Nancy Means Wright

In 1786 a new young governess, Mary Wollstonecraft, witnesses a stabbing when she attends a pagan bonfire at which an illegitimate son of the nobility is killed, and when the young Irishman Liam Donovan becomes the prime suspect, Mary, susceptible to Liam's charm, determines to prove him innocent. (Historical mystery). Original.

A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft

Midnight Fires

Crimes of Passion

Maggie Price

B. J. Daniels

Jonathan Harrington

Top mystery writers Nancy Means Wright and Jonathan Harrington team up with romance writers Maggie Price and B.J. Daniels to deliver four gripping stories of love, betrayal, and crime during the Valentine's season.

Multiple mysteries develop in rural Vermont. A skeleton turns up in a rural dairy farm, a ghost invades a neighboring farmhouse B&B, local birds are poisoned, and there are strange goings-on at a women's shelter. Martin's Press.

Harvest of Bones

After you’ve restored a hump-roofed, rump-sprung wreck of a Broken House, withstood the eccentricities of in-laws, willful kids, offbeat neighbors, obstinant hired hands, live-in ghost and established a craft shop, featuring Timothy, a wooden rocking horse with personality but who can’t seem to hold onto his eyes and tail—what do you do for an encore? Wright decided to write a book about her crazy experiences. Memoir by Nancy Means Wright; originally published by Down East Books

Make Your Own Change

Catastrophe hits a Vermont apple orchard: a plague of maggots, a spray of RoundUp, hate calls from a local cult, poisoned fruit that kills a Jamaican picker, and a young girl in a risky relationship. Dairy farmer Ruth Willmarth rushes to help—only to watch the troubles pile up on her own doorstep! Wright doesn't put a foot wrong in this well-wrought mystery." (The Boston Globe) Mystery by Nancy Means Wright; originally published by St. Martins Minotaur

Poison Apples

When puppeteer Marion collapses during a performance, her friend Fay Hubbard promises to carry on. But Fay, a neighbor of Ruth Willmarth, already has her hands full with three demanding foster children. When an autopsy reveals that Marion had swallowed a dose of deadly crushed yew—and a friend finds her sister dangling from a rod like a marionette, a shocked Fay races after the villains. Mystery by Nancy Means Wright; originally published by Enigma/GMTA Publishing

Broken Strings

Second of the Northern Spy mysteries, following the Agatha winner The Pea Soup Poisonings. Who stole three red rail cars from Spence’s antique circus train? The hair-raising quest takes Zoe and Spence from a neighbor’s murky basement to the Quirkus Circus to help two wacky clowns—until one of them disappears… Agatha Finalist for Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel. Young Adult/Juvenile Mystery by Nancy Means Wright; originally published by Hilliard & Harris

The Great Circus Train Robbery

QUEENS NEVER MAKE BARGAINS is the engaging, evocative tale of three spirited Scottish-American women who carry on their lives through two world wars, a flu pandemic, and a Great Depression. The story opens with young Jessie Menzies who takes ship to America to live in a Vermont machine tool town as nanny to her pious Uncle Wallace's bereaved children. The action moves in and out of a boarding house filled with eccentrics like the feisty artist Llew Arthur, whose polio forces him to paint propped up against a shaky card table. It propels us into the 30's N.Y.C. theater world where a small-minded congressman succeeds in silencing the actors; and into war-time London where rebel-pilot Victoria ferries her beloved Spitfires, has a failed love affair, and mourns a lost child. The novel explores the role of immigrants and their conflicting cultures and religions. It shows us how external events can shape and alter our lives, and how we cope with and survive them.

Queens Never Make Bargains

Ruth Willmarth leaps into the fray when her ornery cow Zelda unearths a human finger; a rented greyhound digs up a skeleton wearing a Scots bonnet; and a lovely woman dies a mysterious death at a local Healing House. “Demanding and engaging,” (Booklist). “Vividly offbeat characters,” (Kirkus Reviews), “A strong sense of place…with human, and humorous problems.” (Publishers Weekly) 2nd Ruth Willmarth mystery by Nancy Means Wright; originally published by St. Martin’s

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