Marcia Talley, Author . Avon $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-058739-0
Agatha– and Anthony Award–winner Talley's predictable fifth Hannah Ives cozy fails to take full advantage of its intriguing premise: the victim is discovered on the set of a navy production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney...
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Marcia Talley, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-440-23518-7
An engaging combination of domestic drama and murder mystery, Talley's second Hannah Ives mystery (after Sing It to Her Bones) centers on the plucky heroine's ability to see her family through a crisis. After Hannah's recent battle with breast...
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Marcia Talley, Author Severn House Publishers $27.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6670-7
At the start of Talley's lively seventh Hannah Ives mystery (after 2006's Through the Darkness), doughty cancer survivor Hannah suggests that her sister Ruth, newly svelte and bronze-haired spiked, prep for her coming wedding to bright young...
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Marcia Talley. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8153-3
In Talley’s lively 11th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2011’s A Quiet Death), Hannah agrees to participate in a new reality show, Patriot House, 1774, which recreates 18th-century colonial life in Annapolis, Md. While Hannah adjusts to living without...
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Marcia Talley. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8278-3
After a slow beginning, Talley’s 12th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2012’s The Last Refuge) delivers steady wit, intrigue, and shocks. Hannah, a feisty grandmother and cancer survivor, joins her two compatible sisters and 14-year-old niece, Julie, on...
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Marcia Talley. Severn, $27.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8364-3
Calvert Colony, an upscale Annapolis, Md., retirement community, provides the setting for Talley’s nicely textured 13th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2013’s Dark Passage). Retired mystery writer Nadine Smith Gray, who owns a town house in Calvert...
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Marcia Talley. Severn, $27.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8493-0
At the outset of Talley’s leisurely paced 14th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2014’s Tomorrow’s Vengeance), Hannah Ives and her husband, Paul, who live in Annapolis, Md., go looking for a vacation house along Chesapeake Bay. The couple settle on a...
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Marcia Talley. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8646-0
In Talley’s well-plotted 15th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2015’s Daughter of Ashes), Hannah agrees to help her former college roommate Susan Lockley, the owner/manager of an event-planner service, put on the Sasquatch Sesquicentennial in Flat Rock,...
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Marcia Talley. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8768-9
In Talley’s witty, well-constructed 16th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2016’s Footprints to Murder), Hannah, a breast cancer survivor and facilitator of a cancer support group in Annapolis, Md., is contacted by Claire Thompson, a Maryland state senator
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Marcia Talley. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8882-2
At the start of Talley’s mild 17th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2018’s Mile High Murder), Hannah, a resident of Annapolis, Md., whose jobs over the years have included archivist and library temp, hears from her sister, Georgina, who has just gotten...
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Marcia Talley. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9022-1
Talley’s energetic 18th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2019’s Tangled Roots) finds Hannah and her husband preparing for their monthly dinner party at home in Annapolis, Md. When their next-door neighbors, Trish and Paul Young, fail to arrive or call to...
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Marcia Talley. Severn, $29.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0795-1
The 1978 murder of 17-year-old Amy Madison, who spent her last night dancing at an Annapolis, Md., disco in the company of two Naval Academy cadets, drives Talley’s satisfying 19th Hannah Ives mystery (after 2021’s Done Gone). Forty years later, Amy’
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