Marne Davis Kellogg Books In Order

Lilly Bennett Books In Publication Order

  1. Bad Manners (1995)
  2. Curtsey (1996)
  3. Tramp (1997)
  4. Nothing But Gossip (1998)
  5. Birthday Party (1999)

Kick Keswick Books In Publication Order

  1. Brilliant (2003)
  2. Priceless (2004)
  3. Perfect (2005)
  4. Friends in High Places (2007)
  5. The Real Thing (2013)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Insatiable (2001)

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Marne Davis Kellogg Books Overview

Bad Manners

Running back home after news of her affair with a politician leaks out, Lilly Bennett starts up her own international security consulting business and finds her first client in a murdered head of a ranching dynasty. A first novel. National

Curtsey

Lilly Bennett, the irrepressible high society sleuth featured in the acclaimed debut novel Bad Manners, investigates the murder of a German baroness at a luxury ranch in Wyoming, frequented by a diverse group of suspects.

Tramp

By turns audacious and lionhearted, tender and vulnerable, Lilly Bennett doubles as a U.S. marshal and Wyoming’s most persistent P.I. Decked out in Chanel pumps and St. Laurent suits, Lilly fights crime with the best of the boys but she never lets you forget that she’s a lady through and through…
. Ninety year old Cyrus Vaile is the most lecherous rogue in town not to mention the wealthiest. A longtime patron of the arts, Cyrus has just donated a whopping $20 million to the local repertory theater. But the money has inexplicably vanished, and Cyrus wants Lilly to help him find out where it went. At first Lilly steers clear of the scandal. But when Cyrus drops dead right in the middle of his own birthday party, all clues point to murder. Now Lilly must stage an investigation of her own and find out who really dropped the final curtain on Cyrus Vaile.

Nothing But Gossip

Finally, Lilly Bennett’s long suffering mother can breathe a sigh of relief and reap the rewards of her finely honed party planning skills by throwing the wedding of the century! Lilly and her dashing suitor, Richard Jerome, are just a week from the altar. Except that where Lilly Bennett, Marshal of Bennett’s Fort, Wyoming, and President of Bennett Security, her own private investigations firm, is concerned, that might as well be a lifetime. And sure enough, it’s at a prewedding party that the first shooting occurs. The victim is the hostess herself, Alma Rutherford Gilhooly larger, louder, and brassier than life, but also richer than Croesus who is found in her dressing room with a bullet in her head just moments after Lilly has left the room. Suspects abound from Alma’s philandering husband, golf pro turned businessman Wade Gilhooly, to charismatic televangelist Johnny Bourbon, to hunky white hunter Kennedy McGee, to Alma’s own half sister Mercedes, now president and CEO of Rutherford Oil, and Alma’s chief rival in a bitter proxy fight. To muddy the waters and give Lilly a bunch of prewedding headaches that have nothing at all to do with getting cold feet each one of these suspicious characters seems to be sleeping in beds where they have no business being. So what’s the motive business or pleasure? It takes three more attempted murders and all of Lilly’s investigative powers before the villain is caught, just in time for the wedding!As always, Marne Davis Kellogg’s character portraits are devastatingly on target and deftly amusing, her mystery is scrupulously plotted, and her sense of place immaculately portrayed.

Birthday Party

Lilly Bennett would no more think of going out without her Glock . 26 than without her pearls. A hard boiled P.I. with a touch of class and a federal marshal’s badge, Lilly knows the darkest secrets of Wyoming’s most glittering citizens…
. Clay Parker’s exit from this world was less than dignified: The former cowboy movie star was shot to bits over dessert at a deadly dull charity dinner. His Las Vegas funeral was no more dignified but a whole lot more entertaining, with a two dozen showgirl salute and an appearance by Wayne Newton. Parker was the spokesman for an unpopular family owned land company that’s carving chunks out of Wyoming’s wide open spaces. And he’s only the first to die, plunging Lilly into a case as messy and full of homicidal loathing as only a family can be…
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Brilliant

Meet Kick Keswick, an elegant and self possessed American who has been at London’s venerable Ballantine & Company Auctioneers for over thirty years. She is an expert on paintings, furniture, and objets d’art, and so far has lived a perfectly happy life with things on her mind other than love. In fact, Kick rarely lets anyone into her private world. She prefers it that way. She adores her elegant, cozy London flat, her books, her music, her delicious meals, and her jewels. Kick doesn t need a man in her life, messing things up. But when American industrialist, scoundrel and womanizer Owen Brace grabs the faltering Ballantine & Company in a corporate takeover, he turns Kick’s world upside down, opening her eyes to large scale love, romance, and sensuous pleasure. But something tells Kick that Brace’s motives are anything but sincere. And when he gets near enough to threaten Kick’s closely guarded life, Brace learns the dangers of underestimating this woman. From sophisticated London to cozy Provence, France, Brilliant is a playfully delicious novel of suspense, masterful revenge, and secrets the multi faceted kind.

