Van Gogh-ing...going...gone!

Poor Judith McMonigle Flynn! All she wants is a much-needed break from the rigors of running Hillside Manor. But she and cousin Renie have barely set foot in their family's backwoods vacation cottage...and already they're having a brush with the local law. It appears someone has painted their neighbor, world-renowned artist Riley Tobias, permanently out of the picture. And the artful slayer has managed to frame

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Jo Marie Rose first arrives in Cedar Cove seeking a sense of peace and a fresh start. Coping with the death of her husband, she purchases a local bed-and-breakfast--the newly christened Rose Harbor Inn--ready to begin her life anew. Yet the inn holds more surprises than Jo Marie can imagine. Her first guest is Joshua Weaver, who has come home to care for his ailing stepfather. The two have never seen eye to eye, and Joshua has little hope that they...

Things haven't been the same at Peggy and Bob Beldon's Thyme and Tide B and B since a man died there. Bob had known him briefly in Vietnam... and now it appears that he was poisoned!

Thirteen-year-old Penny Entwhistle becomes a companion to such fictional heroines as Emma Bovary, Scarlett O'Hara, and Franny Glass when the desperate dilemmas of each character cause them to flee the scenes of their own stories.