Featuring amateur sleuth and professional genealogist Anna Denning.When the groundskeeper of the Morgan-Sadler House finds a figure propped against a beehive, a pumpkin in place of its head, he assumes it’s a Halloween prank. But the cruel display conceals the body of Russell Thurman, a founding member of the Elk Valley Historical Society.Anna Denning soon discovers that Thurman was secretly researching the family trees of two other society members and inte...

Featuring amateur sleuth and professional genealogist Anna Denning.Anna Denning and her fiancé are determined to spend a restful weekend at a mountain hotel. Sleeping late, reading books by a roaring fire. All they have to do is ignore the raging snowstorm outside and the hotel’s strange guests and surly staff inside.But when one of those guests, a newspaper reporter, tells Anna the police are investigating two of the other guests—and that she’s been sent t...

Thanksgiving in Juniper Grove is a time for family, good friends, and good food. But at Nora Barberton’s home, Thanksgiving ends in tragedy when one of her dinner guests is murdered and a precious artifact disappears from her house—seemingly vanishing into thin air.When Nora pleads for help, Rachel agrees to tackle the case. Soon she uncovers a web of deception wove by those Nora trusts most. In a race against time, and as her relationship with James Gilroy, the town’s police chief...

Young Geraldine longs to have adventures as thrilling as those in the Book of Tales, the book her papa reads to her and her brother Button at night. More than that, she wants to be brave--a seemingly impossible task in a world where ravens throw black shadows over the earth and wolves prowl barren lands in search of their prey. But Geraldine is a mouse. The weakest of ground things. Why was she, who wants so much to be brave, created by God to be small and quivering?The book’s ten ...

When Kate’s friend Emily spots a partially buried body during a tour of a local haunted cemetery, she thinks it’s a prank. Until that body somehow winds up in her back yard. Certain that someone is trying to frame her friend for murder, Kate makes it her mission to discover the truth.Determined to help clear Emily, Minette the fairy insists on joining the investigation, but in her eagerness to solve the case, she risks revealing her existence to others. In a race against time, and ...

When Rachel’s friend Holly is invited to cater a radio broadcast from the Grandview Hotel on the fiftieth anniversary of a mysterious murder there, Rachel and Julia come along for moral support. Their excitement quickly turns to dread when they see the state of the dilapidated hotel and are warned to expect strange noises in the night.But ghostly sounds are the least of their worries after a body is found in the hotel’s library. To her shock, Rachel realizes that this latest murder...

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, but not everyone in Juniper Grove is in the mood for love. Convinced her husband is cheating on her with a mysterious dark-haired woman, Brigit Gundersen decides to tell the whole town about it—by plastering Main Street with flyers declaring his infidelity.Desperate to discover the identity of her rival, Brigit asks Rachel Stowe to investigate, something Rachel is reluctant to do. But when Brigit is murdered, Rachel feels compelled to get to the...

Promising a big announcement, Stuart Hunter invites a small group of friends to a party at his large, rambling house, among them Chief Gilroy and Rachel Stowe. But when one of the partygoers dies screaming Gilroy’s name, Gilroy becomes a suspect in his own department’s murder investigation. Rachel’s fears that someone is trying to target him are confirmed when incriminating evidence is found at the murder scene.When the mayor removes the chief from the case, Rachel and her friends ...

When a murder mystery game at a local professor’s house ends in death, it quickly becomes clear that the victim did not die of natural causes. As Rachel becomes embroiled in yet another mystery, she begins to suspect that the killer was threatened by a tell-all autobiography the victim was writing.On top of solving the murder, Rachel must deal with personal doubts about her upcoming wedding to James Gilroy—doubts prompted by Julia’s nudging to cut back on the cream puffs. But when ...

When members of the Merry Knitters, a Smithwell knitting group, receive mysterious Secret Santa ornaments and threatening notes, a friend enlists Kate to uncover the culprit. But events take a dangerous turn when one of the knitters is murdered.As the first anniversary of her husband’s death approaches, Kate must juggle her dread of the Christmas season with her search for the killer. Meanwhile, Minette the fairy opens up to Kate and unexpectedly reveals more of her past—and tantal...

When Mollie Dunbar’s husband vanishes, he leaves clues to his disappearance in the form of two names scribbled on paper: Detective Rancourt and Michael Brewer, Kate Brewer’s late husband. In a cruel twist, the police ask Mollie to view the body of a murder victim they misidentify as her husband. So when Mollie shows up at Kate’s door begging for help, Kate feels compelled to unravel the puzzle.Certain that the missing husband and the unknown murder victim are connected, Kate quickl...

When the Woolkins mouse family gathers by the fireplace at night, they read from the family’s most treasured book, the Book of Tales. Passed down from generation to generation in the Woolkins family, the book contains stories of danger, faith, and perseverance.Set in forests, fields, ponds, and backyard butterfly gardens, Volume One contains fifteen illustrated tales in all. From a fox who must choose between his friends and his baby sister to a hedgehog facing monumental change an...