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Librarian Phoebe O'Dunn deals in stories, but her passion for history has taught her that happy endings are rare. Her life in Knights Bridge, Massachusetts, is safe and uneventful until she discovers the hidden room. Among its secrets is a cache of vintage clothing, including a spectacular gown perfect for a gala masquerade in Boston. In the guise of a princess, Phoebe is captivated by a handsome swashbuckler who's also adopted a more daring persona....
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Now a film for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and James Tupper!
What bones are buried in the shadows of the past?
Asked to join in a dig at the site of the eighteenth–century Chandler House, archaeologist Emma Fielding and her student crew have descended upon Stone Harbor, Massachusetts. But certain residents of the tiny coastal community are none too happy about Emma's arrival -- especially when her excavation uncovers...
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Last Noel: When two escaped killers take refuge in their home during a storm on Christmas Eve, Skyler O'Boyle plays a daring psychological game to throw the criminals off guard, while her daughter, Kat, escapes and meets a third felon, who is hiding a secret that could save them all.
Secret surrogate: The last thing this Texas sheriff wanted was to heed a frantic late-night call from Kylie Monroe-the woman who'd destroyed his life. Old wounds were...
6) The inn
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When they inherit a dilapidated B&B in western Massachusetts, Jack and Annabel Devlin decide to use this opportunity to save their marriage and start over, but instead find themselves faced with a dark evil that comes to life once again, making their worst fears come true.
8) Two down
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Crosswords get the Hollywood treatment in this mystery featuring PI Rosco Polycrates and master puzzle solver Belle Graham Jamaica Nevisson-or Cassandra Lovett, as she's known to the adoring fans of her daytime soap-has vanished without a trace. She and her pal Genie Pepper went pleasure yachting off Nantucket, only to end up lost at sea. So far, only the charred hull of the boat has turned up. Called in by Pepper's husband, Massachusetts detective...
9) Red 1-2-3
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Sharing nothing in common except their red hair, three women from drastically different backgrounds receive chilling letters in the mail from a killer who makes them fear for their lives until they find one another and use the clues he has left behind to work together and protect one another.
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There's one corpse too many in this ingenious mystery featuring husband-and-wife sleuth duo PI Rosco Polycrates and crossword editor Belle Graham The residents of the bucolic Massachusetts hamlet are up in arms. A developer has bought the sprawling Quigley homestead, and his construction crew is causing a ruckus digging up the land. The noise stops abruptly when a female skeleton is found buried in the garden. Hired to find out who killed Jane Doe-and...
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Murder moves into the neighborhood in this witty and suspenseful crossword mystery featuring husband-and-wife sleuth team Belle Graham and Rosco Polycrates Belle Graham and her canine bodyguards, Kit and Gabby, are enjoying their daily outing in the local dog park with new friends Karen Tacete, her daughter Lily, and their dog Bear. But Karen's picture-perfect life shatters when her husband, Dan, fails to return home. He's barely been declared officially...
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Homer Kelly mysteries volume 11
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Mary Kelly is troubled by the apparently accidental death of a folksinger slated to perform in the Christmas revels at Harvard's Memorial Hall, and when more male participants in the annual gala, led by beloved director Sarah Bailey, are found dead, Mary is sure her suspicions are correct.
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Henry Kennis, Nantucket island's poetry-writing police chief works a second challenging case. At the height of the summer tourist season, a threat to bomb the annual Boston Pops Concert could destroy the island's economy, along with its cachet as a safe, if mostly summer-time, haven for America's ruling class. The threat of terrorism brings The Department of Homeland Security to the island, along with prospects for a rekindled love affair - Henry's...
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When Nantucket homeowner Preston Lomax is killed in his McMansion, everyone on the island could be a suspect. Chief of Police Henry Kennis, a newcomer from California, finds himself investigating with help from the State Police. Together they solve the case--or so it appears. But Kennis can't shake the feeling that they've missed something.
17) Closing costs
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"Happy house hunting. Nelle and Evan Pereira were thrilled to close on their "forever home" -- a spacious paradise nestled against a state forest in Massachusetts. Three months later, on a brisk Saturday morning, their peace is destroyed when an intruder captures Nelle home by herself. Quickly overpowered by the aggressive stranger, she's forced down to the cold, musty basement where he ties her to a chair. The intruder has a singular, if unusual,...
18) Who to believe
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"When popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home, and her husband is the prime suspect, six friends gather together, sharing theories about Laurel's death, soon realizing they each have something to hide as jealousy, revenge, adultery and greed converge"--
19) The chain
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"You are a parent. Your phone rings. You answer it. It's a panicked stranger. They tell you that they have kidnapped your child. The stranger then explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger. Their child will be released only when you kidnap a new child. Your child will be released only when, after you kidnap the new child, that child's parents kidnap yet another child. And most importantly, the stranger explains,...
20) Dark rites
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Krewe of Hunters volume 22
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A series of bizarre assaults is mystifying Boston police: an unknown attacker is viciously beating random strangers and leaving a note quoting an old warning about witchcraft. History professor Alex Maple was one of the victims, and now he's gone missing. Vickie Preston is certain that someone has taken her friend for malicious purposes. She's having blood-drenched visions that seem to be staining her waking life, and the escalating attacks suggest...
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