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Alice Duncan
Full Series List in Order
A Daisy Gumm Majesty Mystery
1 - Strong Spirits (Feb-2003)2 - Fine Spirits (Jul-2003)
3 - High Spirits (Nov-2008)
4 - Hungry Spirits (Jun-2010)
5 - Genteel Spirits (Aug-2011)
6 - Ancient Spirits (Feb-2012)
7 - Spirits Revived (Mar-2014)
8 - Dark Spirits (Jun-2014)
9 - Spirits Onstage (Apr-2015)
10 - Unsettled Spirits (Nov-2015)
11 - Bruised Spirits (Jul-2016)
12 - Spirits United (Jul-2017)
13 - Spirits Unearthed (Apr-2018)
14 - Shaken Spirits (Jan-2019)
15 - Scarlet Spirits (Dec-2019)
16 - Exercised Spirits (Jan-2021)
17 - Wedded Spirits (Apr-2022)
18 - Domesticated Spirits (Feb-2023)
19 - Library Spirits (Feb-2024)
20 - Spirits Adopted (Feb-2025)
The Dream Maker
1 - The Beauty and the Brain (May-2001)2 - The Cowboy for Hire (Mar-2001)
3 - The Miner's Daughter (Sep-2001)
4 - The Her Leading Man (Nov-2001)
Meet Me at the Fair
1 - Coming Up Roses (Feb-2002)2 - Just North of Bliss (May-2002)
3 - A Bicycle Built for Two (Oct-2002)
A Mercy Alcutt Mystery
1 - Lost Among the Angels (Jun-2006)2 - Angel's Flight (Jul-2009)
3 - Fallen Angels (May-2011)
4 - Angels of Mercy (Jul-2012)
5 - Thanksgiving Angels (May-2015)
6 - Angels Adrift (Nov-2021)
7 - Christmas Angels (Oct-2022)
8 - Hollywood Angels (Sep-2023)
9 - Celluloid Angels (Sep-2024)
10 - Dancing Angels (Jun-2025)
Book List in Order: 48 titles
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One Bright Morning
- Jan-1995
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A MAN AROUND THE HOUSE AGAIN Young widow Maggie Bright had her hands full raising a baby daughter and running a farm with no one to help except her lazy drunk of a hired hand. The last thing she needed was a bullet-ridden, half-dead stranger ridin...
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Texas Lonesome
- Mar-1996
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SHE GAVE ADVICE TO EVERYONE -- BUT SHE COULD USE A BIT HERSELF Emily von Plotz barely eked out a living giving advice to readers of the San Francisco Call as "Aunt Emily." Then she chanced to meet the man who had signed himself "Texas Lonesome" -...
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Wild Dream
- Jun-1997
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A hopeless romantic, Addie Blewitt dreams of southern heroes and brave knights as she works her farm and cares for her spinster aunt Ivy, but when Charley Wilde, a dashing artisan/thief spends time on her farm, he falls head over heels for innocent A...
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Secret Hearts
- Feb-1998
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He was irresistible. Handsome as sin. And he filled her nights with dreams no proper lady should enjoy.... HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED -- AND COULD NOT TOUCH... By day she was Claire Montague, prim, demure housekeeper of Partington Place. B...
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The Cowboy for Hire
- Mar-2001
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Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Mart Tafft, driven to make Lovejoy Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that create f...
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The Beauty and the Brain
- May-2001
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Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Martin Tafft, driven to make Lovejoy Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that create...
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The Miner's Daughter
- Sep-2001
- / Historical Romance
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Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Martin Tafft, driven to make Lovejoy Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that create...
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The Her Leading Man
- Nov-2001
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Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Martin Tafft, driven to make Peerless Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that creat...
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Coming Up Roses
- Feb-2002
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart Rose Ellen Gilhooley didn't get to be a star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for nothing. Bareback riding and shooting, along with some pretty sharp instincts, have taken her worlds away from the sleepy Kansas t...
