A Palette For Love And Murder Lp A Detective Parrott Mystery

Detective Oliver Parrott returns from his honeymoon to find a spiffed-up office and a spanking-new case-the theft of valuable paintings from a renowned Brandywine artist's studio. Soon theft leads to murder, and Parrott learns there is more to the artist's palette than just globs of paint.

Detective Oliver Parrott returns from his honeymoon to find a spiffed-up office and a spanking-new case-the theft of valuable paintings from a renowned Brandywine artist's studio. Soon theft leads to murder, and Parrott learns there is more to the artist's palette than just globs of paint.

A PALETTE FOR LOVE AND MURDER picks up with Detective Parrott's next case in Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania, where the landscape is lush, the mansions are huge, and the secrets are deep. Parrott has just returned from his honeymoon with his new wife, Tonya, a Navy helicopter pilot home from her second tour in Afghanistan. When paintings by a nationally recognized local painter, Blake Allmond, are stolen, Parrott realizes he may have another prominent case. Soon Allmond is found violently murdered in his second home in New York City. With two crimes in two states and control over only one, Parrott must carefully investigate while under the watchful gazes of the rich and powerful people who command his community, many of whom, like Blake, hide dark secrets. Somehow Parrott's professional and personal lives intertwine, and he's challenged to protect the people he cares about most. Winner of multiple awards, including the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Readers' Choice award, A PALETTE FOR LOVE AND MURDER is a cleverly plotted, beautifully written, and wholly gripping story, sure to win new fans for Detective Oliver Parrott.

Currawongs appearing at the Manor in vast numbers had come to portend one thing... Death was on its way. When photographer Elizabeth Thorrington is invited to document the history of Currawong Manor for a book, she is keen to investigate a mystery from years before: the disappearance of her grandfather, the notorious artist Rupert Partridge, and the deaths of his wife, Doris, and daughter, Shalimar. For years, locals have speculated whether it was terrible tragedy or a double murder, but until now, the shocking truth of what happened at the Manor that day has remained a secret. Relocating to the manor, Elizabeth interviews Ginger Flower, one of Rupert's life models from the seventies, and Dolly Shaw, the daughter of the enigmatic 'dollmaker' who seems to have been protected over the years by the Partridge family. Elizabeth is sure the two women know what happened all those years ago, but neither will share their truths unconditionally. And in the surrounding Owlbone Woods, a haunting presence still lurks, waiting for the currawongs to gather... An evocative tale set in the spectacular Blue Mountains, Currawong Manor is a mystery of art, truth and the ripple effects of death and deception.

Someone comes to the party with murder in his heart and poison in his pocket...A powerful and rich playboy, a rare but naturally occurring poison, a newly divorced woman with an axe to grind-these are just a few of the challenges that African-American Detective Oliver Parrott faces when he answers a routine call for back-up...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.

When Sadie inherits Poet's Cottage, she sets out to discover all she can about her notorious grandmother, Pearl Tatlow. Pearl, a children's writer who scandalised 1930s Tasmania, was violently murdered in the cellar and her killer never found.Sadie grew up with a loving version of Pearl through her mother, but her aunt Thomasina tells a different story, one of a self-obsessed, abusive and licentious woman.As Sadie and her daughter Betty work to uncover the truth, strange events begin to occur in the cottage. And as the terrible secret in the cellar threads its way into the present day, it reveals a truth more shocking than the decades-long rumours.Poet's Cottage is a beautiful and haunting mystery of families, bohemia, truth, creativity, lies, memory and murder.