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Sarah Stewart Taylor Judgement of the Grave
St. Martin's Press 08/2006 0-312-94016-5 / 9780312940164 paperback / softcover 336 pages, 4 x 6 3/4
While most travel to Concord, Massachusetts to relive America's Revolutionary past, Harvard professor Sweeney St. George has come looking for a different sort of history. An expert on funerary art, she roams the local cemeteries, fascinated by the macabre carvings of a celebrated stonecutter and hero of the Revolution-a project that takes a strange turn when a man dressed in a uniform of 1775 is found murdered in the nearby woods.
With police suspecting that the victim may be a missing Cambridge scholar who had been researching the very same historical figure as Sweeney, the investigation draws her in. Now, searching for clues in the weathered stone markers of the dearly departed, and with the help of a precocious twelve-year-old boy and Cambridge police detective Tim Quinn, Sweeney St. George closes in on a 230-year-old enigma-and a desperate killer without remorse.
A Sweeney St. George Mystery, No. 3
About Author
SARAH STEWART TAYLOR is the author of two previous mysteries that feature Sweeney St. George, including the Agatha Award finalist O' Artful Death. She lives with her family in Vermont.
Reviews & Awards
"A tale that will keep you reading...a complicated plot with many twists and turns, red herrings awaits the reader...talented Sarah Stewart Taylor writes a well-constructed tale with realistic characters set in a well-drawn background."-Newmysteryreader.com
"Unlike a number of mystery writers who seem to have been reared on television and forget often that a setting must be described, Taylor gives the reader a real sense of what Concord and its graveyards look like. And enough false leads appear to keep the reader guessing and reading on." --Washington Times
"Well-paced and well-plotted, with plenty of twists and revelations...[a] complex, interesting, historically-flavored novel...a nice, tight puzzle."-Iloveamysterynewsletter.com
"Pull up an overstuffed chair and drift away." -Chicago Tribune
"Seductive...poignant." -Mystery Lovers Bookshop
"Engaging...[a] richly textured tale."-Publishers Weekly
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Sarah Stewart Taylor Mansions of the Dead
St. Martin's Press 06/2005 0-312-98595-9 / 9780312985950 paperback / softcover 320 pages, 4 x 6 3/4
Sweeney St. George concedes that having lunch in Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery might be a bit macabre. Yet the graveyard fits her interests as an art professor with a specialty in cemetery statuary and mourning jewelry. And although she doesn't yet realize it, this historic burial ground is one of the last places on earth her favorite student, Brad Putnam, scion of a famous Boston family, sees before someone murders him.
Because of her expertise, the Boston police ask Sweeney to help them track down the antique jewelry found with Brad's body. Her investigation soon leads to chilling information about the influential Putnams, an earlier death, and Brad's secrets. Complicating everything is her attraction to Brad's rakishly charming older brother Jack. Now, Sweeney St. George is about to walk a dark and dangerous path...where passion can be dangerous and where a killer waits.
About Author
SARAH STEWART TAYLOR, an avid gravestone buff, is a freelance journalist in Vermont. Her debut novel, O' Artful Death, was a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best First Novel.
Reviews & Awards
"Taylor's on sure footing when she focuses on graveyard art, Victorian burial sites, and mourning brooches."-Kirkus Reviews
"Taylor shows us without missing an exciting beat just how much our world has changed in the past century."-Chicago Tribune
"Taylor's is one of those mystery series where readers are educated as well as entertained...Mansions of the Dead is agreeably tricked out with red herrings and jarring switches in mood: Just as readers settle in for an academic cozy, the atmosphere changes, and disaster that has the coarse feel of reality intrudes."-Washington Post
"Spooky séances, ouija boards, nights spent cavorting in Mount Auburn Cemetery, and mourning jewelry made of human hair take center stage in Mansions of the Dead...a story of grief and remembrance, and its pleasures include the explication of the 'cult of mourning' that overtook America in the wake of the Civil War, and grief as we experience it today."-Boston Sunday Globe
"With three possible love interests for Sweeney and strong secondary characters, this is very compelling reading. The graveyards, antique shops and historical societies of Boston and Newport are artfully sketched, and the invisible social boundaries of both cities are well drawn."-Romantic Times
"Sarah Stewart Taylor has written an exciting mystery featuring characters that are so easy to like...the heroine...is spunky, sweet, and sparkling, and readers will want to read more books featuring this dynamic character."-Midwest Book Review
"An intelligent tale, leaving readers begging to know more."-Booklist
"This moody, atmospheric novel will appeal to fans of darker cozies."-Publishers Weekly
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Sarah Stewart Taylor O' Artful Death
St. Martin's Press 2004 0-312-98594-0 / 9780312985943 paperback / softcover 288 pages, 4 x 6 3/4
Sweeney St. George looks nothing like a university Professor with her unruly red curls and preference for vintage clothing. Single and wary of relationships, she pours her energy into her college teaching and a passionate interest in cemetery art. And now Sweeney is intrigued with a macabre graveyard statue of a beautiful woman-a carving that is at once astonishing, sinister, and perhaps hiding a one-hundred-year-old murder...
