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I know my brother is dead. But sometimes Mama gets confused. There’s plenty about the grownup world that six-year-old Aoife doesn’t understand. Like what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital instead of home where she belongs. Uncle Donny says she just needs to be patient, but Aoife’s sure her mama won’t be able to come home until Aoife learns what really happened to her brother. The trouble is no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. But by whom?

The Welsh borders, 1870s. On the cusp of adulthood, Eliza Mace is battling for her independence. Stuck in a crumbling manor house on the fringe of a small town, she is thwarted by powers that conspire to protect, control and deceive her. But when her father goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Eliza’s determination to uncover the truth is unstoppable. Joining forces with the charismatic new police constable, Dafydd Pritchard, she sets out to solve the case, but that’s no easy task. Her father has run up debts in town and beyond, and there are many who bear him a grudge.

Magda Trudell is the present-day caretaker of Whimbrel Estate, the Key West home of the famous poet Isobel Reyes. Isobel's suicide at the residence in 1918 has nearly overshadowed her creative legacy, but Magda, a botanist and avid historian, is determined to protect it. Over the past decade, Magda has lovingly restored the house to the exact condition Isobel would have known. And even though a fierce October hurricane is headed straight for the Keys, she isn't about to abandon her life's work to evacuate.

Eliza, żwawa księgowa z Kraśnika, nie może uwierzyć w samobójstwo sąsiadki, która zginęła, wypadając z okna. Dzieli się wątpliwościami ze swoją wieloletnią przyjaciółką Malwiną. Obie panie postanawiają wziąć sprawy w swoje ręce... Nieboszczka w opinii Elizy tryskała radością, a przecież osoby szczęśliwe nie odbierają sobie życia! Malwina i Eliza, dzielny osiedlowy duet, wszczynają śledztwo, poświęcając nań zaplanowany wspólny urlop, choć każda decyduje się na to z innych powodów.

Malwina i Eliza, dwie przyjaciółki z Kraśnika, postanawiają spędzić Wielkanoc z dala od domu. Zbieg okoliczności sprawia, że trafiają do małej wioski w okolicach Giżycka, a spotkanie z ogrodowym krasnalem zmusza je do zmiany kwatery. Pensjonat "Olszynka" wydaje się idealnym miejscem na świąteczny wypoczynek - dysponuje rozległym terenem rekreacyjnym, urokliwą rzeczką w pobliżu, dostępem do jeziora i... zaskakującym wysypem nieboszczek. Nie można zatem się dziwić, że zachwycone rozrywką kraśniczanki z zapałem przystępują do śledztwa.

When Greta overhears the library board president and a member of the treasure-hunting club arguing about a secret discovery, her curiosity is piqued—even more so when one of the women leaves a book with a sequence of strange markings on its pages in the library book return bin. Before Greta can ask about the marginalia, the book's outspoken owner turns up dead.

Librarian Greta Plank is hard at work planning and preparing for Larkspur's Fall Festival and regional tourism showcase which, if successful, will be a boon to the local economy. But disaster strikes and chances of a positive review look slimmer than a periodical's spine when a series of pranks escalates and one of Larkspur's own is found dead the same day the reporter is set to arrive.

Greta Plank, library director in the small lakeside town of Larkspur, Wisconsin, prefers her rose-tinted glasses extra rosy, thank you very much. It's how she copes with the hard stuff in life . . . like her sister's death and her ex-boyfriend's deception. But Greta's cheery resolve takes a hit when she stumbles upon a dead body on her way home from work. What she assumes is a terrible accident Greta soon learns is something more sinister, and to make matters worse, a new-to-town detective cites her as not only his primary source for the case, but his top suspect.