Janet Kellough

A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery

1 - On the Head of a Pin (Nov-2009)
2 - Sowing Poison (Jul-2012)
3 - 47 Sorrows (Aug-2013)

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  On the Head of a Pin
  

  • Nov-2009
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery - 1
  

  Thaddeus Lewis, an itinerant "saddlebag" preacher still mourns the mysterious death of his daughter Sarah as he rides to his new posting in Prince Edward County. When a girl in Demorestville dies in a similar way, he realizes that the circumstances p...

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  Sowing Poison
  

  • Jul-2012
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery - 2
  

  When Nathan Elliott disappears, can a Methodist circuit rider discover what truly happened? After an absence of many years, Nathan Elliott returns to the lakeside village of Wellington in Ontario’s Prince Edward County to be at his dying father’s...

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  47 Sorrows
  

  • Aug-2013
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery - 3
  

  In this third novel in the series, Thaddeus Lewis and his son journey into the heart of disaster.When the bloated corpse of a man dressed in women’s clothing washes up on the shore of Lake Ontario near Thaddeus Lewis’s home, nothing is found on t...

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  The Palace of the Moon
  

  • Mar-2014
  • / Literary
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  Cara Collins returns to her home town to bury her mother and discovers a secret that was spawned one balmy spring night at The Palace of the Moon, a ramshackle dance hall perched on the spectacular sand dunes that fringe the western edge of Prince Ed...

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  The Pear Shaped Woman
  

  • Mar-2014
  • / Literary
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  Liddie Rose Marsh grows up in a place where the chickens and old car engines share the same barnyard; where old folks and young folks and miscellaneous relatives all go along to the Town Hall dances; and where her pear-shaped aunt is carrying on a fe...

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  The Burying Ground
  

  • Aug-2015
  • / Police Procedural
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  Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto -- the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics -- and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are...

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  Wishful Seeing
  

  • Aug-2016
  • / Police Procedural
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  2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Novel -- ShortlistedSaddlebag preacher Thaddeus Lewis uncovers murder and conspiracy in Northumberland County. A body is discovered on an isolated island in Rice Lake. Saddlebag preacher Thaddeus Lewis is sent on a des...

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  The Heart Balm Tort
  

  • Jun-2017
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Still humiliated after his disastrous posting in Cobourg, preacher and sometime detective Thaddeus Lewis is asked to investigate a case of arson and murder that had its beginnings as a simple suit for seduction - a so-called "heart balm tort." The la...

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  The Bathwater Conspiracy
  

  • Apr-2018
  • / Science Fiction
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  Nothing about this case makes sense. Detective Carson “Mac” MacHenry can’t figure out why the Darmes are so interested in this one dead girl or why the secretive federal police have rushed the autopsy or why, a few days later, the records of th...

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  The Untoward Assassin
  

  • Mar-2019
  • / Historical
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  Someone is following saddlebag preacher and sometime detective Thaddeus Lewis. Someone is sending him money. Someone is trying to kill him. Is it all the same person? Thaddeus accompanies his granddaughter Martha to Toronto so that she can attend the...

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