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Coming March 2009
Unknown Name, Unknown Number:
A Wimsey Reade Mystery

coming March 2009

The Sammy Series

Sammy: Arenamania

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Book 7: Sammy gets the chance to play real arena football. Will he leave his family and work in a lurch to do it, or will his better sense prevail? Guess. Read Chap. 1 here. See ITL review here.

Wimsey Reade moves to the posh Old England Retirement Village for some peace and quiet after her highly publicized divorce from a CEO now under indictment. But the day after her arrival, an old woman is inexplicably murdered. And suddenly it appears that Wimsey is the next target.

Coming July 2009:
Sammy: In Principle

coming July 2009

Book 8: Dallas Police Detective Sammy Kidman is not pleased when he gets a woman partner. But then he picks up a piece of trash that changes his life. . . .

Previous Sammy books are below--
but new readers can jump into the series at any point!

Sammy: On Vacation

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Book 4: Sammy's ready to get away from the big city for a nice, quiet, restful week of fishing. Riiight. Read Chapter One here. See In the Library review.

 Sammy: Dallas Detective

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Book 1: What happens when the Irresistible Cop meets the Immovable Force? Read Chapter One here See In the Library review.

Sammy: Little Misunderstandings

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Book 5: Sammy tries to do the right thing. He really does. Why does it always come back to bite him in the behind? Read Chapter One here. See In the Library review.

Sammy: Women Troubles

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Book 2: Sammy has to deal with a lot of women who all want something from him. Read Chapter One here. See In the Library review.


Sammy: Ghosts

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Book 6: Sammy's ex-wife accuses him of killing her best friend in college while driving drunk. But it was so long ago, he doesn't remember. Read Chapter 1 here. See ITL review here.

Sammy:
Working for a Living

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Book 3: Sammy thinks he's going to get a safe, mature job for a change. Oh, boy. Read Chapter One here. See In the Library review.

In researching Sammy, Robin toured the Dallas fifth-floor jail where Lee Harvey Oswald was held. See that tour here.

Now Available!
The Idecis

Also Available:
a new 2nd edition of Padre AND its sequel, His Strange Ways

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Space-station anthropologist Cassandra Uland crash-lands on a planet whose population reveres a mysterious box that has terrible powers. No one knows where it is, however, until Cassandra discovers it in the cave of an outcast who is widely believed to be a cannibal. See Chapter 1 here. See ITL review here.

Padre. New York copywriter Royce Lindel travels to Big Bend, Texas, for a vacation with two friends. The last thing she's looking for is love--or a challenge to rethink her whole life. . . . Read Chap. 1 here. See In the Library review here.

His Strange Ways. Royce has grown tired of life on the ranch and left Paul. When he goes to Fort Worth to try to find her, he receives the most unlikely help from reclusive billionaire Fletcher Streiker. Read Chap. 1 here. See In the Library review here.

See "Questions to Help You Get the Most out of His Strange Ways" here,
and the answers here.

The Annals of Lystra

The 20th Anniversary Edition
of
Chataine's Guardian
with new material and
very special illustrations

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Book One: The book that started it all. . . . Surchatain Karel assigns a guardian to protect the life of his ten-year-old daughter, the Chataine Deirdre. His name is Roman. . . . Read Chapter One here. See In the Library review.

The 20th Anniversary
Edition of
Stone of Help

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Book Two: When the Chataine Deirdre is kidnapped and sold into slavery, Roman undertakes a futile, heartbreaking search for her, unknowing that her redemption has already been ordained. . . . Read Chapter One here. See In the Library review.

The Streiker Saga

Streiker's Bride

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Read Chapter One here.

Streiker the Killdeer

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Read Chapter One here.

The 20th Anniversary Edition
of
Liberation of Lystra
(first published as
High Lord of Lystra)

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Book Three: Roman decides to personally address the brewing threat of supernatural evil in a northern province, and Deirdre chooses to go with him, whatever the cost. . . . Read Chapter One here. See In the Library review.

Streiker's Morning Sun

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Read Chapter One here.

A reclusive Dallas billionaire proposes marriage to a lowly bank teller. Accepting his offer would enable her to pursue her dream of dance, but there's one catch: she has to accept or reject him without ever seeing him.

See the "Questions to Help You Get the Most out of Streiker's Bride" in the Reader Feedback section.
See the Answer Key to those questions here.

See the study questions on Streiker's Morning Sun here, and the answers here.
Streiker makes his next appearance in His Strange Ways.

Robin's only nonfiction work to date, now out of print:

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Sifted But Saved by W.W. Melton, edited by Robin Hardy. This is one of Robin's all-time favorite books--a short collection of timeless "little talks" originally published in 1925. Read Chapter 13 here.

Readers browsing Amazon can consult the Complete Robin Hardy Reader here. For a behind-the-scenes look at Robin's works in progress,
see her
Amazon blog.

Our Robin did not write The Wicker Man, Cowboys for Christ, Don Juan,
The Crisis of Desire
, The Dawn of Immortality, Call of the Wendigo,
or The Killer's Club.

For other great books, see Robin's Reading List.

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