A "fast-paced" mystery with "a plot that involves two rival chocolatiers, a wealthy elderly couple from Connecticut, and plenty of local gossip" (Publishers Weekly).

No one in their right mind would vacation in Maine this time of year, but to boost the economy, the town of Tinker's Cove is launching a travel promotion for Valentine's Day. As a reporter for the Pennysaver, Lucy Stone is assigned a puff piece

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Lucy Stone's snooping into the lives and secrets of some of Tinker's Cove's most solid citizens puts her on the path to a dangerous confrontation with a killer who murdered town librarian Bitsy Howell.

After more than three decades eluding justice, the man who murdered Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree's mother is finally about to stand trial--until he vanishes into thin air. Jake has a terrible foreboding of where Ozzie Campbell will turn up next. And while the local police chief is sure she's overreacting, the truth is far worse than even Jake's worst fears.

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree discovers that the past she thought she'd laid to rest comes calling at her lovingly restored 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. Back in her days as a hotshot financial manager she did business with plenty of shady characters, but she's still baffled as to the identity of her nemesis--until she receives a photo of a murdered man.

Meg Langslow and her boyfriend, Michael, plan a romantic island getaway at her aunt's cottage off the coast of Maine, but their plans go awry when they find the cottage occupied by Meg's parents and they are called upon to help clear her father of murder.

When Jacobia Jake Tiptree leaves Wall Street for the charming town of Eastport, Maine, she expects a quiet life fixing up her 1823 Federal-style house. However, the perils of the stock market pale in comparison to the murder, mayhem, and mystery of remodeling.

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her friend Ellie search for proof that the town busybody's disappearance involved foul play, but their sleuthing turns frightening when a series of "accidents" afflicts Jake's family.

"Nail Biter" opens with a group of self-styled "witches" that has taken over an Eastport, Maine waterfront resort for Halloween. Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is called on to answer her new tenants' multiple demands-many dealing with supernatural moaning-but she would rather be excavating an unusual discovery she made in the foundation of her 1823 Federal-style home. Instead, when a fundamentalist preacher turns up dead and all eyes turn to the witches,...

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree traded her power-broker life for a run-down dream house in peaceful Eastport, Maine. But the do-it-yourself enthusiast is learning that no matter how carefully you build your home, murder has a way of slipping in through the cracks. Sheś getting ready to interview a large, angry man with a criminal history. Jim Diamond may or may not be harassing his ex-wife with life-threatening letters, but Jake promised her new housekeeper,...

Lucy Stone, the Tinker's Cove, Maine newspaper reporter has a whole subdivision of peculiar neighbors around her once peaceful farmhouse, and anonymous letters are arriving at her office. The unknown penman alleges that the new football coach, Buck Burkhart, is condoning unsavory behavior by the high school's senior football players toward the junior players and the cheerleaders, one of whom is Lucy's daughter, Sara. But no one is talking or listening,...