Amy Stewart

Amy Stewart is the bestselling author of five books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. Her essays and commentaries have appeared on NPR, in the New York Times, and in Fine Gardening, where she is a contributing editor. S. Stewart is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the American Horticultural Society’s 2010 Book Award. She lives in Eureka, California, where she and her husband own an antiquarian bookstore.

Books Authored

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Author(s):
Amy Stewart
Genre(s):
Literary Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Biographical, Women Sleuths

Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit (A Kopp Sisters Novel)

September 10, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Caitlin Hicks

Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit presents a feisty, eccentric woman in the fall of 1916, way before women’s lib was even a term. 

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Author(s):
Amy Stewart
Genre(s):
Historical Fiction, Women Sleuths

Lady Cop Makes Trouble (A Kopp Sisters Novel)

September 5, 2017
Reviewed by: 
D. R. Meredith

“Constance Kopp is one of the most fascinating characters in recent mystery fiction. . . . Lady Cop Makes Trouble is one of the best mystery novels of the year . . .”

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Author(s):
Amy Stewart
Genre(s):
Historical Fiction, Women Sleuths

Lady Cop Makes Trouble (A Kopp Sisters Novel)

September 22, 2016
Reviewed by: 
D. R. Meredith

“Kudos to Amy Stewart and Constance Kopp. May there be many more sequels to follow.”

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Author(s):
Amy Stewart
Genre(s):
Mystery & Thriller

Girl Waits with Gun: A Novel

September 14, 2015
Reviewed by: 
D. R. Meredith

A delightful period piece of a mystery set in 1914, Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart introduces Constance Kopp, eldest of three sisters, none of whom fit the conventional mold of feminin

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Author(s):
Amy Stewart
Genre(s):
Women’s Fiction, Adventure

Girl Waits with Gun

August 31, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Steven Paul Leiva

“All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us,

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Author(s):
Amy Stewart
Genre(s):
Cooking, Food, Wine & Spirits, Biology & Life Sciences, Other

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

August 3, 2014
Reviewed by: 
Catriona Tudor Erler

“This is a book you’ll want to drink up, making a point to remember the information tidbits you want to pull out to amaze and amuse your friends at the next wedding, dinner, or cocktail par

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Author(s):
Amy Stewart
Genre(s):
Biology & Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects

March 24, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Diane Brandley

Amy Stewart is right. When it comes to “bugs” we are seriously outnumbered. According to her math, the ratio runs about 200 million to one.

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