Victoria Trumbull has lived most of her ninety-two years on Martha's Vineyard. The Island, its magic and its history, is part of the texture of her life. Like other Islanders, she knows the sounds of the sea in calm and stormy weather—and she knows the sounds that do not belong. One evening while Victoria waits on the dock for her granddaughter to return with the harbormaster, she hears a chilling scream followed by a splash and the

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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...

It's spring on Martha's Vineyard and at the suggestion of her beekeeper, Victoria Trumbull takes in a new boarder. Orion Nanopoulos is leading a project to lay a fiber-optic cable across the island. When a body is found in the trench where they are laying the cable, Orion recognizes the dead man as a potential investor. Victoria, renowned for her crime solving skills and for her knowledge of the island's residents, is hired by the victim's sons to...

"It's just another day at the dentist's office for Victoria Trumbull when fellow patient, wealthy Mrs. Wilmington, dies. It's an unfortunate, though seemingly not murderous incident, but the receptionist is hysterical, so one of the dental assistants offers to drive her home. But after making a quick pit stop, he finds her body floating in the harbor. With the police shorthanded due to an upcoming presidential visit, it's up to Victoria to take on...

From the bestselling author of A Vineyard Killing comes an addition to the Martha's Vineyard Mystery Series that follows hero J.W. on his race to escape the person behind a trio of attempts to end J.W.'s life.
Escaping the city and its violence, ex-cop Jeff "J. W." Jackson found solace in fishing, cooking, and simply enjoying life on Martha's Vineyard—and nothing, he figures, will ever entice him to leave.

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A wedding on picturesque Martha's Vineyard promises to be the affair of the season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty 92-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agrees--but she has no idea what's in store for the hapless couple. For one, Penny is seriously in debt and desperate to marry money. She thinks she's on the road to riches when she hooks Rocco Bufano, whose father is a multi-billionaire....