During the holidays as her husband and the twins are preparing for the nutcracker, a librarian director named Amy finds herself sleuthing yet again especially this time because her brothers spouse could be in trouble. After some digging with help from her mother in law and helping Brad the Shierff, she finds out he isn’t the killer but whom is which is still on the loose. A good read to the last word!

I have to admit … this was another good read but took me sometime to get into it after her last series… it was hard to switch over to new characters. She wrote this book near the sea where Charlotte inherited a bed and breakfast from her aunt. She hosted themed weeks and such highlighting authors such as a murder mystery author of which ended up having a murder during. Laying out the research and investigating clues with her neighbor who was her late aunts friend, she comes unravels history about her as well as solving the murder.

Amy finds herself and her beau in the thick of things again as they discover another body. This one because of art and forgies not like the one before dealing with history and family property heritage although this was her uncles heritage in painting. With the investigation involving an out of town art investigator being brought in, her aunt has warmed up to him while hosting him as the annual festival gets into full swing. A donated art piece gets stolen that was donated to the festival fundraiser from her uncles collection which is intertwined with the murder. Lots of clues that finally pair together when she gets back from her surprise trip from NY to see her beau perform while the festival is being covered by her aunt and best friend who sent her. A great read for sure!

Another great read by Victoria Gilbert! Forced into retirement Jane whom worked as a university librarian finds herself needing to still bring in money and hires on with a wealthy 30 something man who keeps to himself at his mansion to inventory all his collections. Although he was dating a self indulgent girl as he had many in the past, never let get far. Jane’s first weekend to get settled in at her apartment, he was hosting a party of which he rarely engaged in… just holds up in his room but invites his friends to enjoy. When she comes in the next morning for work finds the girlfriend dead in the library! This embarks on investigating all the suspects from a request from her boss Cam to clear his name as he one of the top suspects along with those in her family who were next in line to inherit her money.

A very interesting audio collection about a little girl named Eloise who lives at the plaza on the top floor. She has a nanny who’s English and repeats her words 3 times and a weeny dog. She talks and trolls the plaza getting into lots of interesting situations.

Amy always seems to stumble into murders. This one had to deal with her Aunts friends past and as it unfolded was good to the absolute end as all these books have been. Looking forward to her new books!

Not your typical read. It’s about a 12 year old autistic girl who has a lot of questions about her identity as well as finding out that she has had a “dot” surgically implanted in her since around the age of 6 to monitor her for science. Finding out about this from her dads email, she sets out with her best friend to unravel how this happened to her and to get it out of her. However, when they discover that “Nucleus” the company who did this was selling out to “Homepage” which sells information for $$$$$$$ they find other autistic children that are in the program and make a plan to take the owner Preston down and get their lives back!

This book was set back in 1784 outside London in the country. Tiffany’s brother was the Liberian for the dike in their town. She took care of her brother’s household because she was a spinster only because the gentelman she was engaged to died before they married. Her brother, she found out later after assuming his identity because he died was poisoned. Through her and the constables sleuthing they were determined to find out who murdered him along with the other servants in the dukes household. Her friend from younger years who became a Duchess of which was having an affair with the Duke snubbed her years later when she stepped into the role of a Duchess often pulled pranks like disguising Tiffany as her brother so she decided why not be him now. At times… it was very comical going in between her and his roles. A very good read!

Second in the series… another good read. Charlotte was hosting an author and guests who had won an one on one time with Amanda for a week at her bed and breakfast in her quaint little town located by the harbor. However, one of the guest was killed the first night, so Charlotte and her aunts friend Ellen start sleuthing to figure out the mystery all the while Ellen has an unusual “family member” staying with her.

And so begins another mystery unraveling clues from Amy’s hometown past about another murder involving her best friends (Sunny) grandparents as Sunny is running for mayor. Back in the 60’s the grandparents had a commune that housed people in those days who experimented with drugs which was a common theme then. Well… there was work being done on then commune and now farm that unearthed a dead body know to be one of the people that had stayed during that time. So more sleuthing to clear her best friends name along with the grands brought more danger and another murder of which Amy was warned to stop sleuthing only to get into another predicament. Another good read to keep you guessing for sure.