Blake and Shelby Gunner’s plans to renovate the old boathouse go awry when murder comes calling...Autumn in Port Scuttlebutt usually means a stormy Lake Superior, crisp temperatures, vibrant fall colors, and an invasion of deer hunters. This year, there’s also a shallow grave. Someone killed Pete Dugan’s ex-wife and planted her under his woodpile. The police consider him the obvious suspect, but the Gunner’s have other ideas. What does the death of a pet squirrel, the sighting of a mysterious car, a break-in at the bed & breakfast, and the reappearance of three ex-cons into the community have to do with the murder of a middle-aged legal assistant?No detective worth a grain of salt believes in coincidence. So when things start piling up that seem too quirky to be happenstance, Blake and Shelby have to decipher the clues and come up with the truth before a killer gets away with murder.

"Anglophiles, especially, will adore this book's many pleasures." — Kirkus Reviews"Not only is Alice Boatwright a good detective writer, but a first-class storyteller as well."— M.C. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin mysteriesIn Under an English Heaven, the first Ellie Kent mystery, Ellie has left behind her college teaching job and life in San Francisco to marry a handsome widowed vicar and live in a Cotswold village. At first, she thinks her biggest challenge will be to gain acceptance from the villagers as a foreigner and "incomer." But, when she discovers a dead man in the churchyard, her outsider status leads to her becoming the prime suspect in his murder. To prove her innocence, Ellie finds she must draw on her research skills to unravel a web of decades-old secrets before more people die—and her new life unravels too.Winner of the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize

Don't miss the first three books in this warm Southern Cozy collection, now offered as a box set! Fabulous family recipes included.Start at the beginning with Book 1, Too Many Crooks Spoil the Plot, in which Mabel Aphrodite Brown and best friend Lurleen must protect orphaned children from harm and find a killer. In Book 2, Into the Frying Pan, Ditie must settle issues with an old boyfriend and find a murderer on a Civil War battlefied reenactment. Ditie participates in a cooking contest laced with murder in Book 3, Murder Most Southern.

At their twenty-fifth high school reunion in Portland, Maine, P.I. partners and moms Maya Kendrick and Sandra Wallage must figure out which of their former classmates should have been voted most likely to kill . . .After all these years, Maya and Sandra have mixed feelings about seeing their high school classmates, but in one sense the evening promises to be something of a red carpet event. A shy wallflower in school, Alyssa Turner has blossomed into an Oscar-nominated actress—and she’s coming to the reunion.To their surprise, before the event, Alyssa contacts Maya and Sandra. She’s going to be playing a private eye and would like to hear about their experiences. When they meet, she confides she was bullied in school by cheerleader Tawny Bryce and her mean girls’ clique while also having a huge crush on Tawny’s boyfriend, the star quarterback.When Tawny’s body is discovered the night of the reunion behind the bleachers, the spotlight is on Alyssa. She turns to Maya and Sandra to find the real killer. But is she as innocent as she seems—or turning in another Oscar-worthy performance?