Dying to find out more about the strange monument, Sweeney heads for a winter holiday among friends at a mansion in Vermont's historic Byzantium Art Colony. Her plan is to snoop in dusty archives and tromp through the tiny cemetery where the statue still stands. But what Sweeney finds in this isolated rural community is an emotional awakening, a chilling link between old and new crimes...and a clever killer reaching for her with deadly hands.
About Author
Sarah Stewart Taylor, an avid gravestone buff, is a freelance journalist in Vermont. Her great-grandmother belonged to a New Hampshire arts colony. This is her first novel.
Reviews & Awards
"Taylor does a lovely job of setting an atmospheric scene and luring us inside." -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
"A strikingly atmospheric debut. The writing is crisp and the characters all quite forcefully alive, especially Sweeney." -Denver Post
"[O' Artful Death] rings subtle--and enormously satisfying--changes on the venerable tried-and-true." -Newsday
"An elegantly wrought first mystery with layers within layers like carved ivory balls...Rich and rewarding reading."-Booklist
"A nicely puzzled plot, a closely confined rural setting, remarkable characterizations, and eminently readable prose." -Library Journal
"(Taylor) has an eye for the details of rural New England . . . Pull up an overstuffed chair and drift away." -The Boston Globe
"A compelling mystery about a dark subject. One can hope she'll bring Sweeney for more sleuthing."-Sunday Oklahoman"
"An academic cozy set in rural Vermont's Byzantium, a bygone artists colony replete with a Victorian mansion, rumors of murder plots past and present and a surfeit of oddballs marooned there for the winter."-Publishers Weekly
"Pithy assessments of the Pre-Raphaelites, Tennyson, and Victorian mores, along with Christmas-card pretty scenes of winter in Vermont."-Kirkus Reviews
"I could not put it down . . . Sweeney is a very human and appealing protagonist, and Sarah Stewart Taylor has a lovely, lyrical style. O' Artful Death will be one of the year's best first novels." -Deborah Crombie, author of And Justice There Is None
"Literate and lyrical, O' Artful Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor is a stunning debut novel. Art Historian Sweeney St. George, Taylor's protagonist, is quirky, appealing, and intelligent. O' Artful Death vaults Sarah Stewart Taylor into the select company of Amanda Cross and Jane Langton."-Carolyn Hart, author of Engaged to Die
"Sarah Stewart Taylor's debut mystery is an absolute delight. Sweeney St. George is the most intelligent, erudite, and sympathetic narrator to grace the academic mystery genre since Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler, and Taylor's complicated and multilayered plot is the perfect vehicle for her."-Ayelet Waldman, author of A Playdate with Death
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Sarah Stewart Taylor Still as Death
St. Martin's Press 09/2006 0-312-33742-6 / 9780312337421 hardback 320 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
Art history professor Sweeney St. George is in the middle of putting together an exhibit on her specialty, "the art of death," for the university museum when she makes an unusual discovery: A valuable piece of Egyptian funerary jewelry that should be in the museum's collection seems to be missing. Searching for answers, Sweeney learns that a student intern at the museum was the last person to check out the piece, a young woman who died of an apparent suicide soon after she handled the piece, more than twenty-five years ago.
Going on with the exhibition without the intricately beaded Egyptian collar, Sweeney can't let it drop altogether. Nor can she forget the student, Karen Philips, who died just a few months after working with the piece. A little digging shows that Karen was working at the museum the night it was robbed, that same year, and Sweeney becomes even more curious. But her interest in mysteries past pales when a present-day murder brings Sweeney and her colleagues at the museum under the Cambridge Police Department spotlight in the person of Detective Tim Quinn, whom Sweeney has worked with before.
In the latest installment in this rich and fascinating series, Sweeney and Tim go after a killer, trying to resolve questions both immediate and decades-old before it's too late.
About Author
Sarah Stewart Taylor is the author of three previous Sweeney St. George mysteries, including the Agatha Award finalist O' Artful Death. She lives with her family in Vermont.
Reviews & Awards
"The best yet in one terrific series. Taylor's vibrant gem of a tale seamlessly weaves funerary art and romantic dilemmas into a challenging puzzler. Sweeney St. George is a heroine you'll root for!" ---Edgar Award finalist Julia Spencer-Fleming, author of All Mortal Flesh
"Sweeney has to solve more than one mystery in this richly textured tale involving complicated family histories stretching back to the days of the Minute Men." ---Publishers Weekly on Judgment of the Grave
"Ms. Taylor gives the reader a real sense of what Concord and its graveyards look like. And enough false leads appear to keep the reader guessing and reading on." ---The Washington Times on Judgment of the Grave
"The well-written Mansions is not simply a good story, it's bolstered by interesting, well-researched insights into an artistic specialty well suited to murder." ---Chicago Tribune on Mansions of the Dead
"Taylor's is one of those mystery series where readers are educated as well as entertained.... Mansions of the Dead is agreeably tricked out with red herrings and jarring switches in mood: Just as readers settle in for an academic cozy, the atmosphere changes, and disaster that has the coarse feel of reality intrudes." ---The Washington Post Book World on Mansions of the Dead
"Pull up an overstuffed chair and drift away." ---Chicago Tribune on O' Artful Death
"A strikingly atmospheric debut. The writing is crisp and the characters all quite forcefully alive, especially Sweeney." ---Denver Post on O' Artful Death
"Taylor does a lovely job of setting an atmospheric scene and luring us inside." ---Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review on O' Artful Death
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