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Nancy Means Wright
Full Series List in Order
A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft
1 - Midnight Fires (Apr-2010)2 - The Nightmare (Sep-2011)
Ruth Willmarth
1 - Mad Season (Nov-1996)2 - Harvest of Bones (Aug-1998)
3 - Poison Apples (Jul-2000)
4 - Crimes of Passion: Fire and Ice (Jan-2002)
5 - Stolen Honey (Apr-2002)
6 - Mad Cow Nightmare (Apr-2005)
Book List in Order: 16 titles
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Mad Season
- Nov-1996
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Even without the mud, Ruth Willmarth has got her hands full. Her husband recently defected to New York City with another woman and left Ruth to manage the farm and the family. Then spring in this Vermont farming town takes a slippery and sinister tur...
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Harvest of Bones
- Aug-1998
- / Amateur Sleuth
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CHILLED Ruth Willmarth, busy working to keep her rural Vermont dairy farm and her personal life in a manageable state, is plunged into a mystery. It starts with a finger bone, and leads to a skeleton. New neighbor Fay Hubbard has just opened a ...
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Poison Apples
- Jul-2000
- / Amateur Sleuth
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MORE THAN JUST SOUR GRAPES The pastoral beauty and joy of running an apple orchard in Vermont offers Moira and Stan Earthrowl a chance to heal after tragedy shattered their lives. Yet their newfound idyll is short-lived as "accidents" begin to pla...
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Crimes of Passion: Fire and Ice
- Jan-2002
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A severe ice storm strikes Northern Vermont, and with it comes a conflagration of love and hate. Dairy farmer Ruth Willmarth is drawn into the murder investigation of a young woman stabbed with a massive icicle in a mystery filled with the dark secre...
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Stolen Honey
- Apr-2002
- / Amateur Sleuth
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KILLER BEES When a local university student is found dead in a patch of deadly nightshade, one of several illegal plants cultivated by beekeeper Gwen Woodleaf, Gwen turns to neighbor Ruth Willmarth for help. The dead young man had driven Gwen's mi...
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Mad Cow Nightmare
- Apr-2005
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Tenacious Vermont farmer Ruth Willmarth has survived tough times before, but when news of mad cow disease spreads, she can't help but worry about her own resiliency -- and her own small herd. Two healthy looking calves she recently bought are under "...
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The Pea Soup Poisonings
- Jun-2006
- / General Fiction
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To get into her brother’s Northern Spy Club, Zoe Elwood must walk a narrow beam over rusted farm machinery, and then solve a crime. Her chance comes when Alice’s grandmother expires after eating a bowl of pea soup. Kelby gives Zoe just five days ...
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Down the Strings
- Dec-2006
- / General Fiction
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Drusie Valentini doesn’t fit in with her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsy-like assistant Fey, who moved in when her mother left -- or her pesky younger brother Punch. A party that a boyfriend talked her into ends in disaster...
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The Great Circus Train Robbery
- Apr-2008
- / General Fiction
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Second of the Northern Spy mysteries, following the Agatha winner The Pea Soup Poisonings. Who stole three red rail cars from Spence’s antique circus train? The hair-raising quest takes Zoe and Spence from a neighbor’s murky basement to the Quirk...
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Midnight Fires
- Apr-2010
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Mitchelstown Castle in County Cork, seat of the notorious Anglo-Irish Kingsborough family, fairly hums with intrigue. In 1786 the new young governess, Mary Wollstonecraft, witnesses a stabbing when she attends a pagan bonfire at which an illegitimate...
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The Nightmare
- Sep-2011
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Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft meets Henry Fuseli at her publisher’s circle of intellectuals, philosophers, and artists, and becomes obsessed with him and his erotic painting The Nightmare. When it is stolen, Fuseli accuses young painter Roger Peale,...
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Walking Into the Wild
- Oct-2012
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Join three siblings on an unforgettable journey. March, 1782. Peace has not yet been signed with England, and the Foot siblings are walking up into the Republic of Vermont, driving a stubborn cow. Like other settlers, they'd fled when Tories and Indi...
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Broken Strings
- May-2013
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When puppeteer Marion collapses during a performance, her friend Fay promises to carry on. But Fay, a neighbor of Ruth Willmarth, already has her hands full with three demanding foster children. When an autopsy reveals that Marion had swallowed a dos...
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Queens Never Make Bargains
- Apr-2014
- / Historical
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QUEENS NEVER MAKE BARGAINS is the engaging, evocative tale of three spirited Scottish-American women who carry on their lives through two world wars, a flu pandemic, and a Great Depression. The story opens with young Jessie Menzies who takes ship to ...
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