Mignon F. Ballard
Birth date: January 01, 1934
Mignon F. Ballard's Books
The books in this series are hard to describe. They're both a tiny bit twee and interesting studies of small-town America during WWII. I pick one up every once in awhile when I'm jonesing for a Homefront setting. The mystery should have been better for me; it had the right elements: reclusive ar...
Set in small-town Northern Georgia during WWII, this series gives a great sense of time and place; it reminds me a lot of that old TV series Homefront (early 90's?). As for the mystery though, it was o.k., but overly-convoluted. If Ballard had been able to structure it differently it would have w...
An historical mystery set in the south Georgia during WWII, Miss Dimple is the highly vaunted spinster school-teacher everybody respects and adores. She goes missing the day after the janitor of the school is found dead under questionable circumstances. I enjoyed reading this one, but I'm a bit...
A cute mystery about a woman at the end of her rope - literally. The opening scene is of our MC Mary George, trying to hang herself. But the rope is old and frayed and snaps before it can do much more than scratch up her neck - and the sleeping pills tasted like garlic and she didn't have enough g...
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