Elizabeth Cooke

The Cavendish family of Rutherford Park secretly dreams of freeing themselves from the rigid constraints and rules of the English aristocracy in the early 20th century in this new novel from the author of the international best-seller The Ice Child. Original.

Rutherford Park

Mimi, because of her huge popularity on the continent, with Nicole Marcel, her co-anchor, and Detective Giscard Morency are flown to New York City to do a series of CNN Interview Programs. Victor Crofton, the wealthy President of that TV outlet is determined to exploit that popularity in the States. Crofton, married to his third wife, Veronica, and stepson, Earl, live in a high-rise apartment building on the 82nd floor, overlooking Central Park. A hideous crime occurs, which Mimi, with her intense olfactory gifts, is able to help solve. Detective Morency is also deeply involved in the case.On their return to France, the threesome begin to plan for the wedding of Mimi's two favorite PERSONS, Nicole and Giscard, which will take place in Book Six of The Mimi Series: "MIMI AS MAID OF HONOR.

Book 5 of the Mimi Series

Mimi Takes Manhattan

In this latest cozy mystery, Mimi, and her co-anchor, Nicole Marcel, on the Interview TV Show, TONIGHT, is at her peak of popularity in Paris. Charles Bleisante, who owns the TV Station, proposes a TV Interview tour for the pair of certain cities on the continent.The two, with Nicole's lover, Detective Giscard Morency, are off, first to Barcelona, later to London. The Interviews center on food: the cooking of a paella, in Spain; the braising of a Christmas goose in London, delicious episodes that attract a wide audience. However, certain nefarious incidents occur, in which Mimi is canine sleuth.CNN-New York requests the co-anchors come to Manhattan for more interviews. There, Mimi helps solve a grisly murder that takes place in one of the highest billionaire luxury buildings in the world.The resolution of this crime is revealed in Book Five of The Mimi Series: "MIMI TAKES MANHATTAN."

Book 4 of the Mimi Series

Mimi Takes Europe

Mimi was at the peak of her celebrity, but at times, she found it exhausting and wished for her old, simpler life. She was much envied, even desired, by an evil woman who wished to have her for her very own. Mimi was endangered by this person.Kidnapped, and kept in a form of gilded cage, fed cheese puffs with a drug in their batter, Mimi survived by using her very powerful olfactory gifts and managed an elegant escape.Mimi returned to her world of fame and admiration and was lauded as the great nasal sleuth of Tout Paris, a true star in the skies over the City of Light.Mimi. "L'Etoile!" Another cozy mystery to enjoy.

Mimi - L'Etoile de Paris

On a January day in 1927, Paris, Camille de St. Phalle, a young girl of seventeen is approached on the avenue by a prominent painter, aged forty-five, who desires to paint her portrait. The love story that ensues between the two is passionate, lasting nine years, producing a daughter, but Camille is cut off from family and friends and lives a nearly isolated life because of her choice. A series of startling events occur that bring Camille a fearful realization. Still Life is based on the true story of Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is an imaginative rendition of what it must have been like for Camille to live in the orbit of an artist the stature of a Picasso.

A Love Story

Still Life

"The third in the Rutherford series ... continues the story of the Cavendish family through World War One and opens with the wedding of the youngest daughter, Charlotte. How realistic are Charlotte's misgivings? What is happening to the Cavendish's son, Harry, in France? And where is Jack Armitage, who volunteered to join? We are in April 1917 and the war rages; close to Rutherford, at Catterick Camp, a large prisoner-of-war camp has been established"--Provided by author.

The Gates of Rutherford

On the brink of World War I, the Cavendishes must face the truth about their failing marriage and accept that their son, Harry, has enlisted with the Royal Flying Corps in France, in a follow up to Rutherford Park. Original.

A Novel of Rutherford Park

The Wild Dark Flowers

Violet Rose is the first book in The Rose Trilogy, which is set on the East End of Long Island in a resort town on the East End. The palpable animosity between summer visitor and local resident is vividly depicted. The ocean itself is a metaphor for the love/hate turbulence in the lives of the characters. They encounter danger and lust. Malevolent storms beset them, both in tempests of weather and anguish of heart as the encroaching sea sweeps across their world.

The Encroaching Sea

Violet Rose

Violet, The Swelling Tide -- the third and final volume in The Rose Trilogy -- provides adventure, intrigue and surprise. Love, lust, and retribution are rampant. Still set on the East End of Long Island, the characters undergo mysterious events and final confrontations, as water surges across the flat landmass that is Long Island, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to Long Island Sound, with lethal force.

The Swelling Tide

Violet

Starfish continues the story of Bud and Violet Rose with the baby girl they call Starfish. As Deputy Sheriff of Suffolk County, Bud pursues a drug cartel that plagues the community. Much of the action takes place in Montauk on the southeastern tip of Long Island where the boats come in with their supply not only of fish but also the illegal substance called White Sugar. Throughout the story, the turbulent ocean mirrors the tumult in the lives of the characters.

The Arbitrary Ocean

Starfish

To escape the distress of her divorce, Faith Collins buys a rundown house on the Dorset Coast. But unknown to her, the retreat is the obsession of a complete stranger: a woman whose unspeakable childhood makes her pursue both the house and Faith, with terrible consequences. This edition is the first publication of this title outside the United Kingdom.

A Novel

You Belong to Me

This book is an examination of the law of land registration in England and Wales, in the light of the Land Registration Act 2002.

