When a deputy asks for help with a wedding proposal and a man connected to his future wife is found dead, Nora Pennington and her fellow readers investigate the connection to the woman's past and the secret she is hiding from everyone.

"When Miss Julia hears that Miss Mattie Freeman has taken a fall and is in the hospital, she wishes she'd spent more time getting to know the woman—and not just because she's the last person in town to hear about the accident! So when the tumble proves fatal, the last thing Miss Julia expects is a phone call from Mr. Ernest Sitton, Attorney at Law: Miss Julia is named executor of Mattie Freeman’s last will and testament, and it looks like her...

When his father is stricken with Alzheimer's, Barry Clayton is forced to take over the family funeral home, until a bizarre mass murder at a funeral draws Barry into an alliance with the local county sheriff to find the killer.

"From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt's WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated...

After North Carolinas richest and most notorious heiress dies, her adopted son, Camden, rejects his inheritance until 10 years later, when his uncle's death pulls him and his wife back into the family fold at Ashby House where he realizes the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.

When snooty Judson Sizemore breezes into Timber Ridge, North Carolina, to open an upper-crust pizza parlor near A Slice of Delight, Eleanor and Maddie Swift's biggest worry is that their beloved restaurant's days are numbered--until they hear that Judson has met a most gruesome end.

"Margaret Maron is back with a new mystery featuring her critically acclaimed sleuth Judge Deborah Knott"--Provided by publisher.

When Maddy's cheating ex-husband shows up in Timber Ridge with a scheme to win Maddy back, and is later found stabbed to death with a barbecue skewer, Maddy and Eleanor must investigate to find the killer.

In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.