Download or read book The Stolen Mask A Nancy Keene Mystery written by Louise Hathaway and published by Lewis Hathaway`. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if Nancy Drew met James Bond? Find out in this humorous, PG-Rated tale written for nostalgic women baby boomers who grew up loving Nancy Drew mysteries. Nancy Keene, the teenage sleuth in this mystery, goes to London and stays in the same hotel as Daniel Craig (AKA James Bond) when his BAFTA award is stolen from his room. When Nancy is not on a Jane Austen pilgrimage or visiting Buckingham Palace, she channels Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, and Rumpole of the Bailey to help her solve the mystery of the stolen mask. This book is a combination Nancy Drew Parody starring a teenage sleuth who resembles Nancy Drew; a cozy mystery; and a travel story that talks about some of the writer’s favorite tourist destinations in London and England. Here's what reviewers are saying about this book: "I loved it! This is a very clever parody of Nancy Drew set in the current times. Nancy Keene, her father Drew Keene, and her friend Beth travel to London where they not only meet Daniel Craig (James Bond) but also solve his mystery...I love Nancy Drew and I love England. The two together is a winner." "Great storyline for readers who loved Nancy Drew as a young person. It moves quickly and is a fun light read!"

Download or read book The Stolen Masterpiece A Nancy Keene Mystery written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join precocious teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene, on another of her international adventures. This book finds her in Amsterdam visiting her newly-found Dutch relatives who have recently discovered a secret room in their house that contains valuable artwork, including a Vermeer masterpiece worth millions. Someone has stolen it, and it’s up to Nancy and her team to find out who. If you enjoy travelogues, this book includes descriptions of some of the writer's favorite sights in Holland. Here is a great reader review for this book on Goodreads and in The Sleuth: The Original Nancy Drew Fanzine: "The Stolen Masterpiece is book #5 of the Nancy Keene mystery series, a parody of Nancy Drew. It was by far my favorite story and most like Nancy Drew. Nancy has delved into ancestry.com, after finding letters written by her great grandfather to family in Amsterdam and has discovered family living there: Dominique and his family- parents Hans and Veronique and sister Nortje. This is her mother’s family. When Mr. Keene has to travel to Amsterdam on business Nancy, Beth, and Hannah, who are on spring break, accompany him. We are treated to some history and descriptions of scenery. Nancy also knows quite a bit about famous paintings, especially by Vermeer and Van Gogh. At the art museum they meet Sophie, the curator, who seems interested in Mr. Keene. Nancy promotes the attraction between the two until they become mutually interested and then seems jealous. Dominique, a cute guy her age, shows Nancy into a secret room they recently found that is full of old paintings. They have deduced that the Jewish people who lived in their house in the World War II era hid them away before being taken off to a concentration camp. His family has tried to trace the family but they were all killed in the war. Nancy is sure that one of them is an unsigned Vermeer. Before they can do anything about it, the house is broken into and the painting stolen! Who knew about the secret room? The carpenters who fixed it when a wall was ruined with water? One guy at school who Dominique told? The kids set up a “sting” to trap the thief but before they execute it Nancy figures out who the thief is and recovers the painting. The Vermeer is donated to an art museum; the other paintings that are also worth much money will be sold and Hans and his family will make many euros. At the book’s end Nancy and her chums appear on a TV show to promote genealogy."

Download or read book The Buried Treasure on Route 66 A Nancy Keene Mystery written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on 2013-05-26 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as an homage to the Nancy Drew books, this humorous and PG-rated mystery about teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene, especially targets women baby boomers who grew up reading and loving the series. Gently poking fun at Nancy’s obscure knowledge, perfectionism, and need for control, this book concentrates and the relationship between Nancy and her father. Nancy has just turned 18, is in a serious relationship with her boyfriend, and is planning to move out of state to college. How will her father handle letting her go? Find out as Nancy, her father, and her boyfriend take a trip on Route 66, visiting several of its landmarks along the way, in search of a missing will. Not only is “The Buried Treasure on Route 66” a tip of the hat to the Nancy Drew books, it’s also a romance novel about both young love and rekindled old love. Reviews: "I could not get enough of this amazing story." "Besides being a sort of travelogue, the mystery is good, the solving of it fun, and the ending hilarious!" "I'd recommend this Nancy Keene series to anyone who read, reads, and loves Nancy Drew!" "I grew up reading every Nancy Drew book I could get my hands on. The author does not disappoint in paying homage as Nancy made me fall in love with teenage mysteries all over again." "Truly a nice escape for women baby boomers everywhere."

