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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...

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...

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...

The Legacy of Old Gran Parks

The Legacy of Old Gran Parks
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

Set in Cann River in Australia’s rugged southern wilderness, The Legacy of Old Gran Parks is a tale of a remote town haunted by a legacy, a legacy with ominous consequences. It’s a warm evening in the autumn of...

The Unlikely Occultist: A biographical novel of Alice A. Bailey

The Unlikely Occultist: A biographical novel of Alice A. Bailey
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Librarian Heather Brown discovers the fascinating life of Alice Bailey – a long forgotten occultist. Back in 1931, Alice is preparing to give a speech at a Swiss summer school. But how can she stave the tide of hatred...

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...

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...

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...

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