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Cynthia Riggs
Full Series List in Order
A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
1 - Deadly Nightshade (May-2001)2 - Cranefly Orchid Murders (May-2002)
3 - The Cemetery Yew (Sep-2003)
4 - Jack in the Pulpit (Jun-2004)
5 - The Paperwhite Narcissus (May-2005)
6 - Indian Pipes (May-2006)
7 - Shooting Star (May-2007)
8 - Death and Honesty (May-2009)
9 - Touch-me-not (Aug-2010)
10 - The Bee Balm Murders (May-2011)
11 - Poison Ivy (Apr-2012)
12 - Bloodroot (May-2016)
13 - Trumpet of Death (Apr-2017)
14 - Widow's Wreath (Jun-2018)
A Martha's Vineyard Ghost Story
1 - Wither, Thou Ghost! (Sep-2012)Book List in Order: 16 titles
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Deadly Nightshade
- May-2001
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Martha's Vineyard has been home to Victoria Trumbull for most of her 92 years. Its magic, history, and picture- perfect calm are part of her very being. But one evening, Victoria hears something that doesn't quite belong--a scream followed by a splas...
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Cranefly Orchid Murders
- May-2002
- / Amateur Sleuth
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For ninety-two-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, Martha's Vineyard isn't just a home--it's a way of life. If there's anything worth learning about the island, she usually knows it. But even Victoria is in for a few surprises when a big-money developer...
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The Cemetery Yew
- Sep-2003
- / Amateur Sleuth
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West Tisbury's police chief knew what she was doing when she officially made ninety-two-year-old Martha's Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull her deputy. Though a little slow on her feet, Victoria eyes--and mind--are still sharp, which is why she is th...
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Jack in the Pulpit
- Jun-2004
- / Amateur Sleuth
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The untimely death of four residents upsets the serene month of September on Martha's Vineyard. Victoria Trumbull, who, despite any aches and pains of her ninety-two years, possesses the sharpest mind on the island, was present when the first body dr...
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The Paperwhite Narcissus
- May-2005
- / Amateur Sleuth
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BLACK AND WHITE AND DEAD ALL OVER When Colley Jameson, the unpopular, egocentric editor of the Island Enquirer abruptly cancels Victoria Trumbull's weekly column, the ninety-two-year-old Martha's Vineyard native takes her reporting skills to the c...
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Indian Pipes
- May-2006
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Lively 92-year-old Martha's Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull is the first to spot the body of her neighbor, reclusive engineer Jube Burkhardt, dead from a tumble off a 200-foot-high cliff. The police conclude it was accidental, but Victoria's suspic...
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Shooting Star
- May-2007
- / Amateur Sleuth
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SHOWSTOPPER Native Martha's Vineyard resident Victoria Trumbull adds "serious playwright" to her list of accomplishments when she pens the local summer stock's adaptation of Frankenstein Unbound. With actors, even locals, comes backstabbing, bad wil...
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Double Murder on Martha's Vineyard: Deadly Nightshade/The Cranefly Orchid Murders
- Jun-2007
- / Mystery
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Victoria Trumbull, a fiesty, alert and lively 92-year-old protagonist, tracks murders (and murderers) on Martha's Vineyard, the lovely, sun-splashed island off Cape Cod. Double Murder includes the first two of seven books featuring Victoria. In Deadl...
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Death and Honesty
- May-2009
- / Amateur Sleuth
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April arrives in Martha's Vineyard, bringing two of life's inescapable certainties -- death and taxes. When the body of a local resident is found inside the home of one of the town's three tax assessors -- along with some incriminating evidence of a...
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Touch-me-not
- Aug-2010
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Victoria Trumbull, the nonagenarian poet, columnist and police deputy of Martha's Vineyard, requires the services of the town's electrician. But he's behaving oddly. His former assistant, fired for bad behavior, has gone missing. Someone is making ob...
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The Bee Balm Murders
- May-2011
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Midsummer on Martha's Vineyard means Victoria Trumbull's beehives are in full production. Traditions are important to the ninety-two-year-old poet and amateur sleuth, but she knows modern innovations like new fiber-optic cables are inevitable for the...
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Poison Ivy
- Apr-2012
- / Amateur Sleuth
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On her first day as adjunct professor at Ivy Green College, Victoria Trumbull recognizes the stench emanating from her classroom as more than just dead mice. Brownie, the groundskeeper's mangy mutt, soon discovers a second body hiding beneath a clust...
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Wither, Thou Ghost!
- Sep-2012
- / General Fiction
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Short StoryAfter a bed and breakfast guest blows out the fuse drying her hair, the electrician discovers a body hidden behind the plaster and laths. Had Rebecca, the ghost the guest claims visits her at night, hidden the body in the wall?Find out in ...
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Trumpet of Death
- Apr-2017
- / Cozy Mystery
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When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid him...
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Widow's Wreath
- Jun-2018
- / Mystery
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It’s a case of cold feet -- and cold-blooded murder -- as 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull gets more than she bargained for after hosting an ill-fated wedding.A wedding on picturesque Martha’s Vineyard promises to be the affair of the se...
