Böcker av Lea Wait

Maggie Summer--professor, antique dealer, and sleuth--returns in a spirited and suspenseful new installment in the Agatha-nominated series that "beckons like a weekend in the country" ("The New York Times Book Review").

A young man makes a decision to flee seaward to freedom in this moving and dramatic story set in the American south. "Full of thought-provoking situations and well-drawn historical settings."--"School Library Journal."

She''s an antique print dealer, a college professor, and now...a parent? Maggie Summer is considering adopting a child from the New Jersey agency Our World, Our Children, and she has happily agreed to stage a benefit antiques show on their behalf. With her dealer friends, her college, and her lover, Will Brewer, all donating their time and support, everything is falling into place. But someone is harboring a vicious grudge against Our World, Our Children. The adoptive mother of thirteen children is the first victim, and then Maggie begins receiving threats. With the crowded benefit set to open and hundreds of innocent lives at stake, Maggie races to preserve the future with a clue hidden in her prints from the past....

Christmas in Haven Harbor, Maine, means family, trouble, and murder . . .   This Yuletide season, there''s no time for Angie Curtis and Patrick West to linger under the mistletoe. Patrick''s being needled by his mother—movie star Skye West—to set the stage for a perfect white Christmas as she brings her costar, screenwriters, and director home for the holidays. With his mother''s long list of wishes, Patrick''s becoming unraveled. To help, the Mainely Needlepointers offer to decorate Skye''s Victorian mansion and create needlepoint pillows as gifts for the guests.   But not long after the celebrity celebrants invade Haven Harbor, an unscripted tragedy occurs. Then some questionable Christmas cookies make Patrick sick. Before Santa arrives at the town pier on a lobster boat, Angie and the Needlepointers need to trim down the naughty list, catch a cold-hearted killer, and wrap up the case . . .