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Author
Series
Penny Brannigan mystery volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Penny Brannigan and her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk, are absorbed with the grand opening of their new spa. Meanwhile, an American stranger, Harry Saunders, arrives in town and sweeps widow Evelyn Lloyd off her feet. Some suspect Saunders is taking advantage of Evelyn, so it's no surprise when he goes missing with a healthy chunk of Evelyn's money and is eventually found dead outside Conwy Castle.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Visiting his mother in Swansea, Evan Evans encounters a young thug who was once imprisoned for murdering Evan's father and who has been accused of another killing, but Evan is surprised by the man's believable claims of innocence.
Author
Series
Penny Brannigan volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day, and turns up dead. The last person believed to have seen her is manicurist Penny Brannigan, an expatriate Canadian who has lived in North Wales for almost twenty-five years. When Penny notices that something is not quite right at the funeral of her dearest...
4) Evan's gate
Author
Series
Constable Evan Evans volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frustrated in his efforts to build his fiancee their dream house, village constable Evan Evans discovers a decades-old skeleton of a young child with disturbing links to a present-day missing child case.
Author
Series
Shadow Chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
vii, 341 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mute fledgling witch Morgana is married for her safety to a kind farmer in the mountains of Wales before she is targeted by townspeople who are being manipulated by a dark force that compels Morgana to harness her powers.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable...
12) Wales
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Located on the western side of the island of Great Britain in Europe, Wales is part of the United Kingdom. But despite being a part of a larger country, Wales has its own unique history, culture, and language. Readers will take a trip through Welsh history, from its earliest beginnings to the present day, and find out what life is like for people who live there. They will also learn how Wales is governed, what kinds of plants and animals live there,...
Author
Series
Penny Brannigan mystery volume Book 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 258 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Welsh cottage she inherited from schoolteacher Emma Teasdale, Penny Brannigan discovers a package of letters that reveal Emma's lesbian affair with a Liverpool artist who was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving from chilly Tasmania to subtropical Murwillumbah in New South Wales, the Brennan family is placed under suspicion in the wake of a devastating tragedy that shatters their senses of normalcy.
Author
Series
Penny Brannigan mysteries volume Book 10
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Artist and spa owner Penny Brannigan has been asked to organize a formal dinner to mark the centenary of the armistice that ended World War One. After dinner, the guests adjourn to the library for a private exhibition of the Black Chair, a precious piece of Welsh literary history awarded in 1917 to poet Hedd Wyn. But to the guests' shock, the newly restored bardic chair is missing. And then Penny discovers the rain-soaked body of a waiter.
When Penny...
17) Evans above
Author
Series
Constable Evans mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1977
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
ix, 269 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Welsh hills Will Stanton, youngest of the immortal Old Ones, joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest through space and time against the powers of evil known as the Dark.
19) Crimson Lake
Author
Series
Crimson Lake volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A contemporary crime novel set in Queensland, Australia, finds Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction. Maintaining his innocence, he agrees to help Amanda Pharrell, a convicted murderer turned private investigator, with a case full of deception and obsession"--