Dahlia's Gone

Dahlia's Gone

Author: Katie Estill

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-01-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780312358358

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The murder of a teenage girl, Dahlia Everston, profoundly affects three middle-aged women in what appears to be the Missouri Ozarks. Norah, Dahlia's stepmother, can't believe that her teenage son, Timothy, may know more than he's telling about her death. Sand Williams, Norah's nearest neighbor, who was supposed to check up on Dahlia and Tim, feels terrible guilt. Deputy sheriff Patti Callahan has made a career of defending the abused women of hercommunity and vows to see justice done.


Dislocations

Dislocations

Author: Janette Turner Hospital

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780393306811

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Short stories about exiles who share an intimate knowledge of dislocation, whether in culture, geography, or self-understanding.


The Plant Lover's Guide to Dahlias

The Plant Lover's Guide to Dahlias

Author: Andy Vernon

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1604696052

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Dahlias are the showgirls of the garden. A favorite of floral and landscape designers, they come in a wide range of jewel-like colors—rich reds and vibrant oranges, shocking pinks—and an engaging variation of form and petal shape. The Plant Lover’s Guide to Dahlias is packed with everything you need to know to grow these fantastic flowers including tips on using dahlias in garden design, growth and propagation information, and lists of where to buy the plants and where to view them in public gardens. The bulk of the book is devoted to profiles for over 200 varieties, organized by color, with information on type, height, and spread. Gorgeous color photographs bring the plants to life.


Four Strange Women

Four Strange Women

Author: E.R. Punshon

Publisher: Dean Street Press

Published: 2015-12-07

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1910570931

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"You think it's murder, don't you?""There is no proof of that as yet, sir," Bobby answered cautiously."No, I know, but it's what you think," Glynne answered. After a pause, he added: "So do I." Viscount Byatt was found dead in his car without a mark on him. Millionaire Andy White's corpse was discovered in a remote cottage in Wales - no clue to the cause of death. When a grotesque-looking visitor calls on Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen in the middle of the night, the latter's help is urgently needed - if a third young man isn't to suffer the same murderous and mystifying fate. Accompanied by his fiancée Olive Farrar, Bobby is up against more than one femme fatale in this delicious and diabolical golden age mystery.Four Strange Women, originally published in 1940, is the fourteenth novel in the Bobby Owen mystery series. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans."What is distinction? The few who achieve it step - plot or no plot - unquestioned into the first rank... in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time." Dorothy L. Sayers


Maharani

Maharani

Author: Ruskin Bond

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 8184756828

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H.H. is the spoilt, selfish, beautiful widow of the Maharaja of Mastipur. She lives with her dogs and her caretaker, Hans, in an enormous old house in Mussoorie, taking lovers and discarding them, drinking too much and fending off her reckless sons who are waiting hungrily for their inheritance. The seasons come and go, hotels burn down, cinemas shut shop and people leave the hill station never to return, but H.H. remains constant and indomitable. Observing her antics, often with disapproval, is her old friend Ruskin, who can never quite cut himself off from her. Melancholic, wry and full of charm, Maharani is a delightful novella about love, death and friendship.


Danger Before Dahlias

Danger Before Dahlias

Author: Aubrey Elle

Publisher: Aubrey Elle

Published: 2023-06-04

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13:

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Payton’s battle of the bands should mark the end-of-summer celebration and the engagement of her best friends, but finding a dead body in the town square ruins those plans. Madis has the misfortune of finding the councilman’s dead body beside her landscaping truck, but she’s much more unsettled by the fact someone used her shovel to murder him. Randy Gowen leaves a life with more twists and surprises than anyone can expect, but it’s anyone’s guess who could have clocked him in the head with a gardening tool. Ex-wives unhappy about how he spent his money? Rivals competing in the local election? Angry business owners who disliked his decisions on the council? After the only witness to the crime faces similar danger—and death—Madis worries that time is running out to find the killer, especially when a grand gesture of a proposal can’t be delayed again.