Colleen Gleason
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1889 London, vampire-hunter Evaline Stoker and investigator Mina Holmes once again join forces at the request of the Princess of Wales--this time their mission is to escort and protect a princess who is part of a trade mission from Betrovia, a country which has had a rocky relationship with England, starting with a four hundred-year-old dispute over a valuable Byzantine chessboard.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1889 London young women are turning up dead, and Evaline Stoker, relative of Bram, and Mina Holmes, niece of Sherlock, are summoned to investigate the clue of the not-so-ancient Egyptian scarabs--but where does a time traveler fit in?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1889 Evaline Stoker, Mina Holmes, and their time traveler friend Dylan are asked by the Princess of Wales to find out what happened to Robby Ashton, who may have drowned--but the reappearance of vampires in the heart of London threatens to become a more urgent problem.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avid Press
Pub. Date
[2017
Language
English
Description
Ever since the debacle of the Chess Queen Enigma, Mina Holmes and Evaline Stoker have laid low, trying to settle back into their quiet lives as young ladies of London. But the Holmesian deductive abilities won't remain dormant for long, and when Mina receives a strange package from a winged, midnight visitor, she is catapulted into a new, mysterious adventure: the search for The Carnelian Crow. Meanwhile, Evaline has received some very disturbing...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sherlock's niece and Bram's sister in their fifth and final adventure "Gleason has vamped up the familiar world of Holmes and Watson... to paranormally exhilarating effect!" The New York Times It's a cold, blustery day in January of 1890 when Mina Holmes receives an invitation to Evaline Stoker's wedding. The two young women -- partners and occasionally friends -- haven't spoken for nearly two months, since the events at the Carnelian Crow. Shocked,...
Author
Series
Wicks Hollow volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A sexy professor.
A logical lawyer.
A determined ghost.
And a very real killer...
Welcome to Wicks Hollow: a cozy town near Lake Michigan filled with quaint houses, eccentric residents, and more than its share of ghosts, murders, and romance.
Diana Iverson needs a break--from her stressful job, from her philandering boyfriend, and from the rest of her fast-paced life. When she inherits her eccentric Aunt Jean's home on Wicks Lake, Diana takes a much-needed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"On Independence Day, the citizens of Washington, DC, are celebrating as if there isn't a war. But the city is teeming with green Union recruits while President Lincoln and his War Department are focused on military strategy to take Richmond in Secessionist Virginia in order to bring the conflict to a swift end. Manassas, Virginia, near Bull Run Creek, is in their sights. The very next morning, as Congress convenes once more, a dead body is found...
Author
Publisher
Avid Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Teddy Mack has to finish the latest book her bestselling thriller series, or her editor and agent are going to come and park themselves on her desk and force her to write--so she decides to cloister herself in a small cottage attached to a Lake Michigan lighthouse for the summer. No wifi, no Internet, no distractions. Until a heartbroken Oscar London, PhD, shows up with all of his microbiology equipment and takes over the same rental property. There's...
Author
Publisher
Avid Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When Fiona Murphy inherits a small antiques shop from an old man she met only once, she's filled with surprise, confusion and delight--and a little bit of terror at having a new responsibility in a life she prefers to be free and easy. As she takes over ownership of the quaint shop, odd things begin to happen. Lights come on and off by themselves, even when they are unplugged...and there is a chilly breeze accompanied by the scent of roses even when...
10) Sinister secrets
Author
Publisher
Avid Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Leslie Nakano needs to make a major life change--getting away from the dog-eat-dog corporate world, as well as getting past a personal loss--so she buys a large turn-of-the-century mansion in Wicks Hollow, with plans to renovate it and turn it into an inn. She doesn't care about the rumors that it's haunted--she just wants a new life. But she sure wouldn't mind finding the missing gems that belonged to Red Eye Sal, a bootlegger who lived in the house...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begun--and an invasion of Washington, DC, from Secessionist Virginia seems imminent. As the population evacuates, the President is in desperate need of men to defend the capital. Lincoln's trusted aide, Adam Speed Quinn, and Quinn's old friend from the Bloody Kansas conflict, Senator Jim Lane, hastily assemble a motley crew of just over a hundred men and garrison them in the East Room...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
At the inaugural ball, Lincoln's trusted entourage is on their guard. Allan Pinkerton, head of the president's security team, is wary of potential assassins. And Lincoln's oldest friend, Joshua Speed, is by his side, along with Speed's nephew, Adam Quinn--called back from the Kansas frontier to serve as the president's assistant and jack-of-all-trades.