When Heather Martinson, a professional interior painter, takes on the job of redecorating the dining room of the Compton House for the new owners, she quickly discovers that the job involves more risks than just choosing the wrong paint color. The new tenants, siblings Caroline and Michael Compton, have recently inherited the run-down estate by the terms of an unusual will. Mysterious accidents and obvious acts of vandalism soon make it evident that someone doesn't want the new owners to ever occupy the house. Although Heather finds herself strongly attracted to Michael, she eventually begins to wonder where his true loyalties lie. Surrounded by strangers and unsure who to trust as the dangers mount, Heather must rely on her own nerve and resources to solve a mystery that is rooted in the dark past of the Compton House.
After Laura Magee loses her Boston Museum of Fine Arts job, she lands a position at the Ravenswood Chronicle, a small-town New England newspaper, in the is nostalgic cozy from Ebisch. Laura discovers investigative journalism can be dangerous in this old-fashioned blend of romance and detection."--Publishers Weekly.
Laura Magee is spending the summer in an art gallery in the southern New Jersey shore town of Safe Harbor. When a dispute over a painting by a man named Rafferty leads to the murder of one of her customers and puts Laura herself in danger, she must discover the identity of the killers and find out what makes a painting valuable enough to kill for. Then the FBI becomes involved, and Laura realizes that this crime has more layers than she ever imagined. On top of all this, Laura must deal with an insecure artist who only paints sea birds, a friend who has a track record of dating the wrong men, the amorous attentions of a handsome vacationer, and her old college boyfriend, who shows up on her doorstep suffering from PTSD and just happens to save her life. This fast-paced mystery has a strong sense of humor, particularly with regard to contemporary art, and a surprising conclusion. You may never look at an art gallery the same way again.
Alison Randall returns from her military service as an MP in Iraq wounded both psychologically and physically. She attempts to regain her health by becoming a yoga teacher. When Lauren Malcolm one of her students asks for help in finding her missing boyfriend, Ali reluctantly agrees to help. As she pursues the case Ali quickly finds it leading into a thicket of infidelity, blackmail and murder.
When Marcie Ducasse, assistant editor of Roaming New England Magazine, makes her first solo trip through northern New England checking into stories of supernatural happenings, she expects to hear some strange tales, not become part of one. But when a farmer tells Marcie about the ghosts of three men hanged in his barn back in the 1940s and then turns up a few hours later hanging in that same barn, Marcie finds hereslf up to her neck in a murder investigation. With the help of Kevin Murray, a local newspaper reporter, Marcie begins digging into the case, and she quickly discovers that even murders committed over sixty years ago are not dead and buried -- especially when they take the form of ghosts from the past.
When Hazel Wilmot calls Amanda Vickers, her former student and the editor of Roaming New England magazine, with a story idea about a haunted New Hampshire inn, Amanda is intrigued, but intrigue soon turns to shock. Before Amanda can travel to New Hampshire, Hazel dies in a suspicious fall while exploring the inn. Amanda quickly decides to investigate her death. Was it accidental or due to something more sinister?
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