Mary Anne Kelly
1) Twillyweed
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Searching for her birth mother, an Irish girl comes to Long Island and stumbles upon a terrible secret One of the first things Claire Breslinsky loved about Johnny was that he never even glanced at her sister. Carmela had always been the glamorous one, but Johnny only had eyes for Claire-the frazzled, world-traveling photographer who solved mysteries in her spare time. Only when their marriage fell apart did Claire learn that Johnny avoided Carmela...
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In search of hidden diamonds, Claire returns to the German countryside. At the height of World War II, Iris is a young Jewish girl living in Munich. One night, while on a double date, she lets herself get talked into staying out far past curfew. When she returns home, her family has disappeared. With her uncle Oswald, Iris races for the frontier, pausing at Saint Hildegard's Mill to bury the family diamonds. She escapes to the United States, where...
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After five extraordinarily moving mysteries, Mary Anne Kelly turns to a touching and charming novel filled with true-to-life characters and deep emotion.
At the start, Claire Breslinsky is in Munich working as a model. She rents a room in a large apartment and meets a series of magical people--or so they seem to her. Isolde, her landlady and sister model, introduces her to a number of people, including Germany's leading movie star, a noted film photographer,...
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"When true love hits," he used to tell her--like he knew what he was talking about--"you can almost hear it go click."
That was a laugh.
She'd cried for months, really. Cried when people came to look at the house. Cried at the closing. Cried at the lawyer's when she'd filed for divorce. Cried, especially, when the children tried to be kind.
Well, it was over. She wasn't crying anymore.
Divorce has left Claire Breslinsky with two teenagers and...
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Home for the first time in a decade, a photographer is sucked into a murder investigation. Claire dozes in the hammock on the front porch of her family home in Queens, baking in the early morning heat, and hardly glances up when a car drives by. Ten years ago, she lost her brother, a rookie cop who made the mistake of trying to reason with a mugger, and she left home to travel the world. Now she is back, camera in hand. The children of the Breslinsky...
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When photographer Claire Breslinsky's Irish aunt dies in a fire, she sets off to Ireland for the funeral. She tries not to think of the man with whom she almost had an affair years ago who still lives in Cork county.
However, on the day that Claire is leaving, two things happen. She discovers that her husband is having an affair. Then her mother reveals that on a visit to Ireland seventeen years ago, her sister delivered an unwanted child name Jenny...
7) Foxglove
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When an old friend is murdered, Claire and her husband search for the killer. Ever since she got married, Claire Breslinsky has dreamed of living in the tree-lined Queens neighborhood where she grew up. But her husband is a cop, and cops aren't allowed to live in the precincts they police. When Johnny's transfer request finally comes through, Claire sets her sights on a beautiful, shabby old Victorian mansion. She is about to tour the house when she...