Priceless

Kick Keswick has lived an extraordinary life. For twenty five years she was the power behind the throne at a venerable London auction house and a master jewel thief. Stealing only from those who deserved it, of course. That changed when she fell in love with Commander Thomas Curtis of Scotland Yard and retired to Provence to live respectably, cushioned in beautiful food and wine. But now, someone is stealing irreplaceable jewels from Paris to Portofino and using Kick’s signature techniques. To make matters worse, Thomas has disappeared with her secret cache of precious stones. It looks like someone is trying to lure Kick out of retirement, and perhaps Thomas is involved. With Marne Davis Kellogg’s trademark descriptions of fabulous places, wonderful food, and the ultimate in luxurious living, Priceless is a delicious summer treat

Perfect

Despite her best intentions, Kick Keswick international jewel thief, fabulous dresser, gourmet cook, and woman about town finds herself drawn into the glamorous, dangerous world of jewels and the people who covet them…
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It should have been the start of a Perfect sojourn in Provence. Kick Keswick had just settled down to warm chocolate souffl with a decadently rich Grand Marnier sauce and a small glass of Armagnac when she receives startling news: the personal jewels of the Queen of England herself have gone missing, and she wants Kick to get them back. Most of the world knows Kick as an expert in jewels and antiquities, having been the right hand at Ballantine & Company Auctioneers in London, but others know Kick as the world’s finest jewel thief, a woman who can stand out in a crowd at will, but who can also blend in when she wants to. So the chase is on, in a race that takes her from Provence to Paris, London, St. Moritz, and Milan and puts all her wiles and talents to the test as she faces a thief whose skills match her own. And with Kick Keswick on the case, there will be trouble afoot of the multifaceted kind.
With sophistication, wit, and insider details, Perfect is a madcap adventure that takes you on a quest for the things that make life worth living or at least worth talking about.

Friends in High Places

Kick Keswick, once a jewel thief living an exciting double life, has now retired in simple luxury to the south of France. But when an old enemy resurfaces, threatening to expose the countless fake jewels Kick had carefully substituted during her years of secret theft, she is ready to act.

Back in London, Kick finds herself with more employment than she bargained for at a company whose status is much more precarious than she d thought. Her enemy, in disguise, circles ever closer. And a young nun comes to Kick with a mysterious jewel encrusted figurine and a story of greed and murder.

To balance on this high wire, Kick must sneak into an upper crust wedding in the Italian Alps, break into an ancient castle owned by a very modern murderer, and do it all with her customary panache, style, and grace. Can she keep one step ahead of the most seductively ruthless foe she’s ever encountered?

Insatiable

A sweeping novel of suspense and intrigue played out against the glamorous playgrounds of the rich; starring a beautiful and mysterious woman who leaves a path of death and destruction in her wake. Jacqueline du Fidelio is a portrait painter with an international reputation and a dark secret in her past. Loyal only to her butler, closest friend, and confidant, the snobbish, neurotic, and completely amoral Nigel Weatherby Smith, Jacqueline is fiercely independent until it comes to affairs of the heart. Her penchant for toxic romantic involvements draws her to the worst kinds of men from the rakishly unreliable and very married Ryder McCormick, her mother’s former lover who has enthralled her since childhood, to Armand Weil, a debonair, fabulously wealthy art dealer who sweeps her off her feet, promises to take care of her forever, and deserts her at the worst possible moment. Junior Hammond, the sybaritic, obese, and uncultured heir to the Hammond oil fortune, finally succeeds in winning her hand in marriage. But like Jacqueline’s other liaisons, the romance is soon wrapped in deadly shadows as members of the Hammond family begin to die in mysterious ways whenever Jacqueline is on the scene. Is Jacqueline the innocent victim of careless, uncaring men and circumstances beyond her control, or is she a dangerous manipulator, ruthlessly using her lovers to ensure her own survival? Does her apparent fragility actually mask a cold, lethal core, an Insatiable need to prove her invulnerability?Taking readers from the lush hunt country of Virginia to New York City’s glamorous art world, from the winter wonderland of Aspen, Colorado to the treacherous mountains of Nepal, Insatiable builds to almost unbearable suspense. It is only in the stunning final pages that we discover the terrible secret that haunts Jacqueline and may have turned her into a killer.

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