Books by Rett MacPherson and Complete Book Reviews
Rett MacPherson, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-26689-9
In her fifth cozy featuring Missouri genealogist Torie O'Shea (after 2000's A Misty Mourning), MacPherson paints a vivid portrait of a town and a family with a secret. Given her history of conflict with New Kassel sheriff Colin Brooke, Torie
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Rett MacPherson, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-30171-2
Old secrets are brought to light when a drought hits the small town of New Kassel, Mo., the setting for MacPherson's sixth delightful Torie O'Shea mystery (after 2002's Killing Cousins). As the river goes down, the bones of the wreck of...
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Rett MacPherson, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-312-33410-9
At the start of MacPherson's middling ninth cozy to feature genealogist Torie O'Shea (after 2005's Thicker than Water
), the small town of New Kassel, Mo., is in a heated mayoral election. Torie has a vested interest in the outcome: she...
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Rett MacPherson, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-312-36221-8
Torie O'Shea, genealogist and president of the New Kassel, Mo., historical society, unearths long-buried family secrets when she puzzles out the strange 1920s suicides of siblings Glory, Whalen and Rupert Kendall in MacPherson's homespun...
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Rett MacPherson, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-312-36222-5
In MacPherson’s tepid 11th Torie O’Shea mystery (after 2007’s Died in the Wool
), the New Kassell, Mo., genealogist learns that her fiddler grandfather, John Robert Keith, was possibly related to the Morgan Family Players, a...
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Rett MacPherson, Author Minotaur Books $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-18677-7
Missouri historical tour guide and genealogist Torie O'Shea (Family Skeletons, 1997) brings down-home sensibilities and acute insights into small-town life when she investigates the death of a reclusive woman whose body is found at the bottom of her
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Rett MacPherson, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-26619-6
Seven-months pregnant Missouri genealogist Torie O'Shea takes time off from her historical society job to travel to West Virginia at the invitation of a family friend, 101-year-old Clarissa Hart, in this absorbing small-town cozy, the fourth in an...
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Rett MacPherson, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-30178-1
In Rett MacPherson's In Sheep's Clothing: A Torie O'Shea Mystery, the seventh entry in her delightful cozy series (after 2003's Blood Relations), her Missouri genealogist travels to Minnesota, where her Aunt Sissy has unearthed a 150-year-old ...
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Rett MacPherson, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-20513-3
As a genealogist for a historical society in New Kassel, Mo., Torie O'Shea must examine her own family's history in this third entry in MacPherson's cozy series (A Veiled Antiquity, etc.). As she prepares to host her family's annual Christmas...
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Rett MacPherson, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-15236-9
New Kassel, Mo., historical society member and genealogist Victory ""Torie"" O'Shea lives by the Show Me state's motto in this strong debut cozy. Antiques dealer Norah Zumwalt hires Torie to compile a family treeDwith particular emphasis on her...
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