Lillian Stewart Carl

• Jan-2014
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Archaeologist Maggie Lauder has personal reasons for proving Farnaby Island is the Avalon of Arthurian legend. But when she opens a tomb in a medieval chantry chapel, her plans go awry. The story Jean Fairbairn planned to write is shadowed by a co...

• Jun-2013
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The Sound and the Furry is a delightful collection of cat and dog stories from international authors who have come together to support the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).With selections that include fantasy, mystery, romance, humor, and...

• Jan-2012
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The lights went out. . . . A mortsafe is an iron cage locked over a grave to deter body snatchers. They haven't been seen in Scottish kirkyards for almost two centuries. So why is a mortsafe lying next to a pair of decayed bodies in one of Edinburgh'...

• Nov-2010
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NEW YEAR'S, NUPTIALS...KNIVES Dunasheen Castle is the romantic site for the wedding of American journalist Jean Fairbairn and her Scottish beau, former detective chief inspector Alasdair Cameron. Resplendent with history, artifacts and its own wai...

• Sep-2010
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Master the Vorkosiverse! "I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. Readers return to such books because those characters have become their friends, and there is no limit to the number of times yo...

• Nov-2009
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Magic, Mystery...and Murder In the heart of historic Williamsburg, secrets, conspiracy and a sudden death greet travel journalist Jean Fairbairn. Visiting with her Scottish beau, ex-DCI Alasdair Cameron, she's digging into a story surrounding a pa...

• Jan-2008
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• Oct-2007
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Blackness Tower: an enigma at the edge of this world, looking over the sea to the next. Drawing lonely, haunted souls to its ancient riddles, all seeking their own answers among its stones. Ewan Calder is an archaeologist looking for a galleon fro...

• Sep-2007
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Ghostly rumors and the promise of a romantic getaway lure American historian turned journalist Jean Fairbairn to remote, crumbling Ferniebank Castle. Jean's beau, ex-DCI Alasdair Cameron, has been hired for security as renovations to turn the castle ...

• Aug-2007
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In The Muse and Other Stories of History, Mystery and Myth, Lillian Stewart Carl sweeps you through a magical mystery tour of history. Thirteen stories take you from the British colonies in America and India to medieval England and revolutionary Scot...

• Aug-2006
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American journalist Jean Fairbairn, on an assignment for Great Scot magazine, is covering a new effort to unravel the mystery of Nessie, Scotland's Loch Ness monster. At the helm of the controversial probe is an American scientist who believes his te...

• Apr-2005
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TARTAN AND TERROR Bonnie Prince Charlie's lost treasure lures Edinburgh-based American magazine editor Jean Fairbairn to the Highlands, where madness, murder and ghosts bring the past to life--and sudden death. Retired university professor George Lo...

• 2005
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GREAT LEADERS MAKE HISTORY-- BUT NOT HISTORY AS WE KNOW IT History shows that leadership is crucial in war, but there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest ...

• Mar-2004
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The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...

• Sep-2003
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First print-published by Five Star/Gale in 2003When Maggie Sinclair walks into myth-haunted Glastonbury Abbey she intends only to teach a group of students the stories of King Arthur. But she can't escape her mid-life crisis, which soon leads her to ...

• Oct-2002
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Matilda Gray is an expert on antiquities, especially the Roman and Celtic artifacts found in Great Britain. But one thing Matilda has learned is that such relics of time past are not valued only by museums but also by unscrupulous collectors, and the...

• Dec-2001
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(First print-published by Wildside Press 2001)Amanda Witham sees her new job at an eighteenth-century house as a career move, just part of the history business, nothing personal. Then archaeologists find a man's skeleton buried in the garden behind t...

• Jun-2001
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First print-published by Ace Books in 1989.What if an Amazon queen had a love affair with Alexander the Great?What if their son had to defend his lands from the Mongol Horde?What if his sister was the priestess of a bull-cult on Crete?What if her son...

• Nov-2000
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First print-published by Wildside Press in 2000Claire came to the English village to find her best friend, Melinda, who'd vanished afterperforming in a play which re-creates a seventeenth-century witchcraft trial.What she found was a murder mystery -...

• Jun-2000
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First print-published by Ace Books, 1985What if an Amazon queen had a love affair with Alexander the Great?What if their son had to defend his lands from the Mongol Horde?What if his sister was the priestess of a bull-cult on Crete?What if her son st...

• Jun-2000
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First print-published by Ace Books in 1986.What if an Amazon queen had a love affair with Alexander the Great?What if their son had to defend his lands from the Mongol Horde?What if his sister was the priestess of a bull-cult on Crete?What if her son...

• Apr-2000
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In twelve stories originally published in magazines and anthologies, characters find themselves skirting the often uncertain boundary between this world and others, by choice, by chance, or by coercion.Warriors fight battles they didn't sign on to fi...

• Jul-1998
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LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had--Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had--Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run,...

• Oct-1992
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First print-published by Berkley Publishing Group, 1992Mark Owen and Hilary Chase, who met at the excavation of a medieval Scottish priory in Dust to Dust, get back together in Fort Worth, Texas, his home town.Hilary is working at a museum, curating ...

• Aug-1991
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After months of long-distance phone calls, Rebecca Reid is thrilled to be working with Michael Campbell again, this time on a dig at Rudesburn Priory in the Scottish Borders. It's rumored that Robert the Bruce's heart was buried there, and that the a...

• Nov-1990
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Rebecca comes to a replica of a Scottish castle in Ohio to catalog a collection of historical artifacts. But she's not wanted there, either by her Scottish co-worker or by the ghosts of the past."Fans will be overjoyed!" Rave Reviews"Not your common ...

• Nov-1987
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First print-published by Ace Books in 1988What if an Amazon queen had a love affair with Alexander the Great?What if their son had to defend his lands from the Mongol Horde?What if his sister was the priestess of a bull-cult on Crete?What if her son ...