Bøker av Patricia Rice

Award-winning author Patricia Rice brings you another light-hearted Regency romantic mystery set in Wycliffe Manor...At Gravesyde Priory, each new arrival is either a blessing-or a threat. . . Wycliffe Manor has been neglected for decades. Its new heirs are determined to create a welcoming home. Yet soon after the latest family moves into the nearby parsonage, bones are uncovered in the orchard. . . and odd strangers arrive. When her curate father returns his family to Gravesyde for the marriages of the manor's heirs, gawky spinster Patience Upton has high expectations-until her father is murdered. Shock at learning her father had a mysterious past, leads to alarm that the killer may have been after his notebook, which she now possesses. After the chapel is ransacked and a witness killed, it's clear the murderer isn't done. Desperate to find the truth, Patience accepts the aid of Henri Lavigne, Wycliffe Manor's smooth-talking rake. Intent on saving his new home and family from danger, Henri is drawn to the clergyman's guileless daughter but wonders if she hasn't reason to conceal the killer's identity. Before there will be any courting, much less marrying, the inhabitants of the manor realize if they want a chance at a future, they must hunt the killer themselves. But are they hunting one murderer. . . or more? GRAVESYDE PRIORY MYSTERY BOOKSBook #1 The Secrets of Wycliffe ManorBook #2 The Mystery of the Missing HeiressBook #3 The Bones in the Orchard

"Rice has a magical touch for creating fascinating plots, delicious romance, and delightful characters."-Booklist"You can always count on Patricia Rice for an entertaining story with just the right mix of romance, humor, and emotion."-The Romantic Reader Can the hopes of a lonely laird be answered by a vicar's daughter with magic in her hands?Convinced he brings destruction wherever he goes, enigmatic Aidan Dougal is alienated from a family he can never call his own. For such a man, affection is impossible and marriage out of the question. Even asking for help is beyond him. . . until a callous enemy forces him to accept assistance from a young woman whose beauty and strange enchantments turn his cool composure into red-hot passion.Left homeless by the death of her adopted parents, Mora Abbott is not the meek vicar's daughter she appears to be. Inside, she seethes with a desire to live life fully and embrace the magical talents she's only beginning to discover. Aidan stirs more than her soul, but he presents a formidable challenge. . .and unless he is willing to open his heart and explore the potential of their combined powers, their attraction can never blossom into the full flower of love.MAGICAL MALCOLM SERIES IN ORDERMerely MagicMust Be MagicThe Trouble With MagicThis Magic MomentMuch Ado About MagicMagic Man

"Rice has a magical touch for creating fascinating plots, delicious romance, and delightful characters..." - BooklistAs a second son, Lord Harry Winchester indulges in a carefree, comfortable life- until the unusual death of his brother and father bestows upon him a dukedom plagued with a crumbling family manor and hungry debtors. What's a desperate duke to do but marry the wealthy lady betrothed to him since childhood? Lady Christina Malcolm Childe's magical gift of reading auras reveals, to her dismay, that her laughing Harry has recently become a dark and bitter man. She must find out why. . .before the worm-eaten floors of his manor collapse beneath her feet. Until Harry learns to love her truly, this willful Malcolm refuses to consummate their marriage. No matter how tempting he proves to be.... MAGICAL MALCOLM SERIES IN ORDERMerely MagicMust Be MagicThe Trouble With MagicThis Magic MomentMuch Ado About MagicMagic Man

In "What is Life All About?" Michael presents a compendium of poems written between 1972 and 2017. The poems are divided into two broad categories - poems dealing with life's challenges and poems dealing with relationships. The poems provide a glimpse into Michael's soul as he struggles with the meaning of life.

Bestselling author Patricia Rice offers the next book in her Regency historical mystery series...Wycliffe Manor, a magnet for murder... On a long-delayed errand to remote Wycliffe Manor, ex-Lieutenant Jack de Sackville stumbles across the murdered body of London dandy, Basil Culpepper, in the hedgerow, a long way from his usual haunts. To Jack's dismay, he discovers the earl's daughter Culpepper ruined hiding in Wycliffe's kitchen. Disguised as a lowly cook, Lady Elspeth Villiers may have liked to shoot Culpepper for ruining her life, but she dropped out of sight for more immediate reasons than an old scandal-her wealth has become the focus of greedy men. The arrival of Jack, the man she's adored since childhood, along with Culpepper's corpse, mean her hiding place is no longer safe. But once Lady Elsa reveals herself to the unconventional inhabitants of Wycliffe Manor, they become the protective family she has never known. Outraged to learn the beautiful woman he once loved and lost has become a target of greed, Jack joins the investigation into Culpepper's death. With a murderer on the loose, the amateur sleuths must unravel a deadly tangle of kidnappers and counterfeiters or the Manor's eccentric inhabitants will be in as much danger as their cook.

