If there's no rest for the weary, Miss Julia must be exhausted. She's just learned a secret - Hazel Marie is pregnant with twins and the prospective father has cleared out of town. But good things come in unexpected packages. Abbotsville finds itself the scene of a heist; and Miss Julia knows there's only one man who can solve the crime. It's J.D. Pickens, P.I., renowned investigator and Hazel Marie's wayward love. When he's summoned, one thing becomes...

Miss Julia is feeling a little wishful when Hazel Marie, once her late husband's paramour and now her best friend, prepares to move out and live in sin with that marriage shy Mr. Pickens. Suddenly, to Miss Julia's delight, a wedding is in the offing. Handsome Deputy Coleman Bates and attorney Binkie Enloe announce their plans to run down to the courthouse and tie the knot. But Miss Julia insists that they have a real wedding ceremony and vows to make...

Miss Julia's hopes for a peaceful time with her new husband, Sam, are ruined when Hazel Marie's troublemaking uncle comes back to town claiming Little Lloyd is not the son of Miss Julia's late husband, forcing Miss Julia to prove him wrong and save Lloyd's inheritance.

Miss Julia devises a plan to expose some of Abbotsville's more eccentric characters in an effort to chase off a developer who wants to tear down the historic courthouse and build some upscale condominiums, while at the same time trying to counsel and console a host of female friends whose husbands all seem to have come down with a bad case of spring fever.

When Hazel Marie's hotheaded private investigator husband, J.D., goes missing during a latest job, Miss Julia and Etta Mae struggle to free a man matching his description from a West Virginia jail, while Agnes Whitman returns to town with a following of misfits who might be members of a zealous cult.

"Miss Julia discovers that her Princess Diana ring replica and other jewelry pieces have been stolen, and she packs up Little Lloyd, Etta Mae Wiggins, and an inebriated private investigator in order to catch the thieves in Palm Beach."--from NoveList.

Missing her friends while she adjusts, with difficulty, to life as a wife, Miss Julia agrees to help Hazel Marie organize a beauty pageant and makes two distressing discoveries: her marriage ceremony may not have been legal, and Etta Mae Wiggins seems to be after her man.

The quilting novel Marianne Fons calls "a truly enjoyable read" about "the power of quilts to connect, heal, and restore the soul..." When Emma Byrd moves into the house of her dreams in the small mountain community of Sweet Anne's Gap, she knows that making friends may prove to be her biggest challenge. Her husband loves his new job and her kids are finding their way at school. But Emma - no natural when it comes to talking to strangers - will...

Miss Julia has decided to turn over a new leaf. It's time to stop meddling in other peoples' lives, she thinks--but her hands are full before long! Her neighbour Mildred is sent into a tizzy when a grandchild she's never met shows up on her doorstep. And Mildred's husband keeps forgetting who she is, so she's all on her own. Meanwhile, Etta Mae is worried about losing her job now that the Handy Home Helpers is up for sale. Luckily, Miss Julia has...

Wilmington, N.C., bar owner Jersey Barnes has supposedly retired from PI work, but she can't resist helping a friend's brother. Morgan Garland has recently inherited his father's popular restaurant, Argo's, which caters to the rich, famous and, as it turns out, the blackmailed and prescription drug-addicted. Via a hidden bug Morgan's father had apparently installed, Morgan overhears troubling gossip at the restaurant's popular Green Table. Jersey...