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SILENT AS THE GRAVE. It's particularly quiet on Martha's Vineyard this summer, since a shadowy figure called "the Silencer began his covert campaign of destruction--disabling the audio systems in the homes and vehicles of selfish, music-blasting islanders. A respite from the unwanted noise suits fishing enthusiast, former cop, and sometime investigator J.W. Jackson just fine--until a gargantuan new Chappaquiddick mansion is vandalized and a night...
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[2005]
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Spending the winter at Martha's Vineyard with his family, retired cop J.W. Jackson is asked to help an old friend sneak back into his Vineyard home and discovers that the friend has been targeted for a past involvement in a dangerous mission.
3) Touch-me-not
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A mathematical knitters group is working on a coral reef quilt for a competition to draw attention to global warming. When a telephone stalker begins preying on their members, they turn to Victoria for help.
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2011.
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It's spring on Martha's Vineyard and at the suggestion of her beekeeper, Victoria Trumbull takes in a new boarder. Orion Nanopoulos is leading a project to lay a fiber-optic cable across the island. When a body is found in the trench where they are laying the cable, Orion recognizes the dead man as a potential investor. Victoria, renowned for her crime solving skills and for her knowledge of the island's residents, is hired by the victim's sons to...
5) Bloodroot
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2016.
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"It's just another day at the dentist's office for Victoria Trumbull when fellow patient, wealthy Mrs. Wilmington, dies. It's an unfortunate, though seemingly not murderous incident, but the receptionist is hysterical, so one of the dental assistants offers to drive her home. But after making a quick pit stop, he finds her body floating in the harbor. With the police shorthanded due to an upcoming presidential visit, it's up to Victoria to take on...
6) Poison ivy
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Martha's Vineyard mystery volume 11
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St Martins Pr
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2015.
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English
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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 cluster of poison ivy. The stakes have never been higher for Ivy Green, which is on the brink of losing already-lukewarm support from its accredited partner, Cape Cod University. Thackery Wilson, the founder...
8) Off season
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Beeler Large Print
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2002.
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English
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TOURIST SEASON MAY BE OVER ... BUT THE KILLING SEASON HAS JUSR BEGUN. J.W. Jackson loves these crisp Vineyard autumn days after the season has ended. Now that the "off-islanders" are finally off the island, the ex-Boston cop is free to relax, fish and make future plans with his lady love Zee. But this fall, the natives are getting seriously restless. Animal rights activists are squaring off against the deer slayers; environmentalists are at odds...
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2007.
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With his wife, Zee, and the children gone to "America"--What those who live full-time on Martha's Vineyard call the mainland--J.W. Jackson is enough at loose ends to take a job that seems easy. A Vietnam vet named Roland, now in his 60s, living in a cabin he built himself on family land, is being harassed, and his sister believes that land lust is behind it. In effort to find out who might be putting poison in Roland's cat's food and a skunk in his...
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Meeting the mysterious Mahsimba, who is searching for two priceless artworks missing from his African homeland, J.W. Jackson is alarmed when his wife becomes infatuated with the stranger, whose search pits him against dangerous forces in the local art world.
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 7th
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
16) Widow's wreath
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 14
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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 season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty ninety-two-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agrees--but she has no idea what's in store for the hapless...
18) Trumpet of death
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 13
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Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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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 himselfof his troublesome girlfriend, Samantha. But the mushrooms he's given Samantha end up on her daddy's dinner table, and Zack, one of the invited guests, is sure he's doomed the diners to an untimely...
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Scribner
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2006.
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English
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When the body of a radical environmentalist is discovered in a golf course sandtrap, J. W. Jackson finds himself named a prime suspect and sets about identifying the killer from among a horde of developers, golfers, and other potential culprits.
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