Liberally laced with wry Yankee humor, Langton's eighth Homer Kelly mystery, after The Dante Game , chides the American propensity to glorify the new while destroying the old. Few people in Concord, ...

Some of Jane Langton’s mystery novel titles left no doubt about the places and writers she loved. Readers who thought Nantucket wasn’t as sunny as it seems could delve into “Dark Nantucket Noon.” ...

Author Jane Langton always held Concord in a special place in her heart. Although she lived in Lincoln, she set her Homer Kelly mysteries and the Hall Family Chronicles in Concord, basing the Hall ...

Jane Langton, a prolific New England author who evoked a palpable sense of place in her mysteries and children’s books, and who illustrated many of her works herself, died Saturday in hospice care ...

Jane Langton, a prolific New England author who evoked a palpable sense of place in her mysteries and children’s books, and who illustrated many of her works, died Saturday in hospice care near her ...

Civil War buffs will especially appreciate Langton's 17th Homer Kelly mystery (after 2002's The Escher Twist), in which the Harvard professor/sleuth and his wife, Mary, plunge into research in an ...