"Patricia Rice employs wicked wit and sizzling sensuality to turn the battle of the sexes into a magical romp." -Mary Jo Putney, NYT Bestselling authorCan a cynical scientist and an illogical enchantress find happiness?Lady Ninian Malcolm Siddons, a healer and herbalist, has dedicated her life to the welfare of her ancestral Northumberland village. Both her class and calling have isolated her from companionship and love. But according to legend, her beloved village cannot thrive without a magical Malcolm in residence.Drogo Ives, Earl of Ives and Wystan, cares only for honor, science, and reason--unlike his unruly brothers and the illogical and untrustworthy female of the species. Love and marriage are two unknowns he has no desire to explore. His married brother can inherit.But fate and Drogo's meddling stepsister bring Drogo and Ninian together for one night...with shattering consequences. Having dealt with the inconvenient result of his father's bastards, Drogo has vowed to marry any woman who carries his child-and now the irresistible Ninian does. Only, the last time a Malcolm married an Ives, disaster destroyed Wystan and both their families. With all the odds against them, can they find a place where science and mystery meet, and build a bridge into a future where love saves both their families and their homes?MAGICAL MALCOLM SERIES IN ORDERMerely MagicMust Be MagicTrouble With MagicThis Magic MomentMuch Ado About MagicMagic Man

¿¿Be wary of what you wish for. . .Award-winning author Patricia Rice brings you the first of a light-hearted Regency romantic mystery series set in Wycliffe Manor...n Regency England:The descendant of adventuring-dead-aristocrats, Clarissa Knightley supplements a modest inheritance by penning gothic novels that cost more than they earn. Upon learning that she has mysteriously inherited a share of an earl's estate, she rashly packs up her household. In remote Gravesyde Priory, she hopes to find a safe haven and family who will welcome her and her young nephew.Instead, she discovers a drunken American army captain, his African servant, and ancient, surly caretakers. Terrified, prepared to flee, Clare is lured to linger by the prospect of secret diaries, hidden jewels, and an increasingly intriguing man. Then a killer strikes.The crumbling manor's ominous and baffling history offers fascinating fodder for Clare's horror novels-if only she can survive real-life madmen and a spectral murderer who may seek the jewels at any price.

NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice presents the sixth book of the Psychic Solutions Mystery series: What happens when the solutions aren't sensible?Head of the Sensible Solutions Agency Evangeline Malcolm Carstairs doesn't have time to puzzle out why a film production's animals have gone berserk. She is about to be married. In a week. Although she probably should find the film's missing animal handler. That's where her cousin, veterinarian Idonea Malcolm comes in. Iddy reads animal minds.Iddy has an animal clinic bursting at the seams and no patience with hysterical actors, until sexy Cade Garcia, the film's annoying line producer, offers enough cash to expand her clinic if she helps find the missing trainer. But hardheaded Cade is skeptical when Evie and Iddy claim a poltergeist haunts the animals. . .With everyone on the crew, including Cade, a suspect, a wedding looming, and bulls on the loose, Evie and Iddy must rely on help from ghosts and sheep to sort through the lies of unreliable actors to discover the truth-before anyone else dies.

Take one dead FBI agent, one ghostbuster, one skeptical lawyer, add an octogenarian mob, and stir. . . Fraud lawyer Jax Ives and ghostbuster Evie Malcolm Carstairs want to take their relationship to the next level, but their increasingly hectic lives intervene. Evie's Sensible Solutions Agency's first big job is to determine if a recently deceased FBI agent financed her retirement with computer crime. Evie's eccentric hacker team talk tech, but only Evie can hear the haunting tale the agent's ghost has to tell. Soon she and her team are investigating potentially murderous octogenarians-despite Jax's warnings. But when Jax's brilliant, OCD, and deeply introverted sister shocks him by helping his anarchic best friend uncover the dangerous mastermind behind a phone-scam targeting senior citizens, Jax has to add his legal expertise to avert disaster. With ghosts and senior citizens demanding justice, antediluvian conmen on the loose, and Evie, Jax, and cohorts stirring the pot-the apocalypse might be safer than the impending granny revolution!

Someone is murdering lawyers, and their ghosts are demanding justice.Evangeline Malcolm Carstairs has never used her weird ghost-talking skills outside her hometown of Afterthought, South Carolina. But her young ward's co-guardian-and the only man who almost understands her-has vanished out west while communing with cactus, and she's not about to parent alone. After learning his biological parents lived under an alias, criminal fraud lawyer Damon Ives "Jax" Jackson has gone in search of his roots, desperate to know if he's descended from crooks. Just as he uncovers a potential murder, his bewitching co-trustee Evie arrives, and his key witness, a lawyer, drops dead. Knowing Evie can't leave a ghost alone, Jax returns with his too-inquisitive partner to Afterthought and the eccentric assortment of friends and family who can shield her from whatever forces he's unleashed. But wherever Evie goes, disturbed spirits follow. When still another lawyer is killed, she must coax the truth from his raging ghost. But are her shaky skills up to the challenge? And will she live long enough to understand her abilities. . . and Jax?

