Lawyer Seymour Lipp tries to help a teenage girl who was persuaded by her father to give her baby up for adoption-and now wants to change her decision. Her father, Paul Morrissey, had arranged the adoption through a shady lawyer to a Vietnam vet and his wife. When Morrissey is murdered, Lipp investigates several people who would benefit from his death. [Second Seymour Lipp mystery] Mystery by Stephen Lewis; originally published by Walker Mystery

Growing up in mid-century Brooklyn, Seymour Lipp's nemesis is Junior Constantino. Seymour becomes an attorney, Junior a petty criminal. Both at different times have been involved with the sensuous Lois. When Junior is accused of a rape murder he enlists Seymour as his defense attorney. Out of this tangled triangle, The Monkey Rope tells a story that grabs you and doesn't let go. Mystery by Stephen Lewis; originally published by Walker

The harsh realities of village life in Colonial New England are fertile ground for gossip and superstition. Catherine Williams, a wealthy widow and midwife, refuses to believe that an Irish Catholic servant girl is to blame for the mysterious death of a newborn infant Catherine delivered. With the help of her Native American assistant, Massaquoit, she must use the town’s own religious prejudices to discover the truth. Historical Mystery by Stephen Lewis; originally published as a Berkley Prime Crime

Midwife Catherine Williams’s neighbor, Isaac Powell, is found dead and scalped. Suspicion falls on Catherine’s Indian assistant Massaquoit, but Powell’s apprentice has also disappeared. Catherine and Massaquoit search for the truth in their different—and sometimes dangerous--ways, gathering clues to the dark secrets hidden in the Puritan village of Newbury. Historical Mystery by Stephen Lewis; originally published by Berkely Prime Crime

Catherine Williams, midwife and widowed shipowner, takes in two Quaker siblings, Jane and Roger Whitcomb. When a sailor is found dead, and then there’s contention at the Puritan services, the Quakers are suspect. Catherine’s Native American assistant, Massaquoit, saves Roger’s life once, but someone is determined. And Catherine is determined to find out who the killer is. Third in the Colonial American mystery trilogy by Stephen Lewis; originally published by Berkley