New Release – MIMI – “L’Etoile de Paris”
Mimi was at the peak of her celebrity, but at times, she found it exhausting and wished for her old, simpler life. She was much envied, even desired, by an evil woman who wished to have her for her very own. Mimi was endangered by this person.
Kidnapped, and kept in a form of gilded cage, fed cheese puffs with a drug in their batter, Mimi survived by using her very powerful olfactory gifts and managed an elegant escape.
Mimi returned to her world of fame and admiration and was lauded as the great nasal sleuth of Tout Paris, a true star in the skies over the City of Light.
Mimi. “L’Etoile!” Another cozy mystery to enjoy.
THE COSY MYSTERY SERIES – NOW AVAILABLE
NEW! MIMI TAKES PARIS
By Mimi / Translated by Elizabeth Cooke
The first book in The Mimi Series, titled “Mimi Takes Paris” by Mimi, translated by Elizabeth Cooke, is the start of the adventures of a small black poodle, escapee from a cruel puppy mill, who is rescued by Nicole Marcel, a pretty girl singer in the City of Paris. The two become inseparable.
The little dog has an animal intelligence and a tremendous sense of smell, and proceeds to solve a murder, and other crimes by nasal prowess. Mimi gains celebrity status, as does her PERSON, Nicole.It is a Cozy Mystery like no other!
In book two, titled “Mimi’s Paris Dilemma,” Mimi’s reputation, (and that of Nicole’s), is sullied by an unfair assessment by the public. The little dog slowly regains status by solving other crimes.
Book three, titled “Mimi, L’Etoile de Paris, Mimi, Star of Paris,” continues with her dog sleuthing. She becomes famous once more, is anchor of her own TV show (with Nicole), and has her own clothing line and ‘Mimi’ perfume (for dogs).
Mimi is once again the toast of Paris.
These three books are only the beginning of a series of Cozy Mysteries where the leading detective is Mimi, a canine on four legs, with a formidable sensitivity to scent.
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Shadow Box
by Elizabeth Cooke
Shadow Box is the passionate story of a woman, who as she matures, breaks out of the enclosing case with a glass pane that has displayed her as a sexual object. It describes her expanding awareness, as mores change and women gain newfound self acceptance and strength.
Today, there is not only the glass ceiling of power for a woman to shatter, but the glass box of gender equality to smash, a different dynamic, resulting in the shadow box of sexual submission and repression lying in pieces before her and a life to be truly lived.
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SHADOW BOX Radio Interview
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Abbi’s Forever Home: For Kids
by Elizabeth Cooke
The bond between a 92-year-old widow, her 11-year-old granddaughter, and a half-blind older rescue dog named Abbi, is described in the little dog’s voice. Written for kids – ages 9-12 – with a centerfold of pictures – it is funny, charming, and tells how Abbi, the small poodle, brings a world of love to all three.
Elizabeth Cooke was for 30 years a member of the board of directors of The Bide-A-Wee Home in New York, a no-kill animal shelter complex, with facilities in the city and on Long Island. She has been an animal activist all her life.
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Abbi’s Forever Home:
A Memoir for Two
by Elizabeth Cooke
This is the poignant story of the bond created between a ninety-two-year-old widow who lives alone and an eleven-year-old toy poodle, with one good eye, who is a graduate of a puppy mill. Told in the little dogs voice, it depicts the love and solace they find together and the value of adopting an aging pet to share ones golden years.
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Click To View: THE ROSE TRILOGY
From award winning author, Elizabeth Cooke, comes the Rose Trilogy: A powerful new series that is set in the legendary east end of Long Island.
Violet: The Swelling Tide
by Elizabeth Cooke
Violet, The Swelling Tide — the third and final volume in The Rose Trilogy — provides adventure, intrigue and surprise. Love, lust, and retribution are rampant. Still set on the East End of Long Island, the characters undergo mysterious events and final confrontations, as water surges across the flat landmass that is Long Island, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to Long Island Sound, with lethal force.
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Starfish: The Arbitrary Ocean
by Elizabeth Cooke
Starfish continues the story of Bud and Violet Rose with the baby girl they call Starfish. As Deputy Sheriff of Suffolk County, Bud pursues a drug cartel that plagues the community. Much of the action takes place in Montauk on the southeastern tip of Long Island where the boats come in with their supply not only of fish but also the illegal substance called White Sugar. Throughout the story, the turbulent ocean mirrors the tumult in the lives of the characters.
