"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...

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.

When a faculty member from the local prep school turns up dead, "Sister" Jane Arnold discovers that the case is complicated by a controversy over local historical artifacts in the school collection that were made by slaves.

"With Martha's Vineyard plagued by religious conflict between the outgoing minister of the local church and his successor, elderly Victoria Trumbull becomes concerned about a series of unexpected deaths."--from NoveList.

Puzzle Lady Cora Felton is confronted by a stalker who is using her own crossword column to follow her every move, a situation complicated by her niece's domestic crisis involving her ex-husband and new bride.

Sam Acquillo, estranged from his job, his wife, his daughter, and life in general, is content to sit on the porch of his dead parents' cottage in Southampton North Sea, drinking away the days, but he is shaken out of his stupor when the elderly neighbor for whom he does odd jobs is found dead in her bathtub under what he believes to be suspicious circumstances.

A retired librarian is hired by an eccentric collector who needs an archivist for his huge, expanding compendium of rare books, where she discovers the dead body of her new employer's ex-girlfriend, who was also the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune.

While running the hardware store she owned with her husband, a recently widowed sexagenarian discovers the body of a land developer in her shop’s bathroom and works with her adult daughter and a neighboring shop owner to uncover the murderer.

""An uplifting, bittersweet story with a page-turning mystery at its heart. Emily Critchley writes about aging and memory with huge warmth and compassion. A beautifully atmospheric and endearing book.'' --Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library. For readers of Elizabeth is Missing with notes of The Maid comes a dual-timeline novel that balances heartfelt tenderness with a suspenseful mystery as elderly Edie Green uncovers the clues behind...

Aging sleuth Ivy Malone begins a cross country trip in the hopes of escaping a group of ruthless thugs, but soon finds herself pulled into yet another murder mystery after stumbling across two dead bodies.