books written by
ELIZABETH DANIELS SQUIRE...

THE LIZ READER: A Collection of the Shorter Works of
Elizabeth Daniels Squire
Overmountain Press, 2002
hardcover - ISBN 1-57072-227-7
paperback - ISBN 1-57072-228-5
This compilation of fiction and non-fiction by the late Elizabeth Daniels Squire is comprised of short stories, poetry, newspaper columns, and, of course, writings on Liz's interest in palm reading. Edited by her husband, the collection includes some pieces which have never before been published, along with tributes from Margaret Maron, Anne Underwood Grant and many others. To ORDER, click here | Read Excerpt

Forget About Murder
G K Hall & Co, August 2003
New Large Print Edition- ISBN 1-587-24605-8
Berkley Prime Crime, February 2000
Mass Market Paperback - ISBN 0-425-17343-7
Mountain moonshine and a hidden passion provide clues as Peaches Dann, the absent-minded sleuth, continues to solve murders using memory tricks. One hero of this book is a dachshund, modeled after the real dachshund in need of a home that Liz acquired from Friends for Animals.
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Where There's a Will
G K Hall & Co, August 2003
New Large Print Edition- ISBN 0-786-2524-6

Peaches's friend Marietta and seven of her relatives have come into an inheritance that's made them all millionaires--several times over. But even money has its price, and their eccentric uncle Hiram's will includes very specific requirements for the inheritance of any heir who dies within the year. A strange provision for a young and healthy bunch--or is it? When two are dead within months, Marietta calls on Peaches's sleuthing skills.
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Whose Death is It, Anyway?
Overmountain Press, August 2001
Hardcover - ISBN 1-57072-192-0
Trade Paperback - ISBN 1-57072-193-0
A beautiful young cousin disappears and her look-alike is found stabbed. Lines from the hand prints of artist, Salvador Dali, and other greats are clues to murder as Peaches Dann's cousin Fern from California teaches her how to read hands.
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Remember the Alibi
Overmountain Press, September 2000
Hardcover ISBN 1-57072-114-9
Paperback - ISBN 1-57072-130-0
Thorndike ME: G K Hall & Co. 2000
Large Print Edition ISBN 0-7838-8858-9
Peaches discovers that a serial killer who preys on the elderly has targeted her rich and rambunctious father who refuses to believe that he could be in danger. Suspects include the wife of a gun-crazy mountaineer who runs a doll hospital, a history professor who tries to teach Peaches some shocking medieval memory systems, a phoney seer, and a music teacher with a Cadillac--just for starters.
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Is There a Dead Man in the House?
Wheeler Pub, Large Print Edition, February 2004
ISBN 1-587-24606-6
Berkley Prime Crime, February 2000
Mass Market Paperback - ISBN 0-425-16142-0
My absent-minded sleuth Peaches Dann, who's become a memory expert, is fascinated that restoration folks can help recover the "memory" of a house. This "memory" helps spark modern murder and helps solve it. A skeleton, not actually in the closet, but under the floor and buried in 1849, has surprising repercussions in today's Tennessee.
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Who Killed What's Her Name?
Alexander Books, 2000
ISBN 1-57090-092-2
Thorndike Books, 2000
Large Print Edition, ISBN 0-7838-8497-4
In which Peaches Dann begins writing How to Survive Without a Memory, and solving murders with her memory tricks. Meanwhile her aunt is found dead in her father's fish pond in a dress exactly like the one Peaches has on.
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Memory Can Be Murder
G K Hall & Co, 2000
Large Print Edition, ISBN 0-7838-9408-2
A flatlander cousin tells Peaches Dann she's scared here in the mountains. With good reason, it turns out because a body shows up stuffed in a laundry bin. And that's just the first. The highlands of North Carolina turn out to be a dangerous terrain as Peaches has to deal with rattlesnakes, a crazy fanatic, an eccentric Broadway actress, her son who believes in curses, a sneaky marijuana farmer, and Peaches' own reckless father. She never-the-less manages to write a chapter about how to find things in her book: How to Survive Without a Memory, and finds a killer.
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Kill the Messenger
Thorndike Books, 2000
Large Print Edition, ISBN 0-7838-8856-2
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Isaiah Justice, owner and publisher of a small-town newspaper called The Defender, is dead from cyanide poisoning. His death makes the front page of his own newspaper and becomes the focus of an investigation by the paper's top reporters.

Non-fiction:

La Fortuna Nella Vostra Mano
Rome: Astrolabia, 1969

Anthologies:

Magnolias and Mayhem
edited by Jeff Marks, Short Story: "Ode to a Dead Gardenia" (Silver Dagger, June 2000)

MURDER THEY WROTE II
edited by Beth Foxwell. (Berkley Books, February 1998) Short Story:
“In Memory of Jack”.

DEADLY WOMEN: The Woman Mystery Reader’s Indispensable Companion
edited by Jan Grape, Dean James and Ellen Nehr. (Carroll & Graf, 1998) Article: “The Older They Get”
Malice Domestic 10: An anthology of stories by ten years worth of Agatha winners. (Avon 2001)

DEATH DINES AT 8:30
edited by Nick DiChario and Claudia Bishop, Short Story:
“A Passion for the Cook” (Berkley Books, 2001)