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Violet Rose: The Encroaching Sea
by Elizabeth Cooke
Violet Rose is the first book in The Rose Trilogy, which is set on the East End of Long Island in a resort town on the East End. The palpable animosity between summer visitor and local resident is vividly depicted.
The ocean itself is a metaphor for the love/hate turbulence in the lives of the characters. They encounter danger and lust. Malevolent storms beset them, both in tempests of weather and anguish of heart as the encroaching sea sweeps across their world.
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Still Life: A Love Story
by Elizabeth Cooke
On a January day in 1927, Paris, Camille de St. Phalle, a young girl of seventeen is approached on the avenue by a prominent painter, aged forty-five, who desires to paint her portrait.
The love story that ensues between the two is passionate, lasting nine years, producing a daughter, but Camille is cut off from family and friends and lives a nearly isolated life because of her choice. A series of startling events occur that bring Camille a fearful realization.
Still Life is based on the true story of Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is an imaginative rendition of what it must have been like for Camille to live in the orbit of an artist the stature of a Picasso.
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The Hotel Marcel Dining Club:
By Invitation Only
by Elizabeth Cooke
Elizabeth, an American widow in her 60s, returns to the Hotel Marcel near The Eiffel Tower, to find Jean-Luc Marcel, the owner of her favorite Paris domicile, at war with The Majestic Hotel directly next door. The elegant dining room, Fusion,at The ‘Maj,’ is losing money and customers, due to Jean-Luc’s bad-mouthing ofthe establishment and its Japanese chef. Or so the manager of The ‘Maj’ claims.
“The Hotel Marcel Dining Club” is formed, in direct competition with Fusion.The rivalry escalates, with an intentional poisoning of a Majestic Hotel client, a roué doctor treating her symptoms, (much to her delight), and the huge success of the Dining Club. Finally, there is a grand opening of a show of paintings by Elizabeth’sartist/amour at a gallery on rue St. Honoré. “The Hotel Marcel Dining Club”shows Paris in all its glory and at its most delicious -(with ‘A Baker’s DozenRecipes For the Emotions’ included at the end of the book). Along with its cuisine,its love of life and life of love, Paris will surely smile again, after the recent horrors,in spite of the barbarity, for it is indomitable.
Vive Paris et Bon Appetit!
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Intrigue at a Small Hotel
by Elizabeth Cooke
Intrigue at a Small Hotel is the 6th book in the series about the fictional Hotel Marcel, near The Eiffel Tower, in Paris. Elizabeth, an American widow in her 60’s, pursues the adventures and passions of friends and strangers she encounters on her regular sojourns to the hostelry of which she is so fond.
In Intrigue, a vindictive woman from her past, tries to steal our heroine’s identity. With the help of people who have come to know and care about Elizabeth, the malicious woman is confounded by a mysterious man who enters the picture and foils her wicked intent.
Filled with suspense and devious schemes, there is laughter and love as well: seduction in a lavish hotel suite, a would-be marriage ceremony in a French chateau, and a surprise ending that leaves the reader enthralled.
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Rendezvous at a Small Hotel
by Elizabeth Cooke
Rendezvous at a Small Hotel is the fifth volume in the exciting series about the Hotel Marcel in the city of Paris near The Eiffel Tower. Elizabeth, an American widow in her 60s, returns to the small hotel, as she does yearly. For her, it is a visit with a purpose to reconnect with her artist lover, Brit, with whom she has lost contact. Her search leads her to the Normandy beaches and the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. In the wake of her pursuit, a number of adventures occur, involving a vindictive Qatari sheikh, a secret wedding, aiding and abetting the planting of illegal Italian grape seedlings at the château of her American friend, La Marquise de Chevigny, and a final rendezvous at the Hotel Marcel.
The City of Light is Elizabeth’s passion to which she is drawn every few months. In the sixth volume, entitled Intrigue at a Small Hotel, Elizabeth is troubled by a malicious woman from the past who seeks to ruin her life. Intrigue will be available in early 2016.
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A Tale of Two Hotels
by Elizabeth Cooke
An exciting finale to Elizabeth Cooke’s small hotel series about the Hotel Marcel in Paris is presented in this, the fourth book, “A Tale of Two Hotels.” Following “There’s a Small Hotel,” Secrets of a Small Hotel,” and “The Hotel Next Door.”
