Victoria Trumbull mysteries

"When she discovers a mutilated body floating in the sea, Martha's Vineyard resident Victoria Trumbull teams up with her granddaughter, Domingo the harbormaster, and other islanders to solve the mystery behind a growing number of homicides."--from NoveList.

Victoria Trumbull, the astute, 92-year-old Vineyard native and deputy police officer, takes on her most bizarre case yet, in Riggs's third appealing Vineyard mystery (after 2002's The Cranefly Orchid Murders). An empty grave, a misplaced coffin and a missing hearse driver are the harbingers of a series of grotesque murders, whose victims turn out to share an odd South American connection involving smuggling and an exotic bird.

"A small town, even one detached from the mainland, has its share of unpleasant residents. When a developer with an unhappy wife, a bullish attitude toward women, and a much frowned upon plan is murdered, not many tears are shed. The case naturally falls to Victoria Trumbull, the ninety-two-year-old sharp-witted sheriff's deputy. Served by her in-depth knowledge of the island and her indomitable drive, Victoria is on the trail again, bunions, lilac-bough...

"Writing a play based on Frankenstein, poet and deputy Victoria Trumbell is disturbed by the theater's new artistic director's efforts to turn her serious work into high farce, as well as by the mysterious deaths of cast members."--from NoveList.

"Victoria Trumbull, the nonagerarian poet, columnist and police deputy of Martha's Vineyard, requires the services of the town's electrician. But he's behaving oddly. His formerr assistant, fired for bad behavior, has gone missing...The first body is discovered in the book storage shed of the West Tisbury library." -- Cover

"On her first day as adjunct professor at Ivy Green College, Victoria Trumbull recognizes the stench emanating from her classroom as more than just dead mice. Brownie, the groundskeeper's mangy mutt, soon discovers a second body hiding beneath a cluster of poison ivy. The stakes have never been higher for Ivy Green, which is on the brink of losing already-lukewarm support from its accredited partner, Cape Cod University. Thackery Wilson, the founder...

When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himself of his troublesome girlfriend, Samantha. But the mushrooms he's given Samantha end up on her daddy's dinner table, and Zack, one of the invited guests, is sure he's doomed the diners to an untimely...