4 Novels by Virginia Coffman
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Overview: A native of San Francisco, Coffman contributed movie reviews to the Oakland Tribune from 1933-40. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1938 and was a movie and television script writer for Columbia, RKO, and other Hollywood studios in her early writing career (1944-56). She had her first success with writing novels in 1959, when Crown Publishing decided to take a chance on Moura, and the novel was showcased by Library Journal. By the 1980s, Coffman was recognized as "the author largely responsible for setting off the Gothics craze of the 1960s, "earning her the reputation of "Queen of the Gothics."
She quit her day job in Reno and became a full-time writer in 1965. While historical romance novels seldom find their way into the literary canon, Coffman, who was both prolific and dedicated, took her writing seriously. Her research for historical fiction was meticulous. She also drew upon personal experience as a world traveler when setting some of her novels in Hawaii, Paris, and other romantic locales. Several of her historical romances and gothic mystery novels were translated into other languages, and many have been published in large print and audio editions.
She was recognized by Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in the West. She was a member of the Authors League of America and the Mystery Writers Guild of America. The Reno Gazette-Journal featured Virginia Coffman and her sister in a biographical story on April 4, 2002. In 2003, she donated a collection of her gothic mystery and historical romance novels to the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.
Genre: Fiction > Historical Romance > Gothic
Black Heather: House of Vengeance
The Hag’s Head Inn had a reputation for evil that even a modern young woman like pretty Kathleen Bodmun couldn’t deny. And while she didn’t believe in ghosts, Kate had to admit that the abandoned inn, with its history of gruesome murder, was not the ideal place to establish a school for young ladies, But the asking price was certainly low, and besides, Sir Nicholas Everett, the local magistrate, had so infuriated her at their first meeting the she was becoming resolved to purchase the old place just because he disapproved of the idea.
Yet the mor she becamse entangled wit the handsome Sir Nicholas, the more Kate began to wonder why he really didn’t want her to buy the inn. could the rumors be right? Was Sir Nicholas the murderer of the woman who had beeen found slaughtered there twelve years before – the woman who had loved Nicholas but married another man?
Kate was determined to learn the truth, for despite their disagreements, she knew she was falling in love with Nicholas. So she bravely set out to prove the gossips wrong, but instead Kate found herself walking into a deadly trap – marked as the next victim of the vengeful ghost at Hag’s Head Inn….
The House at Sandalwood: "They were warned. The place is cursed. Those who live at Sandalwood cannot escape. You will see."
Convicted of the murder of her sister-in-law, Judith Cameron spent nine years in prison. Now on parole, she is summoned to a lush Hawaiian island to care for her childlike niece, Deirdre, bride of the handsome and imperious Stephen Giles. Judith finds herself drawn to the magnetic young Master of Sandalwood.
Then two violent and mysterious deaths bring new terror into her world. This time Judith discovers that not only her heart but her life, as well, is in jeopardy.
Dark Desire: From the moment Nicholas Bertold first touched her, Alain Daviot knows her fate is sealed. The waves of desire she feels in his arms override her fears . . . including her haunting suspicions that Nicholas killed her brother. As Nicholas’s bride, Alain is swept from the English countryside to the gay salons of nineteenth-century Paris, and then to Nicholas’s home, the magnificent, imposing Chateau Bertold. There, she is powerless against her hunger for this man accused of an unspeakable crime. Does she really know the mysterious Nicholas Bertold—her lover, her husband—the man who holds her so utterly spellbound in a web of dark desire?
The Affair at Alkali: A miner had been killed in Alkali, and there were those who wanted to give Padge Regan the necktie treatment before his wealthy parents could influence the law. But others were determined that the youngster should be given a fair trial, even though his mother might come to his defense and sway judge and jury by her beauty and her eloquence.
Among Padge’s defenders, if that could be a proper description of those who wanted to see him hang legally, was the town dentist, Doc Millard. But since he was a dark, cynical and somewhat dubious individual, there was a question as to the purity of his motives. This was not true of most of the other residents of the rough and howling frontier town; their motives were clear, and consisted largely of a thirst for blood.
An off-beat Western by the author of “Moura.”
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