Can an impoverished earl find treasure with the aid of a runaway bride and a ghost? Refusing to fill her drunken stepfather's coffers by marrying a wealthy American, Lady Iona Malcolm Ross flees her Highland estate for Wystan castle, a home for stray Malcolm females. She's quite content to tend her precious queen bee and hives there-until the day the castle's owner returns. Unless Gerard, Earl of Ives and Wystan, can squeeze more income out of his estate, he'll have to close the family's deteriorating castle and evict the tenants. The sharp-tongued beekeeper who nearly kills him with her bees is simply another good reason. But lately, an artifact in his pocket weirdly whispers of treasure at Wystan, in the knowledgeable voice of a Roman soldier. A busy man with interests in law and archeology, Gerard isn't much inclined to believe that he's one of his family's psychic eccentrics. Until news of a ten-thousand pound reward for the return of Lady Iona, a runaway bride, introduces a whole new perspective to the word treasure. Even if he weren't allergic to Iona's bees, he needs to marry money, and she is penniless. But surely, between them, they can claim the reward and still turn her wicked stepfather's plot on its head-without endangering their lives or hearts.

Lady Olivia Malcolm Hargreaves is a viscountess, a widow, a governess, the adoptive mother of a disabled toddler-but above all else, she is a survivor. When the father of the young children she''s been caring for arrives on Christmas Eve, drunk and ranting, his aura and her own sad experience tell her he''s dangerous.Heart hardened after the murder of his beloved wife, Simon Blair is an industrialist who has no use for another psychic Malcolm. His late wife''s weird family is more than enough interference. But his twin daughters are talking to their mother''s ghost, his son and heir is floating objects that shouldn''t float, and he''s beleaguered by aristocrats who refuse to acknowledge his plebeian existence.When Simon learns that Lady Olivia is in a position to help him obtain the land he needs for his business, and she recognizes that by helping him, she might regain the home she''s lost, they must fight their respective prejudices and forge an uneasy alliance. It might take a ghost, an army of children, and a criminal gang to force them to recognize that they want far more than real estate.

The daughter of an earl, Lady Phoebe Malcolm Duncan has the ability to talk to animals. She longs to be a veterinarian, but education requires more coin than she possesses. When the walls of her home come tumbling down, she has to take two steps back—to servitude.Inventor Andrew Blair keeps his nose to the grindstone, knowing his friends and family depend on his talent for turning machines into money. He is about to embark on his biggest investment yet—rebuilding crumbling tenements in Old Town Edinburgh— until his beleaguered cousin begs him to hide his precocious children from a killer.When the School of Malcolms sends Lady Phoebe as governess for his wards, Drew’s well-ordered beliefs are upended. Ladies don’t live in slum housing like the one he’s about to tear down, nor do they command ravens or encourage children to talk to dead mothers.  It might take a vengeful ghost to show the disparate pair how to join forces, fight their fears and their enemies, and reveal a path to love.

Can a timid librarian and a bold engineer save a castle''s toppling tower of books?The stereotypical reserved librarian, Lydia Wystan has only one true love, the books that whisper to her. But unless she can understand the whispers, she cannot become what she wants to be more than anything-the Malcolm Librarian.Maxwell Ives has a disastrous gift for attracting women, a trait that has resulted in three sons and a desire for solitude. Returning to England to find a school for one of his boys, Max seeks privacy in the isolated Malcolm library. But to Max''s dismay, the old librarian dies, leaving Miss Wystan, a female, in charge. Before he can run far, far away, he learns the library tower is in danger of toppling, and his cousin is stealing from his mother''s School of Malcolms.To save the library and Max''s family funds, Lydia must claim to be what she is not-a real librarian. Fascinated that his magnetism doesn''t affect the one woman who can help him, Max must choose between his freedom and his family. In the process of helping others, Max and Lydia just might learn that sometimes, love is the secret that makes magic happen.

Succumb to temptation and follow the call to Hillvale- population 325 - a cozy little mountain town filled with love, mystery, and ghosts... Award-winning author Patricia Rice presents three romantic novellas from her celebrated Crystal Magic series—together for the first time in one collection.The Wedding Gift—Having overcome the obstacles of their past, Samantha Moon and Chen Ling Walker are ready to walk down Hillvale’s eccentric version of a wedding aisle. Can they also conquer the complications of the present—a mysterious doll that won’t stay in one place and the dubious assistance of a feng shui master who moves in with them?The Wedding Question—While juggling the demands of their busy lives, Theodosia Devine-Baker and Kurt Kennedy find that love and living together require just as much work. Halloween always brings out Hillvale’s spooks, but when Teddy declares a ceramic dragon is sending smoke signals, Kurt wonders if it’s time for him to flee the eccentric community to look for a more normal life.The Wedding Surprise—With Christmas excitement raising Hillvale’s spirits—both literal and figurative—Keegan Ives and Mariah are setting out on new careers and a new relationship. As the town’s future draws them in different directions, can their love survive an unanticipated bundle of joy?Crystal Magic Series:Book One: Sapphire NightsBook Two: Topaz DreamsBook Three: Crystal Vision

Change and Conflict is part of the Irish History in Perspective series. The series has been specially commissioned to meet the requirements of the Northern Ireland history curriculum. The books allow pupils to understand how developments at a local, national and international level have helped to shape the economy, culture and political structure of Ireland.