Dodie Goes Shopping
Dodie Goes Shopping

Author: Dodie Kazanjian

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2015-08-18

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1250095077

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What do you dream about having? The most beautiful ball gown? Gorgeous thighs? A breathtaking haircut? Clothes in colors that flatter you? A sublime lipstick? The perfect hurt coat? Come shopping with Dodie Kazanjian. These essays will take you on a journey of the senses as she describes in exquisite-and frequently hilarious-detail how to find the best things in life. With wit, style, and flair, Dodie will become your personal shopper and bring you into the stores, boutiques, salons, and hotels that may be on your wish list. But Dodie Goes Shopping is also a commentary on why we love the things we do and what our own taste and style say about us. This delightful collection will fascinate anyone who is a fashion connoisseur, a style watcher, or someone for whom taste matters.

Murder on the Beach
Murder on the Beach

Author: Marina Oliver

Publisher: Belgrave House

Published: 2019-08-25

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1947812300

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Dodie Fanshaw, escaping from London in January to stay with old Hollywood friends in Barbados, soon becomes involved with the local English and American ex-pat community. Enjoying the weather, the friendships, and learning to sail, she doesn't expect murder. But tensions are high, old quarrels are renewed, and several have motives but no one has an alibi. Dodie sets out to solve the mystery in the 9th book in the Dodie Fanshaw mystery series.

ICONS
ICONS

Author: Dodie Kazanjian

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1250153883

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In Icons, Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue's irreverent art and fashion writer, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the ever-changing, always-glamorous world of style. Along the way, she uncovers how to get through life with "all the right stuff." Dodie discovers Victoria's Secret, follows Manolo Blahnik in search of the perfect shoe, questions whether diamonds are still a girl's best friend, guides us through hemline madness, and captivates us with foibles, fantasies, follies, and fervor of the world of style and high fashion.

Strangled in the Sauna
Strangled in the Sauna

Author: Marina Oliver

Publisher: Belgrave House

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1610846648

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Why do the owners of fabulous jewels refuse to have the police called in when they are stolen? How could a thief open a bedroom safe? Dodie has an aversion to exercise – and even more to massage. But she is persuaded to go to the Yorkshire health spa by Elena, whose boyfriend is a cousin to the owners. Suspicion obviously falls on the maids, but other staff have legitimate reasons to visit guest rooms. But how they dispose of such well-known jewels? Then a murder happens and the plot thickens.

Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice

Author: Rosamunde Pilcher

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0312277717

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In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.... Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life -- shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name -- still she finds herself lonely. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile. Carrie returns from Austria at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that the lives of five people will come together and be forever changed. Rosamunde Pilcher's long-awaited return to the page will warm the hearts of readers both old and new. Winter Solstice is a novel of love, loyalty and rebirth.

Riding for a Fall
Riding for a Fall

Author: Marina Oliver

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-07-09

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1326732064

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When Dodie Fanshaw goes to stay with her old friend Christine, she soon realises there are tensions, both in the family living at the Manor and the one where Elena is organising daughter Rebecca's wedding. John, the young brother of Robert, who owns the Manor, hates his Uncle Michael, Robert's Trustee, and because he wants to be a detective, gains a reputation as a snooper. Then there is a tragic death, but was it the right victim? Plenty of people have both motive and opportunity, and Dodie is determined to discover the truth.

A Cut Above the Rest
A Cut Above the Rest

Author: Marina Oliver

Publisher: Belgrave House

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1947812211

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Which characters dared to write the author out of the script? When Dodie Fanshaw went to stay with her daughter, Elena, in Markenlea, she had been expecting a peaceful, sedate village on the banks of the River Thames. But then a mermaid clambers out of the river and into Elena's garden. Well, not a mermaid exactly – a mysterious, sopping-wet girl. Bizarre and intriguing though she is, it's only when Dodie and Elena call on Elena's neighbor, best-selling novelist Rick Wilbraham, that the real story unfolds. There they find Anna, Rick's girlfriend, hysterically clinging on to Rick's lifeless body. Soon Rick's pleasant riverside garden fills up with his neighbours, ex-lovers, his publisher and agent, and Dodie can't help herself getting involved in this close-knit village. A literary puzzle, but what genre is the motive? It could be Romance, might be Financial Thriller. And the mermaid? Well, that's just pure Fantasy . . .

Presentation to a Dying
Presentation to a Dying

Author: Marina Oliver

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-06-26

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1326722018

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In two previous Dodie Fanshaw mysteries, the deaths could have been accidents, but she was sure they were murders and determined to unmask the villains. This death is clearly murder, and the police investigate the many people who had grudges against the new Rector, from his family and his new parishioners. The trouble is, most of them have no alibis, and not all of them tell the truth. Dodie, visiting Sir William and Lady Talbot at the Manor, is able to discover the vital clue.

Murder at Comfree Abbey
Murder at Comfree Abbey

Author: Marina Oliver

Publisher: Belgrave House

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1947812262

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Who shot farmer Harris during a pheasant shoot? He has built cow sheds and pig pens near the entrance to Comfree Abbey, and Sir Hugo and his new wife Deborah fear the smell will put off their prospective guests when they open the Abbey as a superior private hotel. Dodie Fanshaw investigates all those at the shoot. The police, however, seem to suspect Sir Hugo. But almost anyone could have done it, and a few villagers had their own quarrels with Farmer Harris.