When May Laval, a hostess able to satisfy most appetites, decides to “go public” with her diaries, her good friend Dan Riordan hires public-relations expert Jake Harrison to defend his honor. But when May is found murdered, Jake’s suspicions...
When the Brazilian liner Porto Alegre docked in Barbados in 1956, the passengers reveled in the gay carnival-time hysteria ashore, while the few officers left aboard invited a four-man calypso band to liven up the dull shipboard routine. But the...
Angela's not out of the woods yet...
When a woman is found dead in the forest outside Willow Bay, apparently attacked by a bear, local veterinarian - and witch - Angela Martin is asked for her expertise. By all accounts the woman looks like a bear...
Master artist Jon Rafter can restore antique paintings back to their original luster with little effort, but he can’t restore his wife Annie’s happiness after she suffers a late-term miscarriage. Living in a refurbished plantation house...
Peter, a disgraced meteorologist and chronic wanderer, has traveled the country for years in his Winnebago, in search of the only thing that gives his life meaning. He’s just arrived in the middle of nowhere—Hokie, Kansas—for the same purpose,...
This holiday season there'll be murder under the mistletoe at the Pennyfoot Hotel…
As friends, family, and guests gather at the Pennyfoot Hotel to share the joys of the season, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff are hustling and bustling more...
When Jake Russo is transferred from a New York City beat to a Florida retirement community, his reporting life slows down. Instead of covering life in the big city, he's stuck writing puff pieces about bridge games and shuffleboard. His biggest...