Download or read book The Ghost in the Plantation A Nancy Keene Mystery written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like Nancy Drew? Do you like New Orleans? If so, you will enjoy this humorous and PG-rated story that especially targets women baby boomers who grew up reading and loving the Nancy Drew series. The teenage sleuth in this story goes on vacation with her father and friends to the French Quarter. What starts out as a sight-seeing trip changes into a murder/mystery when a docent at Oak Alley Plantation is murdered. Part travelogue, part ghost story, this book mixes voodoo, ghosts, and bayous into a spicy gumbo of a whodunit. Here's what reviewers are saying about this book: She follows the clues and the mystery is solved in a satisfying way. Having recently visited New Orleans, I was intrigued by the description of the city, especially the French Quarter." “I found the mystery interesting but also enjoyed reading of the sites in New Orleans.”

Download or read book The Missing Bachelor Farmer A Nancy Keene Mystery written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a fan of Prairie Home Companion? Have you ever thought of going on a pilgrimage to see the towns that Garrison Keillor had in mind when he created his fictional town of Lake Wobegon? If so, I hope you will enjoy this book about a precocious teenager who talks her father into taking her to Minnesota on just such a quest. He wants to go on a Bob Dylan pilgrimage while there, but she has other plans after a "bachelor farmer" (who was last seen at the "Chatterbox Cafe") goes missing and they join the search party. Part travelogue, this book also contains pictures from the writer's trip to "Lake Wobegon".

Download or read book Detective Santy Mysteries Box Set written by Louise Hathaway and published by Lewis Hathaway`. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Orange County, California, these murder mysteries are about the life and career of Clarissa Santy, a female homicide detective. The series begins with the murder of her father who was a fervent anti-nuclear power protester. When she turns 18, she comes to the realization that the wrong man was arrested for the murder and then finds out more about her family and learns the hard way that there are some questions best left unanswered. Follow her as she investigates the murder of a priest at an Abbey in the Canyon and the gruesome death of a famous southern chef.

Download or read book The Tustin Chronicles A Detective Santy Mystery written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Orange County, California during the early 1970s and 1980s, this murder mystery brings back the bygone days of tractor showrooms, hippies and head shops in Laguna Beach, and a Catholic church in a citrus packing house dubbed the "Sunkist Cathedral." In a world of WWII-era blimp hangers and disappearing orange groves, Detective Dick Santy investigates a murder that has unmistakable connections to the controversial construction of a nuclear power plant. An arrest is made in the murder but he is not convinced they have the right man. The victim's 18-year-old daughter is not convinced either and sets out, with the help of Detective Santy, to seek the truth about her father and, in the process, learns that there are some questions best left unanswered.

Download or read book The Murder at the Abbey A Detective Santy Mystery written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this murder/mystery, the peaceful world of a monastery in Orange County, California is shaken to its core when one of its priests is murdered. Who would want to kill him? Tempers have been running high in Silverado Canyon ever since the abbey purchased land to expand its property. Was the murderer an eco-terrorist who feared the expansion project might cause the habitat destruction of an endangered toad? Or maybe was it the powerful anti-development lawyer who has fought tooth and nail to stop every construction project in the canyon? Maybe it was the owner of the motorcycle bar, Kline’s Corner, who got fed up with the priest’s complaints about the bar’s live music interrupting Mass and Vespers? Detective Clarissa Santy is trying to solve the murder, while at the same time, she’s busy reintroducing her father to the world outside of prison, where he’s spent the past 30 years for a murder conviction. Between keeping him out of trouble, babysitting a Criminal Justice Intern from UCI, and dating again after losing her husband several years ago, her life has never seemed so complicated.

Download or read book Honeymoon in Savannah A Detective Santy Mystery written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cozy murder mystery, Detective Clarissa Santy hopes to spend a quiet honeymoon with her husband in one of America's most beautiful cities. She and her husband are both big fans of the book and movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, so they decide to make a pilgrimage to Savannah to see the sights mentioned in the book. Her time as a tourist is short-lived however when a famous chef is murdered. The chef just happens to be her cousin--so this is personal--and Clarissa can't rest until she finds out whodunit. This book has something for everybody: it's part murder/mystery, part travelogue, part romance novel, and even includes a search for a buried treasure. Here's what a reviewer wrote about this cozy murder mystery: "The story flows well, and Ms. Hathaway has written some interesting characters. A good cozy mystery."

Download or read book Fifty Shades of Dead A New Orleans Mystery written by Louise Hathaway and published by Lewis Hathaway`. This book was released on 1900 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three young librarians get together for a girl’s night out at the movies to see Fifty Shades of Grey where they meet a handsome stranger who bears a striking resemblance to the film’s main character. He invites them to dinner, but only one goes with him—a vulnerable blonde who has just been served divorce papers. A few days later, her body is found behind an abandoned house in the 9th ward. Was he the one who killed her? That's what New Orleans homicide detective, Yvonne Dauphin, must find out in this gripping murder mystery. 5-Star Review: "Great Read. I enjoy detective books. This one was extra special. Drama. Action. Adventure. And a little Mystery and Romance all in one."

