Suburban mom Jane Jeffry and her equally green-thumbless best friend Shelley Nowack could kill plastic plants. But their scheme to improve themselves vegetatively dies on the vine when the celebrated botanist slated to teach a class at the local Community Center is mysteriously beaten into a coma -- and her replacement turns out to be Dr. Stewart Eastman, an arrogant, self-promoting boor. Did Dr. Eastman or a fellow classmate assault their ori...
This award-winning author delivers the sixth delightful Depression-era mystery in her entertaining series. When a red swastika is painted on a widow's window, and a train porter is found dead, Lily and Robert Brewster know something dark has moved into their town. Original.
Living high in Manhattan until the Crash of 1929, Lily Brewster and her brother Robert now reside and their late great-uncle's Hudson Valley estate. While tearing down an ice house on the property, Robert discovers a well-dressed mummified human corpse. As Lily works with attractive Police Chief Howard Walker on the local front, Robert pursues the Manhattan connection to this John Doe's identity.
Jane and her best friend Shelley Nowick are asked to be the decorators for a big house renovation being done by a group of feminists. As the project proceeds, it's haunted by a series of malicious pranks and a suspicious death.
Living comfortably in their late great-uncle's "Grace and Favor" mansion, siblings Robert and Lily Brewster are riding out the Depression. When a resident of a local nursing home is murdered, the Brewsters realize the police need their assistance.
Jane Jeffry and her best friend, Shelley Nowack, must make things "write" when malicious mischief makers cause chaos--and spill blood--at a local mystery writers convention.
Life in the suburbs, contrary to rumor, is not exactly a bed of roses. When Jane Jeffrey's best friend's cleaning lady is found dead, Jane begins to ponder just how many secrets a cleaning lady could know--which leads her to a ring of domestic blackmailers and breath-taking suspense.
Suburban Chicago widow, Jane Jeffry hates cooking, but loves food. She can't think of a worse fate than a rustic outing in a Wisconsin resort where she discovers a corpse, seemingly bludgeoned by a frying pan. When the body disappears and the "victim" reappears, Jane sets out to find out what's going on in this wacky wilderness wonderland.
Despite unexpected (and unwelcome) visitors and church bazaar problems single mother Jane Jeffrey investigates two connected murders during the Christmas season.
For sister and brother Lily and Robert Brewster and the rest of Hudson Valley, the dark days of the Depression mean deprivation all around. Their poor town has lost its post office and now the mail gets dumped at the train station. When Robert helps a young widow haul her newly arrived German grandfather's trunks home, he thinks he may have found a new set of friends. But when a swastika is found painted on the widow's window, and the train po...