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Helen Macie Osterman
Full Series List in Order
An Emma Winberry Mystery
1 - The Accidental Sleuth (Aug-2007)2 - The Stranger in the Opera House (Sep-2009)
3 - The Elusive Relation (Oct-2011)
Book List in Order: 21 titles
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The Accidental Sleuth
- Aug-2007
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TROUBLE NEXT DOOR Life is good for sixty-something Emma Winberry. She's got a beautiful Chicago lakefront condo, a loving new man to share it with, and her nose for trouble is hardly twitching. That is, until she tries to help a teenage visitor ne...
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The Stranger in the Opera House
- Sep-2009
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As the cast and crew rehearse for their debut performance of The Ghosts of Versailles, mystery descends upon Chicago's Midwest Opera House. Sexagenarian Emma Winberry, longtime volunteer, supporter and now an extra in the lavish production, finds her...
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Notes In A Mirror
- Nov-2009
- / Paranormal Romance
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The year is 1950. The place: Hillside State Mental Hospital. In this atmosphere of hopelessness and despair come student nurses from surrounding hospitals for their three month psychiatric rotation. Mary Lou Hammond and Kate Stephens are two of these...
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Song Of The Rails
- Jul-2011
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Eve Moore appears to have an ideal life: a lovely home, two grown children, and a husband who is a good provider. As the years go by, her husband's alcoholism escalates, and he becomes abusive. When Eve tells him she wants to go back to work, he feel...
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The Elusive Relation
- Oct-2011
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A CALL FOR HELP… At first, sixtysomething Emma Winberry thinks the desperate letter from a relative she's never known is some kind of scam. Still, her uncanny instincts -- and several increasingly ominous dreams -- are warning her otherwise. An...
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A Visit from the Blues Brothers and Other Short Stories
- Aug-2012
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A Visit from the Blues Brothers is the first in a collection of eclectic short stories. It combines humor, mystery, and an ironic ending. The Lady in the Window is a tense, heart pounding story of a marriage gone bad. The Trophy is a feel good story....
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Emma Winberry and the Evil Eye
- Sep-2012
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Emma Winberry and The Evil Eye: The Prequel is the first of the already famous Emma Winberry Mystery series. While sixtyish Emma Winberry and her friend, Gladys Foster, are enjoying a tour of southern Italy, they overhear a conversation by two member...
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The Elusive Relation, an Emma Winberry Mystery
- Oct-2012
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Emma Winberry discovers she has a niece, Lindsey Bellingham, living in the UK, who is begging for help. Lindsay's disabled cousin, Isabel, is being threatened; a wealthy American wants to buy the house; and Lindsay is being swindled by her uncle.When...
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Maker's Mark
- Nov-2012
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Why do a sleazy antique dealer and a wealthy collector suddenly become interested in an unknown artist named Jo Allison? Is it the mysterious goblet she used in three still life paintings? Jo's apartment is burglarized and she is followed and threate...
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Emma Winberry and The Evil Eye, A Prequel
- Jun-2013
- / Thriller
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A world famous tenor, Marcantonio Speranza, a vendetta by a rival singer, and a boy named Angelo with the voice of an angel. Put them together and they could be a plot for an opera.Emma Winberry has a sixth sense that tells her Speranza is in danger....
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Locked Within
- Jan-2014
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In the latest Emma Winberry Mystery, we find the ever-vibrant 60-year-old and her significant other, Nate at the Performing Arts Center on Chicago’s north shore. They are supernumeraries -- extras -- for the musical, and their dear friend, Delia i...
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Song of the Rails, a Love Story
- Jun-2014
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Eve Moore appears to have an ideal life: a lovely home, two grown children and a husband who is a good provider. Samuel Moore's alcoholism escalates and he becomes abusive. After a violent episode, she leaves. Through a mutual friend, she meets Paul ...
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The Emma Winberry Mysteries
- Oct-2014
- / Cozy Mystery
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Praise for Helen Macie Osterman’s Emma Winberry novels: “Emma Winberry is Miss Marple reincarnated…this time as a with-it woman with a Chicago condo rather than a cottage in St. Mary Mead. Her curmudgeonly significant ...
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Danger by Design
- Mar-2015
- / Cozy Mystery
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In Danger by Design, senior citizen Net Petrone resides in a retirement complex. The previous owner of her apartment died of a heart attack, and to her son’s dismay, the woman’s will named a suspicious organization as heir. Her son is convinced t...
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Rogue Wave
- Sep-2015
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Emma Winberry and Nate Sandler, her significant other, plan a vacation on a sailboat on the Caribbean. Emma has misgivings about the trip and discusses it with her Guardian Angel who tells her there will be trials ahead. This makes Emma more uncomfor...
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Dipped in Danger
- Oct-2016
- / Cozy Mystery
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Dipped in Danger is the sequel to Danger by Design. Superstitious Italian, Net Petrone takes a part-time job at The Toffee Shop. The shop is broken into, equipment is destroyed, and a man is murdered. Who is responsible? Can feisty Net helps solve th...
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Who Are the New Neighbors?
- Mar-2019
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This book is the sequel to Followed, released in 2017It revolves around the family renting the house next door to Sparks House in Rockford, Illinois.The subject matter is domestic abuse. Deborah Geraldson is completely dominated by her husband, Ezra....
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David's Return
Olivia abnd Evan Barclay are unable to have children of their own. They adopt a founding and name him David. The child has two unusual birthmarks on his chest. Every year at the Summer Solstice, the marks turn red and are painful. Only under hypnosis...
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Who Am I? a short story
Sara Warner is a best selling author. She is critically injured in an automobile accident. At this time her personality splits into two. The psychiatrist tries to integrate both personalities into one with dire consequences....
