Bøger af Karen Hayes

Copper Penny is upset because it is Saturday morning and her usually very dependable sales associate, Monica, has not yet shown up for work at the BookNook. No one has seen or heard from Monica since she left a bridal shower for her best friend the night before to walk the half block or so to her apartment. Then her boyfriend is discovered unconscious, and with a broken leg and shattered kneecap, in the woods near his home. He had had a little too much to drink and had tripped and he distinctly remembers having fallen on a body when he tripped. But the body is bot there when he is found. Was it Monica's body? And if so, where is it?To make matters worse, a dense fog has caused a multi-car pileup and the sheriff and medical examiner are up to their eyeballs in work. When the missing body is finally located (Trevor wasn't just making it up), it is up to Copper to help the overwhelmed sheriff figure out who did it. Was it one of guests at the bachelor party? Or someone who lives along the edge of the woods? This is a small community where everyone has known everyone else all their lives. How could one of their own do such a thing? And why?

When recently widowed Copper Penny decides to open a bookstore in her small town of Misty Valley, Oregon, she certainly does not expect that someone will be murdered in her store on its Grand Opening day. The elderly victim was not very well-liked, but who hated her enough to kill her?Before the investigation can even begin, another body appears, seemingly unrelated to the first death. But is there a connection? The third body throws everyone for a loop. The last murder in Misty Valley was fifty years ago. Now there are three, just days apart? Is there a serial killer loose in the tiny town? And how is this third murder connected to the other two? Or is it?The sheriff has never had to deal with murder before and is totally out of his element. It takes Copper herself and her friend Louise, daughter-in-law of the first victim, to figure out who killed these women and why.

This is the first collection of poems published by a new voice and is not likely to be her last. Written in a sparse, tight style, Karen Hayes describes life and her observations in a striking and haunting way, sure to make a reader pause and reflect.

These engaging poems were written over a period of time and as part of different projects, yet they all touch on aspects of faith.

Living in the harbor community of St Ives, painter Esme Cochran has watched both her sons fall in love with that sea - Hugo with the surfing and Crispin with the fishing. But here, in the country of the tides, the mists and the extraordinary local light, other love affairs are also begun.