Yes, thank you for that picture, becke. I read Marguerite Henry's classic children's book, Misty of Chincotegue, when I was a girl and even named my pony Misty, after the one in Henry's book.
Anyway, that is a very comprehensive list of books featuring sea ports, islands, and vacation spots with a coastline, or prominent beach area. . I was happy to see Charlotte MacLeod's name on the list. Love her Sarah Kelling/Max Bittersohn series! Also, Francine Mathews is the alternate name of Stephanie Barron. That's one of the things I learned when I went to her book signing for Jane and the Canterbury Tale.
Anwyay, here's another book in this genre by an author whose works I really enjoy:
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MMKaye Death in the Andamans
Although Kaye is best known for her novel, The Far Pavilions, she also has a series of much shorter mystery novels. Mystery in Cyprus is one of the other short novels that feature an exotic vacation locale featuring an expanse of water.
Fricka wrote:Yes, thank you for that picture, becke. I read Marguerite Henry's classic children's book, Misty of Chincotegue, when I was a girl and even named my pony Misty, after the one in Henry's book.
Anyway, that is a very comprehensive list of books featuring sea ports, islands, and vacation spots with a coastline, or prominent beach area. . I was happy to see Charlotte MacLeod's name on the list. Love her Sarah Kelling/Max Bittersohn series! Also, Francine Mathews is the alternate name of Stephanie Barron. That's one of the things I learned when I went to her book signing for Jane and the Canterbury Tale.
Anwyay, here's another book in this genre by an author whose works I really enjoy:
1/1
MMKaye Death in the Andamans
Although Kaye is best known for her novel, The Far Pavilions, she also has a series of much shorter mystery novels. Mystery in Cyprus is one of the other short novels that feature an exotic vacation locale featuring an expanse of water.
Here's another book that I enjoyed reading a lot:
1/1
This is one of Talley's Hannah Ives books, set in the Bahamas.
Fricka wrote:
Yes, thank you for that picture, becke. I read Marguerite Henry's classic children's book, Misty of Chincotegue, when I was a girl and even named my pony Misty, after the one in Henry's book.
Anyway, that is a very comprehensive list of books featuring sea ports, islands, and vacation spots with a coastline, or prominent beach area. . I was happy to see Charlotte MacLeod's name on the list. Love her Sarah Kelling/Max Bittersohn series! Also, Francine Mathews is the alternate name of Stephanie Barron. That's one of the things I learned when I went to her book signing for Jane and the Canterbury Tale.
Anwyay, here's another book in this genre by an author whose works I really enjoy:
1/1
MMKaye Death in the Andamans
Although Kaye is best known for her novel, The Far Pavilions, she also has a series of much shorter mystery novels. Mystery in Cyprus is one of the other short novels that feature an exotic vacation locale featuring an expanse of water.
I LOVE these books. I seem to remember that others were set on islands and/or on the coast:
Fricka wrote:
Fricka wrote:
Yes, thank you for that picture, becke. I read Marguerite Henry's classic children's book, Misty of Chincotegue, when I was a girl and even named my pony Misty, after the one in Henry's book.
Anyway, that is a very comprehensive list of books featuring sea ports, islands, and vacation spots with a coastline, or prominent beach area. . I was happy to see Charlotte MacLeod's name on the list. Love her Sarah Kelling/Max Bittersohn series! Also, Francine Mathews is the alternate name of Stephanie Barron. That's one of the things I learned when I went to her book signing for Jane and the Canterbury Tale.
Anwyay, here's another book in this genre by an author whose works I really enjoy:
1/1
MMKaye Death in the Andamans
Although Kaye is best known for her novel, The Far Pavilions, she also has a series of much shorter mystery novels. Mystery in Cyprus is one of the other short novels that feature an exotic vacation locale featuring an expanse of water.
Here's another book that I enjoyed reading a lot:
1/1
This is one of Talley's Hannah Ives books, set in the Bahamas.
I KNEW one of hers was set in the Bahamas but I couldn't remember which one. Thank you! Isn't that a fabulous cover?
Chesapeake Blue (Quinn Brothers Series #4)
A Chesapeake Shores Christmas (Chesapeake Shores Series #4)
Here's some from the area my beach house is in near Assateague.
optic_i wrote:
Hi Becke, Eadie, & Fricka !
Eadie I loved the picture of the horses on the beach !
Fricka your horse's name was Misty , that would be a great name for a beach horse too !
Becke this is great, I am really enjoying all the book suggestions for summer reads !
Optic
Thank YOU for starting the thread!
The Lamorna Wink (Richard Jury Series #16)
Well, most of the ones I could think of were on Becke's list. Of course I love Carolyn Hart's Death on Demand mysteries, which are set on one of the South Carolina Sea Islands (I don't know if Broward's Rock is real or fictional). I see two Henrie O. mysteries listed, and I had remembered that one of them was set in Bermuda.
When my mother went on a cruise along the southern coast, she brought me back two mysteries also set in the Sea Islands. The Nevada Barr novel Endangered Species was on Becke's list, and the other was The Jekyl Island Club by Brent Monahan, which brings in a lot of history of a real-life resort for millionaires, some of whom are characters in the story.
As I recall, my favorite Richard Jury novel by Martha Grimes, The Lamorna Wink, is set on the British coast, where Melrose Plant has rented a house. I don't think it's exactly a beach resort, though.
And, Fricka, I also read Misty of Chincoteague when I was in grade school! My fourth-grade teacher left us partway through the year to take the post of travelling French teacher (in my town, we started French once a week in fifth and sixth grades, so the teacher would go from school to school on different days; the art and music teachers did the same). She had a library of paperbacks at the back of the room that we could read, so when she left, she gave each student a package of several of these books. I guess she knew I liked animals, because I also got The Incredible Journey and Old Yeller, as well as a book about a Candy Striper.
