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"At first, the girl J.W. Jackson encounters strolling alone along South Beach seems like your typical teenager. But there's nothing typical about young Cricket Callahan, the spirited only daughter of the vacationing President of the United States. What ex-cop-turned-fisherman Jackson can't figure out is why the feisty First Kid is so intent upon eluding her Secret Service guardians ... or why the Chief Executive himself wants J.W. and his lovely lady...
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 9
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The arrivals of a handsome Hollywood director and an old enemy from the Massachusetts environmental agency spell trouble for J.W. Jackson, putting his marriage and his life in danger.
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 10
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Martha's Vineyard is home to ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson, his adored wife Zee, their toddler Joshua, and newborn daughter Diana. For others, the picturesque vacation spot is a relaxing escape from a world filled with trouble. But there is no escap for Julia Crandel and Ivy Holiday, two Hollywood actresses staying in the Vineyard town of Oak Bluffs. Their arrival has incurred the wrath of a pair of local gangsters, and a deadly stalker from out of the...
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Martha's Vineyard has been home to Victoria Trumbull for most of her ninety-two years. Its magic, history, and picture-perfect calm are part of her very being. But one evening, Victoria hears something that doesn't quite belong: a scream followed by a splash and a sound of a car speeding away. She investigates and discovers a body on the outgoing tide. Despite interruptions from her granddaughter Elizabeth, the harbormaster Domingo, a swarm of Island...
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When Victoria Trumbull is hired by the Conservation Trust to search a plot of land for any endangered plants, which would prevent a large developer from bull-dozing the area, Victoria looks forward to the challenge, but she soon realizes that someone is willing to go to any lengths to prevent her from putting a stop to the project.
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Just look at the Vineyard's criminal du jour, "the Silencer." Loved by many and hated by some, the perp's on a campaign to destroy the audio systems in music-blasting party houses and open-windowed vehicles. J. W. Jackson, former cop and now a part-time investigator, finds it difficult to get too excited about the Silencer's crimes. J.W.'s a classical music man himself, which may explain his reluctance to take the so-called crimes very seriously....
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In this fifth book in the Victoria Trumbull series, the ninety-two-year-old sleuth finds herself embroiled in a series of murders after she is fired from her job as West Tisbury correspondent for The Island Enquirer (the editor claims the newspaper needs a younger look). Victoria, determined to show that age is no barrier to news papering, immediately throws her weight behind The Grackle, intent on turning the two-page West Tisbury newsletter into...
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Summer is a distant memory. Thanksgiving has come and gone. Hunting season is in full swing on the Vineyard. And some of the prey is human. Ex-cop, chef, and dedicated angler J.W. Jackson would do anything for his old 'Nam buddy and fishing companion Joe Begay. But when Joe asks to be smuggled back onto the Vineyard in secret, J.W. knows there's big trouble brewing. After his tour of duty officially ended, Joe was involved in highly sensitive covert...
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
c2006
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A clash between golfers and cyclists stirs up tension on idyllic Martha's Vineyard. Ex-cop J.W. Jackson is buying a pound of shrimp when he's verbally and physically attacked by Yale professor Henry Highsmith, who takes exception to J.W.'s parking his SUV too close to Highsmith's bike. When the professor's wife, Abigail, is run off the road by an old SUV, rumor suggests J.W. is to blame. A round of golf with some friends reveals Highsmith's body buried...
15) Indian pipes
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"Victoria Trumbull, ninety-two-year-old native of Martha's Vineyard, is savoring the sea air over Vineyard Sound with her granddaughter, Elizabeth, when she spots a person who seems in trouble near the top of the cliff. Elizabeth goes for help, but it's too late-the man dies before he can be rescued. The man had been hired as a consultant to see whether a site's soil could support a sewage system for a possible casino. The police call it an accident,...
16) Shooting star
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Pub. Date
2007
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1st ed.
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Ninety-two-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull has written a serious adaptation of "Frankenstein" to be performed by the community theater on Martha's Vineyard, but the show is put on hold when the young boy playing the part of Frankenstein's younger brother goes missing and Victoria fears someone is acting out her script in real life.
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2007
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1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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Ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson, bored being on his own when his wife and kids go to visit relatives, agrees to help out a neighbor in Martha's Vineyard by trying to find out who is stalking Roland Nunes, a recluse who is being pressured to sell his Vineyard property, but the job gets complicated when a body turns up near Roland's land and J.W. realizes his quiet client may have something to hide.
18) Vineyard chill
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Pub. Date
2008
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1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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J.W. Jackson, a year-round resident of Martha's Vineyard, looks forward to the peace and quiet of the winter season in the popular tourist area, but the calm he seeks is disturbed when long-ago pal Clay Stockton arrives looking for a place to hide out from trouble, and another friend, Bonzo, makes a frightening discovery that implicates him in murder.
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 8
Martha’s Vineyard mystery volume 08
A Martha's Vineyard mystery volume 8
Martha’s Vineyard mystery volume 08
A Martha's Vineyard mystery volume 8
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
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Victoria Trumbull, the ninety-two-year-old poet/sleuth, discovers a neighbor's body in the home of one of the three town assessors. The assessors have been skimming off tax money from wealthy landowners and stashing it in their own special retirement funds. Then the private pilot of the not-so-holy clergyman husband of one of these landowners is found dead, floating in his employer's pond, his face gnawed by snapping turtles. Finally, searching for...
20) Touch-me-not
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2010
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1st ed.
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Ninety-two-year-old poet and sleuth Victoria Trumbull helps a knitting group track down the stalker who has been sending them threatening phone calls, but dealing with the unexpected arrival of her daughter and the discovery of a dead body threatens to derail Victoria's investigation.
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