Martha's Vineyard has been home to Victoria Trumbull for most of her ninety-two years. Its magic, history, and picture-perfect calm are part of her very being. But one evening, Victoria hears something that doesn't quite belong: a scream followed by a splash and a sound of a car speeding away. She investigates and discovers a body on the outgoing tide. Despite interruptions from her granddaughter Elizabeth, the harbormaster Domingo, a swarm of Island...

Meeting the mysterious Mahsimba, who is searching for two priceless artworks missing from his African homeland, J.W. Jackson is alarmed when his wife becomes infatuated with the stranger, whose search pits him against dangerous forces in the local art world.

Jackson is hired by a high profile real estate developer when the tension between Vineyard residents and avaricious outsides erupts in a shooting.

A clash between golfers and cyclists stirs up tension on idyllic Martha's Vineyard. Ex-cop J.W. Jackson is buying a pound of shrimp when he's verbally and physically attacked by Yale professor Henry Highsmith, who takes exception to J.W.'s parking his SUV too close to Highsmith's bike. When the professor's wife, Abigail, is run off the road by an old SUV, rumor suggests J.W. is to blame. A round of golf with some friends reveals Highsmith's body buried...

Ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson, bored being on his own when his wife and kids go to visit relatives, agrees to help out a neighbor in Martha's Vineyard by trying to find out who is stalking Roland Nunes, a recluse who is being pressured to sell his Vineyard property, but the job gets complicated when a body turns up near Roland's land and J.W. realizes his quiet client may have something to hide.

Victoria Trumbull, the ninety-two-year-old poet/sleuth, discovers a neighbor's body in the home of one of the three town assessors. The assessors have been skimming off tax money from wealthy landowners and stashing it in their own special retirement funds. Then the private pilot of the not-so-holy clergyman husband of one of these landowners is found dead, floating in his employer's pond, his face gnawed by snapping turtles. Finally, searching for...

When a body is found in the trench where men are laying a fiber-optic cable across Martha's Vineyard, Victoria Trumbell's new boarder tells her he recognizes the dead man as someone who was a potential investor.

"It's just another day at the dentist's office for Victoria Trumbull when fellow patient, wealthy Mrs. Wilmington, dies. It's an unfortunate, though seemingly not murderous incident, but the receptionist is hysterical, so one of the dental assistants offers to drive her home. But after making a quick pit stop, he finds her body floating in the harbor. With the police shorthanded due to an upcoming presidential visit, it's up to Victoria to take on...

A wedding on picturesque Martha's Vineyard promises to be the affair of the season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty 92-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agrees--but she has no idea what's in store for the hapless couple. For one, Penny is seriously in debt and desperate to marry money. She thinks she's on the road to riches when she hooks Rocco Bufano, whose father is a multi-billionaire....