Leslie Meier, Author . Kensington $22 (265p) ISBN 978-1-57566-832-1
Believable and lovable characters, notably nonagenarian-to-be Julia Ward Howe Tilley (who wears "twinkling" sneakers), add freshness to a familiar story line in Meier's ninth mystery (after 2001's Wedding Day Murder) featuring Lucy...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-7710-7
Lucy Stone is looking to improve her dismal mood in Meier’s engaging 25th mystery featuring the Tinker’s Cove, Maine, journalist (after 2015’s Candy Corn Mystery), so she jumps at the chance to accompany her fashion-conscious friend, Sue Finch, to...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $25 (252p) ISBN 978-0-7582-7707-7
In bestseller Meier’s busy 22nd Lucy Stone mystery (after 2014’s French Pastry Murder), the Tinker’s Cove, Maine, newspaper reporter is covering the town’s first ever Giant Pumpkin Fest when someone starts bumping off the competition for the Giant...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-7704-6
At the outset of Meier’s lively 21st Lucy Stone mystery (after 2013’s Christmas Carol Murder), Norah Hemming, the hostess of a daytime TV show in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, rewards Lucy and three of her friends for their charitable fund-raising efforts...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-7701-5
The Great Recession casts its shadow over Meier’s engaging 20th Lucy Stone mystery (after Easter Bunny Murder). The day after Thanksgiving, skinflint Jacob Marlowe, who, as a partner in Downeast Mortgage, is responsible for dozens of recent...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2935-9
At the start of Meier’s delightful 19th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2012’s Chocolate Covered Murder), the families gathered outside elderly Vivian Van Vorst’s mansion, Pine Point, in rural Tinker’s Cove, Maine, for VV’s annual Easter egg hunt are...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2933-5
The discovery of fisherman Max Fraser’s body under the ice of a lake in wintry Tinker’s Cove, Maine, propels Meier’s fast-paced 18th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2011’s English Tea Murder). Lucy, reporter for the Pennysaver, the local newspaper, doesn’t
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2931-1
In Meier's sprightly 17th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2010's Wicked Witch Murder), the intrepid Tinker's Cove, Maine, reporter joins a tour group sponsored by Winchester College for her first trip overseas. Soon after the group's plane departs Boston...
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Leslie Meier, Author Viking Books $18.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-84791-4
Preparations for a ballet school recital in Tinker's Cove, Mass., provide the setting for this second, determinedly domestic, Lucy Stone adventure, after Mail-Order Murder. Lucy, in her sixth month of pregnancy, is fully enmeshed in family life with
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Leslie Meier, Author Viking Books $18.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-84111-0
Although its language is frequently sophomoric, this debut mystery introducing sleuth Lucy Stone does feature some nice plot twists. At the height of the Christmas season, Stone, an employee of Maine mail-order house Country Cousins, finds her...
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Leslie Meier, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $22 (234p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0701-2
In Meier's disjointed 13th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2005'sNew Year's Eve Murder ), the Tinker's Cove, Maine, newspaper reporter has a whole subdivision of peculiar neighbors around her once peaceful farmhouse, and anonymous letters are arriving at...
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Leslie Meier, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $22 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57566-836-9
In Leslie Meier's Star Spangled Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery, the 11th in this holiday-themed cozy series (after 2003's Father's Day Murder), her intrepid reporter sleuth has to worry about only some nudists frolicking in the local pond and an ...
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Leslie Meier, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $22 (234p) ISBN 978-1-57566-834-5
In Father's Day Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery, the 10th entry in Leslie Meier's engaging cozy series after Birthday Party Murder (Forecasts, July 8, 2002), Lucy is feeling guilty about attending a Boston newspaper conference while her kids take...
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Leslie Meier, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $20 (352p) ISBN 978-1-57566-390-6
When plucky freelance writer Lucy Stone joins the library board in her small Maine town, she unexpectedly finds herself knee-deep in murder. Right before her first meeting, Lucy discovers librarian Bitsy Howell shot through the heart in a workroom....
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Leslie Meier, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-57566-216-9
Lucy Stone of Tinker's Cover, Maine, is temping in the office of the small town's newspaper in this lively follow-up to Trick or Treat Murder (1996). The police report of a bomb scare sends the mother of four right to the elementary school where she
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Leslie Meier, Kensington, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2929-8
Wiccan shopkeeper Diana Ravenscroft and her cat familiar, Piewocket, stir up trouble in Tinker's Grove, Maine, in Meier's clever 17th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2009's Mother's Day Murder). Soon after Lucy, "a hardheaded reporter" for the town's...
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Leslie Meier, Author . Kensington $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0705-0
In Meier's fizzy 15th holiday-themed cozy (after 2008's St. Patrick's Day Murder
), reporter Lucy Stone, of Tinker's Cove, Maine, knows that the victim of a shooting murder, Tina Nowak, was feuding with Barbara “Bar”...
