Dorothy Cannell, Author Bantam Books $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08846-5
Feisty mother of twins, Ellie Haskell (last seen in The Widows Club ) sets about putting some oomph back into her marriage in this charming and funny modern British mystery. In the village of Chitterton Fells, Ellie and her charwoman, Mrs. Malloy,...
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Dorothy Cannell. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8480-0
Set in 1932, Cannell’s enjoyable second Florence Norris mystery (after 2014’s Murder at Mullings) finds the intuitive housekeeper of Mullings, the Stodmarsh family home in the village of Dovecote Hatch, looking into another suspicious death. When...
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Dorothy Cannell. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8338-4
This quiet first in a series set in the early decades of the 20th century from British author Cannell (Sea Glass Summer) introduces Florence Norris, who first comes to Mullings, the Stodmarsh family estate, in 1900, at age 14, to work as a kitchen...
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Dorothy Cannell. Severn, $28.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8183-0
Cannell takes a break from her Ellie Haskell cozy mystery series (She Shoots to Conquer, etc.) with this sweet contemporary romance featuring 34-year-old Sarah Draycott, a successful designer of patterns for knitting magazines. After her husband...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author Viking Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-89205-1
A spectral summons leads to family secrets in Cannell's 11th beguiling outing (after The Trouble with Harriet) for British interior decorator Ellie Haskell. Ellie hasn't thought about her late grandmother Sophia's three bridesmaids--Rosemary, Thora...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author Viking Books $21.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-670-88629-6
At the beginning of this slapstick sequel to The Spring Cleaning Murders, Ellie Haskell and her husband, Ben, have left their three children with his parents and are about to depart Chitterton Falls, England, for a romantic vacation in France. But...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-553-07494-9
The sleuthing is lightweight in this seventh Ellie Haskell story (following How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law), but Cannell's energetic style, loquacious storytelling and subtle humor are firmly in place. After the death of the local librarian in...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author Viking Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-87571-9
Ellie Haskell dons an apron for cover in her latest adventure (following How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams, 1996). Ellie's stalwart helper, Mrs. Malloy, now a relative since her son married Ellie's cousin, gives notice before she leaves the...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author . Viking $23.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-670-03060-6
In her dozenth delight, Agatha nominee Cannell dishes up a dizzy spoof of American hard-boiled private-eye fiction (after 2001's Bridesmaids Revisited). Ellie Haskell attempts a surprise for her husband, Ben, by redecorating his study, but when...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author Bantam Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05259-6
Ellie Simons has a great deal on her mind: her pending marriage to handsome Bentley Haskell; the opening of his restaurant in the charming English town of Chitterton Fells; the restoration of the castle Merlin's Court, where she and Ben live. Most...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-21869-0
Cannell's second mystery boasts the effects that made her The Thin Woman a delicious debut. Brimful of surprises, the story related by Tessa Fields gives off whiffs of Restoration comedies, except for the sobering moment when a murder abruptly halts
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Dorothy Cannell, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-553-10163-8
Nothing is what it seems to be in this wickedly amusing mystery from the author of How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams. Whether the action marches along in a stately country home or spins off in the bustling streets of London, there is no letup in...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07493-2
A plague of mothers-in-law descends upon the small English village of Chitterton Fells with toxic, and hilarious, results. Ellie Haskell, seen last in Femmes Fatal , plans the perfect dinner party to celebrate the 38th anniversary of her in-laws,...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-34339-2
At the start of Cannell's droll if draggy 13th Ellie Haskell mystery (after 2008's Goodbye, Ms. Chips
), Ellie; her chef husband, Ben; and their housekeeper, Mrs. Roxie Malloy, take a wrong turn one foggy night on the Yorkshire moors. They
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Dorothy Cannell, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-312-34338-5
At the start of Cannell's meandering 13th Ellie Haskell mystery (after 2007's Withering Heights
), Ellie's dear friend Dorcas Critchley, the games mistress at St. Roberta's boarding school, asks the amateur sleuth to investigate...
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Dorothy Cannell, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-34337-8
Near the start of Cannell's witty 13th Ellie Haskell mystery (after 2002's The Importance of Being Ernestine
), Ellie's precocious 13-year-old niece, Ariel Hopkins, shows up at the Haskells' house, Merlin Court, one stormy night....
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Dorthy Cannell, read by Kirsten Potter. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-62406-573-6
When Sarah Draycott moves to a small town on the coast of Maine following her divorce, she is drawn into the lives, joys, and heartaches of her neighbors. She helps a widow deal with her child's illness. And she helps nine-year-old Oliver—who is...
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Dorothy Cannell. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0863-7
Set in 1933 in the English village of Dovecote Hatch, Cannell’s leisurely third Florence Norris mystery (after 2015’s Death at Dovecote Hatch) finds kind and canny Florence, the housekeeper at Mullings, the great house of the district, preparing for
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