Vicki Delany
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's a crisp, early October weekend, and business is slowing down as fall descends at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium and adjacent Mrs. Hudson's Tea Room. Wealthy philanthropist and prominent Sherlockian David Masterson has rented Suffolk Gardens House, where he plans to entertain his friends in a traditional English country house weekend. As the chosen caterers, Jayne Wilson and Gemma Doyle get to work preparing lavish meals and setting...
Author
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop are sponsoring a book signing with the illustrious and controversial author Renalta Van Markoff when during the author Question & Answer session, Renalta collapses on the table--dead. With no shortage of suspects, it's up to the shrewd sleuthing duo to deduce the truth behind her death"--
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English
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Gemma Doyle and her friends travel to London for a Sherlock Holmes convention--but will Gemma's father take the fall for a felonious forger's fatality?
Gemma Doyle and her friends travel to London for a Sherlock Holmes convention--but will Gemma's father take the fall for a felonious forger's fatality? The 6th of January is Sherlock Holmes's birthday, and lucky for Gemma Doyle, January is also the slowest time of the year at both the Sherlock Holmes...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Gemma Doyle, owner of Cape Cod's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in her shop, she and her friend, Jayne, set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary stage and movie star Sir Nigel Bellingham arrives on Cape Cod to star in a stage production of The Hound of the Baskervilles put on by the West London Theater Festival. When Sir Nigel, some of the cast, and the director visit the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop at 222 Baker Street, Gemma Doyle realizes that Sir Nigel is not at all suited to the role. He is long past his prime and an old drunk to boot. The cast, in particular the much younger actor...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When her tearoom becomes the site of a family feud that results in murder, Lily Roberts finds herself in hot water and must, with the help of her friends, solve this case and bag the real killer"--
When a visit from her grandmother Rose's dear friend, Sandra McHenry, turns into an unpleasant McHenry family reunion, the squabbling makes Lily Roberts's Tea by the Sea serene afternoon service resemble the proverbial tempest in a teapot. Sandra's bickering...
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Series
Publisher
Raven Books, an imprint of Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson is serving with the United Nations in Haiti when an American businessman comes home to find his young Haitian wife floating face down in the swimming pool. At the insistence of the American embassy, the Haitian police immediately arrest the gardener, and the case is closed. But Ray isn't so sure. One night he finds himself in a Vodou-saturated cemetery, surrounded by above-ground tombs and confronting a killer with nothing...
9) Juba good
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books, an imprint of Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson, nearing the end of his year-long UN mission in Juba, South Sudan, struggles to find a serial killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After Gemma helps a little girl find her lost cat, the child returns seeking further assistance when her mother is accused of killing her garden club rival.
Young Lauren Tierney comes to the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium to beg Gemma to find her missing cat, Snowball. Gemma's dog Violet follows her nose to a neighbor's garden shed, and Gemma basks in praise for a job well done. A few days later Lauren is back for a far bigger job: Her mother...
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When a psychic fair arrives in West London, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, wants nothing to do with it. But somehow, at the urging of Donald Morris, an enthusiastic Sherlockian, she finds herself talked into attending a séance, along with baker and best friend Jayne Wilson, store assistant, Ashleigh, and former pop star Bunny Leigh. But to her surprise, Gemma finds herself banned from the séance and shown the door....
12) Tea & treachery
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When real estate developer Jack Ford--who was trying to drive her and her grandmother, Rose, out of business--is found dead on Rose's property, Lily, the owner of a traditional English tearoom, discovers that Ford was brewing trouble all over town as she tries to clear Rose's name.
Tea by the Sea is a traditional English tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod. Lily Roberts is the proud proprietor and head pastry chef. Her grandmother, Rose,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson donate their time to raise money for the rebuilding of a burned-out museum, but the murder of museum board chair Kathy Lamb places a fellow shopkeeper under suspicion, and Gemma becomes entangled in the investigation.
Gemma Doyle is walking her dog when she smells smoke outside the West London Museum. No one is hurt, but the museum's priceless collection of furniture can't be saved, and damage to the historic house is...
14) Blue water hues
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this work of crime fiction, paramedic Ashley Grant becomes embroiled in a murder investigation soon after being called to a fire at a beach resort."--
Paramedic Ashley Grant is settling into her new life in the Caribbean. When the ambulance is called to a fire at a prestigious resort, Ashley recognizes the victim as a hotel chef and the cousin of her friend Darlene. When a second death occurs, the police are quick to close the case. But Darlene...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Asked to look into some strange happenings at Scarlet House, a historical re-enactment museum, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, and Jayne instead find a dead body and suspect foul play as secrets about the museum come to light.
Scarlet House, the oldest building in West London, Massachusetts, is now a historical re-enactment museum. When things start moving around on their own, board members suggest that Gemma Doyle,...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In the bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side. While this should be an open-and-shut drug case, restraint marks on the victim suggest to Probationary Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters that the death might not have been completely accidental.
17) A cold white sun
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Cathy Lindsay--a middle-aged, middle-class, small town resident, high school English teacher, and married mother of two--is an unlikely candidate for a murderous ambush. As Sergeant John Winters begins his investigation, he finds himself frustrated at every turn. Why would anyone want to kill Cathy? She was a respected teacher in an apparently solid marriage and living a quiet life. Winters, with the help of young Constable Molly Smith, digs deep...
18) Under cold stone
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Paul Keller was enjoying a vacation in the Rocky Mountains with his girlfriend Lucky Smith when his estranged son called begging for help. Paul and Lucky arrive at Matt's apartment only to find a body on the floor and Matt long gone. Lucky's daughter, Constable Molly Smith of the Trafalgar City Police, abandons her chaotic Thanksgiving kitchen to offer her mom support. She has no intention of meddling in the police investigation, but when Matt's sad,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Lily Roberts pores over the clues in a piping hot new case when a confrontational celebrity chef is murdered at her Cape Cod tearoom during the filming of a popular baking show in the latest Tea by the Sea mystery from national bestselling author Vicki Delany. The country's hottest TV cooking show is coming to Cape Cod. And against her better judgment, Lily Roberts is entering America Bakes! with her charming tearoom, Tea by the Sea! Filming is already...