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

Pickax loves a big occasion. The Great Food Expo is about to begin, introducing new restaurants, country inns, food specialty shops and a new food page in the 'Moose County Something'. Lurking in the background is a killer determined to make this an event Pickac City will never forget. The Expo begins with a literal bang: a bomb wrecks the hotel, killing a housekeeper and causing extensive damage. Luckily for pIckax, Qwill is on the scene, his moustace...

"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.

As the quaint seaside village of Molena Point prepares for the holidays, feline P.I. Joe Grey and his associates must solve a mystery involving a car crash, a missing treasure, a dead thief, and a suspicious blond divorcée who has reappeared with a fortune and a strange story of how she got it.

There's been a rash of petty thievery in Pickax'ever since banker Willard Carmichael and his flashy young wife, Danielle, moved in. But now Willard's been killed in a mugging Down Below'or so it seems. Qwill's suspicious, especially when Willard's house-restoration project in Pickax falls into the hands of Danielle's cousin'whose rich new wife then dies on her honeymoon! The clues are confounding. But with Koko's help, Qwill intends to catch a thief'and...

"As Harry Haristeen and her old high school chums make preparations for their twentieth high school reunion, classmates begin to turn up dead, one at a time."--from NoveList.

The second honeymoon of Harry and Fair Haristeen in Shelbyville, Kentucky, goes awry when they attend a saddlebred show and their friend Joan's treasured pin goes missing, a horse groomer is found murdered, a movie star's mare is abducted, and the INS arrives looking for illegal aliens.

Former author and newspaper reporter, Jim Qwilleran, who has been taking lesser jobs and even been unemployed for a long time, is interviewing for a job at the Daily Fluxion city newspaper. Offered a starting job in the Feature Department, he is assigned the position of art writer. In desperate need of employment, he accepts and immediately is told to do a story about an artist, Cal Halapay, who was badly reviewed by the other Fluxion art critic,...

As the Highland Games approach, Jim Qwilleran and the citizens of Pickax prepare to celebrate their Scottish heritage. But the revelry is marred when a visiting jewelry dealer is found dead in his hotel room. His assistant is missing, and the winner of the caber-tossing contest disappears as well. Qwill has a lot of mysteries to sort out, including Koko's sudden interest in photos, pennies, and paper towels.

Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen enjoys the winter months of Crozet, Virginia, by sipping hot toddies and cheering for the University of Virginia's Women's basketball team until hot tempered contractor H.H. Donaldson suspiciously dies and she sets out to solve the mystery.