Lea Wait
Author
Series
Antique Print mystery volume Book 8
Publisher
John Daniel & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Maggie Summer is making big changes in her life. The antique print dealer has taken a sabbatical and moved to Maine to run an antiques mall with Will Brewer, her significant other. And she will finally adopt the daughter she's been longing for. However, the troubled girl doesn't want any part of the plan, showing affection only for the harbor seals, which remind her of her "real mother." But someone starts shooting the seals--and a young fisherman...
Author
Series
An Antique Print mystery volume Book 7
Publisher
Perseverance Press/John Daniel & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Antique print dealer Maggie Summer has come to Maine for a storybook Christmas with her beloved Will Brewer and his Great-Aunt Nettie, who has gathered together her longtime friends for holiday celebrations. Maggie and Will love each other, although Maggie is determined to adopt children and Will has misgivings. But this problem is put on hold when Maggie hears cryptic references by Aunt Nettie’s old friends to buried secrets from their youth. One...
Author
Series
An Antique Print mystery volume Book 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
In the world of antiques dealing, there are minor calamities... like accidentally selling a rare engraving for $170 instead of $1,700. And then there are worse tragedies -- such as the chain of suspicious deaths among dealers in the weeks prior to the Rensselaer County Spring Antiques Fair. For Maggie Summer, owner of Shadow Antiques and an antique print expert, the threat of murder is far from her mind as she displays her treasures at the prestigious...
Author
Series
An Antique Print mystery volume Book 6
Publisher
John Daniel & Company
Pub. Date
2012
Description
October on Cape Cod is always beautiful, and antique print dealer Maggie Summer is happy to visit there to help with her best friend's wedding preparations. Maggie doesn't anticipate the murder of a neighbor, nor being called into service as a counselor and interpreter. Is she really essential to the investigation, or is she avoiding a critical discussion with the man she loves? Before she knows the answer, there's another murder...and a hurricane...and...
Author
Publisher
Sheepscot River Press
Pub. Date
2019
Description
It's April of 1865. Disabled Civil War veteran lawyer Aaron Stone, visiting his Aunt Cornelia in upstate New York State and hoping to end the pain and nightmares only opium and morphine can mitigate, finds a bludgeoned body revealed by receding Erie Canal flood waters He determines to identify the unknown man and bring peace to that man's family. But his quest unknowingly puts him directly in the path of Nora Burns, a determined young woman caring...
Author
Series
An Antique Print mystery volume Book 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Maggie Summer is a busy woman. And she just got busier.An antique print dealer and American Studies professor at Somerset Community College in New Jersey, Maggie has overcommitted herself yet again: she's agreed to run an antiques show to benefit a local adoption agency, Our World, Our Children. And her new love Will Brewer has agreed to take a booth "and" help Maggie set up, so she's looking forward to his visit despite the chaos.Planning the show...
Author
Series
An Antique Print mystery volume Book 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Maine. Antiques. August. That's all Maggie Summer requires for a guaranteed fun getaway. But there is an unexplained urgency behind the invitation from her former college roommate, Amy Douglas. The eighteenth-century house Amy and her husband Drew are restoring in tiny Madoc, Maine, is perfect -- or it will be, once Maggie supplies just the right antique prints. But Amy's type A personality is bordering on hysteria: could her desperation to get pregnant...
Author
Series
An Antique Print mystery volume Book 5
Publisher
John Daniel & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In the summer of 1890, two young women posed for artist Winslow Homer on the coast of Maine. What happened that summer, the secrets the women kept, and the lies they told, changed their families forever. Now, more than a hundred years later, one of their descendants has been murdered, leaving to antique print dealer Maggie Summer the family papers that may finally reveal the truth. Maggie's vision of a relaxing vacation in Maine- antiquing with beau...