Early summer brings plenty of work for baker Hannah Swensen, even before Mayor Bascomb's wife drops by The Cookie Jar to place an order for her charity event...for eleven hundred cookies! And Hannah almost flips when her business partner, Lisa, suggests setting up an apple turnover stand. But she places her faith in Lisa, and even agrees to be a magician's assistant in the fundraiser's talent show. The only snag is the show's host, college professor...

An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Chief Inspector Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from...

Dr. Cathy Sewall returns to her hometown to heal after a broken relationship, but discovers that someone there wants her gone... or dead. Lawyer Will Kennedy, her high school sweetheart, offers help - but does it carry a price tag? And is chief of staff Dr. Marcus Bell really on her side in her fight to get hospital privileges? When one of Cathy's prescriptions almost kills the town banker, it sets the stage for a malpractice suit that could end her...

As the country struggles through the Great Depression, the Darling Dahlias of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their chins up. Their garden club has a clubhouse, a garden, a flag, a weekly column in The Darling Dispatch, and members from across the social spectrum. But when a treasure trove of sterling silver is found buried under the town's famous Cucumber Tree, two of the Dahlias claim it - which leads to some very unladylike behavior.

The eclectic citizens of Winter Break, Kansas, keep Ivy Towers on her toes as she solves puzzling mysteries and navigates the mysterious ways of love. In For Whom the Wedding Bell Tolls, the wedding planner is dead, and Ivy is a suspect. Now the wedding of Ivy Towers and Deputy Sheriff Amos Parker is on hold - along with their blissful future - until Ivy can figure out just who nixed their nuptials.

Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.

Charity work can be murder! It's Thanksgiving and Joseph Tyler, a member of Cindy's church, has organized a new charity that provides homeless people with rescue dogs to love and care for. But one by one, the homeless recipients are being murdered and their dogs stolen. Could an overly competitive millionaire with his prize-winning pooches and a grudge be behind the crimes? Cindy and Jeremiah must rush to find a killer before he strikes again.

Cindy's church is getting ready for Easter, and Jeremiah's neighboring temple is preparing for Passover, when Cindy literally stumbles over a dead body in the sanctuary. Cindy is a Christian who lives a somewhat dull life working as a church secretary. Jeremiah is a Reformed rabbi with a past full of danger and excitement. In one eventful Easter/Passover week, the two find themselves working together to solve a murder and stop a serial killer from...

When the winner of the local golf tournament is found dead in his awarded bass boat, Sheriff Arly Hanks has a host of jealous suspects.