Deze in Indiana wonende auteur debuteerde met een bekroonde debuutroman die een charmante detective introduceerde. Haar werken kenmerken zich door intelligente schrijfstijl en trekken lezers mee in mysteries vol wendingen. Via haar personages verkent ze complexe relaties en de menselijke natuur met een scherp oog voor detail. Haar mysteries worden gewaardeerd om hun vermogen om meeslepende verhalen te creëren die lezers tot het einde toe aan het raden houden.
When Dorothy goes to France, she is embroiled in mysteries: a woman drowning in quicksand; a man suffering a near-fatal fall; and a missing archaeologist - all connected to a monk named Abelard, who has been dead for almost nine hundred years. When another body is found, Dorothy's ability to 'think outside the box' unravels a despicable scheme.
Dorothy Martin's husband, Alan Nesbitt, is heavily involved in the complex and lengthy process of choosing a new bishop for Sherebury Cathedral when one of the candidates is found murdered in his own church. Then a second candidate is found dead, and the case becomes very complicated indeed. Who is murdering England's clergymen and why . . .?
Murder threatens to disturb the creativeness of Sherebury's art college One late-summer's evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party to introduce the new teaching assistant, sculptress Gillian Roberts However, tragedy strikes on a tour of the sculpture department, when the lift breaks down and a corpse is discovered at the bottom of the lift shaft. Dorothy and Alan become involved in the ensuing investigation, putting their local knowledge and sleuthing skills to good use once again. But when another member of the art faculty goes missing and someone receives threatening phone calls, it seems the killer still has something to hide and may very well strike again . . .
While accompanying her husband to a conference, Dorothy discovers what looks like a pool of blood on the floor of one of the university's laboratories. She goes to fetch help, but when she returns there is nothing to be found. Was she mistaken? Or has a terrible crime been committed? Dorothy, who can never resist a puzzle, determines to find out.
Dorothy Martin's birthday celebrations in Bath are curtailed when she and her husband, Alan Nesbit, discover a curious assortment of loot in their car boot on a trip to Stonehenge. As Dorothy and Alan determine to prove their innocence and catch a thief, they are soon swept into a conspiracy that runs much deeper and darker ...
Alan's unofficial great-niece, Lucy Bowman, arrives from the States and can't wait for Dorothy and Alan to meet her fiance, Iain. But when Iain is the victim of a hit-and-run in London, Dorothy learns that he wasn't all he seemed to be. Can she separate fact from fiction to untangle a deadly web of lies?
Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan have been invited to rural Suffolk to take part in the christening of the newest member of the aristocratic Montcalm family. But on arriving at Dunham Manor, they discover the household in turmoil as the ceremonial dagger used in Montcalm family christenings for generations past, has gone missing. Dorothy and Alan offer their help in locating the ancient heirloom, but when a stranger is murdered in the village - stabbed in the back with an ornate dagger - Sir Edwin Montcalm finds himself the prime suspect in a very puzzling murder. It will take all Dorothy and Alan's well-honed investigative skills to untangle a web of long-buried secrets, historic conflicts and murderous inclinations which threaten to destroy the traditions and the very existence of the Montcalms' way of life for ever.
"American Anglophile Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired chief constable Alan Nesbit, are enjoying a pleasant, albeit rain-soaked, stay in the historic university city of Durham with their old friend David Tregarth. Castle tours and cathedral services fill their days as they wander up and down the steep, cobbled lanes of the medieval city. But the holiday comes to an abrupt halt when David's elderly great-aunt is accused of the murder of a fellow patient at her nursing home. How could a frail dementia sufferer commit such a terrible deed? Dorothy is determined to prove Aunt Amanda's innocence, and launches into an unofficial investigation. But as she and David navigate their way amongst reckless students, inefficient police work and witnesses who have lost the ability to remember, the investigation soon becomes as twisty, slippery and treacherous as the damp cobblestones outside . . ."--Provided by publisher.
When Dorothy Martin and her husband Alan meet the wealthy Ahmad family, they are charmed by their courtesy, their perfect English, their delightful children and their commitment to peace. So when Mr and Mrs Ahmad disappear without trace, leaving their children asleep in the local inn, Dorothy feels compelled to find out what's happened to them.
June, 1925. Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life at the home ofher wealthy parents in genteel Oak Park village, Illinois, but tragedy strikeswhen her friend Mr Anthony is found stabbed to death in the alley behind hisantiques shop. When one of her father's oldest friends is accused of the crime,Elizabeth determines to expose the real killer.