Despite a few lapses in style and continuity, Keeley (This One Day, as K.A. Delaney, 2014, etc.) writes convincingly about...
A border agent tries to break up a smuggling ring in this series debut.
U.S. Border Patrol agent Peyton Cote knew what she was getting into when she asked for a transfer from Texas back to her hometown of Garrett, Maine. The tiny border town is in Aroostook County, which has a landmass as great as Connecticut and Rhode Island combined and two chief sources of income: potatoes and trees. Its highly forested border with New Brunswick makes it an ideal port of entry for smugglers, and Peyton is poised to make a drug bust from a tip she got from a high school classmate. She’s astonished when the sack she finds in a potato field contains not primo marijuana but a baby. As a single mother, she’s glad she saved the infant, but she’s frustrated about the drug bust that didn’t go down. Her informant steers her toward her high school history teacher, a University of Maine professor and a Boston lawyer who are working together for what they insist is a good purpose. Peyton has her suspicions, however, as she does about her brother-in-law and the possibility of a turncoat agent on the job. Her ex-husband’s hope of getting back together with her, attentions from other single men in Garrett, the disappearance of the rescued baby, two shootings and the obligatory moose incident add to the complications in Peyton’s attempts to do her job and rebuild a life in her hometown. Though Peyton’s far from the warmth of Texas, her diligence, courage and fortitude—qualities she developed in a region where winter begins in October and seems to last forever—serve her well in her personal and professional challenges.
Despite a few lapses in style and continuity, Keeley (This One Day, as K.A. Delaney, 2014, etc.) writes convincingly about New England and the rugged people who call it home.Pub Date: Aug. 8, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7387-4068-3
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Midnight Ink/Llewellyn
Review Posted Online: July 16, 2014
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 2014
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An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.
Too much free time leads a New Hampshire bookseller into yet another case of murder.
Now that Tricia Miles has Pixie Poe and Mr. Everett practically running her bookstore, Haven’t Got a Clue, she finds herself at loose ends. Her wealthy sister, Angelica, who in the guise of Nigela Ricita has invested heavily in making Stoneham a bookish tourist attraction, is entering the amateur competition for the Great Booktown Bake-Off. So Tricia, who’s recently taken up baking as a hobby, decides to join her and spends a lot of time looking for the perfect cupcake recipe. A visit to another bookstore leaves Tricia witnessing a nasty argument between owner Joyce Widman and next-door neighbor Vera Olson over the trimming of tree branches that hang over Joyce’s yard—also overheard by new town police officer Cindy Pearson. After Tricia accepts Joyce’s offer of some produce from her garden, they find Vera skewered by a pitchfork, and when Police Chief Grant Baker arrives, Joyce is his obvious suspect. Ever since Tricia moved to Stoneham, the homicide rate has skyrocketed (Poisoned Pages, 2018, etc.), and her history with Baker is fraught. She’s also become suspicious about the activities at Pets-A-Plenty, the animal shelter where Vera was a dedicated volunteer. Tricia’s offered her expertise to the board, but president Toby Kingston has been less than welcoming. With nothing but baking on her calendar, Tricia has plenty of time to investigate both the murder and her vague suspicions about the shelter. Plenty of small-town friendships and rivalries emerge in her quest for the truth.
An anodyne visit with Tricia and her friends and enemies hung on a thin mystery.Pub Date: Aug. 13, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-9848-0272-9
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Berkley
Review Posted Online: May 26, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2019
A murder is committed in a stalled transcontinental train in the Balkans, and every passenger has a watertight alibi. But Hercule Poirot finds a way.
**Note: This classic Agatha Christie mystery was originally published in England as Murder on the Orient Express, but in the United States as Murder in the Calais Coach. Kirkus reviewed the book in 1934 under the original US title, but we changed the title in our database to the now recognizable title Murder on the Orient Express. This is the only name now known for the book. The reason the US publisher, Dodd Mead, did not use the UK title in 1934 was to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel, Orient Express.
Pub Date: Feb. 28, 1934
ISBN: 978-0062073495
Page Count: -
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1934
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