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Maggie MacGowen mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Perseverance Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
When cleaning out her late father's desk in Berkeley, filmmaker Maggie MacGowen discovers evidence in a murder case from thirty years ago and finds herself in danger when she begins to question family and old friends about the circumstances of the case.
Author
Series
Hilda Johansson mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Perseverance Press
Pub. Date
MMV [2005]
Language
English
Description
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 schoolteacher, Sophie Jacobs. Hilda quickly discovers that other young women have gone missing, including Miss Jacobs's best friend, Miss Lewis, who recently left town, supposedly to go to her parents' house to recuperate...
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Series
Maggie MacGowen mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Perseverance Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Maggie MacGowen, an investigative filmmaker, is in Normandy with a film crew to document the agricultural four seasons on her ancestral family farm. An accidentally excavated skull causes a social media sensation, dredging up psychic scars left by the wartime German Occupation. In their youth, Grand-mère and other villagers had cut the throats of an entire brutal Nazi platoon. Now the grim discovery prompts tourists, the soldiers' descendants, the...
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Series
Publisher
Perseverance Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Oakland is a city shaped by water. The waterfront, home to the port and the rail yards, is also ripe for development. The remnants of World War II shipyards are being bulldozed for retail shops and condos. There's money to be made, and where there's money, greed and crime follow, as Oakland PI Jeri Howard learns when she looks into the murder of a former co-worker. Cal Brady worked as a security guard at a construction site on the Embarcadero. Now...
Author
Series
Publisher
Perseverance Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The elderly proprietor of an Alameda, California movie memorabilia shop starts digging into her grandmother's past after she overhears PI Jeri Howard mention her actress grandmother, Jerusha Layne, in connection with the unsolved 1942 murder of British actor Ralph Tarrant in Hollywood.
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Series
Publisher
Perseverance Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It's December 1952, and the luxurious train called California Zephyr has a full load of passengers going home for Christmas. Zephyrette (think flight attendant) Jill McLeod welcomes her passengers aboard as they leave the San Francisco Bay Area and wend eastward to Denver and then Chicago. As Jill learns more about the train's guests, the University of California, Berkeley, grad notices that several of them have connections to Los Alamos, New Mexico,...
Author
Series
Hilda Johansson mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Perseverance Press
Pub. Date
MMXI [2011]
Language
English
Description
It's a heat wave in more ways than one in the summer of 1905, as strikes, arson, and train wrecks threaten the fabric of civilized society in South Bend, Indiana. In the tumultuous first years of the twentieth century, anarchy seems to rule, with the assassination of an American president and labor unrest.