When her husband is lost in a whaling disaster, Lyddie Berry finds her status as a widow is vastly changed. Her son-in-law sets out to strip her of everything she and her husband worked for, but she refuses to bow to societal and legal pressures.
An indentured servant finds herself bound by law, society, and her own heart in this new novel set in colonial Cape Cod from the author of the acclaimed "The Widow's War."
When Peter Bartholomew finds a teenager's body drifting in the Sound, the only clues are a class ring and the murdered girl's pregnancy. Peter and his ex-wife Connie determine to search for the truth, and their most memorable encounter traps them in the rising waters of a tidal cave, where a killer feels free to let nature take its deadly course.
Pete and Connie Bartholomew are making a second go at marriage, and this time around they're determined to make it work. But the honeymoon's been cut short by a phone call from the police chief of Nashtoba Island, suggesting they return home and tend to a murder.
It's beginning to look at lot like murder for Peter Bartholomew in the third installment of this popular mystery series. When a local businessman is killed at a Christmas party, it may have been because he refused to sell out to a powerful condo developer. Pete sets out to expose the murderer, but his real concern is for his ex-wife--who may be ...
Fifth in Gunning's popular mystery series featuring odd-job entrepreneur Peter Bartholomew. Peter takes ex-wife Connie, sister Polly, and her fiance, Jackson Beers, on a whale-watching cruise. But when the would-be sightseers are treated to the grisly spectacle of Beers impaled on a harpoon, the expedition turns into the hunt for a killer.
"When his friend's bride turns up late for her wedding--murdered--it's up to Peter to investigate. What he discovers hits uncomfortably close to home and exposes a tangle of jealousy, love, and murderous anger lurking beneath some very muddy water". (from a review)
Cobie Small was Nashtoba's local die-hard drunk who inhabited a floating wreck offshore. It's a shock when Cobie shows up at a local bar flashing a wad of cash, and even more shocking when his dead body is hauled in the next morning with a net full of mackerel. Now, Peter Bartholomew and his errant sister, Polly, wind up investigating the case, ...
When Peter Bartholomew and his ward, Lucy, come across a human skull while playing--and it turns out to have belonged to a former lover of Peter's who supposedly left the island many years ago--all of Nashtoba Island is shocked. When another skull, that of a legendary bootlegger, is discovered, Peter sets out to find a connection between the two ...
Gunning takes her popular sleuth, Peter Bartholomew, into his roughest waters yet. The surprising double death of beloved spinsters on the usually quiet New England island of Nashtoba leaves amateur sleuth Peter with plenty of questions . . . and trouble.
Odd-job entrepreneur Peter Bartholomew is busy trying to woo his ex-wife and clean up the clutter in his office when socialite Anthony Simmons comes to him with a problem. Simmons, a newcomer to Nashtoba Island, believes someone is trying to kill his beautiful young wife, Claire, and Simmons wants Peter to go undercover as a handyman. Peter ...
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