Cynthia Riggs
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LeRoy Watts, owner of Watts Electrical, is waiting for his twin sons to come home when a recently fired employee staggers in and threatens to blackmail him. Watts shoots him with a supposedly non-lethal Taser, and he dies. Meanwhile, several members in a local knitting group are being stalked by telephone. One of them is Victoria Trumbull's granddaughter, and the 92-year-old sleuth sets out to investigate both situations.
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 7
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English
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Ninety-two-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull becomes embroiled in controversy at the community theater on Martha's Vineyard. The new artistic director has announced plans to replace local amateur talent with off-Island professionals, and the cast and crew react murderously." The group is producing Ms. Trumbull's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The production is endangered when someone begins committing crimes apparently based on the scenes...
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A wedding on picturesque Martha's Vineyard promises to be the affair of the season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty 92-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agrees--but she has no idea what's in store for the hapless couple. For one, Penny is seriously in debt and desperate to marry money. She thinks she's on the road to riches when she hooks Rocco Bufano, whose father is a multi-billionaire....
4) Poison ivy
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2015.
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English
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On her first day as adjunct professor at Ivy Green College, Victoria Trumbull recognizes the stench emanating from her classroom as more than just dead mice. Brownie, the groundskeeper's mangy mutt, soon discovers a second body hiding beneath a cluster of poison ivy.
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"When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himself of his troublesome girlfriend, Samantha. But the mushrooms he's given Samantha end up on her daddy's dinner table, and Zack, one of the invited guests, is sure he's doomed the diners to an untimely...
7) Indian pipes
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 6
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Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin's Minotaur
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2006.
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English
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2016.
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English
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"It's just another day at the dentist's office for Victoria Trumbull when fellow patient, wealthy Mrs. Wilmington, dies. It's an unfortunate, though seemingly not murderous incident, but the receptionist is hysterical, so one of the dental assistants offers to drive her home. But after making a quick pit stop, he finds her body floating in the harbor. With the police shorthanded due to an upcoming presidential visit, it's up to Victoria to take on...
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 4
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Thorndike Press
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[2004]
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English
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When several elderly citizens begin to die unexpectedly, it is apparent to police chief Casey O'Neill that there's a serial killer abroad. Casey has lots of experience with homicide, but it takes 92-year-old Victoria Trumbull to realize that food gifts are the murder weapons.
10) The cemetery yew
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 3
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Thorndike Press
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[2003]
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English
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Victoria Trumbull, the astute, 92-year-old Vineyard native and deputy police officer, takes on her most bizarre case yet. An empty grave, a misplaced coffin and a missing hearse driver are the harbingers of a series of grotesque murders, whose victims turn out to share an odd South American connection involving smuggling and an exotic bird. The author lends ballast to an outlandish plot by lovingly depicting ordinary island people (awkward teens,...
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 8
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Wheeler Pub
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[2009]
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English
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Ninety-two-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull discovers a neighbor's body in the home of one of the three town assessors, who have been skimming off tax money from wealthy landowners and stashing it in their own retirement funds. then the private pilot of the spouse of one of these landowners is found dead, floating in him employer's pond. When Victoria finds the body of the long-missing assessors' clerk, it's time to team up with her old friend...
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 10
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Thorndike Press
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[2011]
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English
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It's spring on Martha's Vineyard and at the suggestion of her beekeeper, Victoria Trumbull takes in a new boarder. Orion Nanopoulos is leading a project to lay a fiber-optic cable across the island. When a body is found in the trench where they are laying the cable, Orion recognizes the dead man as a potential investor. Victoria, renowned for her crime solving skills and for her knowledge of the island's residents, is hired by the victim's sons to...
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 9
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English
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Former policeman J.W. Jackson, now a fisherman in Martha's Vineyard, has a fight with a state environmental officer over the closure of a beach during a film shoot. When the officer is murdered, Jackson is a suspect and must clear his name.
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