Camille Mariani: 10 books

Camille Howland Mariani, retired college public relations director, journalist, and newspaper editor, is the author of several magazine articles, as well as the SUNY Canton College history, Seventy Years of Change. Having turned to writing fiction, she previously published Lucille's Lie. The Maine...

A wedding ring with a curse from long ago, a honeymoon in cold Florida, a militia group led by a delusional general with plans for revolution these highlight the first month of married life for Astrid and Abram.

On the day Dee Poore announces the closing of her rehab camp, ending its ten-year operation, she accepts an invitation to speak at a health forum in Fairchance. There she meets an old acquaintance, Natalie Burke, and accepts the offer to serve as temporary reporter at the local newspaper. Soon Dee...

ABRAM'S PUZZLE Abram's idea of a good joke is to wait until he completes the jigsaw puzzle he is working on before posing the question of marriage to Astrid. The more serious question becomes whether either of them will live to see that day. Astrid finds herself at the center of a killer's...

Pandora Piper, better known as Dora, longs for hope in her hum-drum life. She retires to Hope Haven, Florida, believing that its very name suggests the quality of life she seeks. And for her, hope would surely be realized if she could find the right man, preferably a wealthy man. After she meets,...

On the day that Ed Ingel is shot to death in his home, Dr. Karl Graham and his secretary, Daisy Winslow, start out for a weekend environmental conference in Montreal, only to end up in a crash on a northwestern Maine country road. While the search for Ingel's killer in Fairchance unearths more than...

Journalist Sheldon Merrill is assigned to cover a farm fire which destroys one of northern New York's showplace farmsteads. Added to this loss is the discovery of a woman's body, not a victim of the fire but of a murderer. While the killer remains at large, Sheldon is intrigued by an eccentric...

A top newspaper position in the peaceful Maine city of Fairchance appeals to Beth Armstrong as ideal. But she soon learns that reporting has a dark side when she must photograph the slashed body of a young woman, found on the golf course. Two more similar muders panic local residents, who demand a...

The prospect of nearly a week on a Maine island with fellow newspaper staffers and spouses appeals more to Astrid than it does to Abram. She believes it will be a well-earned respite from work for everyone. However, at the annual Fairchance College Fourth of July fair, a drowning ends festivities,...

Introspective Astrid Thorpe sees herself as too tall, too loud and too outspoken, and is resolved to change. As she begins a reporting position in Fairchance, she buys an old Sears model house that needs restoration. For that work, she engages Abram Lincoln. However, in finishing up another job ,he...