Product Description
by Melanie Jackson (Author)
This book is a collection of two Jane Blackthorn historical mystery titles: Death in a High Place1921-- The War is over, alcohol is proscribed and women have the vote. Jane Blackthorn should be happy but the holidays are looming and the young widow has no desire to spend them with her matchmaking family. An invitation from an old college friends arrives to save her. The college ski club is having a reunion at a hunting lodge in Canada and Jane decides that some clean living in the great outdoors is just what she needs. But it is apparent from the moment of her arrival that something is very wrong at the Beauvert Ski Lodge and she is shocked to discover that one of her old classmates is dead in a suspicious accident. Trapped by a blizzard, they are at the mercy of a killer that no one else believes in and it is left to Jane to save the day.Death in a Low PlaceFire, Nevada is a town barely clinging to life and it is there Jane Blackthorn goes to hide from her family as she waits for her wedding day. Her beloved Uncle Jack is distracted by troubles at the silver mine. He and his partner are being pressured to sell to an Arizona conglomerate and the mine is being plagued by accidents which the men blame of the tommyknockers. Jane doesn't believe that the accidents are supernatural in origin but can she and her college friend, Bea Childe, prove it before the situation turns fatal?Death in Taigh MhorMarry in haste and repent in leisure, or so the old saying goes. Jane is not unhappy in her own marriage but a friend from college, a young heiress, had stumbled into a dark relationship which could end up costing her life. Jane is summoned to Taigh Mhor by a desperate letter talking of malicious spirits and strange accidents. She arrives to find that the unpleasant situation has come to a sinister pass. All her wits will be needed to save her friend from the local evil that wants to see her dead.Christmas in a Cold PlaceJane Blackthorn is going her best to cope with a plum pudding thief who is vexing her first Christmas in merry olde England
