Quiet, small-town Tinker's Cove, Maine, is once again the scene of the crime as Lucy Stone juggles family, job, and night classes to track down the killer of the local elementary school assistant principal. View More...
Quiet, small-town Tinker's Cove, Maine, is once again the scene of the crime as Lucy Stone juggles family, job, and night classes to track down the killer of the local elementary school assistant principal. View More...
For Lucy Stone, the best thing about Christmas in Tinker's Cove has always been the annual Cookie Exchange. But this year, she's busy counting suspects instead of calories, when one of the guests is found strangled. View More...
Easter meets murder in the latest book in New York Times bestselling author Leslie Meier's ever-popular Lucy Stone mystery series set in Tinker's Cove, Maine! Part-time reporter Lucy Stone isn't about to put all her eggs in one basket during a frantic Easter in Tinker's Cove--especially when it comes to cracking a deadly mystery. Known for its cheerful staff and elaborate annual Easter Bonnet Contest, the Heritage House senior center regularly attracts new residents and positive press. But once the town's retired librarian, Miss Julia Tilley, checks in to recover from an illness, Lucy sees a ... View More...
Reading a new Leslie Meier mystery is like catching up with a dear old friend. --Kate Carlisle, New York Times bestselling author With a harsh Maine winter finally over, Lucy Stone is excited to cover the annual Easter egg hunt for the Tinker's Cove Pennysaver. Hosted by elderly socialite Vivian Van Vorst at her oceanfront estate, it's a swanky event where the eggs are as likely to contain savings bonds as jelly beans. But when Lucy arrives at Pine Point, the gates are locked, and a man dressed as the Easter Bunny emerges only to drop dead moments later. . . Lucy discovers that the victim is V... View More...
As if baking holiday cookies, knitting a sweater for her husband's gift, and making her daughter's angel costume for the church pageant weren't enough things for Lucy Stone's busy Christmas schedule, she's also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins. But when she discovers Sam Miller, its very wealthy founder, dead in his car from an apparent suicide, the sleuth in her knows something just doesn't smell right. Taking time out from her hectic holiday life to find out what really happened, her investigation leads to a backlog of secrets as long as Santa's Christmas Eve r... View More...
Two of her four kids may be out of the nest, but Lucy Stone knows only too well that mothering is a lifetime commitment. At least she gets to kick back and enjoy a fancy Mother's Day brunch with her brood--that is, before the festivities are interrupted by a nasty scene courtesy of Barbara Hume and Tina Nowak. Opposites in every way, the only thing these mean moms have in common is the need to best each other at every turn, using their teenage daughters as pawns in elaborate games of one-upsmanship Even after witnessing the women's claw sharpening rituals, Lucy never expects to see actual bloo... View More...
Lucy Stone is in the doghouse--with her next-door neighbor, Mrs. Prudence Pratt. It seems that Kudo, the Stones' misbehaving mutt, has developed a taste for Mrs. Pratt's blue-ribbon winning chickens, as well an escape artist's talent for sneaking out. With the Fourth of July coming up, Lucy doesn't want to set off any more fireworks with the crabby Prudence. Another sign that the crazy days of summer are in full swing arrives when a group of naturists--a.k.a. nudists--descends on Tinker's Cove, skinny-dipping at the pond that borders Mrs. Pratt's property, giving her something else to complai... View More...
- Star Spangled Murder was a Featured Alternate Selection of the Mystery Guild and large print rights were sold to Thorndike.- Father's Day Murder, Birthday Party Murder, and Wedding Day Murder were all Alternate Selections of the Mystery Guild.- Father's Day Murder, Birthday Party Murder, and Wedding Day Murder, Turkey Day Murder, and Valentine Murder were all sold for large print to Thorndike.- Will appeal to lovers of cozy mysteries, especially fans of Jill Churchill, Mary Daheim, and Carolyn G. Hart.- Features an excerpt from the next Lucy Stone Mystery, New Year's Eve Murder (Kensington H... View More...
Fresh-baked desserts can warm even the frostiest Christmas in coastal Maine. But there's little room for holiday cheer when murder is the new seasonal tradition . . . YULE LOG MURDER by LESLIE MEIER Lucy Stone is thrilled to be cast as an extra in a festive period film--until the set becomes a murder scene. Returning to her role as sleuth, Lucy dashes to restore peace to Tinker's Cove, unwrap a cold-hearted criminal's MO--and reveal how one ornate Yule log cake could possibly cause so much drama. DEATH BY YULE LOG by LEE HOLLIS Hayley Powell's holidays aren't off to a very merry start. Not... View More...
