First, There Is a River
10 best books like First, There Is a River (Kathy Steffen): Murder at the Vicarage, Night at the Vulcan, Whose Body?, Summer of Fire, The Affair of the Mutilated Mink, The Hunt, County Line, Untouchable, The Saint and Mr. Teal, Vintage Murder
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 1579126251 |
Murder at the Vicarage marks the debut of Agatha Christie’s unflappable and much beloved female detective, Miss Jane Marple. With her gift for sniffing out the malevolent side of human nature, Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe, the magistrate...
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN | 0312966687 |
A London actor was dying for a star billing...
From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead-there's never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0061043575 |
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a...
| Author | Linda Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1932815295 |
A Strong 3.75 Star Read
1988 was indeed a Summer of Fire. I remember watching the news and seeing the Western states ablaze, especially in and around Yellowstone National Park. Over 2 Million acres burned in around the park, as accurately documented in Linda Jacobs’ fictional novel. Fifty-two...
| Author | James Anderson |
| ISBN | 1890208140 |
The Earl of Burford hosts another slightly batty, thoroughly baffling house party....
George Henry Alwyn Saunders, 12th in his line, has taken a fancy to films. He's nearly killed with delight when a movie mogul wants Alderly, the Burfords' 17th century country estate, for the set of a new Rex Ransom...
| Author | Jan Neuharth |
| ISBN | 0972950311 |
The complex and romanticized lifestyle of elite foxhunters is revealed in this thrilling murder mystery. An attractive and wealthy lawyer and horseman, Doug Cummings personifies the old money equine subculture of Middleburg, Virginia. Driven to succeed, Cummings's climb to the top is halted when...
| Author | Bill Cameron |
| ISBN | 1935562525 |
When the steadfast Ruby Jane Whittaker drops out of sight, dogged ex-cop Skin Kadash sets out to discover what drove the woman he loves to leave her life behind so suddenly and without explanation. The discovery of a dead man in her apartment, followed by an attack by a mysterious stalker, leads Skin first...
It is the autumn of 1999. A year has passed since Lucy Darby's unexpected death, leaving her husband David and son Whitley to mend the gaping hole in their lives. David, a trauma-site cleanup technician, spends his nights expunging the violent remains of strangers, helping their families to move on,...
| Author | Leslie Charteris |
| ISBN | 0786702281 |
The Saint, returning to England via France after his round against Prince Rudolf and the entire German police force, has counteracted Claud Eustace Teal’s ambition to arrest him immediately by a method that (let it be admitted) is not really cricket, and which draws upon him the disapproval of his...
| Author | Ngaio Marsh |
| ISBN | 0312971796 |
Death served well-chilled
The leading lady of a theater company touring New Zealand was stunningly beautiful. No one-including her lover-understood why she married the company's pudgy producer. But did she rig a huge jeroboam of champagne to kill her husband during a cast party?
Did...