Download or read book Watchin the Detective written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway`. This book was released on 2014 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to go to one of those murder/mystery dinner theaters where the audience has to figure out whodunit? Isabella, a librarian in her early thirties, goes with her friends to a show where an actual murder takes place. She falls in love with the sexy investigating detective and gets herself mixed up with some dangerous people when she goes undercover to help him solve the crime.

Download or read book The Summer of Love A Trip Back to 1968 written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This humorous time-travel fantasy is about two sisters who are magically transported back to the 1968 Newport Pop Festival in Costa Mesa, California—an outdoor concert later described as “Orange County’s Woodstock”. Both sisters had attended the festival when they were teenagers. In this book, Amy morphs into her 13-year-old self, wearing a mini-skirt and go-go boots; and her sister Denise turns into her pregnant 18-year-old self, wearing a homemade maternity blouse trimmed with peace symbols that she has fashioned out of red rickrack. Once again, they hear bands such as The Bryds, The Grateful Dead, The Jefferson Airplane, and Steppenwolf. They hitch-hike back to their childhood home, see and talk to relatives who died years ago, and even run into younger versions of their husbands. Despite all the fun they are having, they are plagued with the question, “How are we going to get back to 2018?” Flash back to the 60s and find out why this story has earned Five Star and Four Star Reviews. Here's what reviewers are saying about this book: "Excellently written this story is an outstanding tale of the 1960’s with such descriptive detail I felt as though I was really there and living it all through the sisters’ eyes. From the festival, the stores, the cars, the house it’s all there. So amazing. Step into the photo booth take a flashback and relive 1968 once again." "Great read, especially if were a "child" of the 60's era." "Fun in the summertime. If you are of a certain age this book will have you smiling all day long."

Download or read book Love Gets a Second Chance written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway . This book was released on 1901 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This love story, a cross between The Notebook and Last Tango in Halifax, is about an older couple who are reunited after being away from each other since high school. In her late 60s, Madeline has been diagnosed with cancer and told that she has only a few months to live. She takes a scenic long-distance train trip aboard The Coast Starlight, where she once again sees Jay, her first love, and they pick up right where they left off and have a wonderful time in Seattle, where he proposes and gives her a whole new lease on life. How long does she have left to live? Readers will be pleasantly surprised.

Download or read book Travelers in Time Aboard the California Zephyr written by Hathaway Louise (author) and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on 1901 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you like trains? Do you like history? If so, take a look at this time travel tale about modern-day Amtrak travelers who go back in time to the days when the trans-continental railroad was being built. Our passengers become part of a real-life special excursion train and meet Rutherford B. Hayes, George Pullman, and Robert Todd Lincoln. How will our time travelers cope with their new surroundings? Will they ever come back to the 21st Century? Will they want to come back? Find out aboard this trip into history.

Download or read book Nags Sluts and a Deep Breasted Soulmate from the Shining City Thomas Wolfe s Women in The Web and the Rock written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this critical essay after I obtained my Master’s Degree in English and went to a Thomas Wolfe festival in 1991. While I was there, I had the good fortune to run into his nephew, who was the only living relative who actually knew him. I’ve always been a sucker for a good love story and was pleased to discover the best one in American Literature, in my humble opinion, in Wolfe’s long novel, The Web and The Rock. In that thinly-veiled self-portrait, Wolfe loves and captures the spirit of Aline Bernstein. In his extravagant rhetoric, he immortalizes her in his fictional character, Esther Jack. Written in the 1930s, it shows remarkable respect for an independent woman, and in this respect, Wolfe was ahead of his time. The fact that Aline won a Tony award for Best Costume Design, makes the story of her relationship with Wolfe even more fascinating. This eBook also includes photographs.

Download or read book Planning A Vacation Why Not Chicago written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway. This book was released on with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chasing My Roots New World Finally Meets Old World written by Louise Hathaway and published by Louise Hathaway`. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love genealogy? If so, then this story is for you. Written by the grand-daughter of a Belgian immigrant who came to America in 1910, it describes her efforts to find and reunite with his family in Belgium after a breakdown in communication for twenty-five years. When she makes a pilgrimage to meet her relatives in the old world, they pull out all the stops and treat her like a movie star. The second part of this book is about her father’s family. His family stories include Quakers, buried treasures of gold coins, fighting Indians, homesteading, and owning slaves.