Bøger af Nicola Pearson

In this second Callum Lange mystery, the retired NYC detective is wondering who has been stealing his firewood from the 80 acres around his yurt on Sauk Mountain when he receives a call about a woman, missing from her home, on the nearby Rockport-Cascade Road. Once drawn into the investigation he learns about a series of petty thefts, the art of wildcrafting, some painted gourds, and the story of the man in the mud room. Plus he discovers who has been making off with his firewood.

While the community gathers to celebrate Joe and Lucy's marriage in the winter magic of the Upper Skagit Valley, there is one person who refuses to feel the love; their neighbor, Hilda. She is determined to mar their happiness with a vindictive property line dispute, and before the ink is dry on their marriage certificate, they find themselves embroiled in a series of stomach-churning ordeals that they must overcome in order to keep their home, and their pottery business, viable. All of this they endure while trying to reason with Hilda. But when she sabotages the ancient apple tree growing in front of their house, they can't help but wonder if it's the property line that's truly bothering their neighbor, or something deeper. "Borrowed Ground" brings Joe and Lucy back from "How to Make a Pot in 14 Easy Lessons" and sets them up with new, shared lessons, that cause them to reflect on the validity of the earthly boundaries we seem so intent on guarding.

Callum Lange is a retired NYC detective who moved to 80 acres in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington State to get away from crime....only to find himself getting sucked right back in. In this first story, The Case of the Barking Dog, a woman is found stabbed to death in the little village of Rockport, just a few miles up the road from Lange's yurt on Sauk Mountain, and the detective finds a group of seeds, stuck to the victim's couch, that he hopes will lead him directly to the murderer.

Joe and Lucy are an unlikely couple. Joe is better at communicating with clay than people and is deeply rooted to his pottery studio in the North Cascade Mountains. Lucy, an actress, has worked hard to build a career on stage and perhaps harder to avoid getting entangled in love, driven by an old fear. And yet, like the undeniable call of making art for a living, something drives them to believe they can make their relationship work. Helped by the cast of quirky characters who come to buy Joe's pottery, and the beauty of the natural world around them, Lucy starts to see a role for herself in the mountains. Joe's wood-firing kiln may not always be dependable, but his love for her is. However the tight-knit community that surrounds him is an entirely different kind of audience than she's used to, and when Joe asks for a commitment, something Lucy feels she can never promise, they both find their emotions spinning like a pot on a wheel.How to Make a Pot in 14 Easy Lessons is about clay and love and the surprising unpredictability of both.

Callum Lange is fully immersed in his daily walk on Sauk Mountain Road when a vehicle suddenly appears beside him. The attractive female driver shows him her DEA badge and wonders if she can take a moment of his time. Lange is surprised. "What in the world is the DEA doing all the way out here, in the middle of nowhere?" he asks."The middle of nowhere is where small planes like to drop drugs they've flown in from Canada," she answers.Which reminds Lange of a noise he heard recently in the early morning and a disturbance he saw on the hillside above some wild blackberries. But when he takes the DEA agent down the abandoned logging road to the hillside in question, they discover something even more troubling than drugs hidden among the blackberries.

What happens to the hour we lose to Daylight-Savings time? If he's Six O'Clock, maybe he packs his bag and goes looking for work. And because time flies, he flies around the world, finding himself in music and numbers, and even on the front of a bus! The Lost Hour, delightfully illustrated by 13-year old Maya Keegan, is a humorous story about time and travel and finding yourself when you are lost.