Amy Creighton has her life arranged just about the way she likes it--a successful career as a free-lance editor, hobbies she enjoys, and good friends in the small town of Granton, Maine. Then she uncovers a body in a mill shed while gathering mulch for her strawberry plants. With her gardener's eye she takes in the scene of the corpse. 
Amy Crighton brings the best of the independent Mainer to her investigation of murder in Granton, sparing no one and nothing to get at the truth. A solid sixty years old, she never flinches in the face of danger

The Maine Mulch Murder

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

A. Carman Clark

Mystery

Larcom Pr

Named one of the eight best mysteries published in 2001 by The Drood Review of Mystery (Editors' Choice)

Final Copy

Brogan, Jan

It's the week before Thanksgiving, and history textbook writer Miranda Lewis has deadlines to meet. But when a routine check-in call to her young niece ends in tears and a hang-up, Miranda hurries to Plimoth Plantation, where her niece works as an interpreter. At the recreated seventeenth-century village in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Miranda encounters protesting Indians, quarrelling Pilgrims, and tension aplenty. The day after her arrival, the explosive atmosphere turns violent when someone beheads the interpreter who portrays Miles Standish. With suspicion falling on her niece, over-heard arguing with the victim the night before, Miranda sets out to uncover the truth. Along the way she discovers more than she expected.

Murder at Plimoth Plantation (Larcom Mystery Series)

Wheeler, Leslie

Literature & Fiction

What's a smart-mouthed twenty-something to do after bombing big time in Hollywood? For Wanda Miranda LaFortuna, it's back home to Connecticut to get on with her life. 
Enter hunky P.I. James Wingfield, looking for a missing 15-year-old Lolita, who turns up dead with a stake through her heart. He doesn't know he needs and assistant, but Wanda does. 
Her acting skills get put to the test as she goes undercover with the undead!

The Grateful Undead

O'Grady, Leslie

Alone in her aunt's gift shop How Do I Love Thee? late one evening, Isabella Ripa opens the door to a glamorous woman carrying a birdcage. Isabella is enchanted by the woman's love birds and agrees to take them - at least for the night - until she can persuade her Aunt Talullah to adopt the pair, called the Penningtons. But in the morning the birds are gone. In their place is a book of love poems. As Isabella and her friends set out to recover the birds, they become embroiled in a mystery of a missing actress, a robbery and an intruder in Aunt Talullah's house. The Night the Penningtons Vanished introduces a delightful trio of friends who work together to solve one strange problem after another. Buffetted by the demands of her teen years and conflict with her older sister, Isabella is determined to get to the bottom of the Penningtons mystery.

The Night the Penningtons Vanished

Teen & Young Adult

HEUSLER, MARIANNA

Mysteries & Thrillers