Böcker av Elizabeth Farlin

A Christmas journey by train...A mysterious lady in red...A vanishing woman...Tad Fowler has recently sold his programming business and plans to spend the holiday with family. Now supplied with ample money and leisure for a slow trip by train from Los Angeles to New York, he hopes to spend the trip daydreaming and reading mystery novels - and reconsidering his solitary, work-obsessed life.A chance meeting aboard the train derails Tad's hope for a quiet, reflective journey. The woman he meets, Quinn Shepherd, immediately captures his imagination. He discovers that Quinn is the traveling companion of her wealthy friend, Aubrey Borden-who has confined herself reclusively to her cabin. When Aubrey vanishes, Quinn comes to Tad for help. Together they face a real-life mystery: how can a woman vanish from a moving train?

A land of myth and legends. . .A world out of balance. . .And a last hope to heal an ancient pain.Cleona Willow is more than ready for college. Though it means leaving her best friend Brian behind, studying in Ireland is her dream. She longs to explore the land her grandmother knew so well, but leaving Brian is harder than she would like to admit.Two worlds collide when a necklace left to Cleona by her grandmother magically pulls her and Brian to Terratalam, a world apart from their own-and a world out of balance. It rains nearly every day, the crops barely produce, and kingdoms wage war. The Great Tree, Terratalam's fabled life force, was destroyed so long ago that only stories and legends remain.Navigating the secrets of the past and their growing feelings for each other, Cleona and Brian must unite the mythical Foll Stones and heal the land. If they fail, what will become of Terratalam-and what will become of them?

Romance, Kidnapping, and Murder...Will a young Irish lawyer unravel the secrets or die trying?Conor Dolan, a young Irishman, travels to Chicago in 1903 to visit his older brother; instead, he finds a mystery. His journey sparks a quest to peel away secrets and rediscover a dead sibling he idolized but never really knew as he strives to learn the true meaning of brotherhood.His search reveals an Irish Republican plot to assassinate a visiting British royal. In the process, he is drawn into an alliance with two women: a mesmerizing Jewish widow and a struggling young Irishwoman. Each teaches Conor existential truths of life and love in her own way.But the brother he finds may not be the brother he remembers. A Long Way from Clare is a story of Chicago's early twentieth century immigrants and one man's struggle with both bigotry and justice in an unforgiving city where no good deed goes unpunished.Will Conor find the answers he desperately craves? Or will this trip punch a one-way ticket?