Lea Wait, Author . S&S/McElderry $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-83832-3
A strong and memorable heroine narrates this compelling debut from Wait, which effectively evokes life in 1806 Maine. After the death of her 30-year-old mother during a pox epidemic and the prolonged absence of her mariner father, 11-year-old...
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Lea Wait, Author . Scribner $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2553-3
Homicide and antiques combine smoothly in this well-crafted mystery, the first in a new series, from fourth-generation antiques dealer and children's historical novelist Wait (Stopping to Home).
Since several antiques dealers have died lately...
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Lea Wait, Author . Scribner $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2554-0
More loosely plotted and reliant on coincidence than its predecessor, Wait's second mystery featuring widowed antique-print dealer Maggie Summer falters after the promise of last year's Shadows at the Fair. An old college roommate, Amy, has...
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Lea Wait, Author . Scribner $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4950-8
In Agatha nominee Wait's third enjoyable antique print mystery (after 2003's Shadows on the Coast of Maine
), professor, antique print dealer and part-time sleuth Maggie Summer gets embroiled in an on-campus murder. Somerset County College,...
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Lea Wait, Author . Scribner $24 (244p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4951-5
With complex crimes and even more complex personal decisions for Maggie Summer, antique-print dealer and history professor, the fourth installment of Wait's cozy series (after 2004's Shadows on the Ivy
) doesn't disappoint. Since Maggie...
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Lea Wait, Author Margaret K. McElderry Books $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-689-84719-6
Michael, the 13-year-old captive who first appeared in Stopping to Home, returns for Seaward Born by Lea Wait. When Michael's master dies, he makes the decision to stow away on a northern-bound vessel and escape from South Carolina.
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Lea Wait, Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-56474-497-5
Wait's engaging fifth Antique Print mystery (after 2005's Shadows at the Spring Show) takes antique print dealer Maggie Summer to fictional Waymouth, Maine, where her plans for relaxing with her boyfriend, Will Brewer, and visiting Will's Aunt...
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Lea Wait. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-56474-531-6
At the start of Agatha-finalist Wait’s so-so sixth Antique Print mystery (after 2011’s Shadows of a Down East Summer), Maggie Summer spots a man’s body on a beach on Massachusetts’s Cape Cod and dials 911. The local police chief, Ike Iron, who...
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Lea Wait. Islandport (Bookmasters, dist.), $16.95 (210p) ISBN 978-1-939017-25-3
In this excellent historical coming-of-age novel set at the dawn of the American Civil War, 14-year-old Joe Wood struggles to keep his inherited newspaper, the Wiscassat Herald, afloat even as his Maine hometown is rocked by reports of war from down
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Lea Wait. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-56474-547-7
Wait’s seventh outing for New Jersey antique dealer Maggie Summer (after 2013’s Shadows on a Cape Cod Wedding), in which Maggie visits her boyfriend, Will, in Maine over Christmas, is as frothy as eggnog. Maggie is an incessant worrier. She worries...
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Lea Wait. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-56474-577-4
Wait’s middling eighth Antique Print mystery (after 2014’s Shadows on a Maine Christmas) finds professor and antique-print dealer Maggie Summer in Waymouth, Maine, where she’s opening an antiques mall with boyfriend Will Brewer. Maggie’s also in the
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