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Author
Series
Harbinder Kaur novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare's colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland's most famous story, "The Stranger," left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the storylines of her favorite literature. To make matters worse, the police suspect the...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Life in small-town America during World War II springs vividly to life as schoolteacher Miss Dimple and her fellow townspeople battle valiantly against worry, rationing, and crime at home as well as abroad.
Author
Series
Jocelyn Shore novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
In the third installment of the award-winning Jocelyn Shore mystery series, Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore's family reunion is getting smaller by the minute with each suspicious death.
Author
Series
Jocelyn Shore novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a once-in-a-lifetime guided tour of Egypt with a motley crew of fellow travelers when the most odious of the bunch, a nosy, disagreeable woman named Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off of one of the great pyramids. And that's only the beginning. From the guide who always seems to be off on his cell phone having the most urgent conversations to the young woman who begs off of almost...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Edie Kiglatuk works as a summer school teacher in the Canadian Arctic. When one of her female students is found dead in nearby Lake Turngaluk, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the case, promising the girl's Inuit family that they will uncover the truth. Meanwhile, lawyer Sonia Gutierrez investigates the toxicity of the lake and suspects that there might be a larger conspiracy involved"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher--with above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds herself investigating crimes led only by her own meddlesome curiosity, though her friends on the NYPD don't mind when she solves their cases for them. After plans for a grand tour of Europe are interrupted by Germany's invasion of Poland, Miss Withers heads to sunny Los Angeles instead, where her vacation finds her...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"October, 1944. It has been a challenging season for Elderberry's favorite first grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick. A beloved former student was recently killed in the war, her brother has become distant, and her friend Odessa, the cook at Pheobe's rooming house, has taken a leave of absence to care for a relative. Still, when Dimple's librarian friend, Virginia, finds a young woman, Dora, on the library porch looking for a place to spend the...
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing--and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple...
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