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Anne Emery
Full Series List in Order
A Collins-Burke Mystery
1 - Sign of the Cross (Jun-2006)2 - Obit (Jun-2007)
3 - Barrington Street Blues (Apr-2008)
4 - Cecilian Vespers (May-2009)
5 - Children in the Morning (May-2010)
6 - Death at Christy Burke's (Oct-2011)
7 - Blood on a Saint (Nov-2013)
8 - Ruined Abbey (May-2015)
9 - Lament for Bonnie (Sep-2016)
10 - Though the Heavens Fall (Oct-2018)
11 - Postmark Berlin (May-2020)
12 - Fenian Street (Sep-2022)
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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Senior Year
- Mar-1969
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Sally Burnaby feels awful! Here she is, ready for a fabulous senior year, when everything goes to pieces! Kate, her best friend, goes away to school. Scotty begins to date another girl. Trying to forget, Sally almost ties in with the wrong crowd. ...
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Dinny Gordon Sophomore
- Jan-2004
- / Romance
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The second book in Anne Emery's Dinny Gordon series finds Dinny a year older, but still not terribly interested in dating. Although most of Dinny's friends and classmates at Rosemont High have boyfriends, Dinny spends much of her time watching, wonde...
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Sign of the Cross
- Jun-2006
- / Suspense
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Be careful what you wish for, his mother used to say. Yet how many times, in his twenty years defending the underclass, has Monty Collins wished for a client who is intelligent, articulate and tattoo-free? Now he has one, but it’s not long before h...
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Barrington Street Blues
- Apr-2008
- / Suspense
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A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds outside a seedy bar on Barrington Street in Halifax. The police declare it a murder-suicide, but bluesman/lawyer Monty Collins -- hired to represent the victims’ families -- suspects it...
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Cecilian Vespers
- May-2009
- / Mystery
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Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers, and occasionally investigating murders himself. But he’s never come up against anything like the case of Reinhold Schellenberg, a world-renowned German theologian whose blood-drenche...
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Children in the Morning
- May-2010
- / Suspense
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Beau Delaney is a bit of a showboat, a prominent lawyer whose exploits have become the subject of a Hollywood film. He’s also the father of ten children (many adopted). Now he’s charged with the murder of his wife, Peggy. It’s another hard case...
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Death at Christy Burke's
- Oct-2011
- / Mystery
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There’s a killer on the premises of Christy Burke’s pub in Dublin, according to graffiti spray-painted on the wall. Father Brennan Burke, Christy’s grandson, is asked to investigate the vandalism. Brennan has been tending bar a bit himself and ...
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Blood on a Saint
- Nov-2013
- / Mystery
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This popular series “gets better with every book” (Globe and Mail) Father Brennan Burke’s patience is tested to the limit when a young woman announces to the world that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her in his churchyard, and hordes of pilgri...
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Ruined Abbey
- May-2015
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“This winning mystery stands on its own” (Booklist) -- Emery’s eighth novel now in trade paper It’s 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is h...
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Lament for Bonnie
- Sep-2016
- / Mystery
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The ninth mystery in a series that “gets better with every book” (Globe and Mail) Twelve-year-old Bonnie MacDonald -- the beloved stepdancing, fiddling youngest member of Cape Breton’s famed Clan Donnie band -- vanishes after a family party...
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Though the Heavens Fall
- Oct-2018
- / Historical Mystery
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Winner of the 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel As 1995 dawns in the North of Ireland, Belfast is a city of army patrols, bombed-out buildings, and “peace walls” segregating one community from the other. But the IRA has called a ceasef...
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Postmark Berlin
- May-2020
- / Mystery
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The latest mystery from a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award Father Brennan Burke is struggling, and he’s been coping the only way he knows how: self-medicating with drink. He’s barely managing, but his troubles intensify when the body of ...
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The Keening
- Sep-2021
- / Historical Mystery
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The murdered body of Sorcha the prophetess is discovered following a lavish banquet at the Maguire castle in 16th-century Ireland. In the present day, a dig commences on the land, and not only is a body discovered, but a sheaf of prophecies. Who kill...
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Fenian Street
- Sep-2022
- / Mystery
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An unsolved murder investigation in 1970s Ireland from “one of Canada’s finest novelists” -- Ottawa Review of Books Shay Rynne grew up in the Corporation Flats -- public housing -- in Fenian Street, Dublin. He has always toyed with the id...
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Campus Melody
- Jul-2023
- / General Fiction
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First year at college brings Jean Burnaby lots of problems, but also a new view of life and of herself. Jean hates to say goodbye to Scotty but wants to be very sure of herself before she enters a serious relationship. With many decisions to make in ...
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Scarlet Royal
- Jul-2023
- / Mystery
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The Macintyre family - Margo, Connie, Molly and their mother - love horses and everything about horses. When unexpectedly faced with the necessity of making their own way, the girls decide to open a riding school with a string of horses that has been...
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Counted Among the Dead
- Sep-2024
- / Mystery
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Award-winning author Anne Emery is back with another Collins-Burke team-up The students at Father Brennan Burke’s choir school have written a two-act play about the Halifax Explosion of 1917. The last thing Burke expects is a series of threats agai...
