Jill Churchill (1943–2023)

Autor/a de Grime and Punishment

48+ obres 6,474 Membres 127 Ressenyes 11 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Jill Churchill (born Janice Young Brooks) on January 11, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned a degree in education from the University of Kansas in 1965 before teaching elementary school. Between 1978 and 1992, she was book reviewer for the Kansas City Star. She published several historical mostra'n més novels under her real name before introducing a new series in 1989. This mystery series follows Jane Jeffry, a widow with three children in Chicago. With her neighbor and best friend, she gets involved in murder cases. The novel titles are puns on literary works and reflect Jeffry's cozy domestic life which she leads between crime-solving episodes. Churchill is the winner of the Agatha and Macavity Awards for her first Jane Jeffrey novel and was featured in Great Women Mystery Writers in 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

Inclou aquests noms: Jil Churchil, Jill Hurchill, Amanda Singer, Jill Churchill, Jill Churchill, Jlll Churchlll, Janice Y. Brooks, Janice Young Brooks, Janice Young Brooks

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Sèrie

Jane Jeffry

Grace and Favor Mysteries

Lady of Fire

Obres de Jill Churchill

Populars Recent

Grime and Punishment (1989) 418 exemplars

A Farewell to Yarns (1991) 344 exemplars

Anything Goes (1999) 330 exemplars

A Quiche Before Dying (1993) 308 exemplars

The House of Seven Mabels (2002) 305 exemplars

Bell, Book, and Scandal (2003) 305 exemplars

Mulch Ado About Nothing (2000) 292 exemplars

The Merchant of Menace (1998) 286 exemplars

Fear of Frying (1997) 284 exemplars

A Midsummer Night's Scream (2004) 284 exemplars

War and Peas (1996) 283 exemplars

A Knife to Remember (1994) 279 exemplars

In the still of the night (1999) 279 exemplars

The Class Menagerie (1994) 278 exemplars

Silence of the Hams (1996) 275 exemplars

From Here to Paternity (1995) 275 exemplars

Someone to Watch Over Me (2001) 274 exemplars

A Groom with a View (1999) 269 exemplars

It Had to Be You (2004) 245 exemplars

The Accidental Florist (2007) 228 exemplars

Love for Sale (2003) 219 exemplars

Who's Sorry Now? (2005) 202 exemplars

Guests of the Emporer (1990) 37 exemplars

Lady of Fire (1980) 24 exemplars

Oriana (1981) 22 exemplars

Seaflame (1980) 19 exemplars

Cinnamon Wharf (1988) 18 exemplars

Crown Sable (1987) 17 exemplars

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2012) 11 exemplars

Seventrees (1981) 10 exemplars

Mistress of the Night (1985) 8 exemplars

Nightfire (1986) 7 exemplars

Kings and Queens: The Plantagenets of England (1976) 6 exemplars

The Circling Years (1986) 5 exemplars

In Love's Own Time (1977) 5 exemplars

Our Lives, Our Fortunes (1984) 4 exemplars

Forbidden Fires (1980) 3 exemplars

Glory (1985) 3 exemplars

Christmas From the Freezer 3 exemplars

The Herron Heritage (1992) 2 exemplars

Anything Goes / In The Still of the Night / Someone to Watch Over Me / Love for Sale 1 exemplars

Season of Desire (1986) 1 exemplars

The Glass Menagerie 1 exemplars

Unti Churchill #18 (2016) 1 exemplars

The House of Seven Mabels (Jane Jeffry Mysteries, No. 13) (2003) 1 exemplars

Home & Freezer Digest: July 1977 1 exemplars

Home & Freezer Digest: May 1978 1 exemplars

Still the Mighty Waters (1983) 1 exemplars

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Obres associades

Malice Domestic 5: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 80 exemplars

エンドウと平和 (創元推理文庫) (2001) 1 exemplars

Etiquetat

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Coneixement comú

Nom oficial: Brooks, Janice Young
Altres noms: Singer, Amanda
Churchill, Jill
Vayle, Valerie
Brooks, Janice Y.
Data de naixement: 1943-01-11
Data de defunció: 2023-07-12
Gènere: female
Nacionalitat: USA
Llocs de residència: Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA

Membres

Ressenyes

Who's Sorry Now? (Grace & Favor Mysteries, No. 6) de Jill Churchill

Sort of scattered mystery in small town Depression era New York. American born German arrives in town after fleeing Nazis. He is target of hate crimes but the murder of railroad porter seems unrelated.

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ritaer | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Jun 28, 2023 |

A Groom with a View (Jane Jeffry Mysteries, No. 11) de Jill Churchill

Invited to plan a wedding, Jane and her friend Shelly, discover that there is supposedly a treasure on the grounds of the hunting lodge venue. The elderly seamstress is murdered with no suspect and no apparent motive. The bride hesitates but consents but the groom is murdered. Rather confused.

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ritaer | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Jun 25, 2023 |

Kings and queens : the Plantagenets of England de Janice Young Brooks

5VPWUAEN

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Mustygusher | Dec 19, 2022 |

From here to paternity : a Jane Jeffry mystery de Jill Churchill

Standard mystery, ditsy women, lots of over-explaining their thoughts. Off the wall premise: Jane is helping to watch the other's children at a ski resort? Yet she hardly spends time with them. Jane's boyfriend is along but we rarely hear what he is doing, other than "spending time with the boys" unless she needs to ask him to use his connections to get info. Has a weak Native American storyline connection.
Obviously this isn't my usual genre, & I would never have picked it up except it came boxed with 9 other audio tapes, some of which I wanted.… (més)

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juniperSun | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Feb 7, 2022 |

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