Bøger af Mary Logue

"The sailboat flew out of the marina like a stone from a giant's slingshot, crashing through big waves in a blue-green sea." So begins this rollicking murder mystery set in the lush environs of the Virgin Islands. A book heavy on sailing and intrigue, we follow Elsie Hennessee and her husband Max as their vacation turns into a struggle to unravel the reasons behind a brutal murder. Sailing from island to island, outrunning shadowy figures and the police, they join forces with a local islander to uncover a conspiracy that threatens to end their lives and overthrow the peaceful rhythms of the islands.

"My grandmother, Mae Kirwin, scared me." With that disturbing, distant memory, mystery novelist Mary Logue begins her exploration of the life of her mother's mother, who died more than thirty years ago.Mae McNally Kirwin was born in 1894 in Chokio, a small prairie community in western Minnesota. In 1926, the sudden death of her husband left Mae to support herself and her five children. These facts were well known, but for Logue, they were not enough. Determined to get to know her grandmother better, Logue sets out to assemble the bits and pieces of her grandmother's life. Along the way, Logue takes the reader-and herself-on a journey of discovery. Digging through forgotten bank records, old newspapers, handwritten census forms, family documents, and faded recipes, she pieces together the past. In the process, she tells a much larger story-that of a community, a way of life, a family, and a single woman's struggle to survive in a world that is both harsh and richly rewarding.

"The Streel is the story of Brigid Reardon and her brother Seamus, who leave Ireland in 1880 and make their way across the United States. Brigid ends up working at a mansion on Summit Avenue in St. Paul and Seamus continues on to Deadwood, SD to find his fortune. Shortly after, Brigid goes out to meet him, arriving on Christmas Eve only to find a young woman dead the next morning outside of Seamus' house. Because he is suspected of the murder, Seamus goes on the run and Brigid decides she must stay in Deadwood and clear his name"--

A magical bedtime story, honored as a Caldecott Honor Book.In sincere and imaginative dialogue between a child and her kind and understanding parents, the little girl decides ?in a cocoon of sheets, a nest of blankets,? she is ready to sleep, warm and strong, just like a tiger.The lyrical narrative echoes a Runaway Bunny?like cadence: ?Does everything in the world go to sleep?? the little girl asks.Artist Pamela Zagarenski's rich, luminous mixed-media paintings effervesce with charming details that non-yet-sleepy children can examine for hours. A rare gem.

Wisconsin winter weather plays as important a role as any individual in this nicely paced tale of domestic abuse and murder. Claire Watkins is still adjusting to life in little Fort St. Antoine when she notices the bruises and stiff gait of a local woman named Stephanie Klaus. Small town or big city, Claire knows the signs of abuse when she sees them. Stephanie, however, won't talk, even when her new boyfriend, Buck, is tied into his car, driven out on the treacherous ice of Lake Pepin and left there to sink and drown.When Stephanie, accompanied by Buck's delightful dog, Snooper, tries to leave town, she is once again beaten; this time, she barely survives . . .