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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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The never-changing ways of Silver Bush are of great comfort to Patricia Gardner, but when she develops scarlet fever, copes with her mother's illness, and falls in love, tremendous changes occur.
2) Mistress Pat
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
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The sequel to Pat of Silver Bush, and describes Patricia Gardiner's life in her twenties and early thirties, during which she remains unmarried and takes care of her beloved home, Silver Bush, on Prince Edward Island. Pat hates change as much as ever, and finds in Silver Bush a refuge where she is somewhat shielded from it, but changes happen nevertheless. In the course of eleven years, new servants, new neighbors and new lovers come and go. When...
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It's Oscar night in Hollywood, and after years of climbing the entertainment ladder, media darling Meredith Johansen has finally taken home a gold statue.
Across town, rookie Detective Patricia Norelli is working late with hopes of breaking through her own glass ceiling with a promotion in the LAPD. Their paths unexpectedly collide when Johansen is discovered dead in her Bel Air home, only hours after Oscar night
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Pat of Silver Bush tells the story of Patricia Gardiner; who hates change of any kind and above all loves her home; Silver Bush. She very much enjoys living there with her loving family and their housekeeper Judy Plum; who has a magical and mythical tale to suit any occasion. However Pat must learn to cope with the tragedies and changes that disrupt her warm and happy home. Mistress Pat is the sequel to "Pat of Silver Bush." Patricia Gardiner is now...
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Paid in Spades is a 2020 Shamus Award Nominee.
Thriller Award-winning knight-errant Pat Gallegher (Juicy Watusi, Wet Debt) returns in this steamy, action-drenched New Orleans tale. A failed seminarian, retired forensic psychologist, and disgraced college professor, Gallegher left security behind to become a jazz cornetist in a dive bar off Toulouse Street in New Orleans. To balance the flimsy scales of his brittle karma, Pat Gallegher now finds the...
6) Forevermore
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First Place Winner of the 2013 Chanticleer Book Award for Best Historical Mystery. Finalist in the Best Digital Fiction Award, New Generation Book Awards, 2014.In post Civil War New York City, Detective Pat O'Malley is living inside Poe's Cottage in the Bronx. O'Malley is haunted by Poe one night, and the detective finds a strange note. As a result, O'Malley decides to prove that Edgar Allan Poe did not die in Baltimore from an alcoholic binge but...
7) The Cues
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The death of a friend throws Pat Riordan into a hunt for the truth behind local unsolved missing persons cases. Will he solve them in time?
The Cues finds teacher Pat Riordan settling into a new post at the local university. Having exonerated himself a year earlier as a suspect in a missing persons case, Riordan is asked by a colleague's widow to look into her husband's death-and so, reluctantly, Riordan once again finds himself...
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When a mysterious encounter with female jogger Penny takes a paranormal twist, Riordan, our teacher-turned-detective, becomes a prime suspect for her kidnapping. Pieces start to fall into place, but answers lead to more questions as Riodan struggles to exonerate himself.
The case against him is doggedly (and maliciously) spearheaded by small town Detective Sergeant Cromwell, whose tenacity is only matched by his increasingly sinister aspect.
This...
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Why 8,000+ Readers Have This Book This is an historical mystery that pushes the envelope with a worldwide eugenics conspiracy. It has a mystical element that includes Jewish folklore. Pat O'Malley is an interesting and compelling sleuth. The historical characters used are accurate and relevant. Musgrave brings the 1860s in New York City to life in his mysteries.
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A PI and his wife just want some fun at the Kentucky Derby-but murder is a horse of a different color . . .
Private investigator Pat Abbott and his wife, Jean, are looking forwarding to seeing Pat's old World War II buddy and taking in the splendor of the Kentucky Derby-but they didn't bet on murder. When Pat's friend, Dr. Seth Godwin, tells them about the death of one of his patients, a self-destructive alcoholic whose estranged wife is accused...
13) The Amber Eyes
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A San Francisco couple sorts through scandals to find a killer in this classic mystery starring "one of the more interesting married teams of detectives" (Thrilling Detective).
Pat and Jean Abbott's new San Francisco neighbors give new meaning to the term dysfunctional family. And now, amid the mess of exes, stepchildren, rivalries, and resentments, there's been a tragic death-little Lisa, a vulnerable ten-year-old, has fatally overdosed on cough...
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In wartime New Orleans, a crime-solving couple looks into an heiress's death in a tale of "family skeletons, bittersweet romance, and [deft] sleuthing" (Saturday Review).
Marine Lt. Pat Abbott is currently stateside, posted in New Orleans, where the French Quarter is packed with wartime crowds seeking a bit of entertainment. But when Jean finds a body at the home of the prominent old Creole family with whom the couple is staying, Pat must return...
15) Black Cypress
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A family gathering and a body on the beach keep the sleuthing couple busy in this tale.
Pat and Jean Abbott are in lovely Laguna Beach, invited to visit some distant relatives at the Black Cypress estate. But the invitation is more professional than personal, since Pat is a PI and family member Enid Ponsonby appears to be targeted by a killer. Whether her disagreeable personality has anything to do with it remains to be seen-but in the meanwhile,...
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The Abbotts travel to Texas and their dachshund finds a dead body in a mystery starring "one of the more interesting married teams of detectives" (Thrilling Detective).
When Jean Abbott arrives in Dallas to join her private investigator husband, Pat, she's disappointed to discover that their dog, Pancho, is not welcome at the hotel. She finds a temporary place for him with the daughter of Pat's wealthy client, oilman Iles Dollahan. Then little...
17) 13 White Tulips
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A young couple and their dachshund star in a stylish San Francisco—set Golden Age mystery of "high ingenuity" (The New York Times).
Jack Ivers, a man-about-town with a taste for rich women, has been found dead in his bed. What's particularly odd is that the chief suspect, a surgeon's fashionable wife, claims that she spotted thirteen red tulips upon entering the victim's home-that were somehow replaced with thirteen white tulips by the time she...
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During a blizzard, a New Mexico ranch hosts "a poisonous lady of the manor . . . a puritanical spinster, an alluring secretary, and a succession of violent deaths" (Kirkus Reviews).
While investigating a deadly automobile accident in New Mexico, Pat and Jean Abbott are trapped at the Ruby X Ranch by an unexpected snowstorm, along with the ranch owner and his family, the local sheriff, a pretty secretary, and a Navajo chauffeur. But not all of...
19) Death-Wish Green
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Did she jump-or was she jumped? A sleuthing couple looks into the disappearance of a young woman on the Golden Gate Bridge...
An abandoned car on the Golden Gate Bridge usually carries the sad suggestion of suicide. But after Pat and Jean Abbott spot the car in the fog and learn that it belongs to a friend's niece, Katie Spinner, they begin to suspect that she is not in a watery grave but in the clutches of a kidnapper.
When one of Katie's friends-who...
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A witty whodunit set in WWII England starring "one of the more interesting married teams of detectives...A sort of globetrotting Nick and Nora" (Thrilling Detective).
While in England, Pat and Jean Abbott are focused on contributing to the war effort in whatever way they can, but they don't mind taking a weekend to join some other American expats at the country home of advertising man Steve Hayward and his wife. But before much fun can be had, a...
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