red, etc.). Sixty-something Dorothy, an American who recently married British police officer Alan Nesbitt, resides...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3347-4
In the solid style of the best British cozies, this sixth offering in the Dorothy Martin series moves across the Atlantic to the rolling hill country of southern Indiana. Sixtyish Dorothy and her second husband, Alan Nesbitt (former chief constable...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3322-1
Dorothy Martin, known for her eccentric hats and snoopy nature, returns (from Holy Terror in the Hebrides, 1997) to delight cozy fans anew. Martin, who moved from America to England after she was widowed, has married Alan Nesbitt, Chief Constable of
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3329-0
The author of the popular and acclaimed Dorothy Martin mysteries (Malice in Miniature, etc.) begins a new series featuring a turn-of-the-century Swedish servant woman as sleuth. Hilda Johansson is a maid for the prominent Studebaker family in South...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3311-5
In her pleasurable, albeit snail-paced, third adventure (following Trouble in Town Hall, 1996), Dorothy Martin, a 60-ish expat American widow living in England, goes on holiday to the Isle of Iona and is stuck in the company of an acrimonious group...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3285-9
The ancient English cathedral town of Sherebury is a picturesque one, with its stately University, its Jacobean housing and its solid citizens, among them elderly American transplant Dorothy Martin, who was introduced in the Agatha Award-winning The
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3275-0
Drawing on American sensibilities and English tradition, Dams's debut introduces widowed American sleuth Dorothy Martin, who will delight lovers of cozies set on both sides of the Atlantic. Dorothy has moved to the fictional university/ cathedral...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author . Perseverance $14.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-880284-95-7
Hilda Johansson Cavanaugh finds herself caught between the world of her past as a housemaid and her new role as a wealthy wife in Agatha-winner Dams's delightful sixth mystery set in early 20th-century South Bend, Ind. (after 2005's...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author . Perseverance $13.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-880284-79-7
In the fifth installment of Agatha winner Dams's beloved cozy series set in early 20th-century Indiana, Hilda Johansson, head housemaid for a wealthy family and part-time sleuth, looks into the brutal murder of a popular 22-year-old...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author . Forge $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0805-4
Amateur sleuth Dorothy Martin sets aside Christmas preparations in order to look into the disappearance of her best friend's beau in Agatha-winner Dams's captivating ninth mystery to feature the expatriate American living in the medieval...
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author . Walker $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3379-5
A traditional American Thanksgiving dinner unexpectedly leads Dorothy Martin, now nearly 70 and settled in the medieval town of Sherebury with her retired police constable husband, Alan Nesbit, into a murder case as chilling as the British weather....
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Jeanne M. Dams, Author . Walker $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3367-2
Cornwall has a tradition as a setting for good mysteries, and this latest from Dams is no exception. In the seventh Dorothy Martin mystery (after 2000's Killing Cassidy), the retired Indiana school teacher and her husband, Chief Constable Alan...
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