Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool's prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic -- if rarely tranquil -- South Carolina island of Broward's Rock has made it appear as if Annie is accusing some of her neighbors of murder. In the wink of a bloodshot eye, the Darling name is mud…and then the Broward's Rock body count starts mysteriously increasing. And now it's up to Annie to follow the well-hidden trail...

During a 2 am feeding for her four-month-old twins, Meg Langslow investigates a noise and finds dozens of animals in her living room - from cats and dogs to a foul-mouthed macaw. It turns out her kindhearted father and zoologist grandfather are part of a group of citizens that has stolen the local shelter's animals to protest the repeal of their no-kill policy. But the volunteer who was to transport the animals to their new homes has been murdered....

A fiery glowing eye in a museum, the abduction of Ned, the code name Cyclops, and a pilotless helicopter draw Nancy and her friends into a dangerous investigation.

Nancy Drew comes to the aid of the owners of a local dancing school when they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives.

"This second installment in Johanna Mo's The Island Murders Trilogy finds Detective Hanna Duncker contending with new questions and discoveries that threaten to upend everything she thought she knew about her family"--