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Leslie Meier, Author . Kensington $22 (228p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0703-6
At the start of Meier’s charming 14th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2006’s Bake Sale Murder
), the Pennysaver
reporter is on her way to interview the new harbormaster of Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and relishing the unusually warm January...
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Leslie Meier, Author . Kensington $22 (250p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0699-2
In Meier's solid 12th cozy to feature Tinker's Cove, Maine, reporter Lucy Stone (after 2004's Star Spangled Murder
), Lucy and her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, travel to New York City after winning an all-expenses-paid mother-daughter...
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Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Barbara Ross. Kensington, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0447-4
This anthology boasts three terrific tales of yuletide murder in coastal Maine. In bestseller Meier’s title novella, reporter Lucy Stone—featured in 24 full-length mysteries (British Manor Murder, etc.)—must discover who poisoned horrid Dorcas...
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Leslie Meier, Author, Kensington, Producer Kensington Publishing Corporation $20 (240p) ISBN 978-1-57566-605-1
Despite all her volunteer work and family responsibilities, not to mention her part-time reporting job for her local paper, valiant Lucy Stone manages to maintain her poise in her seventh busy outing (after Christmas Cookie Murder). For Lucy,...
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Leslie Meier, Author, Leslie Meir, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $18.95 (245p) ISBN 978-1-57566-093-6
The serenity of Tinker's Cove, Maine, is shattered when an arsonist creates havoc and sends amateur sleuth Lucy Stone, introduced in How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams, on her second adventure. After several historic buildings are damaged or...
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Leslie Meier, Author, Meler Leslie, Author . Kensington $22 (240p) ISBN 978-1-57566-652-5
Tinker's Cove, Maine, is the cozily evoked setting of Meier's lighthearted Lucy Stone novels, which are usually set around holidays or significant life events. Here a harried Lucy is trying to juggle children, husband and a full-time job...
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Joanne Fluke, Author, Leslie Meier, Author, Laura Levine, Author . Kensington $16 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2198-8
Three big-name cozy writers contribute candy cane–themed novellas to this entertaining yuletide anthology. Levine's series heroine Jaine Austen (Death by Pantyhose
, etc.) spots a wealthy suburbanite's killer in the unfortunately...
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Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, Leslie Meier, Kensington, $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3495-7
Fluke, Levine, and Meier each offer a yuletide whodunit treat in this entertaining follow-up to 2007's Candy Cane Murder. In Fluke's wry "Gingerbread Cookie Murder," Hannah Swensen of the Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minn., wants her neighbor Ernie...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1030-7
Lucy Stone is dismayed to discover illegal drugs have established a foothold in bucolic Tinker’s Creek, Maine, in Meier’s timely 26th mystery featuring the part-time reporter and full-time snoop (after 2016’s British Manor Mystery). When pretty...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1033-8
Bestseller Meier’s mild 25th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2017’s Turkey Trot Murder) takes the Maine-based amateur sleuth to New York City for the funeral of her childhood best friend and maid of honor, Beth Gerard, who fell to her death in an apparent
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1039-0
Early in bestseller Meier’s middling 26th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2018’s Silver Anniversary Murder), Lucy, a reporter for the Pennysaver newspaper in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, returns from her father-in-law’s funeral in Florida to discover that her...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3373-3
In bestseller Meier’s subpar 28th Lucy Stone mystery (after 2021’s Irish Parade Murder), Lucy, a reporter for the Tinker Cove, Maine, Courier, is relieved when Julia Tilley, “the town’s oldest and most revered resident,” pulls through pneumonia and...
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Leslie Meier. Kensington, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3376-4
Meier’s ho-hum latest dip (after 2022’s Easter Bonnet Murder) into the life of Lucy Stone, an intrepid reporter in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, focuses on her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, who has been working as a concierge at a swanky hotel in Paris. The...
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Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Peggy Ehrhart. Kensington, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2822-7
A Christmas card provides the starting point for each of the three entertaining novellas, which star a series protagonist from each of the authors, in this welcome anthology. In the title tale, bestseller Meier’s Lucy Stone, a reporter for the...
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Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, Barbara Ross. Kensington, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1996-6
Meier, Hollis, and Ross’s enjoyable third holiday-themed anthology (after 2018’s Yule Log Murder) collects three long haunted house stories, each set in coastal Maine. In Meier’s “Haunted House Murder,” Tinker’s Cove reporter Lucy Stone tries to...
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Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, Barbara Ross. Kensington, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3382-5
Meier, Hollis, and Ross each contribute a novella set in Maine and focused on Halloween to their entertaining fourth holiday-themed anthology (after 2019’s Haunted House Murder). In Meier’s “Halloween Party Murder,” fun at a haunted house turns into
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