"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...

Sleuth Regan Reilly and amateur detective Alvirah Meehan join forces when Regan's father is kidnapped just before Christmas.

Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly -- a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team of sleuths -- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their...

Ethel Lambston, a gossip writer whose forthcoming book threatens to expose leading figures in the fashion World is murdered, and boutique-owner Neeve Kearny becomes intimately involved in the investigation.

"Sweetheart roses-the traditional gift of lovers. Yet they had been an important clue in the murder ten years ago of strikingly beautiful Suzanne Reardon, whose husband, Skip, is now serving a life sentence for that murder. Kerry McGrath had only begun to work in the county prosecutor's office at the time of the infamous 'Sweetheart Murder Case, ' yet she remembers being impressed by both the ability of her new boss, Frank Green, displayed in successfully...

Maggie Holloway arrives at a dinner where she is to be honored as the long-lost stepdaughter and finds the hostess Nuala dead, the victim of an apparently random break-in and robbery.

Elizabeth Lange is haunted by the tragic death of her sister Leila, who plunged from the balcony of her New York penthouse under mysterious circumstances. While visiting the Cypress Point Spa, Elizabeth decides to find out exactly what happened.