“A Tale of Two Hotels” involves a duel between two hostelries, one simple and diminutive, the other, large and grandiose, side by side on a Parisian avenue. Trouble is compounded when a sheikh’s beautiful daughter sheds her burka. All manner of mischief ensues. Other passions, adultery, a wedding, even attempted arson, take place in the City of Light in the month of May, much to the fascination of the narrator, an American widow in her 60s.
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The Hotel Next Door
by Elizabeth Cooke
Compelling intrigue and characters join Elizabeth, a New York City widow in her 60s, in “There’s a Small Hotel” and its sequel, “Secrets of a Small Hotel” She returns to the small Hotel Marcel, in this, the third of the series. A new, five-star hotel, The Majestic, has been built directly next to the two-star Hotel Marcel, and an intense rivalry between the two explodes. A Qatari sheikh, member of the conglomerate that owns The Majestic, arrives with entourage, including his beautiful daughter who is determined to shed her burka. She does so, much to the outrage of her father, who blames the small hotel next door for harboring her. More drama occurs with new love in the life of the narrator; an extremely merry widow resident of apartment 1 across the avenue; Christmas and New Year’s in Paris; and the continuing duel between Hotel Marcel and The Majestic. A fourth book, A Tale of Two Hotels, is in progress, to be released in the spring of 2015.
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Secrets of a Small Hotel
by Elizabeth Cooke
Secrets of a Small Hotel is the on-going story of adventures taking place in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower, a sequel to the original There’s a Small Hotel, published in 2014. The narrator, an attractive American widow in her 60s, returns to find much has changed, not only in the lives of apartment residents across the street, but within the Hotel Marcel itself. She encounters a deceptive English woman involved in art fraud; a young African-American in search of his father; even a violent murder, partially seen by the narrator from her balcony. She also finds an unexpected and exciting romantic liaison, and witnesses the opening of a grand, new hotel next door, named The Majestic. Secrets of a Small Hotel takes place in the month of May in Paris. The narrator determines to come back again to the Hotel Marcel at Christmas, her adventures to be continued in a new book titled, The Hotel Next Door.
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There’s a Small Hotel
by Elizabeth Cooke
There’s a Small Hotel is a novel set in the Hotel Marcel in Paris near the Eiffel Tower. The narrator, an attractive American woman in her 60s, can see over the treetops from her balcony, a row of apartments, that when lighted from within at night, reveal vignettes of French domesticity, involving love affairs, violent dinner parties, fisticuffs, and the police. She becomes involved with the personalities within the hotel and across the street, and thrills to an unusual and exciting Paris sojourn.
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How To Game People Without Even Trying: A Daughter’s Legacy
by Elizabeth Cooke
In the 1970s, international financier Saul Mammon is king. He’s enigmatic, charismatic, and, one could argue, evil. Nobody plays the game like Saul. His obsessive motivations are practically erotic in nature. He got what he wanted when he wanted it without even trying, but a sensational life lived so precariously on edge can never last.
He was once a young boy in New York, born to a modest family, with dreams of climbing the gilded ladder to riches and fame. He achieves all this and more with direct connection to leaders not only in the United States but also in the Soviet Union, Paris, and beyond. His only daughter, Sara, watches from the sidelines as her father inches ever closer to the world of power and deceit.
Saul’s brilliance and dark side eventually lead to his mysterious death and a rapid coverup. Perhaps it was inevitable that such an ambitious man would fall, but Sara is haunted by questions, most of which will never be answered. Based on a true story, the rise and fall of Saul Mammon shows what happens when ambition turns malicious and when money is never enough.
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A Shadow Romance
by Elizabeth Cooke
The French have a saying that goes something like this: “The most exciting part of a sexual liaison is walking up the stairs.” Elizabeth Cooke, a New Yorker born and bred, graduated Vassar, and the Sorbonne in Paris where she developed a lifelong devotion to art. She is the author of Life Savors, a memoir, and Eye of the Beholder, a book celebrating six particular artists and the women they loved.
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Eye of the Beholder
by Elizabeth Cooke
Eye of the Beholder views six individual acclaimed artists in terms of the women they loved. That love is revealed through their work, and the arc of the relationships can be seen through their various paintings and sculptures.
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Life Savors
by Elizabeth Cooke
With the taste of cold, red salmon roe on a warm poached egg – With the scent of lilacs on a late-spring afternoon – With the sound of “Autumn Leaves” wafting from an open window – With the view of the curve of the earth from an airplane – With the touch of a loved one’s hand – With all of these moments, one knows one is radiantly alive.
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