Nancy M. Wade's books
Genres: Cosy Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
Reunions are supposed to be fun and a time to celebrate memories and friendships, but not when murder and betrayal intrude as unwanted guests at the Meadowood High School 15-year Class Reunion. The victim is unknown to all but her killer. Who is she? What can Meredith Gardner do when her own husband becomes the prime suspect? Jealousy and passion clash with greed and betrayal. Can Meredith trust her former beau, Bryan Kirkland? The years have changed him; he's not the person she remembers. There's more at stake here than learning the identity of a dead woman. Meredith (Merry) is a busy wife and mom who always finds time for community projects, leading a cub scout troop or taking care of her many Avon cosmetic customers. Meredith’s cheery, positive and can-do attitude carry her through dire circumstances; especially when dead bodies keep dropping on her doorstep. Amateur sleuth, Merry once...
Genres: Cosy Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
Meadowood has a new mystery and it’s just in time for the holidays! Strings of miniature sparkling lights adorn tree branches and hang across the entrance to the holiday pavilion. Christmas carolers try to enhance the holiday mood, but it was murder in the air, not friendship and goodwill. What can Meredith Gardner (busy housewife, mother, cub scout den leader, and community activist) do when suddenly her new friend plus the local sheriff both collapse after drinking cups of poisoned mulled cider? Suspicion and fear run rampant in the town of Meadowood as local businesses are burglarized and everyone becomes a suspect. Newly promoted Chief Deputy Sheriff Doug Gardner butts head with his stubborn wife as she inserts herself into his murder investigation, risking her own life. With the help of her gal pals, Merry sets out to prove his prime suspect innocent while laying a trap for the serial...
Genres: Cosy Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
Snowed in for Christmas… with a killer from the past. Christmas in Clarkstown means twinkling lights, steaming mugs of cider, and the warmth of family and friends gathered at the historic Magnolia Blossom Inn. Maddie Brooke has planned the perfect holiday—complete with heirloom ornaments, a tree trimming party, and just enough snow for postcard charm. But when a blizzard rolls in, the inn’s guests are snowbound … and one carries a secret that could shatter more than the holiday cheer. Claire Jennings arrives looking for the mother who abandoned her as a baby, armed only with a name from long ago. What Maddie doesn’t know is that Claire’s search will stir up ghosts—both the kind that haunt the living and the kind who don’t stay politely in the past. With her ghostly grandmother warning of a second, darker spirit stalking the inn, and tensions rising among the snowbound guests, Maddie...
Genres: Cosy Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
Two sleuths. One scandal. A son accused of murder. Maddie Brooke expects a full house at the Magnolia Blossom Inn, but not a murder suspect. When Meredith and Sheriff Doug Gardner arrive in Charlottesville for their son Johnny’s UVA campus visit, everything is on the line: a coveted baseball scholarship and his future. But after a powerful admissions advisor is found dead, Johnny becomes the prime suspect—caught near the scene and tied to troubling evidence. Out of his jurisdiction and out of options, Doug can’t protect his son alone. He butts head with Charlottesville Detective Allen Crawford who is determined to prove Johnny guilty. Meredith turns to Maddie, and together they dig into a tangled web of rivalries, secrets, and a dangerous admissions scandal. As the pressure mounts, Merry and Maddie follow the trail of money and lies, uncovering a truth someone is desperate to keep buried.
Genres: Historical Fiction, Western
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Meet the men and women of the old west where the struggle of the Circle-D Saga began. Gun For Hire tells a story of conflict, love and hate between three families that each built their personal dynasty during the late 1880s in the wild west of Platte County, Wyoming. The third book in the Circle-D Saga follows gunslinger Cody Jarvis in his secret mission to uncover land fraud and counterfeiting in the Wyoming Territory of 1885. His chance meeting with Maggie Dunlap both saves his life and sets him on a path of an unknown future desperately trying to win her love and prove his worth. Will he succeed in his quest or will fate deal him and Maggie a bad hand? Three frontier families become intertwined as Dunlap/Logan/and Hartman family members spread their branches among the pages of Wyoming history. Cody’s adventures encompass Pinkerton agents, bandits, and train robberies...
Genres: Historical Fiction, Western
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Journey with members of the three Saga families "greatest generation" as they fight both a world at war and their own personal wars at home. The Circle-D Saga continues in book two ... follow the Dunlap brothers from their struggling cattle ranch in the plains and rugged mountains of Wyoming to the green countryside of war-torn England where they experience both the thrill and the dangers of serving on the mighty Flying Fortresses of the Eighth Air Force. Their sibling rivalry comes to a head when both brothers vie for the heart of a pretty English WAC. Can Samuel prove himself worthy? Can he measure up to his older, admired brother, Alex? Will tragedy or triumph await them as each man struggles to survive the battles of a world at war? Past conflicts with the sprawling, neighboring Diamond Bar ranch will haunt the young veteran and his new war-bride when...
Genres: Historical Fiction, Western
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Do the ghosts from our past speak to us? Can we right the wrongs committed a hundred years ago? Endless Circle will answer these questions. Andrea (Andy) Dunlap is determined to save her family’s financially struggling Wyoming cattle ranch. She’ll need to summon all her strength as she copes with the loss of her parents in a suspicious plane crash. Was it an accident? Andrea is helped by her childhood friend, Sheriff Jason C. Hartman, as together they become embroiled in murder and treachery while following the clues to solve her parent’s death and uncover secrets from three generations ago. Jason and Andrea discover the path to justice may be found within the writings of Maggie Dunlap, Andy’s great-great grandmother, as they read her remarkable diary and story of survival in this rugged land; the betrayal, heartache and loss she suffered of her own true love. Maggie’s resilient pioneer spirit...


















