Francie (Francine) LeVillard is the great-granddaughter of Francois Le Villard, the renowned detective who was with the Deuxieme Bureau in Paris and who worked closely with Sherlock Holmes a century earlier. (The space in the last name was dropped by her grandparents when the arrived on this side of The Big Pond.) Francie got her chops as a professional investigator while working in television news on the East Coast. Distressed by the decline in journalism, she sought a change of venue and moved to a station in Sacramento. She discovered she had jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Her...

Francie LeVillard is the great-granddaughter of Francois Le Villard, the renowned detective with the Deuxieme Bureau in Paris who worked closely with Sherlock Holmes a century earlier. Francie got her professional start on the East Coast, working in television news. But after ten years in the biz, during which time she picked up a number of prestigious awards for her journalism, Francie decided that she'd had enough of the style-over-substance attitude that plagued the mainstream media. So she moved to a small house on a high bluff overlooking the Pacific, just south of the Carmel Highlands....

Francie LeVillard is the great-granddaughter of Francois Le Villard, the renowned detective with the Deuxieme Bureau in Paris who worked closely with Sherlock Holmes a century earlier. Francie got her professional start on the East Coast, working in television news. But after ten years in the biz, during which time she picked up a number of prestigious awards for her journalism, Francie decided that she'd had enough of the style-over-substance attitude that plagued the mainstream media. So she moved to a small house on a high bluff overlooking the Pacific, just south of the Carmel Highlands....

Phillip Hewes left a good teaching job in a wealthy area on the Maryland Eastern Shore because it was too comfortable. He accepted a position teaching English Lit at Lassen Community College in Redding at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley. He soon discovered -- first to his considerable dismay and then to his awe-struck delight -- that the real reason he had crossed the country had little to do with teaching college students.

The Selected Writings of Tony Seton included a screenplay, a novel, a book review, and essays dating back as far as 1994. All except for the book review are fiction.

Jennifer is an original screenplay by Tony Seton. It's the story of a social studies teacher from Santa Morino who is name one of the three top teachers in the country. When she goes to the White House to receive the award, she confronts the president with the concerns of her students, and suddenly finds herself in an important new job and a new world.

This is the sixth volume of mysteries featuring Franice LeVillard, the world's finest consulting detective since Sherlock Holmes. In these stories, Francie deals with an editor whose ego knows no bounds, a pair of terrorists in the witness protection program, a murdered radio talk show host, and....

When acclaimed photographer David Thoreau returns to Northampton, Massachusetts to visit his parents and autograph books, he is in a time of transition in his life. That transition is accelerated when out of the corner of his eye, he spots Lauren Stacey. When he sees her again, he rushes out to meet her, not knowing why, but that she is "compelling." It's the beginning of a new life for him. And for her.