Since Josie Prescott left a high-paying job in New York to set up shop as an antiques appraiser on the rugged New Hampshire coast, her life has not gone exactly according to plan. In many ways, it's gone better: She has a booming business, good friends and neighbors, and even a promising romance.
But dead bodies do seem to keep crossing her path. And now her friend Rosalie has been killed just hours after confiding a secret to Josie, leaving

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Josie Prescott is hosting classes at her antiques shop in the little coastal town of Rocky Point, New Hampshire. When guest lecturer Riley Jordan is late for the class on building a great vintage clothing collection, Josie begins. She reaches under a display table for a dazzling pair of Chanel heels, and instead finds Riley's body. When it appears one of her employees may be involved, Josie teams up with the local police chief to investigate.

"When Miss Julia hears that Miss Mattie Freeman has taken a fall and is in the hospital, she wishes she'd spent more time getting to know the woman and not just because she's the last person in town to hear about the accident! So when the tumble proves fatal, the last thing Miss Julia expects is a phone call from Mr. Ernest Sitton, Attorney at Law: Miss Julia is named executor of Mattie Freeman's last will and testament, and it looks like her last...

"When amateur sleuth and antiques expert Josie Prescott is called in to appraise a Japanese woodblock print and vintage guitar for her friend Mo, she's thrilled--until Mo is murdered. It doesn't take her long to pinpoint one suspect: Mo's sister's manipulative boyfriend, who sold her the print-and has now, conveniently, disappeared. Josie's antiques know-how and detective skills soon lead her down an increasingly perplexing trail, scattered with gamblers,...

Ninety-two-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull discovers a neighbor's body in the home of one of the three town assessors, who have been skimming off tax money from wealthy landowners and stashing it in their own retirement funds. then the private pilot of the spouse of one of these landowners is found dead, floating in him employer's pond. When Victoria finds the body of the long-missing assessors' clerk, it's time to team up with her old friend...