Helen Haught Fanick: 10 books

Short stories with hopeful endings have always been favorites of Helen Haught Fanick, and her own stories are no exception. Her protagonists usually discover at the end that with effort, situations can change and life can improve. The young girl with a chance to go to college sees many obstacles,...

Short stories with hopeful endings have always been favorites of Helen Haught Fanick, and her own stories are no exception. Her protagonists usually discover at the end that with effort, situations can change and life can improve. The young girl with a chance to go to college sees many obstacles,...

Retirement is a time for knitting, gardening, and an occasional quiet lunch with friends, according to Kathleen Williamson.  Her sister Andrea has an altogether different point of view.  When the sisters go to the Canaan Valley to search for paintings mentioned in a document found in an old hotel...

The town of Pine Summit is so quiet it seems that nothing exciting could ever happen there. Yet when Andrea Flynn and her sister Kathleen are around, murder and mayhem are the order of the day. It’s lucky for the locals that the sisters enjoy investigating, because Andrea has a logical mind that’s...

Isabelle Montaigne is looking forward to a weekend ski trip to the Potomac Highlands, but things get off to a bad start when the tour bus slides off the highway in a blinding snowstorm. This is only the precursor of worse disasters; after finally struggling through the snow to reach the lodge, Isabelle...

This short story is about Drucilla, a unicorn with a sassy attitude, and Brendan, a young man badly in need of assistance. Can the two of them come to terms, when she doesn’t particularly enjoy the traditional unicorn task of helping humans, and he doesn’t believe in unicorns? A washed-out...

Frank Novak’s life is a hectic procession of events, since he’s the foremost neighborhood watchdog in San Gabriel, Texas. He thinks at times that things couldn’t get any worse for him, but he’s wrong. His wife is finding a Holy Roller preacher way too attractive, his camping trailer is stolen,...

Susie is a pit bull terrier who’s eleven years old, good-natured, and a fugitive from the law. Her owner, Denise Lansing, doesn’t think she has a problem when the city of San Gabriel, Texas, passes a law banning pit bulls. After all, Susie has impeccable manners and stays indoors or in the backyard...

Frank Novak’s life is a hectic procession of events, since he’s the foremost neighborhood watchdog in San Gabriel, Texas. He thinks at times that things couldn’t get any worse for him, but he’s wrong. His wife is finding a Holy Roller preacher way too attractive, his camping trailer is stolen,...

Susie is a pit bull terrier who’s eleven years old, good-natured, and a fugitive from the law. Her owner, Denise Lansing, doesn’t think she has a problem when the city of San Gabriel, Texas, passes a law banning pit bulls. After all, Susie has impeccable manners and stays indoors or in the backyard...