Books by Sheila Simonson and Complete Book Reviews
Sheila Simonson, Author . Perseverance $14.95 (275p) ISBN 978-1-880284-96-4
This middling first of a new series from Simonson (Larkspur
) features a familiar mystery-solving duo of police professional and amateur sleuth: sheriff’s deputy Rob Neill, who’s inherited his grandmother’s house in the town of...
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Sheila Simonson, Author . Perseverance $14.95 (276p) ISBN 978-1-880284-99-5
A missing landslide hazard area report followed by a fatal mud slide that wipes out expensive new homes in Washington's (fictional) Latouche County saddles sheriff's investigator Rob Neill with multiple problems in Simonson's...
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Sheila Simonson, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-312-04338-4
This lively and appealing first mystery pits bookstore owner Lark Daily (the Monte, Calif., store is called Larkspur Books) and her policeman lover Jay Dodge against the murderer of elderly Dai Llewellyn, a rich, homosexual and renowned American...
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Sheila Simonson, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-312-08294-9
No small model from Detroit despite the suggestion of her name, ex-basketball star Lark Dodge (introduced in Larkspur) hits the mark again in this mix of international intrigue and suspense. Californian Lark is in London attending a bookseller's...
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Sheila Simonson, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14013-7
Opening Larkspur Books after relocating from California to the quaint coastal Washington town of Kayport, Lark Dodge, seen last in Mudlark, is pressed by Bianca Fiedler into helping to run a writers' conference on environmental issues at organic...
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Sheila Simonson, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-15168-3
Armchair detectives will share a seat with armchair tourists in Simonson's fifth in the series (after Meadowlark) as PacificNorthwest resident Lark Dodge and her father, a university professor, travel to Ireland. The change of scenery turns...
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Sheila Simonson. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-56474-519-4
In Simonson’s taut third Latouche County library mystery (after 2009’s An Old Chaos), librarian Margaret “Meg” McLean has her hands full with vindictive Marybeth Jackman, her second-in-command who openly covets Meg’s job. Yet Marybeth’s aggressive...
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Sheila Simonson, Author, Brian Tobin, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-312-09874-2
An enthusiastic welcome back to Lark Dodge, the former bookstore owner, who, in her third appearance (after Skylark ), lives on the coast of Washington State with her husband Jay, who runs a police training program. Lark first meets Bonnie Bell, a...
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Sheila Simonson. Perseverance, $15.95 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-56474-597-2
A lively, diverse cast—mainly the members of the Hough and August families—makes up only partly for the creaky plot of Simonson’s fourth mystery set in Washington’s Latouche County (after 2013’s Beyond Confusion). Patriarch Bill Hough’s recent...
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