To FranceMaggie Newberry reist nach Südfrankreich, um die Leiche ihrer Schwester zu identifizieren. Elise hatte sich schon lange von der Familie losgesagt, sie war Künstlerin und Drogenabhängig. Nicht einmal die Geburt ihrer kleinen Tochter Nicole konnte daran etwas ändern. Und nun ist sie ertrun...
I received this book as part of the first read program. Thank you for the book. Right from the beginning we follow Maggie's travels to the South of France. She falls in love and rescues her sister's child only to return to the US with trouble following her. Love also follows her back from Fra...
The title I read was Murder on the Côte d'Azur Maggie Newberry, employed at an advertising agency, went to France to bring back her four-year-old niece, Nicole. Neither she nor her parents knew the girl existed. Maggie’s sister, Elise, a free-thinking artist who didn’t fit in to their ritzy At...
A 2.5 for me. It had its moments, a few chuckles here and there. But that's why I call these types "filler books" -- something to read until I'm ready for a new hearty thriller or good fiction. I don't know if anyone else does this or if I'm just weird, but these are like my appetizers before I d...
We had a nice turnout, including even a M-A-N, at Tuesday���s book club meeting. We were delighted to have Susan Kiernan-Lewis as a special guest and author of last month���s book, Toujours Dead. The second book in a trilogy of ���Maggie��� books Toujours Dead follows Maggie as she moves from A...
Although she knew some things just happen, like a natural impetus independent of the actions or desires of the people involved, she also knew that she was the author of every step that had taken her to this point. She wouldn’t sidestep the responsibility for that now. If she hadn’t taken the Heid...
As she pulled the refrigerator door open and peered inside, the interior light sliced a wedge out of the darkness. It was three o’clock in the morning. The police had allowed them to leave the office building at just before one a.m. She pulled out a carton of two-percent milk, grateful she’d been...
Sarah watched how quickly the older woman had buckled and arranged chains along the pony’s neck and back. She noticed that John had watched closely too. She had no doubt he’d be able to do it himself the next time they needed to harness up the little pony trap.“Little Ned will see you fine, pleas...
Delphine woke up a little after two in the afternoon and Maggie put together a late lunch of cold cuts. Just before they sat down, the phone rang. Maggie hesitated to answer it, fearing it might be Michelle again—and she still hadn’t sorted out in her mind what she was going to do about that—but ...
In Ella’s experience, this rang true if seven dollars of PVC piping or the lives of two hundred innocent people were at risk. No one could have predicted the event which led to the coming disaster. Who would have thought a little thing like walking down the street to put the goats in the lower pa...