Meg encounters new levels of eccentricity when she volunteers to help with the annual rose show sponsored by the Caerphilly Garden Club, of which her parents have recently become members, but Meg begins a hasty investigation when she learns of a murderous plot.

"While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite makes a startling discovery: the suspect is an active-duty serviceman at a local naval base. After a key piece of case evidence goes missing, he is cleared of charges in a military court. But Tracy knows she can't turn her back on this kind of injustice"--Back cover.

Hannah Swensen agrees to help her business partner, Lisa, prepare for a family reunion, and when Lisa's long-lost Uncle Gus turns up dead, Hannah is shocked to find a secret from his past that has made him a prime target for a long list of suspected killers.

Milla, still searching for her son ten years after he was kidnapped from her arms as an infant, now works through Finders, an agency she started to help find lost and missing children, but her quest puts her in touch with two very different and powerful men, one a generous contributor and one a reputed assassin, and she must decide who to trust and who wants her dead.

Meg Langslow is pulled into another mystery when she discovers a group of penguins and a dead body hiding in her father's basement, and although Meg's dad can explain why the penguins are there, the dead man is another story, and Meg sets out to clear her father's name and discover the victim's identity.

Nuala and Dermot McGrail try to help Damian O'Sullivan, a troubled young man who is being blamed for running down Rodney Keefe in the parking lot of a ritzy Chicago country club.

Ellie Hatcher, an NYPD detective, investigates the murder of New York University sophomore Megan Gunther who had been receiving threats from a stalker via the Internet, but when phone records expose a connection between Megan other murder victims and Megan's roommate disappears, Ellie races to find the killer before it is too late.

"A wealthy businesswoman disappears from her Glasgow home without a trace, leaving her husband and children panicked but strangely resistant to questioning. Tracing the woman's cell phone, police detective Alex Morrow discovers a call made from an unlikely location. A sleepy seaside community, Helensburgh is the last place you'd go looking for violence. But Morrow's investigation uncovers disturbing clues and a dead body in a nearby lake. When a connection...

The holidays have arrived, and Hannah and her good pal Lisa have agreed to provide all the goodies for the town's annual production of A Christmas Carol. But before anyone can say "Bah, humbug!" a Santa-sized sackful of trouble ensues. Like the fact that Lisa's husband will be playing Mr. Claus to his ex-girlfriend Phyllis Bates' Mrs. Claus. Or that before the curtains even go up Phyllis is found dead in the snow - wearing a costume that the real...