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Voltaire’s Garden: A memoir of Cobargo

Voltaire’s Garden: A memoir of Cobargo
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Voltaire’s Garden is a memoir of creating a sustainable lifestyle, back-to-earth style, on a fifteen-acre cattle paddock in an idyllic pocket of southeast Australia, made famous by the bushfires of New Year’s Eve 2019. Award-winning author Isobel Blackthorn introduces...

Secrets Taken to the Grave (The Strathbairn Trilogy)

Secrets Taken to the Grave (The Strathbairn Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Victorian

The Scottish Highlands, 1893. Ingrid Barker arrives back at Strathbairn to attend the funeral of her old employer, Charles McCleod. Every bone in Ingrid’s body screams for her to leave, and as she walks from the graveside, she can’t...

What Happened at the Abbey (The Strathbairn Trilogy)

What Happened at the Abbey (The Strathbairn Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): late Victorian

When Ingrid flees a violent husband to become a housekeeper in the Scottish Highlands, she discovers the family she works for has a much darker history than her own. Who haunts Strathbairn? Why are the adult McCleod children at...

Facing Africa

Facing Africa
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Fuerteventura
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Historical 1901

Fuerteventura, 1901. The island, just off the coast of Africa, is in the grip of a severe drought. As merchant and journalist Javier Morales campaigns to reforest the island, Famara, the daughter of an out of work farm labourer,...

A Cape, A Rock and A Murder (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 3)

A Cape, A Rock and A Murder (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 3)
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Ruth lets her neighbour and sidekick Doris accompany her on a trip to Cape Bridgewater, an idyllic coastal location known for its pristine natural beauty, the last thing she expects to find is a body. With a feature...

Too Bright for Murder (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 2)

Too Bright for Murder (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 2)
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Ruth Finlay accompanies her neighbour Doris Cleaver and the Mahjong club on a long weekend in the picturesque town of Bright, she’s hoping for a relaxing time researching the town for a feature article. Instead, the death of...

Murder in Myrtle Bay (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 1)

Murder in Myrtle Bay (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 1)
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When feature writer Ruth Finlay and her elderly neighbor Doris Cleaver visit an antique and collectibles market in the small town of Myrtle Bay, they get a lot more than they bargained for. After Ruth’s old tennis coach is...

Sing Like a Canary

Sing Like a Canary
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Lanzarote
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Retired police officer Marjorie Pierce is on her way to Lanzarote to track down her old informer, Billy McKenzie. Billy ended Marjorie’s career, and she needs an explanation; an apology. Present and past soon collide when gangsters Eric and...

Emma’s Tapestry

Emma’s Tapestry
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): London, Colorado, Japan, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914-1920 and 1939

At the dawn of World War Two, German-born nurse Emma Taylor sits by the bedside of a Jewish heiress in London as she reminisces over her dear friend, Oscar Wilde. As the story of Wilde unravels, so does Emma’s...

The Ghost of Villa Winter

The Ghost of Villa Winter
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Fuerteventura
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

English psychic Clarissa Wilkinson is holidaying in the Canary Islands. Hoping to have an adventure, she boards a tour bus bound for Villa Winter, a secret Nazi base on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura. Instead, she discovers a body...

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