A DESERTED HOUSE GUARDS AND EVIL SECRET Legacy of fear… For more than one hundred years, the Standish Place has stood sentinel on the bluffs of Brooklyn Heights -- a decaying shell, now, of the elegant mansion it once was. When Antonia Moncri...
Trelawny’s Fell… The thought of the great New England house makes Kit Trelawny’s cheeks burn with shame. As a child she suffered torments there, snubbed by her rich cousins, Giles and Nicholas, the aristocratic Trelawny twins. Twins were ...
To Janet deMaury it seemed an interesting but uncomplicated assignment, to write her famous father’s biography. After all, as her publisher pointed out, she was the obvious person to do it. But before she could begin, she had to travel to Tenton Ha...
Candida had no wish to leave her publishing job in New York to play guardian angel to a spoiled -- and very frightened -- wealthy beauty who was, in fact, losing her money and her looks to alcohol. But Diana Egremont was used to having her own way...
It was the children who, innocently, started the train of events that was to have such a devastating climax. Every day, in a newly opened primary school next door to the Marchington home, the pupils would create a minor uproar under the elder Miss Ma...
Kate reluctantly agrees to care for the children of a sister whom she has not seen in twenty years and confronts commitments and emotions long denied in a situation of tightening entanglements and mounting threat...
The grisly murder of wheelchair bound church treasurer, Dick Grism. His tight control on the holy purse strings had made him less than popular. The weapon was an invaluable bookend taken from the dead man's shelf. All the gruesome evidence points to ...
When eleven-year-old Cathy learns the truth about the mother whom she had been told was dead, her compassionate grandmother helps her understand the thin line of good intentions that often separates truth and dishonesty...
Lovely free-lance journalist Kit Maitland's assignment to write about the Van Reider mansion on the Hudson is threatened by a series of bizarre "accidents," dark secrets from her own past, and murder THE MAN IN THE MANSION Free-lance journalist...
Overweight and lacking in self-esteem, seventeen-year-old Jill Hamilton, daughter of an alcoholic doctor, finds her life transformed by her relationship with handsome Nathan Vandermark, who attends an exclusive, nearby prep school...
Seventeen-year-old Hilda travels to the Caribbean to visit distant relatives. She finds out shocking things about her self and about plans affecting her. When Hilda receives an invitation from her aunt and uncle to visit them on the tropical islan...
Reverend Claire Aldington was upset enough to learn a female colleague had been killed. Then she learned that her fiance had secretly known the woman. When more murders start to occur, Claire joins the police to catch the killer--who may turn out to ...
After going against her mother's wishes and buying a horse with her baby sitting money, thirteen-year-old Janet works for his upkeep in the stables but finds she has no extra money for the riding lessons she desperately wants....
Upset when her long-term boyfriend, Roger, refuses to offer any commitment because of her mother's mental illness, Stephanie Grainger journeys to Italy to uncover secrets from the past and meets Tony, a young man very different from Roger...
Tired of being teased because she is fat, twelve-year-old Dinah takes refuge in a fantasy kingdom in which the fattest people are the most beautiful until she finds new friends that make the real world more bearable...
Martha Tierney is awakened from a routine hangover by a call revealing her young son's disappearance, and she battles to find him and rescue herself from alcoholism. The nightmare begins on November 12 when Martha Tierney faces what every mother d...
Call it ESP, but Reverend Claire Aldington had an uneasy feeling about Christmas. And as the season approached, havoc indeed reigned at fashionable St. Anselm's on New York's Upper East Side. A petty thief was on the loose. A radical young priest was...
Let the past stay past... Janet Covington appears to have everything - career success, good looks, a healthy relationship - but when a secret from her past threatens her future happiness, church rector and amateur detective Claire Aldington decides t...
He strikes without warning....he kills without mercy....he's only just begun....
Iris Johansen, the New York Times bestselling author of The Killing Game and The Face of Deception, delivers a gripping new novel of breathtaking suspense and exp...
When four generations of a wealthy Rhode Island family gather to hear the reading of a trust that may increase their vast wealth, an uninvited visitor joins them--a lost son with explosive revelations and revenge on his mind. . . . A rich American sa...
Three years after being orphaned, Irish Catholics Maggie and Annie Lavin still struggle in the Protestant community where they have been taken in by the Russell family, and when their long-lost uncle arrives to claim them, the girls face a difficult ...
Little Girl Lost Elizabeth was a good teacher and she knew it. The little girls knew it too. They liked her with the instinctive liking of the young for someone they can't bully. She was a good disciplinarian and they learned from her. All except...
PERILOUS INPERSONATION She had embarked on a dangerous course. She had taken her friend's name and gone to the island as a governess to Tristram Darcourt's young daughter. Sally Wainwright was really a reporter who wanted to learn about the Dar...
Kilgaren Both the island and the mansion took their name from the wealthy, titled family that had ruled the tiny corner in the Caribbean for centuries. But now the wealth was almost gone and the stately old house stood in overgrown disrepair, a s...
Summons to Murder Julia Winthrop, an art expert in an exciting new gallery, was summoned to Italy by her step-grandmother, the fabulous Gianetta. She was stunned to learn upon arriving at the castle that Gianetta had been murdered. She turned f...
Charles didn't know much about life ... until he met The Man Without a Face"I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate ...
It was only after Antonia had inherited the house that strange things began to happen. Yet how could she connect disaster with that fantastic and unexpected legacy - the famous scandal-ridden Standish place in Brooklyn Heights? But there was a con...
Trelawny’s Fell… The thought of the great New England house makes Kit Trelawny’s cheeks burn with shame. As a child she suffered torments there, snubbed by her rich cousins, Giles and Nicholas, the aristocratic Trelawny twins. Twins were ...