The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters [80]
Legend in Green Velvet
Scotland is Susan’s passion and obsession—and the opportunity to join a Highland dig is a dream come true for the young archaeology student. But then a sinister stranger slips Susan a cryptic message in ancient verse—and is later found viciously slain. A mysterious peril has unexpectedly emerged from the mists to haunt Susan, sending her running for her life in the company of handsome, unconventional laird Jamie Erksine. For she has an unseen enemy hiding in the shadows—someone who is going to great lengths to frame her for murder…and to bury Susan, if necessary, in this land she loves.
Devil-May-Care
Ellie is young, rich, engaged, and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes—including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate’s palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the plethora of pets, but she soon realizes that there are disturbing secrets about the local aristocracy buried in a dusty old book she has carried into the mansion. And her sudden interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests—some of them living…and some, perhaps not. And the terrible vengeance that Ellie and her friends seem to have aroused against themselves surely cannot be— satanic.
Street of the Five Moons
Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a center-fold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blond beauty knows her stuff—and she’s a master at solving mysteries that turn the art world upside down.
Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich’s National Museum held in her hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was discovered sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley. Vicky vows to find the master craftsman who created it. It’s a daring chase that takes her all the way to Rome and through the dusky antique centers and moonlit streets of the most romantic city in the world. But soon she’s trapped in a treacherous game of intrigue that could cost her life—or her heart.
Summer of the Dragon
A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent on a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbott to turn down. What does it matter that her rich new employer/benefactor, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of off-beat projects, from alien conspiracy studies to a hunt for dragon bones? There’s even talk of treasure buried in the nearby mountains, but D.J. isn’t going to allow loose speculation—or the considerable charms of handsome professional treasure hunter Jessie Franklin—to sidetrack her. Until Hunnicutt suffers a mysterious accident and vanishes, leaving the weirdos gathered at his spread to eye each other with frightened suspicion. But on a high desert search for the missing millionaire, D.J. is learning things that may not be healthy for her to know. For the game someone is playing here goes far beyond the rational universe—and it could leave D.J. legitimately dead.
The Love Talker
Laurie has finally returned to Idlewood, the beloved family home deep in the Maryland woods where she found comfort and peace as a lonely young girl. But things are very different now. There is no peace in Idlewood. The haunting sound of a distant piping breaks the stillness of a snowy winter’s evening. Seemingly random events have begun to take on a sinister shape. And dotty old Great Aunt Lizzie is convinced that there are fairies about—and she has photographs to prove it. For Laurie, one fact has become disturbingly clear: there is definitely something out there in the woods—something fiendishly, cunningly, malevolently