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Isabel Dalhousie volume 13
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English
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When Isabel Dalhousie and her husband Jamie book a table at an expensive Edinburgh restaurant, she finds herself battling with her conscience. Lately, the care of their young sons, Charlie and Magnus, is often undertaken by their housekeeper Grace. Is Isabel deserving of such a luxurious dinner?In the restaurant, Isabel witnesses a row between local businessmen. Compelled to intervene in the aftermath, Isabel's sense of integrity is observed by a...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Edinburgh basks in glorious, but brief, summer sunshine, and Isabel Dalhousie - philosopher, philanthropist and mother - searches for the perfect birthday present for her husband Jamie. While carefully seeking out a gift, Isabel finds herself at a viewing for an auction, and happens upon an old friend in distress - a friend who decides to unburden herself of her secrets, and to reveal a clue within a painting hanging on the walls of the auction house....
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Isabel Dalhousie volume 11
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Recently distracted by the arrival of her and Jamie?s second son, Magnus, Isabel Dalhousie - philanthropic editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - is anxious. The next issue of the Review is far from ready, her eldest, Charlie, is jealous, and their housekeeper, Grace, has an officious approach to childcare. With some relief, Isabel returns to helping out at her niece Cat?s delicatessen, where surely the most taxing duty is the preparation of sandwiches....
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Isabel Dalhousie volume 14
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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When Isabel is invited to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, her husband Jamie expresses concern about the demands on her time. Never one to duck an obligation, however, Isabel says she'd be happy to join. There she meets a woman named Laura, whose husband and son are at odds, and who asks whether Isabel might arbitrate between them. Isabel is reluctant to intervene in a familial drama; but, always one for practical...
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The Isabel Dalhousie novels volume 40
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English
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Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgemental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies. As the editor of the 'Review of Applied Ethics', she doesn't, of course, allow herself actual enemies, but she does feel enmity - especially...
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Happy with her husband-to-be and beloved son, Isabel Dalhousie has feelings about parenthood that grow more tender daily. So when Jane, a visiting academic, adopted and sent to Australia as a baby, asks for help in tracing her Scottish origins, she cannot refuse.
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Philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is about to find her Edinburgh home life profoundly altered by the birth of her baby. Cat, Isabel's niece, has her reasons for not feeling warmly disposed towards the new arrival. Isabel is nevertheless, as her profession dictates, philosophical about such difficulties.
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