Books by Sarah Stewart Taylor and Complete Book Reviews
Sarah Stewart Taylor, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-30764-6
Freelance journalist Taylor makes a promising, if flawed, debut with an academic cozy set in rural Vermont's Byzantium, a bygone artists colony replete with a Victorian mansion, rumors of murder plots past and present and a surfeit of oddballs...
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Sarah Stewart Taylor, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-312-30766-0
In Taylor's engrossing second mystery to feature art history professor Sweeney St. George (after 2003's O' Artful Death
), one of her students, Brad Putnam, is found dead wearing an odd assortment of mourning jewelry. Called in by...
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Sarah Stewart Taylor, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-33742-1
The fourth mystery to feature art historian Sweeney St. George (after 2005's Judgment of the Grave
) is every bit as riveting as the previous installments in Taylor's series. The opening of a funerary art exhibit at Boston's Hapner...
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Sarah Stewart Taylor, Author, Ben Towle, Illustrator . Disney-Hyperion $17.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1337-9
Rather than rushing past the highlights of Earhart's career, this quietly moving book approaches her life through the admiring curiosity of a girl who also aspires to escape traditional boundaries. Young Grace has grown up in Trepassey,...
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Sarah Stewart Taylor. Minotaur, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-25643-0
In this languorous series launch from Taylor (the Sweeny St. George mysteries), Long Island, N.Y., homicide detective Maggie D’arcy learns that someone unearthed a scarf belonging to her cousin, Erin Flaherty, while scouring the Wicklow, Ireland,...
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Sarah Stewart Taylor. Minotaur, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-25644-7
In the teasing prologue of Taylor’s strong sequel to 2020’s The Mountains Wild, an unnamed man waits near Long island’s Great South Bay for an unidentified woman. He has an important story to tell her. She never appears, and the man’s shot to death.
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Sarah Stewart Taylor. Minotaur, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-82665-7
Taylor’s thoughtful third mystery featuring former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy (after 2021’s A Distant Grave) finds Maggie and her school-age daughter, Lilly, spending the summer on a remote peninsula in Cork with Maggie’s boyfriend,
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Sarah Stewart Taylor. Minotaur, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-2508-2668-8
The opening to Stewart Taylor’s stellar fourth Maggie D’Arcy adventure (after 2022’s The Drowning Sea) finds the former Long Island detective back in uniform, having joined the Dublin police force so she can begin a new life in Ireland with her...
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Sarah Stewart Taylor. Minotaur, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-82662-6
A New England detective investigates a farmer’s death while concealing his own dark past in this slow-burning series launch from Stewart Taylor (the Maggie D’Arcy Mysteries). In the 1960s, Franklin Warren leaves Boston for sleepy Bethany, Vt., to...
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