Kirjahaku

Join King Harald and Andy Skyberg on their second adventure As the leaves begin to change color in New Bergen, Andy Skyberg wants to turn his full attention to his sister's new caf and art gallery-and to the beautiful Finnish architect who is managing the project. But the good-natured, go-to guy can't seem to catch a moment's peace. His next-door neighbors-two elderly sisters-want him to fend off a pushy historian who thinks they had a scandalous past. His parents enlist him to entertain a narcissistic, boring couple they would like to ditch. And his ever-scheming Aunt Bev tricks Andy into seeking an improbable new gig that could land him in the hot seat. Even Andy's big ol' mutt King Harald has a kennel full of trouble in store for him, beginning with a pilfered thousand-dollar bill and a naughty garden gnome. Before long, New Bergen's favorite crime-sniffing pooch finds even more deep doo-doo to toss his boss into. Havoc and hilarity ensue, as Andy and his happy hound get to the bottom of King Harald's Heist.

It's early December and Andy Skyberg is itching to blow town for a weekend of holiday cheer with old friends-including a date with an attractive divorc e who thinks he's hot. But first, Aunt Bev needs a teensy bit of help. She's managing the Girls' Weekend Out event at the Beaver Tail Resort and could use some extra muscle. Andy figures he can spare a few hours before hitting the road. Mother Nature, though, has other plans. A giant blizzard makes an unexpected turn. Andy and his pooch King Harald find themselves snowbound-in a hotel full of hard-partying women, stranded travelers, a hockey team, a man-eating novelist, a belligerent blogger, and one violent, devious jewel thief. Before you know it, man and mutt are up to their noses in another case. It's a winter wonderland of fast-paced fun and merry madness, as the sleuthing duo dig out from King Harald's Snow Job.

It's September 1902, and Mary MacDougall has fulfilled her greatest dream-opening her own detective agency. But the achievement doesn't come without complication. Mary's father insists that an older cousin come to work with her-as both secretary and minder. Jeanette Harrison pledges to keep the plucky sleuth away from danger, as well as from her unsuitable suitor Edmond Roy. This arrangement, embarrassingly, makes Mary the only detective in the state with a chaperone. The new agency's first cases hardly seem to portend danger or significance. There's the affair of the nicked napkin rings...the problem of the purloined pocket watch...and the matter of the four filched felines. Mary and Jeanette have not the slightest notion that one of these modest little matters will blow up into the most consequential and perilous case of the heiress-sleuth's budding career. What begins in triviality mushrooms into disappearance, betrayal, international intrigue, and murder. As she learns more and more, Mary's prospects for making the acquaintance of an assassin's blade improve exponentially. Witty, fast-paced, and enthralling, A FATAL FONDNESS-the fourth tale in the series-delves deeply into Mary's world and paints the portrait of an unconventional young woman ever-ready to defy propriety for the sake of justice. "I love great historical fiction and Mary MacDougall] delivers." -I Read What You Write"In the spirit of Nancy Drew and the Corner House Girls... Audry] captures the turn-of-the-century period perfectly, when young women like Mary were trying to burst out of Victorian expectations to become their own person." -Mary Ann Grossmann, St. Paul Pioneer Press