Enjoying his new fianc̈еee and a lull in his Scottish village's crime rate, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth is upset when his future bride urges him to find a better job, and rivalry over a local heartthrob results in murder.

Sharon McCone has come home to her warm, troubled family, to San Diego and a convention of private detectives in a posh seaside hotel. For Sharon it's a chance to catch up with old friends -- all except for the one who fell four stories from one of the hotel spires. Now, Sharon is determined to find out why her friend died.

"Lori, the heroine of Aunt Dimity's Death, married to a workaholic attorney, finds herself and Aunt Dimity searching for her missing father-in-law and her pink flannel bunny, only to discover a centuries-old secret about her husband's family."--Amazon.com

Lori Shepherd, freed from the restrictions of motherhood by the arrival of the beautiful nanny Francesca Sciaparelli, must call upon her ghostly Aunt Dimity for help when she becomes caught in the middle of a controversy that threatens to destroy the village as well as her nanny's budding romance with archaeologist Adrian Culver.

"Ever since a British television crew began filming a mystery series at nearby Castle Drim, Hamish has watched tension building. Middle-aged townsfolk and flashy filmmakers are clashing, the younger locals are vying for bit parts, and rumors are flying about vicious quarrels among the crew. But trouble really escalates after one of the scriptwriters is found dead, and Hamish discovers a full cast of suspects lurking behind the scenes."

PI Regan Reilly of Los Angeles flies to a fiddle contest in Long Island to protect a woman performer from a prophecy. The woman has a famous Irish fiddle and the prophecy says whoever takes it out of Ireland will experience bad luck.

A mystery without a murder featuring the series hero, Scottish constable Hamish MacBeth. The Christmas season brings him two cases, in one a woman reports her cat stolen, in another someone has stolen the village Christmas tree.

Sleuth and herbalist China Bayles of Pecan Springs, Texas, joins Mike McQuaid, the town's police chief to investigate the murder of a land developer. They have to hurry if they don't want the case to clash with their honeymoon. They are getting married.