Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet

From Rosemarie Jerome Author:  Stephanie Cowell Claude and Camille:  A Novel of Monet This beautiful, bittersweet love story shows the impovished life of Impressionist painter, Claude Monet and his wife Camille-Leonie Doncieux. He left his seaside home and moved to Paris to make his fortune. She left her affluent home to become his muse, his [...]

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Accidents of providence

From  Rosemarie Jerome Author:  Stacia M Brown Accidents of providence Rachel Lockyer is on trial for murdering her illegitimate infant.  In 1649 England, if convicted the sentence is death.  The investigator, Thomas Bartwain, who charged her with murder, is questioning the legal process. Rachel is not speaking in her own defense. The young prosecutor wants [...]

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Defending Jacob

From Rosemarie Jerome Author:  William Landay Defending Jacob A teenage boy is murdered.  Andy Barber is the assistant district attorney on the case.  His world, and his family, is shattered when his fourteen year old son, Jacob, is charged with the murder.  Is he guilty?  Was he framed?  How far will a father go to [...]

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White truffles in winter

From Rosemarie Jerome Author: N.M. Kelby White truffles in winter : a novel This literary gem needs to be shared. It is a quiet, intense portrayal of a man who loved two women but whose passion was food. This man is the great French chef Auguste Escoffier and this is his elegant “memoir in meals.” [...]

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Plain fear : forsaken

From Rosemarie Jerome Author:  Leanna Ellis Plain fear : forsaken  Vampires and the Amish, sounds bizarre and I was skeptical at first but the story slowly lured me in until I was hooked.  It begins with a young man running for his life and evolves into a young Amish woman haunted by her dead boyfriend and [...]

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The Kingdom of Childhood

From  Rosemarie Jerome Author:   Rebecca  Coleman The Kingdom of Childhood Judy McFarland and Zach Patterson are drawn to each other by needs that start out innocent but quickly turn into something much darker.  Sexual obsession drives a 40 year old wife, mother and teacher to statutory rape and her 16 year old victim to feeling [...]

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White Heat

From Rosemarie Jerome author: McGrath, M. J. White Heat  An accident, a disappearance and a suicide.  Inuit hunter/guide Edie Kiglatuk knows they are all murders but she must prove it.  What is the motive?  Who is the killer?  Can one of their own be part of a conspiracy?  Edie must battle the brutal Arctic and [...]

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Secret of the White Rose

From Rosemarie Jerome author: Pintoff, Stefanie  Secret of the White Rose Anarchists? Blackmailers? Conspirators?  Who is killing judges?  And why are white roses, bibles and sheets of music left at the crime scenes? Detective Simon Ziele and Criminologist Alistair Sinclair’s hunt for the killer takes them through the opulent world of high society and the [...]

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Blood harvest

From Rosemarie Jerome author: Bolton, S. J. Blood harvest Warning:  Do not read this book at night, might cause palpitations and the urge to hide. The moors are a scary place, as Reverend Harry Laycock soon discovers after becoming pastor in the small isolated village of Heptonclough.  It is a community seeped in dark rituals and [...]

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Reckless

From Rosemarie Jerome author: Gross, Andrew  Reckless The Glassman family are found brutally murdered in their home.  Ty Jauck, an ex-cop now a private security investigator, was April Glassman’s friend.  He tries to solve the crime and becomes entangled in a worldwide economic terrorism plot.  As the body count rises, banks collapse and global panic [...]

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