Michele Carter: 5 books

Charlotte Brontë, author of 'Jane Eyre', spent most of her life concealing a secret. Like a wizard or magician, she could conjure thousands of anagrams in her mind and then hide them inside the pages of her writing. At first, this talent was a playful novelty in her childhood, but as she...

Virginia waited excitedly for the elevator door to open. Today was her first day as an associate lawyer at the firm Rippling, Steele, Abs, and Loins. The elevator door opened, and she stepped inside, about to start a new adventure. Now that Virginia has a job, she is determined to forget about...

On the moors of Northern Yorkshire, like some Gothic victim in a Brontë novel, lies Danny Cowan’s corpse inside the ruin of a farmhouse. A bloody gash on his forehead suggests the notorious drunk fell, but Lucy Owens, who found the body, believes he was murdered. The police are bent on discouraging...

Aidan Malone was born in Kilcormac Ireland in 1905 when the cry for an independent Ireland peppers public and private conversations. Work is scarce, and the violent uprisings against the British army force many sons to emigrate to America. Aidan is one of those young men, but he willingly embraces...

SHADES OF WAR is a historical fiction set in a small mining town in British Columbia during World War I. Clare Tate, a thirty-one-year-old war widow and suffragist from Toronto has barely unpacked her bags when she becomes embroiled in a murder mystery that involves the female members of a troubled...