"When Lacey Lancaster's beautiful and beloved Abyssinian cat is wooed--and won--by the bad-boy cat next door, she's furious. Now, Cleo is going to be a mother and it's all neighbor Jack Walker's fault. He should have kept a better eye on his roving feline Romeo! ..." -- pub.

After an unexpected rekindling of their romance, Harry and her veterinarian ex-husband, Fair Haristeen, have happily remarried. But the excitement of their nuptials is quickly overshadowed by the murder of Professor Vincent Forland, a world-famous grape and fungal expert who was in town visiting the local vineyards. Within days of giving a lecture on how distilled fungus and cattle diseases are the current basis of chemical warfare, Forland's decapitated...

"With the New Year just around the corner, winter has transformed the cozy Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia, into a living snow globe. It's the perfect setting for Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen to build a new work shed designed by her dear friend, local architect Gary Gardner. But the natural serenity is shattered when out of the blue, right in front of Harry and Deputy Cynthia Cooper, and in broad daylight, Gary is shot to death by...

This balmy summer in Crozet, Virginia, postmistress Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen has a lot to think about. Things have been pretty cozy between her and her ex-husband, Fair and her beloved old post office is in danger of being replaced with a modern building-and modern rules. Harry's thoughtful contemplation is shattered the day she stumbles over a dead body near Potlicker Creek. Barry Monteith, the handsome local horse breeder, has been savagely...

Pickax columnist Jim Qwilleran receives unexpected insights into the suspicious death of an out-of-town actor, and the theft of a rare book, while conducting research on Hibbard House,a historic guest residence whose latest visitor has provoked unusual behavior in Qwill's perceptive Siamese cat, Koko.

The discovery of a murdered body disguised as a cornfield scarecrow becomes the first of several disturbing events in a scenic Virginia community, where Harry and her husband prepare for the local Halloween festivities and uncover a lucrative conspiracy.

Shortly before the 5K Run for Breast Cancer Awareness, Harry and her pets find the corpse of well-liked OR nurse Paula Benton, one of the event's organizers, who appears to have died of anaphylactic shock from a hornet's sting. But was it murder?

To save a friend who is a prime suspect, Jim Qwilleran investigates the murder of a town's most despised man.

As a food exposition is about to open in Pickax City, a bomb shatters the town's hotel, killing a woman. Newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran and his sleuthing Siamese cats, Yum Yum and Koko, take time off from tasting cheese to investigate. By the author of The Cat Who Blew the Whistle.

The good people of Moose County are in a fever of excitement. Not only is the gala groundbreaking for the new Pickax bookstore about to take place, but the town of Brrr is preparing to celebrate its bicentennial, and the columnist James Qwilleran has been roped in to help with the festivities. The groundbreaking, however, is marred by the discovery of a man's body nearby--on Quill's own property, no less...