Résultats pour "Alice" dans Cozy

Valmont-sur-Loing, à la lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau, a tout de la bourgade paisible... en apparence du moins. Aux côtés de Tante Alice, laissez-vous embarquer dans une exquise enquête.

Mi chiamo Atena Ferraris e mi sa che non sono come gli altri, inutile girarci intorno. Mia madre mi ha sempre detto che siamo tutti diversi, e quindi è come se fossimo tutti uguali. Non ne sono convinta, ma mi fido di lei. Ho trent'anni, vesto fuori moda e odio le sorprese. E ho ben ventisette sveglie ogni giorno per ricordarmi di lavorare, di mangiare, di andare a letto, di smettere di pensare. Soprattutto faccio troppe domande, dicono. Perché per me è essenziale che ogni cosa abbia una spiegazione.

Torino, 1935. I fari della Balilla Spider Sport fendono il buio della notte. Il fatto che al volante ci sia una donna potrebbe sembrare strano, ma non se si tratta di Anita. Sono mesi, infatti, che fa cose poco consone, per non dire disdicevoli, sicuramente proibite. Come rimandare il matrimonio con Corrado solo per il desiderio di lavorare. Oppure scrivere, sotto lo pseudonimo di J.D. Smith, racconti gialli ispirati a fatti di cronaca per portare un po’ di giustizia dove ormai non ne esiste più. Un segreto che condivide con Sebastiano Satta Ascona, direttore della rivista "Saturnalia".

It’s nearly Christmas in the small English town of Little Wittering, and retired teacher Sally Smith is enjoying an afternoon in the hair salon. Until she sniffs out a corpse. With a body in the broom cupboard and a police-imposed lock-in until the culprit is caught, it doesn’t take long to deduce someone in the salon is a cold-blooded killer.

Sarah’s latest client, Alice Krandle, is sure she has a fortune in antiques on her hands. She’s already gotten a generous offer for the whole lot before her garage sale has even begun, but she thinks she can earn more with Sarah’s expert help. The problem is that while Sarah’s sorting through items from decades past, her landlady, Stella, faces a clear and present danger. Stella’s kidnapper has contacted Sarah with a set of instructions, and “Don’t call the police” is at the top of the list.

Ghost Cat finds small-town lady lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer grappling with an unscrupulous developer muscling into real estate in Coffee Creek, Texas, abusing undocumented workers and menacing his neighbors. Ignoring threats, Alice challenges him in court. After one of her clients is shot dead at a cowboy action shooting competition and another is nearly suffocated in a wine vat, Alice realizes she's got a target on her back.

During fireworks at Coffee Creek's first official barbecue contest, lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer trips over the murdered body of a sharp-tongued reporter. The hotly competitive grill masters all possess sharp knives and stout alibis. Meanwhile, a malevolent stalker pursues Alice and her engaging but secretive client, and Alice finds herself needing far more than her legal skills to survive.

When lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer finds the dead body of her friend and client Ellie Windom at the foot of a staircase, a terrorized horse dancing nearby, she knows trouble's coming. Serving as executor for her friend's will means grappling with Ellie's explosive secrets: a long-lost daughter unknown to her feuding sons and a long-ago lover with enemies of his own. Alice quickly discovers her friend had a treasure trove of hidden art with questionable history, and the vultures begin to circle. Intruders, carjackers, and greedy heirs all want a seat at the feast.

“Both a mystery and a survival story, here is a novel written with a naturalist’s eye for detail and an unrelenting pace. It reminded me of the best of Nevada Barr…It’s so fraught with excitement and wondrous details that it demands to be read in one sitting and savored afterward...

In the hilarious follow-up to Grave Expectations, Claire and the gang are back, getting their timbers shivered by a mystery involving feuding ghost pirates, buried treasure, and murder... Claire Hendricks can see ghosts, but she can't see herself having a fun vacation. Yet when her new...

Set in Pasadena, California, in the 1920s, this fresh, funny romance follows the exploits and adventures of a medium who caters to the rich and famous... and puts the “con” in conjurer!

It's 1924 and spiritualist-medium Daisy Gumm and her fiancé, Detective Sam Rotondo, discover a dead body tucked away in the Pasadena Public Library's bibliography stacks.

Daisy Gumm Majesty, spiritualist to folks with more money than sense, can scarcely believe that her best client wants her to get her spiritual control, Rolly, to appear at a séance in a speakeasy. Bad enough that Daisy made up Rolly when she was ten, but now Rolly has to perform at a séance for a bunch of murdering gangsters?

After the death of her beloved husband Billy, Daisy Majesty falls into a deep depression. Everyone, from her family to her late husband's best friend, Sam Rotondo, worry about her. She's too depressed to eat and only mopes around the house.