These novels appeared on nation-wide bestseller lists and are considered groundbreaking in the field of romantic suspense, which she helped innovate. The fourth book in the series, Just Enough Light to Kill, was named by Time Magazine as one of the best crime novels of 1988.Īnn and Evan (writing as Ann Maxwell) have published four suspense novels, the most recent of which is Shadow and Silk. The second book, The Frog and the Scorpion, received a creative writing award from the University of California. Maxwell crime novels, featuring couple Fiddler and Fiora faced with mysteries in the shade of sunny southern California. In 1985, Just Another Day in Paradise, was published by Doubleday. The book was later condensed in Reader’s Digest and published in four foreign editions and three book club editions. Maxwell) collaborated with a Norwegian hunter and photographer, Ivar Ruud, on The Year-Long Day, a nonfiction work about Ruud’s life as a trapper and hunter in the Arctic Circle. Since then, seven of her nine science fiction novels have been recommended for the Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Award A Dead God Dancing was nominated for what was then-called TABA (The American Book Award). Writing as Ann Maxwell, she began her career in 1975 with a science fiction novel, Change. These novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense. There are 30 million copies of these books in print, as well as reprints in 30 foreign languages. And the closer they come to finding the coveted pearls, the closer they come to danger and death.and to each other.Individually and with co-author/husband Evan, Ann Maxwell has written seventy novels and one work of non-fiction.

With deadly competitors on their tails, Archer and Hannah race through uncharted waters in search of the fabulous Black Trinity. And at his side in pursuit of the stolen fortune is a woman he shouldn't want, yet cannot resist.a woman who may know more than she's telling about her husband's death.and more than is safe to know about the dark and elusive black pearls. But when Hannah McGarry calls in an old debt Archer is back in the game. That life taught him to trust no one but family.

He might help her.if the price is right.Īrcher Donovan would rather forget he'd ever heard of Pearl s memories of living on the dark side, the soul-numbing certainty that there was no law, no justice, no mercy just hunters and the hunted. Desperate, she calls Archer Donovan, a silent partner in Pear Cove, her late husband's pearl farm venture. Surrounded by potential enemies, Hannah McGarry faces the mystery of her husband's suspicious death, the prospect of bankruptcy.and the disappearance of the fabulous Black Trinity necklace that was to be her financial security. Pearl Cove (Donovan, Book 3) Elizabeth Lowell Mass Market Paperback

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