Bøger af Beth Everett

Take a trip to Portland, Oregon, where Lee hides at her best friend Amy's house to recover from betrayal. The unexpected death of Charlotte Wilson, the previous buyer, allowed Amy to purchase her home in a competitive environment. Lee suspects a local real estate agent is killing to win. The mystery deepens when she meets the strange neighbors. Lee stumbles into an old flame, and Portland is about to heat up.

More HBO than the Hallmark Channel, the Lee Harding series is grown-up fun. Take a Trip to Lake Montego with Lee Harding, everyone's favorite stoner sleuth. Lee is worried that her marriage is falling apart and runs away to the Montego Paddling Club, where her trusty canoe, Red, sits in the lake-spotted mountains of upstate New York. Time away turns lethal when camp malcontent Emily English is found dead on the dock below Lee's cabin. With the help of small-town detective, Lee is on the case. The more they dig, the more apparent it becomes that the historic paddling club's inhabitants are concealing secrets, and Lee is worried that her closest friend may be hiding the darkest of them all. Can Lee save her friend before she is arrested for Emily's murder? Dead on the Dock is a star filled night of deception. It's a sunny paddle across a lake full of buried secrets that will keep you guessing until the end.

Take a trip that's a little bit Nancy Drew, a dash Cheech and Chong and, and just enough Streets of San Francisco to make you want to hop on a cable car. Lee Harding can't find happiness in the harsh east coast winters. A trip to her hometown of San Francisco is meant to lift her spirits. She stays with her sister Alice's home at the Twenty Alder compound, a tiny courtyard with five separate apartments. The residents are scurrying to prepare for their landlord Martha's birthday celebration. The courtyard is lit with strings of lights, the bar is ready and lanterns are being hung on the enormous oak trees. When Lee is in New Jersey, she does nothing but dream of moving back to San Francisco, but this trip is proving that you cannot go home again. There seems to be new buildings everywhere, and the funky city of her past is getting harder and harder to find. Bohemian Landlord Martha Byrne represents all that is loved about old San Francisco. When she is murdered in her apartment after her party, Lee is determined to figure out which of the tenants is responsible. The detective on the case is a started and pressed cop named Erik Healy. Lee's position as a guest in the compound gives her unfettered access to the politics that go on between the tenants at Twenty Alder Street. She shares her concerns with the detective and soon the two have formed a friendship that has a little too much heat. Lee is reading Hemingway's, A Moveable Feast and decides that the author died full of regret. She keeps this in mind as she toys with the idea of something further with Erik Healy.The Harding sisters distract themselves from the grim mood at the apartment house by touring their old haunts. The scars from their tragic childhood have left them with painful wounds, and they find lighthearted relief in weed and alcohol. It seems just about everyone in the complex has a motive for wanting Martha dead, but no one more than the hot headed Miles Alcazar. Just when Lee is sure the man is responsible, he turns up dead. Someone is taking out the residents one by one and she fears her sister Alice could be next. Death on Alder is a love letter to San Francisco, sisterhood and the myth of home.