As the murders pile up in Crozet, Virgina, it seems the ones who can shiff out the clues best are a cat and a dog.
Virginia
- Author:Brown, Rita Mae.Summary:
- Author:Glasgow, EllenSummary:
- Author:Gaffney, PatriciaSummary:
Après Les quatre Grâces, Patricia Gaffney offre cette merveilleuse histoire de solidarité entre mères et filles, et un portrait attendrissant de l’amour immense qui les unit. Veuve depuis peu, Carrie est plongée dans une grave...
- Author:Peterson, Jr, Ron.Summary:
Under the Trestle is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history.
- Author:Parshall, SandraSummary:
Something terrifying is happening to the dogs in the mountain community of Mason County, Virginia. Pets are vanishing mysteriously and “Missing Dog” posters cover the waiting room walls at Dr. Rachel Goddard’s veterinary clinic. A pack...
- Author:Ellis, ShellySummary:
For the wealthy Murdochs of Chesterton, Virginia, managing scandalous damage and killer drama is now their only chance at survival ...For Evan Murdoch, the bad news just won't stop. As he battles an attempted murder charge, he's on the...
- Author:Brooke, LaurenSummary:
It's been a long time since Amy has seen her father. Twelve long years have separated them, and she doesn't know if he could ever really be her father again.
- Author:Glasgow, EllenSummary:
- Author:Thompson, John M.Summary:
On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul...
- Author:Crane, StephenSummary:
During the Civil War, a Union Army soldier flees the battlefield in terror and then must contend with his own internal shame. A gripping exploration of heroism, cowardice, and one boy’s maturation, this novel is most remarkable for...
- Author:Brown, Rita MaeSummary:
Harry Haristeen and the peaceable residents of Crozet, Virginia, are found busily preparing their gardens and homes for winter. When wealthy Carla Paulson begins plotting her extravagant new home, she ruffles more than a few feathers....
- Author:Thompson, Edgar Tristram, Mintz, Sidney W., Baca, GeorgeSummary:
A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, "The Plantation," broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic...
- Author:Brown, Rita MaeSummary:
The discovery of a murdered body disguised as a cornfield scarecrow becomes the first of several disturbing events in a scenic Virginia community, where Harry and her husband prepare for the local Halloween festivities and uncover a...
- Author:Brown, Rita MaeSummary:
When a faculty member of the local prep school is murdered, the headmistress and "Sister" Jane Arnold, master of the foxhounds at Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, work together to uncover a killer. It seems the slaying may have been...
- Author:Beanland, RachelSummary:
A "wildly entertaining" (NPR), "gripping" ( The Washington Post ) work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night, from the author of...
- Author:Wiggs, SusanSummary:
Virginia, 1854. Hunter Calhoun, a widower shadowed by the scandal of his wife's death, buries himself in his hobby of breeding racehorses, neglecting his young family. Eliza Fylte has inherited her father's famed gift for...
- Author:Hahn, Mary DowningSummary:
A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules's parents love the house, but Jules is frightened and feels a sense of foreboding. When she sees a pale face in an upstairs window, though, she can't stop wondering about the eerie...
- Author:Davis, KristaSummary:
Holly Miller doesn't believe in spirits, but the Sugar Maple Inn is filled with guests who do. The TV series in development, Apparition Apprehenders, has descended on Wagtail's annual Halloween festivities to investigate...
- Author:Green, KristenSummary:
This little-known story of Mary Lumpkin reveals a slave woman who lived in a slave jail that she eventually renamed and transformed into a school for Black men, blazing a path of liberation for thousands.
- Author:Peters, RalphSummary:
From the butchery of the Crater to the election of 1864, this novel resurrects the Civil War's hard reality. Fabled leaders turned for help to rising heroes, while common soldiers paid the price for the blunders of commanders who would...