Deborah Adams: 17 books

Aliens...paranoid old ladies...demonic possession...haunted houses...you name it. Fledgling nanny Janet Ayres can't quite believe this nutty Southern enclave or the hectic disarray that reigns in her employer's antebellum mansion, which also serves as a secret shelter for victims of domestic violence....

Waggish tales of dogs, Christmas, and murder—by sixteen of today's best-loved crime novelists! A temperamental Yorkie provokes Yuletide mayhem at an English country house . . . A puppy forgotten in Santa's bag helps quell a coup at the North Pole . . . During a snow-white Christmas, a Portuguese...

Welcome back to Jesus Creek, Tennessee -- this time as seen through the eyes of Police Chief Reb Gassler as he tries to solve the brutal murder of a real angel, Patrice Gentry, nurse at the retirement center and wife of the community's newest tom cat. Along the way, Reb deals with the eccentric town...

Only a serial killer could upstage Miss Tennessee at the St. Patrick's Day bash. Book three of the Jesus Creek series mixes comedy, mystery, and murder with a Southern setting. Waitress, poet, and purveyor of cosmetics, Kay Martin reluctantly adds sleuth to her list of professions when a serial killer...

First there's the spectacular blaze that totals the antebellum home of genealogist Oliver Host. Then the appalling murder of librarian Estelle Carhart, a lady too softhearted even to collect fines for overdue books. Delia Cannon, a library volunteer and something of a genealogist herself, suspects...

They don’t make goddesses like they used to…. For eons they ruled, but modern times have been rough on the ancient deities— their temples collapsed, their worshippers wandered off, and their purposes were made redundant by industry and technology. And the Fates aren’t finished with...

People keep disappearing from Twin Elms Inn, and innkeeper Kate Yancy must cope with a beauty-queen chambermaid, a religious-fanatic cook, a handful of eccentric guests, and a yard full of reporters. As the tiny town of Jesus Creek prepares for a Sesquicentennial celebration, murder becomes...

After the disastrous Northfield Raid, Jesse James began a new life in Tennessee. The man known to those in the Plant community as Mr. Howard was kind, generous, and timid. When the circuit preacher couldn't make it to town, Jesse sometimes preached the sermon. Once in a while, he may have ridden over...

Collected stories of murder and mayhem by Flair and Macavity Award-winning author.

For Meredith Bradley, Jesus Creek's most successful businesswoman, life has been no bed of roses, even though she's the proprietor of the Back Door Florist shop. While other Jesus Creekers are partying at the grand opening of her daughter-in-law's New Age tea room, Meredith Bradley is murdered. Who...

Prepare for a successful career in medical assisting! Kinn’s The Medical Assistant, 12th Edition helps you learn the real-world administrative and clinical skills essential to working in the health care setting. Administrative coverage ranges from professionalism and interpersonal skills to billing...

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront...

Lower Richland County encompasses approximately 360 square miles in the heart of South Carolina�s geographic center. The Wateree River cradles it to the east, and the Congaree River borders the south and southwest. Virginia settlers discovered this rich land over 250 years ago. They became wealthy...

A growing body of neuroscience research has established the principle of neuroplasticity; a powerfully hopeful message that we can use our minds to change our brains in the direction of greater health and well-being. The key to shaping this change rests in how we direct and focus and our attention....