The New Law of Land Registration

Secrets of a Small Hotel is the on-going story of adventures taking place in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower, a sequel to the original There's a Small Hotel, published in 2014. The narrator, an attractive American widow in her 60s, returns to find much has changed, not only in the lives of apartment residents across the street, but within the Hotel Marcel itself. She encounters a deceptive English woman involved in art fraud; a young African-American in search of his father; even a violent murder, partially seen by the narrator from her balcony. She also finds an unexpected and exciting romantic liaison, and witnesses the opening of a grand, new hotel next door, named The Majestic. Secrets of a Small Hotel takes place in the month of May in Paris. The narrator determines to come back again to the Hotel Marcel at Christmas, her adventures to be continued in a new book titled, The Hotel Next Door.

Secrets of a Small Hotel

Are the voices Lin Gallagher hears real? Or are they the result of a life-threatening condition? And why, when her life hangs in the balance, does Lin refuse treatment that could save her? Second Sight was adapted into the stage play We Are Gods under the name Elizabeth Cooke. This edition is the first publication of this title outside the United Kingdom.

Second Sight

“I found myself addicted to Rutherford Park, much as I was to Downton Abbey” (Margaret Wurtele on Rutherford Park). Now comes the new novel of Rutherford Park by the acclaimed Elizabeth Cooke… When May came that year in Rutherford, it was more beautiful than anyone could ever remember. More beautiful, and more terrible… From inside their sprawling estate of Rutherford Park, the Cavendish family had a privileged perspective of the world. On the first morning in May, 1915, with a splendid view that reached across the gardens to the Vale of York, nothing seemed lovelier or less threatening. And yet… At the risk of undoing the Cavendish name with scandal, William and Octavia Cavendish have been living a lie, maintaining a marriage out of duty rather than passion. But when their son Harry joins the Royal Flying Corps in France, the Cavendish family are forced to face the unavoidable truths about themselves, the society in which they thrive, and the secrets they can no longer bear. In the wake of a terrible war, the emotional shifts between a husband and a wife, a wife and her lover, and a mother and her children, will shake the very foundation of the Cavendish family, and change the uniquely vulnerable lives of all who reside at Rutherford Park.

"On the verge of World War, an epic tale of longing and betrayal is about to unfold at Rutherford Park, the estate of the Cavendish family"--

Rendezvous at a Small Hotel is the fifth volume in the exciting series about the Hotel Marcel in the city of Paris near The Eiffel Tower. Elizabeth, an American widow in her 60s, returns to the small hotel, as she does yearly. For her, it is a visit with a purpose--to reconnect with her artist lover, Brit, with whom she has lost contact. Her search leads her to the Normandy beaches and the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. In the wake of her pursuit, a number of adventures occur, involving a vindictive Qatari sheikh, a secret wedding, aiding and abetting the planting of illegal Italian grape seedlings at the chateau of her American friend, La Marquise de Chevigny, and a final rendezvous at the Hotel Marcel. The City of Light is Elizabeth's passion to which she is drawn every few months. In the sixth volume, entitled Intrigue at a Small Hotel, Elizabeth is troubled by a malicious woman from the past who seeks to ruin her life. Intrigue will be available in early 2016."

Rendezvous at a Small Hotel

Violet, The Swelling Tide the third and final volume in The Rose Trilogy provides adventure, intrigue and surprise. Love, lust, and retribution are rampant. Still set on the East End of Long Island, the characters undergo mysterious events and final confrontations, as water surges across the flat landmass that is Long Island, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to Long Island Sound, with lethal force.

In the 1970s, international financier Saul Mammon is king. Hes enigmatic, charismatic, and, one could argue, evil. Nobody plays the game like Saul. His obsessive motivations are practically erotic in nature. He got what he wanted when he wanted it without even trying, but a sensational life lived so precariously on edge can never last. He was once a young boy in New York, born to a modest family, with dreams of climbing the gilded ladder to riches and fame. He achieves all this and more with direct connection to leaders not only in the United States but also in the Soviet Union, Paris, and beyond. His only daughter, Sara, watches from the sidelines as her father inches ever closer to the world of power and deceit. Sauls brilliance and dark side eventually lead to his mysterious death and a rapid cover-up. Perhaps it was inevitable that such an ambitious man would fall, but Sara is haunted by questions, most of which will never be answered. Based on a true story, the rise and fall of Saul Mammon shows what happens when ambition turns malicious and when money is never enough.

A Daughter's Legacy

How to Game People Without Even Trying

Jon Oplinger

The Little People were a happy and peaceful clan who lived in the crater of a wonderful volcano. There, they were surrounded by their favorite smellssweet sulfur, in particularand were always warm and comfortable. It was safe there, too, because the predators stayed away, which was very important for the Little People, each of them no more than twelve inches tall. Then, one terrible day, things begin to go wrong. The hiss of steam in their happy home comes less and less. The sweet sulfur fades, growing weaker by the day. Their volcano is dying; soon, it will no longer be a safe, warm, comfortable place to call home. The Little People are forced to flee, and they find themselves in a Maine mill town, lost and afraid. How will they survive? Who will come to their aid in this strange, new land? Luckily, two curious kids, Timothy and Xandre, discover the Little People and befriend the strange clan. With the help of their new friendsplus a helpful grandma and a friendly dogthe Little People might be safe after all, despite the absence of sulfur and heat. At a chaotic town meeting, the fates of the Little People will be ultimately decided.

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