Louise Shaffer

A Daytime Crime Mystery

1 - All My Suspects (Dec-1994)
2 - Talked to Death (Sep-1995)

Miss Margarets

1 - The Three Miss Margarets (Apr-2003)
2 - The Ladies of Garrison Gardens (Jun-2005)

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  Looking for a Love Story
  

  • Apr-2010
  • / General Fiction
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  In Louise Shaffer's delightfully charming new novel, a hopeless romantic (and author adrift) searches for a happy ending -- and decides to write her own love story. After the success of her first novel, Love, Max -- an irresistibly funny look at ...

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  Serendipity
  

  • Mar-2009
  • / General Fiction
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  Louise Shaffer brings to life three generations of Italian American women in this stunning novel of surprises, secrets, and serendipity. A child of theatrical royalty, Carrie Manning is having a hard time getting her own act together. Thirty-seven...

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  Family Acts
  

  • Sep-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  Louise Shaffer follows her beloved novels The Three Miss Margarets and The Ladies of Garrison Gardens with an unforgettable tale of poignancy, wit, and high drama. Katie Harder and Randa Jennings live on opposite coasts, have never met, and have ...

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  The Ladies of Garrison Gardens
  

  • Jun-2005
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  Miss Margarets - 2
  

  Charles Valley’s legendary dowagers, the three Miss Margarets, have lost one of their own: Peggy Garrison, who married into a huge fortune but was constantly overshadowed by the legacy her husband’s first wife, the great Myrtis Garrison. When Peg...

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  The Three Miss Margarets
  

  • Apr-2003
  • / Romance
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  Miss Margarets - 1
  

  The Three Miss Margarets is an irresistible, page-turning exploration of the past and the myriad ways it exerts a hold on the present.“Rich, funny . . . Fans of Fannie Flagg and Adriana Trigiani, take note. Shaffer has created a little pi...

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  Talked to Death
  

  • Sep-1995
  • / Mystery
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  A Daytime Crime Mystery - 2
  

  The megahit talk show Cee Gee! featured love addicts, serial killers, and mothers who stole their daughters' boyfriends. But no on-camera drama compared to the behind-the-scenes murder of Cee Gee's ex-producer. Newly hired producer Angie DaVito was t...

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  All My Suspects
  

  • Dec-1994
  • / Mystery
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  A Daytime Crime Mystery - 1
  

  When a daytime soap opera's VP is murdered, producer Angie DaVito finds suspects in the show's otherwise sweet-natured villainess, a jealous head writer, an ambitious assistant, an egocentric male lead, and a drunken props man. Reprint....

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