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UNCERTAIN VOYAGE
Originally published in 1967...With a broken marriage and a nervous breakdown barely behind her, Melissa sails for Europe, reluctantly and absolutely on her own. When a
strange traveler urgently asks her to deliver a book to a secret address, Melissa apprehensively agrees – much against her better judgement. Actually, she’s half hoping she’ll
forget the entire unsettling incident and will find the book still packed away when she finally returns home.
But Melissa is unable to completely dismiss the episode. She realizes she’s been followed to Copenhagen, Paris and even into Majorca, where she’s to deliver the package –
should she be so uncharacteristically bold. As free-floating anxiety turns to terrified dread, and her life is endangered, Melissa discovers something extraordinary about herself,
something she might never have suspected….
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CLAIRVOYANT COUNTESS
This book was originally published in 1975. I have read this story at least 4 times over the years. Madame Karitska has a style all her own, a rare blend of psychic power, an
exotic past, and an uncanny gift for common sense.
But when a chance encounter with Detective-Lieutenant Pruden of the Police Department catapults her into the midst of a seamier side of life, she must use all her resources to
keep danger at bay
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A NUN IN THE CLOSET
Originally published in 1975. From the moment Sister John and Sister Hyacinthe set out to explore the huge old house left to their abbey by a mysterious benefactor, their
cloistered world begins to crumble. First there's the wounded man hiding in an upstairs closet. Then there's the old, battered suitcase stuffed with money, sitting at the bottom
of the well -- not to mention the apparitions in the night or the white powder they find in the pantry's sugar jars that doesn't taste like sugar at all....
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A NEW KIND OF COUNTRY
Published in 1978 and again in 1979. This is an autobiographical book about Ms. Gilman. After her divorce she decides to move to Nova Scotia and describes her transition
from raising two children to living alone and enjoying it. Gets into a lot of philosophy. Kind of a slow read in some places but on the whole you get a sense of where the
characters in her books come from.
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THE TIGHTROPE WALKER
First published in 1979. This book is wonderful as well. I have read it at least 3 or 4 times. "They're going to kill me soon" is what the note said that shy Amelia Jones found in
an old hurdy-gurdy. Armed only with the strange woman's first name and the note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past, where nothing is the way it
seems, where fear is second nature, and where dark secrets just might uncover murder.......her own.
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INCIDENT AT BADAMYA
Published in 1989. The story centers on a recently orphaned white girl, Gen Ferris, in Burma during the 1950's. Her father was a widower and a missionary. After her father's
death she sets out on her own in the middle of a war to reach a relative in the U.S. Along the way she is captured along with others and held for ransom. And with this group of
fellow captives she meets a mysterious Burmese puppet master who holds the secret to her mystical gifts
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CARAVAN
This book was originally published in 1992. It is set in North Africa during the 1914. The time is pre-World War 1 and Caressa Horvath, a 16-year who comes from a carnival
family, is an expert juggler and pickpocket. She has been sent to a private school in Boston to satisfy the mother who is determined to make her a lady. Ever impoverished,
Caressa makes an ill-judged attempt at theft that introduces her to wealthy linguist-anthropologist Jacob Bowman. He marries her, and soon after they leave on an exploratory
mission to Africa -- first to Tripoli, then across the Sahara. The expedition, through hostile Tuareg country, ends in disaster; but it is only the beginning for Caressa. She is
taken captive and spends the next harrowing years fighting to survive enemies and the desert. Finding friends, finding love - only to discover betrayal on her return to
civilization.
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THALE'S FOLLY
Published in 1999. Andrew Thale, son of stuffy corporate V.P. Horace, has been asked by his father to look over the property in Massachusetts that Horace has inherited, In
the absence of a will, from his reclusive aunt Harriet Thale five years before. Horace has been paying taxes on the empty house and its 25 acres ever since and is now thinking of
selling or developing the property. Andrews, author of two well-received novels, is in a creative limbo and has, in desperation, been writing the newsletter for Meredith
machines the family business. He dutifully departs in a company car for the remote, potholed road that leads to the Thale farmhouse, which lacks heat electricity and phone but
is far from empty. Living there in contented penury are the strays Harriet Thale collected before her demise; elegant Miss L'hommedieu, housekeeper-cook Gussie; passionate
Marxist Leo, and beautiful young Tarragon. Andrew gets yet another surprise when he discovers his mother, who'd left Horace seven years ago, living happily in a cottage on
the property. There are more odd twists in store for Andrew, the arrival of his father, the discovery of a hidden mill, but most important, the rediscovery of his creative self.
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KALEIDOSCOPE
Published in 2002. When a brilliant young violinist dies a horrific accident, Madame Karitska has only to hold the victim's instrument in her hands to perceive the shocking
truth. But when an insecure wife asks whether her husband will abandon her to join a sinister cult, Madame Karitska - as wise as she is lovely - chooses not to reveal all that
she foresees. And when an attaché' case is suddenly dropped into her lap by a man fleeing a crowded subway, she knows it's time to consult her good friend
Detective-Lieutenant Pruden.
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