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Kate Kingsbury

    Kate Kingsbury's vroege vertelervaringen tijdens het Londen van oorlogsherinneringen gaven haar een diep begrip van menselijke veerkracht en de kracht van verhalen. Haar uitgebreide oeuvre duikt in de complexiteit van relaties en het innerlijke leven van haar personages, waardoor diep boeiende en emotioneel resonerende verhalen ontstaan. Kingsbury verkent meesterlijk thema's als liefde, verlies en de zoektocht naar verbondenheid, met behulp van een rijke en suggestieve schrijfstijl. Lezers worden aangetrokken door haar meeslepende plots, authentieke settings en het levendige mozaïek van levens dat ze zo levendig portretteert.

    In Hot Water
    Berried Alive
    A Manor House Mystery: Paint by Murder
    Fire When Ready
    A Manor House Mystery: Wedding Rows
    • In Hot Water

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      In bestselling author Kate Kingsbury's Misty Bay Tearoom series debut, the proprietress of a British-style tea shop must draw on her love for mystery novels to sleuth a murder. Vivian Wainwright is living her dream. The middle-aged widow owns the Misty Bay Tearoom, a quaint, English-accented shop on the Oregon coast. But on the eve of the tearoom's second anniversary, the dream turns nightmarish when a man falls to his death from a hotel balcony.The body belongs to Dean Ramsey, ex-husband of Vivian's assistant, Jenna. Detective Tony Messina quickly zeroes in on Jenna as prime suspect, since she was seen leaving the hotel shortly before the body was found.Vivian and her other assistant, Gracie, set out to help clear Jenna's name, using their wit and a bit of criminology know-how Vivian picked up from her late attorney husband. Detective Messina is on board, but he's starting to develop feelings for his number one suspect. Puzzling questions persist--chief among them, whose clothes was Dean wearing when he landed on the rocky shore?To complicate matters, Vivian's friend, pet shop owner Hal Douglass, seems to know some secrets about the hotel that could add a long list of names to the suspect list...including Hal's own. Vivian must work quickly because if she can't, Jenna faces a murder rap...or worse.

      In Hot Water2021
      3,5
    • A Manor House Mystery: Wedding Rows

      • 202bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      The townspeople of Sitting Marsh finally have a reason to celebrate as wedding preparations begin for a local couple, but when the blessed day ends in murder, Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, the lady of Manor House, is on the case. Original.

      A Manor House Mystery: Wedding Rows2006
      3,9
    • Berried Alive

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      As respected guardian of Sitting Marsh, Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton must root out who poisoned four American servicemen--and why--before another soldier succumbs.

      Berried Alive2004
      3,6
    • Fire When Ready

      • 217bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      There is no evidence that Sitting Marsh's munitions factory had been bombed by the Luftwaffe, so it is up to Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton to discern who in the sleepy little community sabotaged the plant and killed the owner. Original.

      Fire When Ready2004
      3,8
    • The new Manor House Mystery by the author of Dig Deep for Murder. In World War II England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, lady of the Manor House, stubbornly insists that life must go on--except for her kindly tenent, who's been murdered.

      A Manor House Mystery: Paint by Murder2003
      3,8