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A War of Her Own is a compelling World War II historical novel, set in Orange, Texas, in 1943, about a Texas version of Rosie the Riveter in search of happiness. In the summer of 1943, Orange, Texas, is a sleepy little town overrun with tens of thousands of new workers. With jobs galore at the wartime shipyards, the workers are rich with cash and looking for a good time. Bea Meade, mother of an infant son, finds her life shattered when her phi...

In this fourth Sidra Smart mystery, Sid takes a bumpy road trip with her Aunt Annie. In the meantime, Boo Murphy - an old swamp-rat who prefers to spend time in her pirogue, hunting and fishing, to spending time with people - is pulled into a strange world when she discovers a deserted brush-hut deep in the bayou.The discovery leads to Boo deeper and deeper into a clandestine effort to resurrect a cultural site for the Atakapa-Ishak natives. B...

Sidra Smart's search for an elusive pirate schooner stirs up a bayou bonanza of treasure hunters, smugglers, and the spirits of the infamous Jean Lafitte and his pirate queen, Mary Anne Radcliff.New P.I. Sid Smart, ex-preacher's wife, is back for another puzzling case, as she tackles the strange tale of Boo Murphy, who has just been accused of murder. When Boo tells a tale of stumbling on the Hotspur, Lafitte's privateering schooner, half-buri...

Rookie P.I. Sidra Smart thinks she knows where she's headed. But when Sid's second case requires that she clear the name of a dead man, she finds herself confounded by clues that lead nowhere. She will have to face a baffling series of crimes, a burned-out office, the disappearance of a local preacher's wife, and the recurring suspicion that answers lurk in the alligator-infested bayous and murky swamps of the Texas/Louisiana border region. To...

Sidra Smart, fifty years old, is not your ordinary P.I.A recently divorced preacher's wife, Sid knows next to nothing about running the private-detective business she's inherited from her brother. But her first client bursts in with vague flashbacks of a grisly thirty-year-old murder.In Dance on His Grave, Sid plunges into a surreal world of passion, deception, and murder. The story takes place in and around Orange, Texas, in the borderlands w...

Old houses...do they celebrate happy times with us? Do they hurt when we hurt? Or do they have their own stories to whisper in the night, their own dark secrets to hide?In this fifth book in the award-winning Sidra Smart Mystery Series, slightly psychic private investigator Sidra Smart has a new female client who has inherited not one but three mysterious Victorian houses in Hot Springs, Arkansas.The moment Sidra walks into the Painted Ladies,...

A War of Her Own is a compelling World War II historical novel, set in Orange, Texas, in 1943, about a Texas version of Rosie the Riveter in search of happiness. In the summer of 1943, Orange, Texas, is a sleepy little town overrun with tens of thousands of new workers. With jobs galore at the wartime shipyards, the workers are rich with cash and looking for a good time. Bea Meade, mother of an infant son, finds her life shattered when her phi...

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In this latest Sidra Smart mystery, Sid takes a bumpy road trip with her Aunt Annie. In the meantime, Boo Murphy - a cranky old swamp-rat who prefers to spend time in her pirogue, hunting and fishing, to spending time with people - is pulled into a strange world when she discovers a deserted brush-hut deep in the bayou. The discovery leads Boo deeper and deeper into a clandestine effort to resurrect a cultural site for the Atakapa-Ishak nativ...

Sassy Southern, Classy Cajun, by Sylvia Dickey Smith, is a "Good Times" cookbook by the author of the Sidra Smart mystery series. It includes 87 recipes, featuring a mouth-watering assortment of favorite southeastern Texas regional foods. Categories include appetizers, breads, breakfast recipes, desserts, main dishes, and vegetable dishes. Recipes include: . Red Grape & Broccoli Salad . Southern Hot Milk Cake . Swiss Chard & White Beans . Ap...

Dance On His Grave is a strong start to the Sidra Smart mystery series. Sid is a compelling character, a woman who lived a sheltered life until she decided she wanted out of a controlling relationship and is now determined to start her life anew. . . . A female baby-boomer as a private eye is a fresh addition to the mystery genre, even more appealing, one with intelligence and maturity. Sid's Aunt Annie is a likeable, albeit quirky character, ...

Move over Stephanie Plum and Annie Darling. There's a new sassy sleuth on the scene and boy, is she a firecracker! After escaping decades of confinement as a preacher's wife, Sidra Smart returns to her sleepy East Texas hamlet to take over the reigns of her dead brother's "Third Eye" detective agency. Just when she starts to get her bearings, her office burns to the ground and her apartment is yanked out from under her. Sidra has no alternativ...

Sidra Smart's search for an elusive pirate schooner stirs up a bayou bonanza of treasure hunters, smugglers, and the spirits of the infamous Jean Lafitte and his pirate queen, Mary Anne Radcliff. New P.I. Sid Smart, ex-preacher's wife, is back for another puzzling case, as she tackles the strange tale of Boo Murphy, who has just been accused of murder. When Boo tells a tale of stumbling on the Hotspur, Lafitte's privateering schooner, half-b...

Drowning in the lack of identity beyond the one assigned by her preacher-husband, Cynthia wonders whether she should stay in the relationship, but before she can decide, events force her to flee. If she goes far enough fast enough, those back home will have to deal with the chaos they created. Deal with it or go to hell in their sanctimonious handbaskets. Until a phone conversation leaves her with even more difficult choices.

A War of Her Own is a compelling World War II historical novel, set in Orange, Texas, in 1943, about a Texas version of Rosie the Riveter in search of happiness. In the summer of 1943, Orange, Texas, is a sleepy little town overrun with tens of thousands of new workers. With jobs galore at the wartime shipyards, the workers are rich with cash and looking for a good time. Bea Meade, mother of an infant son, finds her life shattered when her p...