Campbell Hale by Peggy O’Neal Peden

My name is Campbell Hale. I manage a travel agency in Nashville, where I live on a bluff overlooking the Cumberland River. My home is in the Donelson area of Nashville near Opry Mills Mall and The Opry House, east of downtown, which is not to be confused with East...

DCI Arthur St. Just by G.M. Malliet

Transcript of a speech by DCI St. Just before the members of the Battlescove Women’s Institute. Good evening. My name is Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary. Yes, Madam, the University town. Not far from here. You have a son in...

Juliet Montague Capshaw by Ellie Alexander

Do you ever have the sense that just as everything is starting to come together, something is about to fall apart? That’s the feeling I couldn’t shake on a late autumn afternoon in my sweet Shakespearean town of Ashland, Oregon. I should have been blissfully content....

Pandora Feeney by Wendy Corsi Staub

Welcome to Lily Dale, the upstate New York birthplace of modern spiritualism and a town entirely populated by psychic mediums to this day—with one notable exception, of course, but we’ll get to her in a moment. Do come in, and we’ll get acquainted over a cup of proper...

Lyra St Claire by C.A. Phipps

I’m Lyra St Claire, celebrity chef. At least I was until my scheming agent and the contestant from a cooking contest I was judging ruined my career and stole every cent. Yes, I was a talk-show host, cooking judge and the owner of a fancy LA restaurant. Now I’m back in...

Tish Tarragon by Amy Patricia Meade

When I quit my job in banking and opened Cookin’ the Books café, little did I know that I’d discover I possessed a hidden talent for solving crimes. But after solving four separate murder cases with the Hobson Glen sheriff’s office, here I am, Tish Tarragon:...