Shadows on the Ivy, Lea Wait
Shadows on the Ivy, Lea Wait
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Shadows on the Ivy
An Antique Print Mystery

Author: Lea Wait

Narrator: Celeste Lawson

Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2005

Synopsis

Maggie Summer’s life is full. She has three loves in her life: her antique print business, her career as a community college professor, and the new man in her life. She loves using the antique prints to illustrate her lectures on American cultural history.When a special dormitory is built for single parents and their children, Maggie is thrilled to become the faculty advisor to the young parents—until one of the young mothers is poisoned. There is a killer on campus, but is it an outsider or someone Maggie knows and trusts? Does someone want to destroy Whitcomb House or the college? As always, Maggie finds the answers to her questions in the antique prints she knows and loves. And this time, torn between her own needs and those of her students, the most important discoveries Maggie makes are about herself.

About Lea Wait

Lea Wait comes from a long line of antique dealers. The single adoptive parent of four Asian daughters adopted as older children, she is now married and lives in Maine where she runs an antique print business and writes the Maggie Summer series as well as historical novels for young readers. Her debut mystery, Shadows at the Fair, was nominated for an Agatha Award.

About Celeste Lawson

Celeste Lawson is an Earphones Award winner and Audie Award nominee. She is the recording studio director for the Talking Books Program at the Library of Congress’ National Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. She was a dancer and an actor before finding her niche in the intriguing, challenging, and extremely satisfying world of narration. In Silver Spring, Maryland, where she lives with her husband, daughter, and cat, she practices yoga and continues to dance. Celeste has also recorded for Blackstone Audio under the name C. M. Hébert.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Missi on January 11, 2020

I cannot get enough of the Antique Print Mystery series by Lea Wait !! I fell in love with Shadows at the Fair, the first book in this series and was hooked when I read the second book, Shadows on the Coast of Maine and now after reading the third book, Shadows on the Ivy, I am a CRAZED fan !! In Sha......more

Goodreads review by Marilyn on April 18, 2020

Shadows on the Ivy by Lea Wait has protagonist Maggie Summers, a community college teacher and seller of antique prints on weekends, facing a problem in a dormitory on her campus set up for six single-parent students and their under-5-year-old children. One of the six has been poisoned at a faculty-......more

Goodreads review by SCH on February 11, 2022

I enjoyed this 3rd book in the Maggie Summers series for reasons similar to the first two books: the descriptions of antique prints at the beginning of each chapter and the insight into Maggie's antique print business. This story is set at the college where she teaches American History and I appreci......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 02, 2021

My lovely nephew, who is not (YET) a mystery reader for this for me for Christmas such is the ONLY reason I finished it. It had such promise: A vaguely cozy set-up (antique print dealer teaching college in a small town on the East Coast) combined with a more up-to-date premise (said college creates......more

Goodreads review by Ann on March 21, 2018

Maggie Summer is an antique print dealer but her main job is as a professor teaching art at a local college. Maggie is also a faculty advisor to a small group of students living in single family housing. One of the students falls ill at a faculty party and ends up in a coma and then her roommate is......more

Quotes

“Wait’s knowledge of antique prints and American culture will entertain and educate readers.” Publishers Weekly

“Maggie is an extremely attractive protagonist. Descriptions of her antique prints head each chapter and have engaging connections to the content.” Booklist

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