books by Morag Joss

books by Morag Joss

books:

Morag Joss

Morag Joss

Delta, 2007

That Summer
An unhappy middle-aged woman, estranged from her family, goes home after many years for her father's funeral. While putting his effects in order, she recalls the long-ago summer of 1960, when she was a reckless, dreamy 15-year-old. Piece by piece, memory by memory, we ...

The Night Following

Morag Joss

Delacorte Press, 2008

haunting complex psychological thriller
The woman is stunned to learn her spouse the handsome doctor is having affair. Distracted as she drives a winding back road, she fails to notice the woman on a bike in front of her as she comes out of a turn. The driver hits sexagenarian Ruth Mitchell, but instead of ...

Die Roten Wasser Von Bath
Morag Joss

Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf. GmbH & Co, 1999

Half Broken Things

Morag Joss

Delta, 2006

The world will not just go away
This has been one of my most satisfying reads. Morag Joss' Half Broken Things won the 2003 Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger Award, and it definitely deserves it. This is an expertly-written, tightly-plotted thriller whose characters will linger in the mind for ...

Fruitful Bodies (Sara Selkirk Mysteries)

Morag Joss

Dell, 2005

terrific psychological thriller
In Bath, internationally renowned cellist Sara Selkirk plays Dvorek on stage when she notices in the audience the pink suit. Her first cello teacher Professor Cruikshank, who tutored her back in the late 1970s at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, is attending her ...

Fearful Symmetry (Sara Selkirk Mysteries)

Morag Joss

Dell, 2005

delightful mystery
At the Oxfam store in Bath, septuagenarian Imogen Beven puts out an old fur piece for sale. Animal rights activists Anna Ward-Partigan and Bren kick up a fuss to get it removed from the shelf. Imogen tells the irate duo to leave. As they do he says he will get even ...

Funeral Music (Sara Selkirk Mysteries)

Morag Joss

Dell, 2005

Death in Bath
The classic detective story differs from the police procedural in that the characters tend to be part of a small interconnected group, and the artificiality of this device in Morag Joss' hands is obvious. There is also a trendy upper-middle-class aura which is rather ...