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Just North of Bliss
- May-2002
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It Had To Be You Belle Monroe has already scandalized her family down to its proud Virginia roots by choosing to work as a nanny up north rather than languish in genteel poverty. Her mother would swoon if she knew that her precious daughter was co...
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A Bicycle Built for Two
- Oct-2002
- / Historical Romance
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All I Do Is Dream Of You Born and bred on the mean streets of Chicago, Kate Finney has few illusions about love. A handsome city swell like Alex English sure isn't looking to marry a girl who spends her nights telling fortunes and dancing the hootch...
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Strong Spirits
- Feb-2003
- / Historical Mystery
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Welcome to sunny Pasadena, California, just a stone's throw from Hollywood. The twenties are in full roar, Prohibition isn't stopping anybody...and Daisy Gumm Majesty is getting by the best way she knows how-- catering to the rich and famous as a med...
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Fine Spirits
- Jul-2003
- / Historical Mystery
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Meet Daisy Gumm Majesty--spiritualist by trade, con artist to the core. There are plenty of scams to be scored in sunny Pasadena, where almost anything goes and Prohibition doesn't even slow a body down... Taking Care Of Business I may not reall...
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Pecos Valley Diamond
- Apr-2005
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It's the "Roaring '20s," but you wouldn't know the era was roaring if you lived in southeastern New Mexico. Except for the occasional "flicker" at the local motion-picture palace, it might as well be 1883 as 1923. When young Annabelle Blue's eccentri...
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Lost Among the Angels
- Jun-2006
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Local Secretary Foils Murderer in Lost Among the Angels, a Historical Cozy Mystery from Alice Duncan1920s, Los Angeles, CAMercy Allcutt is ecstatic to move to California where she knows she’ll learn all about life andâ€"to her Boston blue-blood fam...
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High Spirits
- Nov-2008
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A Séance, a Speakeasy, and a Sting Operation -- Daisy Gumm Majesty Just Can’t Catch a Break -- 1921, Pasadena, California -- As Pasadena’s most sought-after spiritualist-medium (for clients with more money than sense), Daisy Gumm Majesty is used...
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Angel's Flight
- Jul-2009
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Famed Gossip Columnist Murdered at Séance in Angels Flight, a Historical Cozy Mystery from Alice Duncan--1926, Los Angeles, CA--Mercy Allcutt is thrilled with her new job as secretary to private investigator Ernie Templeton -- until she opens the do...
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Hungry Spirits
- Jun-2010
- / Historical Mystery
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When Daisy Gumm Majesty, spiritualist to people with more money than sense, is asked by her good friend Johnny Buckingham, a captain in the Salvation Army, to teach a cooking class for disadvantaged ladies, she’s sure Johnny is nuts. She earns her ...
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Phoebe's Valentine
- Dec-2010
- / Historical Romance
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Jack Valentine and Phoebe Honeycutt hate each other on sight when they run into one another by accident on the vast Texas plain. To Jack, who fought for four years in the Union Army against the secessionist South, Phoebe is just another worthless, si...
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Pecos Valley Revival
- Jan-2011
- / Historical Romance
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It's early October 1923, and three interesting things are going on in the generally dull town of Rosedale, New Mexico: the fall cattle drive, the fall rodeo, and a tent revival. Annabelle Blue is excited about the first two events. The last one might...
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Pecos Valley Incident
- Mar-2011
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When Annabelle Blue stumbles over the body of Billy Hank Griffin, the entire town of Rosedale, New Mexico (population about 12,000) is more pleased than not, Mr. Griffin being known as a very bad man.Since there isn’t a mark on his body, his death ...
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Fallen Angels
- May-2011
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Transplanted Boston Brahmin Mercy Allcutt has had some very exciting times as secretary to private investigator Ernie Templeton. While it's true she's been in what she considers a wee bit of trouble (and Ernie considers out-and-out danger) a time or ...
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Genteel Spirits
- Aug-2011
- / Historical Mystery
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Genteel Spirits is a wonderful change of pace book, thoroughly enjoyable with great writing that is good for the heart and soul! Daisy Gumm Majesty is back and she's up to her ears again. Not only does she have to deal with her husband Billy's dec...
