Bøger af James y Bartlett

SCOTLAND, 1805The clan chief wants to remove the people living in the Highland glens and straths, replacing them with thousands of black-face Cheviot sheep and a few herders. The people of the glens, who have lived there peacefully for hundreds of years, do not wish to go.That was the essential conflict of the Highland Clearances, a dark and distressing time in Scotland's history. But in the pages of Year of the Sheep, James Y. Bartlett's epic retelling of the Clearances in Sutherland in Scotland's far North, the conflict is even starker.Both the clan chief and the people fighting back were women. Elizabeth Gordon was the 19th chief of Clan Sutherland, and landlord over one million acres of Scotland. She married George Granville Levenson-Gower, termed 'the Leviathan of Wealth, ' who was far and away the richest man in Great Britain. Together, they planned and executed the systematic removal of most of the inhabitants of the interior lands and replaced them with sheepwalks.But the plan of removal ran into resistance in Glencullen, an isolated village along the River Cullen, deep in the rolling hills and mountains of Sutherland. Most of the inhabitants of the glen were women--their husbands and fathers and sons had been sent off to fight in the King's wars in Europe against Bonaparte. Left on their own and told to obey their clan's leader as they always had, the women of Glencullen instead chose to fight back. Led by their village shaman and healer, Mute Meg; organized by the schoolteacher Anna Kenton, the niece of Lady Elizabeth; and inspired by the ferocious leadership of the almost shape-shifting outlaw known as Billy Hanks, the women of Glencullen decided to make a fateful stand to defend their way of life.Based on actual events, Year of the Sheep is an epic novel that runs from the Battle of Culloden Moor through the French Revolution in Paris, and from the swanky mansions of London to the rude huts of Glencullen, fated to be set to the fire as a way of life that lasted almost a thousand years was extinguished.As in all stories about the Highland Clearances, there are no happy endings. The people of the Highland glens were removed from their crofts and farms, over a period of almost fifty years, replaced by flocks of sheep. Nevertheless, Year of the Sheep is an inspirational story of bravery, sisterhood, community and love.

From Suspect to Sleuth!When Rhode Island Attorney General Preston Knox is brutally murdered in his home, just weeks before getting elected Governor, the state police immediately pull in JuliusHaddock for questioning.After all, Julius, the now-retired chief of police in the town of Little Penwick, had a beefwith the AG, when Knox drummed up some fake charges and put him in jail. (GlitterGirl, Book 1).But Julius didn't do it, and has an unshakeable alibi-he was out having breakfast withhis son Gus Haddock, the current chief in Little Penwick. So the outgoing governorappoints Julius to the task force investigating Preston Knox's murder because she wasimpressed with his recent work on a cold case (Cold Secrets, Book 2).And that's how Julius Haddock went from suspect to sleuth, working with the state policeto track down leads and eliminate suspects, one by one. Along the way, Julius is befriendedby a local kid on a bike, who has some family secrets of his own; and with his partnerSiggi, Julius has to try and convince the last surviving member of an old Little Penwickfamily to consider donating his land to the Little Penwick Land Trust. But there are oldfamily ghosts in the way there, too.Family Affairs, Book 4 in the Swamp Yankee Mystery series, is another page-turningadventure of police procedural, small-town relationships and family secrets. Just the kindof stew that makes James Y. Bartlett's inventive new series so popular with readers.

The smallest town in the smallest state has some BIG problems!Gus Haddock has just been appointed chief of police in the town of Little Penwick, RI,replacing his father, who is now in jail. The state's Attorney General, who sent the elderHaddock away, has appointed a new Special Master to keep tabs on Gus' department.And Chief Haddock's three tours with the U.S. Army Rangers in the Middle East hasleft him with a touch of PTSD.But Gus starts investigating the unusual circumstances regarding the disappearanceof the patriarch of the town's bad-seed local crime family-the case that inspired theAttorney General to send his Dad away. And then SHE walks in.The Glitter Girl. Young, drop-dead gorgeous and apparently deeply involved in thecase. Who is she? Why is she living in Little Penwick? How does she fi t into the web ofintrigue that links the town, the AG, the Providence Mob and everything else?Gus Haddock has his hands full. But he's a Swamp Yankee ... the salt-of-the-earthnatives who have been carving a living out of the rocky land and dangerous seas in thispart of New England for four hundred years ... and if anybody can figure out what'sgoing on, he can.

Julius Haddock is mad as hell and he's gonna do something about it!In Glitter Girl, Book One of the Swamp Yankee mysteries, Julius Haddock, theformer chief of police of Little Penwick, Rhode Island, was in jail, thanks to a corruptDistrict Attorney and a few bent judges. Now, after some good police work by his sonGus Haddock, the new chief of police, he's out. And free.Julius wants revenge, but he's going to get it on his own schedule. In the meantime,armed with his new private investigator's license, Julius decides to take another lookat one of Little Penwick's coldest cases: the thirty-year-old murder of Donna Dixon,a seventeen year old who was abducted and killed while riding her bike to work ather summer job.But as he starts to look into what happened to Donna thirty years ago, Julius Haddockfinds that everyone seems to have some secrets from that long-ago time. And he evenfinds a few secrets in Little Penwick that are fresh and brand new.But nobody doubts that Julius Haddock can figure out what happened. He's a SwampYankee, after all. Proud, determined and relentless.