Mary Hughes

New owner of a music box shop, Callie Reed, pitches in on the decorations for a special Halloween-themed book signing at Keepsake Cove, a quaint town of collectible shops on Maryland's Eastern Shore. She then welcomes the suspense author, who has opted to stay at a B&B with a mysterious history and an eccentric owner.

When the B&B owner is found dead, stabbed with a pair of vintage scissors, suspicion immediately falls on his

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Elena O'Rourke packs a gun and an attitude. The gun, because she's a cop. The attitude? Let's just say her love life has been sorely lacking. But she'll be damned if apartment manager Bo Strongwell is going to be the guy to turn that around, despite his Viking warrior vibe, cannonball muscles, and black satin voice-because Bo's the biggest suspect in her murder investigation. Master vampire Bo Strongwell needs a cop snooping around like he needs a...

When Callie Reed comes to Keepsake Cove to reconnect with her aunt, Melodie, she is charmed by both the town of quaint collectible shops and by her aunt's fairy tale cottage. But Melodie's sudden death turns that charm into an unacceptable shock. Callie can't believe the ruling of "accidental" and is determined to discover the truth as she takes over running her aunt's collectible music box shop.As she begins to uncover secrets, Callie is urged on...

With her craft shop business going well, owner Jo McAllister takes off for the weekend, having snagged a spot at the prestigious Michicomi Craft Festival to show her wares. Jo's excitement dims, however, when she learns her booth is directly across from an old nemesis, the conniving Linda Weeks.Linda aggravates Jo continually during the festival, eventually goading her into a public argument, which puts Jo in a very bad light after Linda drops dead...

The national bestselling author of The Pickled Piper and License to Dill returns with a dilly of a pickle.Business is booming at Piper's Picklings in Cloverdale, New York. But not all is sweet in the life of Piper's number one customer and friend, local caterer Sugar Heywood. Sugar is dating wealthy realtor Jeremy Porter, but his family doesn't approve. After their unscrupulous accountant finds some dirt on Sugar, the family quickly urges Jeremy to...

In "Pelican Song," a thirty-year-old modern dancer who moonlights as a movie ticket taker visits her parent's picturesque home to discover that her stepfather has begun mistreating her too-accommodating mother. "Horse" follows maladjusted honeymooners in Atlantic City whose romantic weekend is saved from emotional catastrophe. A holiday in New York City turns from shopping sprees to a young girl's sharp discovery of her father's secret life in "Rome." With...

Cedar Hill sounds like the perfect place for Maggie to write her math puzzle book--a small New Hampshire town whose biggest problem should be keeping roads to the adjacent ski slopes clear of snow. The first town meeting, however, proves otherwise. Bitter arguments break out over Jack Warwick's proposal to buy the financially-struggling ski resort and turn it into a granite mine. Maggie thinks she can keep out of it all, until Jack drops dead of poison...

Martin's life was much less interesting than the crime fiction he regularly read, until he decided to write his own mystery, working on the story during his daily commute and writing in a blue spiral notebook. Then an attractive, green-eyed woman struck up a conversation, and Martin's story took a very sharp turn.The Woman on the Train - a short story - was originally published in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine (Fall, 2003) as The Blue Notebook....

From the outside in, the Devlin family lead almost perfect lives. Dashing father Nick is a successful businessman long married to sweetheart Jean, who upholds the family home and entertains, while daughter Lily attends Catholic school and is disciplined into modesty by the nuns. Under the surface, however, the Devlins are broken by the death of their little boy, Cubbie. When Nick's older brother, Lionel, a man driven by callous and rapacious urges,...

An angry mob kills a man after a popular rancher is murdered.