Her novels and mysteries are set in England, France, and Wales, and are about English and Welsh royalty during the Middle Ages.

Her works generally fall into one of several categories of genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries and detective fiction.

Her writing career has included the Nancy Drew mysteries under the penname Carolyn Keene in the 1980s.

Her return home raises the specter of several mysteries surrounding Codi and her family's past: her failure to hold a medical license despite her attendance at medical school, the deaths of her mother and of her child, and the relationship of her family to the rest of the community.

Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

Her legs were the full, sexy kind, full bodied like a rare wine and just as tantalizing to the appetite ; ;

Her glance swung past the trailer where the two drivers were standing.

Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Her thoughts were not discrete.

Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders.

Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

Her eyes were bright with anticipation.

Her `` Rockabye Your Baby '' was as good as it can be done, and her really personal songs, like `` The Man That Got Away '' were deeply moving.

Her hesitation was only momentary and she hoped he didn't notice it, as she settled herself, asked quickly how Miss Jenny and the babies were getting on.

Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong.

Her bright eyes were twinkling.

Her hair never seemed to be in place and her skirts were never quite the correct length.

Her eyes were wild.

Her dark cool caresses were sweeter than any woman's ; ;

Her eyes were smiling, too, but so sadly, and there was tiredness and infinite wisdom in them.

Her extendibles were diverted, connected or augmented and the final, delicate-beyond-description brain taps were completed while Helva remained anesthetically unaware of the proceedings.

Her book titles, changed by American publishers, for example Ten Little Niggers to Ten Little Indians, were kept the same across the Atlantic, after bushels of fan mail.

Her two children by Philip II, Philip, count of Clermont ( died 1234 ), and Mary, who married Philip I of Namur, were legitimized by the pope in 1201 at the request of the king.

Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

Her skin crawled: Lolotte had told Maude that she was in the hall and the door was open.

Her day starts early, but no matter how many pressing letters there are to be written ( and during May, which is National Salvation Army Week, there are plenty ), schedules to be made or problems to be solved, Mrs. Marr's office is always open and the welcome mat is out.

Her " incredible controversy " is characterized by David Hartwell in the opening sentence of a book chapter entitled " New Wave: The Great War of the 1960s ": " Conflict and argument are an enduring presence in the SF world, but literary politics has yielded to open warfare on the largest scale only once.

Her sacred month was April ( Latin Mensis Aprilis ) which Roman etymologists understood to derive from aperire, " to open ," with reference to the springtime blossoming of trees and flowers.

Her performance at one club impressed a theatrical producer, and he cast her in a play in New York, but that production did not open.

Her lavishly illuminated Book of Hours is open before her, with its protective cloth wrapper ( called a " chemise " binding ), spread out around it.

Her establishment within the metroons of some cities implies her open, public cult ; but she was also the focus of mystery cults, their inmost rites and cult objects strictly forbidden to all but initiates ; it is far from certain who these might have been.

Her temple was an asylum which was always open.

Her house, Dimbola Lodge, on the Isle of Wight is open to the public.

Her collection at the palazzo remained open during the summers until her death in Camposampiero, northern Italy, in 1979 ; she had donated the palazzo and the 300-piece collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1976.

Her defense of Czolgosz was met with open hostility from most of the anarchist press.

Her home and a reproduction of the 1873 stockade are open to the public.

Her purpose was to provide a taxonomy of the different types of OBE, viewed simply as an anomalous perceptual experience or hallucination, while leaving open the question of whether some of the cases might incorporate information derived by extrasensory perception.

Her missing persons case remains open.

Her home, the Barker House, is open seven days a week, without a fee, and is considered by many as Edenton's living room.

Her former home there is now a writer's residence open to the public by appointment.

Her open defiance of the occupation forces made her grandfather, King Gustav of Sweden, worry about the risks, and in 1941, he sent a demand to her to be more discreet " for the sake of the dynasty " and its safety, but she reacted with anger and refused to obey, and she had the support of her spouse, who shared her views.

Her replacement, chosen through an open audition, was Susan " Sue " Menhenick.

Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly.

Chiaroscuro modelling is now taken for granted, but had some opponents ; the English portrait miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard cautioned in his treatise on painting against all but the minimal use we see in his works, reflecting the views of his patron Queen Elizabeth I of England :" seeing that best to show oneself needeth no shadow of place but rather the open light ... Her Majesty .. chose her place to sit for that purpose in the open alley of a goodly garden, where no tree was near, nor any shadow at all ..."

Her total of 15 Grand Slam singles titles is sixth on the all-time list, and fourth in the open era, behind Steffi Graf ( 22 titles ) and Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova ( 18 titles each ).

Her first audition was for an open bi-weekly casting call held by John Fearnley, casting director for Rodgers and Hammerstein and their various musicals.

Her sanctuary is now open to the public.