When reluctant winery owner Norrie Ellington is gifted with cockroach DNA, she thinks things couldn't get worse. But then the body of a noted developer is found at a neighboring winery, and all fingers point to her friend Madeline Martinez. It doesn't help that Madeline was seen having verbal altercations with the man on two different occasions, when he outbid her for lakefront property she planned to use for planting traminette grapes.It's no wonder Madeline has found herself behind bars, and worse yet, someone is gunning for Norrie. With wine to be racked, roach DNA to be stored, and a slew of unsavory suspects, Norrie must put her screenwriting on hold and her sleuthing skills to work before she finds herself alongside her friend, or—heaven forbid—the next victim of a ruthless killer . . .Praise for the Books of J. C. Eaton:"Engaging characters and a stirring mystery kept me captivated from the first page to the last." —Dollycas, Amazon...

Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure has just received an extremely rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works. Rumor has it a secret code, trapped within the books' leather-bound pages, leads to buried treasure. Well, it looks like they got the buried part right, because as Pen sells off the valuable volumes, everyone who buys...dies. Once these books go missing from their owners' cold hands, Pen will need resident ghost and hard-boiled PI Jack Shepard to help crack the case. The police are skeptical that the deaths involved foul play—so it's up to Pen and Jack to unravel these shocking endings...

Box Set 7: Books 25 to 27 Book 25 – When it Rains it Pours A Family Heirloom... a sick Child... and another Murder to Solve! There's a lot going on in Darcy Sweet's life right now and she is beginning to feel just a little overwhelmed. Like everything is coming at her all at once. She feels that the saying, 'When it rains, it pours' couldn't be any more apt. Her precious daughter, Colby, is sick with a mysterious ailment and the doctors aren't able to work out what it is. While caring for her daughter, she receives a package from her mother with a mystery of its own hidden within. If that isn't enough for her to deal with, her husband Jon has a seemingly unsolvable murder to contend with. Aunt Millie is no help at all with her cryptic advice and even Smudge sends a warning from the other side. It's almost too much for Darcy to...

A Son Returned... A Fallen Angel... Another Murder in Shadow Lake!When Kiera's missing son, Alan, turns up at Stonecrest with no memory of where he's been for the past week the Kilorian sisters welcome him with open arms.It becomes quickly apparent that the young man is unaware of his heritage... namely that he is the son of a witch and a fallen angel.Meanwhile, the current town manager, Seth Hunter, drops dead on stage at the local government debate. Addie Kilorian knows that it wasn't from natural causes.Was magic involved in this death?At the onset of the investigation, Addie gets on the wrong side of Lucian Knight causing a rift in their fledgling relationship.With so much happening will Addie and her sisters be able to solve the murder? And will Lucian ever speak to Addie again?