Bøger af Louise Hathaway

While on her honeymoon in Savannah, Georgia, Detective Clarissa Santy hopes to spend a nice quiet time with her husband in one of America's most beautiful cities. She and her husband are both big fans of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", so they decide to make a pilgrimage to Savannah to see the sights mentioned in the book. Her time as a tourist is short-lived however when one of Savannah's famous chefs is brutally murdered. The chef just happens to be Clarissa's cousin--so this is personal--and Clarissa can't rest until she finds out whodunit. Was the murderer a fellow chef? Someone hoping to inherit her estate? An angry, jealous boyfriend? A disgruntled employee? Join Clarissa in this riveting tale that climaxes at the famous Bonaventure cemetery.This book has something for everybody: it's part murder/mystery; part travelogue; part romance novel; and even includes a search for a buried treasure. What holds it all together is the well-rounded, vulnerable, and funny character of Clarissa, a spirited protagonist we've grown to love since we first met her in "The Tustin Chronicles".

Have you ever wanted to go to a mystery dinner theater where the audience has to figure out whodunit? That is where two lovers meet in this humorous and sexy romance novel. Isabella, a librarian in her early thirties, goes with her friends to a performance where an actual murder takes place. She falls in love with the handsome investigating detective, who bears a striking resemblance to Don Draper in Mad Men, and gets herself mixed up with some dangerous people when she goes undercover-in spite of his warnings-to help him solve the crime. This book is not just "chick lit" written by a man and a woman, it appeals to both sexes. For readers 18 years old and above.

In this murder/mystery, the peaceful world of a monastery in Orange County, California is shaken apart when one of its priests is murdered. Who would want to kill him? Tempers have been running high in Silverado Canyon ever since the abbey purchased land to expand its property. Was the murderer an eco-terrorist who feared the expansion project might cause the habitat destruction of an endangered toad? Or maybe was it the powerful anti-development lawyer who has fought tooth and nail to stop every construction project in the canyon? Maybe it was the owner of the motorcycle bar, Kline's Corner, who got fed up with the priest's complaints about the bar's live music interrupting Mass and Vespers?Detective Clarissa Santy is trying to solve the murder, while at the same time, she's busy reintroducing her father to the world outside of prison, where he's spent the past 30 years for a murder conviction. Between keeping him out of trouble, babysitting a Criminal Justice Intern from UCI, and dating again after losing her husband several years ago, her life has never seemed so complicated.

Do you like Nancy Drew? Do you like New Orleans? This humorous and PG-rated story about a teenage sleuth especially targets women baby boomers who grew up reading and loving the Nancy Drew series. Nancy Keene, the teenage sleuth in our story, goes on vacation with her father and friends to the French Quarter. What starts out as a sight-seeing trip changes into a murder/mystery when a docent at Oak Alley Plantation is murdered while they are there. Part travelogue, part ghost story, this book mixes voodoo, ghosts, and bayous into a spicy gumbo of a whodunit.

Written as an homage to the Nancy Drew books, this humorous and PG-rated mystery about teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene, especially targets women baby boomers who grew up reading and loving the series. Gently poking fun at Nancy's obscure knowledge, perfectionism, and need for control, this book concentrates and the relationship between Nancy and her father. Nancy has just turned 18, is in a serious relationship with her boyfriend, and is planning to move out of state to college. How will her father handle letting her go? Find out as Nancy, her father, and her boyfriend take a trip on Route 66, visiting several of its landmarks along the way, in search of a missing will. Not only is "The Buried Treasure on Route 66" a tip of the hat to the Nancy Drew books, it's also a romance novel about both young love and rekindled old love.