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Ancient Spirits
- Feb-2012
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Ancient Spirits not only takes the reader on an adventure with Daisy, Harold and Sam, but warms the heart and soul. After the death of her beloved husband Billy, Daisy Majesty falls into a deep depression. To counter her melancholy, Daisy's best f...
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Angels of Mercy
- Jul-2012
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Famed Director and Producer, Milton Halsey Gosset, Shot Dead in Angels of Mercy, a Cozy Historical Mystery from Alice Duncan--1926, Los Angeles, CA--Former Boston Brahmin Mercy Allcutt is excited to be renting suites of rooms to deserving working wom...
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Pecos Valley Rainbow
- Apr-2013
- / Historical Mystery
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Flooding is not uncommon in Rosedale, New Mexico, in 1923, but Annabelle Blue has never found a corpse floating in the floodwaters before . . . As if discovering the body of the murdered president of the Rosedale Farmer s and Rancher s Bank isn t ...
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Spirits Revived
- Mar-2014
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When a real live (or dead) spirit invades Daisy Gumm Majesty’s body as she’s conducting a séance‚ claiming he was murdered‚ Daisy is not only shocked and afraid‚ but curious. She’s a fake spiritualist‚ for heaven’s sake. How did a re...
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Dark Spirits
- Jun-2014
- / Historical Mystery
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Hooded Villains, a Busted Mailbox, and a Spiritualist on the Warpath -- 1923, Pasadena, California -- Pasadena’s own fake spiritualist and reluctant crime-solver, Daisy Gumm Majesty, has tangled with some troublesome clients in her time, but none a...
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Spirits Onstage
- Apr-2015
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Pasadena’s Favorite Spiritualist-Medium Takes the Stage… Whether She Wants To or Not! -- 1924, Pasadena, California -- Daisy Gumm Majesty never expected her spiritualist talents to land her on stage -- especially not in The Mikado at her church, ...
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Thanksgiving Angels
- May-2015
- / Historical Mystery
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Forced to endure a visit with her parents for Thanksgiving, Mercy Allcutt's week is made even more miserable when she investigates the death of a woman flung from a second-story staircase....
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Unsettled Spirits
- Nov-2015
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Death by Communion? Daisy’s on the Case -- Whether Sam Likes It or Not! -- 1926, Pasadena, California -- Daisy Gumm Majesty -- spiritualist to Pasadena’s well-heeled elite (and occasional reluctant sleuth) -- was expecting the usual fire-and-brim...
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Bruised Spirits
- Jul-2016
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A Battered Bride, A Meddling Millionaire, and a Spiritualist with More Nerve than Sense… -- 1924, Pasadena, California -- Daisy Gumm Majesty has faced plenty in her line of work as a fake spiritualist, but nothing like this. When her friend Flossie...
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Spirits United
- Jul-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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A Dead Body in the Library? Daisy’s Not Checking That Out! -- Pasadena, California, 1924 -- Daisy Gumm Majesty, spiritualist-medium to Pasadena’s elite (or at least those with more money than sense), was only looking for a good book. What she fou...
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Spirits Unearthed
- Apr-2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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A Body, a Shoe, and a Dachshund with a Nose for Trouble… -- 1925, Pasadena, California -- Daisy Gumm Majesty has an unusual talent for stumbling over dead bodies -- quite literally this time. A simple visit to her late husband’s grave takes a gri...
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Shaken Spirits
- Jan-2019
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Daisy Gumm Majesty is in for a bumpy ride -- literally -- in this lively 1925 Pasadena mystery filled with danger, humor, and just a dash of romance.The New Year’s Day Rose Parade is supposed to be a time for celebration, but Daisy’s day takes a ...
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Scarlet Spirits
- Dec-2019
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A Former Madame’s Secrets Stir Up Trouble in Pasadena -- Can Daisy and Sam Keep Her Alive? -- 1925, Pasadena, California -- Evangeline Mainwaring moves to Pasadena for a fresh start, using her fortune to shelter women seeking new lives. But when no...
