Vicki Delany, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-59058-141-4
Well-crafted storytelling and an evocative setting make for a rewarding debut from Canadian newcomer Delany. Prodigal daughter Rebecca McKenzie, a widow and thriving Vancouver executive, returns to Hope River, her suffocating Ontario hometown, for...
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Vicki Delany, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (334p) ISBN 978-1-59058-266-4
Delany's fine second mystery (after 2005's Scare the Light Away
) offers a breath of fresh air from north of the border. Soon after Elaine Benson agrees to assist Miss Moira Madison, who served with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters during...
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Vicki Delany, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (302p) ISBN 978-1-59058-448-4
Delany's intriguing series opener introduces young constable Molly Smith, who almost literally stumbles across a rare murder victim in peaceful Trafalgar, British Columbia. The deceased, Reg Montgomery, was a widely distrusted newcomer planning
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Vicki Delany, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (291p) ISBN 978-1-59058-595-5
At the start of Delany's engaging second mystery to feature Constable Molly Smith (after 2007's In the Shadow of the Glacier
), Molly's mother is leaving work one evening at the Trafalgar Women's Support Center in British...
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Vicki Delany, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-59058-676-1
The discovery early one Christmas morning of the bodies of best friends Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and Ewan Williams, two privileged young men from Toronto, in an SUV sunken in an ice-covered river propels Delaney's stellar third mystery to feature...
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Vicki Delany, Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (270p) ISBN 978-1-59058-788-1; $14.95 trade paper ISBN 978-1-59058-790-4
The murder of visiting fashion photographer Rudolph Steiner plunges Constable Molly Smith into big-time trouble in Canadian author Delaney's winning fourth mystery set in the bucolic mountain village of Trafalgar, B.C. (after 2009's Winter of...
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Vicki Delany. Dundurn (www.dundurn.com), $17.99 trade paper (328p) ISBN 978-1-4597-0189-2
Set in Dawson, Yukon Territory, in 1898, Delany’s rousing third Klondike caper (after 2010’s Gold Fever) offers more adventure than mystery. While Fiona MacGillivray plans to make an honest living from all the men the gold rush has brought to town,...
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Vicki Delany. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-59058-987-8
Twin tales sit awkwardly beside one another in this story of a Canadian farmhouse with secrets to tell from Delaney (Among the Departed). Hannah Manning, who’s recovering at her sister’s farm in Prince Edward County, Ont., from a brain injury...
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Vicki Delany. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0160-8
In Delany’s solid sixth Constable Molly Smith mystery, Molly and Det. Sgt. John Winters struggle to discover why an unseen sniper shot Cathy Lindsay—a Trafalgar, British Columbia, high school teacher—as she was out skiing. On the surface, Cathy was...
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Vicki Delany. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0235-3
Delany’s engaging seventh Constable Molly Stone mystery (after 2013’s A Cold White Sun) takes Molly from Trafalgar, British Columbia, to Banff, Alberta. At a Banff restaurant, Molly’s widowed mother, Lucky Smith, and Lucky’s boyfriend, Chief...
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Vicki Delany. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (266p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0515-6
Why would the recently exonerated Walter Desmond, who spent 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, even consider going back to the scene of the crime, his hometown of Trafalgar, British Columbia? The truth is that he wants to know why he...
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Vicki Delany. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68331-096-9
This charming series launch from Delaney (Unreasonable Doubt) will please Sherlock Holmes and cozy fans. British expat Gemma Doyle runs the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, a business started by her great-uncle Arthur (who claims to be a...
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Vicki Delany. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-68331-299-4
Cozy fans fond of Conan Doyle are most likely to enjoy Delany’s second whodunit featuring Gemma Doyle, the proprietor of a Massachusetts bookstore specializing in Sherlockiana (after Elementary, She Read). Gemma scrambles when Renalta Van Markoff, a
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Vicki Delany. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-68331-471-4
In Delany’s delightful third Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery (after 2017’s Body on Baker Street), British transplant Gemma Doyle, the proprietor of a bookstore specializing in Sherlockiana in West London, Mass., looks forward to doing extra...
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Vicki Delany. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-68331-790-6
A fire at Scarlet House, one of the oldest properties in the Cape Cod town of West London and now the headquarters of the local museum, kick-starts Delany’s well-plotted fourth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery (after The Cat of the Baskervilles). A...
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Vicki Delany. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2506-6
Former Manhattan pastry chef Lily Roberts, the heroine of this well-crafted series launch from Delany (the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteries), has opened Tea by the Sea next door to Victoria-on-Sea, the bed-and-breakfast owned by her 85-year-old...
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Vicki Delany. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-64385-474-8
Someone fatally hits Anna Wentworth in the head with a rock while Anna, a leading light of the West London, Mass., garden club, is walking her dog one evening, in Delaney’s entertaining sixth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery (after 2020’s There’s a...
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Vicki Delany. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64385-034-4
In Delany’s diverting fifth Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery (after 2018’s A Scandal in Scarlet), bookstore proprietor Gemma Doyle attends a Sherlock Holmes conference in London, where she bumps into her disreputable artist uncle, Randolph Denhaugh.
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Vicki Delany. Kensington, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2509-7
At the start of Delany’s beguiling sequel to 2020’s Tea & Treachery, the summer tourist trade is heating up for Lily Roberts, the owner of the Tea by the Sea tearoom in the Cape Cod town of North Augusta, and she’s looking forward to her busiest...
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Vicki Delany. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-64385-798-5
Delany’s enjoyable seventh Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery (after 2021’s A Curious Incident) finds Gemma Doyle, the owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium on Cape Cod, helping a wealthy devotee of the canon host a Sherlockian weekend at
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Vicki Delany. Berkley Prime Crime, $8.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-33439-3
Set in the 1950s, Delany’s delightful sequel to 2021’s Deadly Summer Nights opens with the filming of a movie scene at Haggerman’s Catskills Resort. Elizabeth Grady, the manager of Haggerman’s, which is owned by her mother, former Hollywood dancer...
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Vicki Delany. Crooked Lane, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63910-145-0
A request from the board of directors of Scarlet House, the oldest building in West London, Mass., which is currently being used as a historical reenactment museum, sparks Delany’s eighth mystery featuring Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes...
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Vicki Delany. Crooked Lane, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63910-539-7
Delany’s ninth mystery featuring Cape Cod bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Gemma Doyle (after 2023’s The Game Is a Footnote) is the series’ best yet. London, Mass., is hosting a new psychic fair that has attracted many visitors to the town, and to
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