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Exercised Spirits
- Jan-2021
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When a Woman Mysteriously Disappears From an Orange Grove Mansion, Daisy Gumm Majesty, Sam Rotondo, and the Ever Crotchety Lou Prophet Launch A Search in Exercised Spirits, a Cozy Historical Mystery by Alice Duncan -- 1925, Pasadena, California -- Al...
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Angels Adrift
- Nov-2021
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Boston Socialite Cracks Band of Bootleggers in Angels Adrift, a Historical Cozy Mystery from Alice Duncan1926, Pasadena, CAMercy Allcutt's imagination is more exciting than her job as secretary to P.I., Ernie Templeton. As usual, she has nothing to d...
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Wedded Spirits
- Apr-2022
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A Wedding, A Bouquet… and One Very Inconvenient Corpse -- 1925, Pasadena, California -- Daisy Gumm Majesty has handled plenty of unusual situations in her time as Pasadena’s favorite spiritualist (and occasional sleuth), but a wedding murder is a...
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Christmas Angels
- Oct-2022
- / Cozy Mystery
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A Saturday Christmas Shopping Trip to Chinatown Leads to Murder in Christmas Angels, a Historical Cozy Mystery from Alice Duncan1926, Los Angeles, CAMercy and Lulu visit one of Ernie Templeton's favorite Chinatown dives, a silken items shop owned by ...
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Domesticated Spirits
- Feb-2023
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Unearthed Bones Threaten Domestic Bliss -- 1926, Pasadena, California -- Newlyweds Sam and Daisy Rotondo are settling into married life when their plans for a peaceful home are upended -- by a cat. Lou Prophet’s battered old feline, Yuyu, digs up a...
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Hollywood Angels
- Sep-2023
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Talent Scout Found Murdered in Hollywood Angels, a Historical Cozy Mystery from Alice DuncanLos Angeles, California, January 1927Mercy Allcutt’s friend, Lulu LaBelle, has an unwelcomed encounter with an alleged talent scout, producer, and director ...
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Library Spirits
- Feb-2024
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Young Woman’s Body Discovered in Library Gazebo, Lou Prophet Accused -- 1926, Pasadena, California -- When Daisy’s old nemesis, Stacy Kincaid, is found murdered in the Pasadena Public Library’s gazebo, suspicion is cast upon the one-legged Lou ...
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Celluloid Angels
- Sep-2024
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In the Cutthroat World of Hollywood, Fame and Fortune Come at a Deadly Price in Celluloid Angels, a Historical Cozy Mystery from Alice DuncanLos Angeles, California, 1927Esteemed producer, Harvey Nash is troubled by a series of suspicious accidents p...
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Spirits Adopted
- Feb-2025
- / Cozy Mystery
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Newborn Found on Doorstep of Wealthy San Marino Homeowner in Spirits Adopted a Cozy Historical Mystery by Alice Duncan -- 1926, Pasadena, California -- When Harold Kincaid's quiet morning is disrupted by the sound of a baby, in a basket on his very o...
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Dancing Angels
- Jun-2025
- / Cozy Mystery
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Intrigue and Danger Dance Hand in Hand in Dancing Angels, a Historical Cozy Mystery from Alice DuncanLos Angeles, California, 1927The elegant Murray Dance Studio becomes a hotspot for murder when one of its talented dancers, Marian Murray, is found d...
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Rosy Spirits
- Feb-2026
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Daisy Gumm Majesty’s Idyllic Day Takes a Grim Turn in Rosy Spirits a Cozy Historical Mystery by Alice Duncan—1927, Pasadena, California—Daisy Gumm Majesty’s peaceful day with her baby boy, Joey, at picturesque Busch Gardens, t...
Award-Winning Books by Alice Duncan
2012 New Mexico Book Award -- Mystery/Suspense
2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award -- Mystery/Suspense