Del Norte Public Library

A celebrity author visits Grace Chapel Inn to finish her novel ... and the whole town gets involved in the high-school genealogy project.

The Inn at Gloucester is the lone structure on a rocky Massachusetts shoreline. Former Boston police detective Bill Robinson runs the place as a refuge from life's cruel disappointments. When two strangers arrive for a temporary stay among the permanent residents, they're welcomed with no questions asked by Sheriff Clayton Spears, who lives on the second floor. There's another new resident in town. A crime boss. And he doesn't like the close watch...

Magdalena Yoder ends up in the middle of a baffling mystery when Clarence Webber, an imprisoned con man, succumbs after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, and she sets out to find the killer who poisoned the porridge.

When B. J. Clark, the young and pretty manager of the Lakeside Inn, met the new owner, Taylor Reynolds, she was fully prepared to dislike him. For she feared - with good reason -that he planned to transform her sleepy old hotel into a resort for jet-setters. That sparks should fly between them was inevitable. But that these should be fanned by a mutual passion was no in her plans. Against all reason B.J. found herself torn between her professional...

'One of Britain's finest horror writers' Daily Mail Those who walk their dogs along the Sussex coastline in the morning might wander past St Rosalia's Hospital, and wonder what happens inside the large, mysterious Victorian building that overlooks the sea. Until recently, the hospital was run by one doctor with a total of 15 patients, all of whom were terminally ill. The epidemiologist Dr Vincent Grayling was a pioneering practitioner for his radical...

"Hotel mogul Eben Spencer had learned long ago to keep his eye on the ball and his emotions under wraps. And where had this philosophy got him so far? In business, to the pinnacle of success. And in his personal life, it had brought him one beloved, if unhappy, little girl, and one shattered marriage. And he was not about to embark on another one anytime soon .... But then he met Sage Benedetto. The bewitching nature girl was everything Eben was not--warm,...

Best friends since they hit the books together in college, Bread on Arrival owners Molly Ferris, Carol MacCallan, and Laura Donovan all turned to a new page in their lives when they opened their Scottish bakehouse in Loch Mallaig, Michigan. Now firmly rooted in the quaint village, the Bakehouse Three learn that another newcomer is starting a fresh chapter in town, and they rush to patronize the recently opened used bookshop of retired Detroit police...

"Visitors are arriving in droves to spend Thanksgiving in the mountains of pet-friendly Wagtail, Virginia. Many of them are bringing dog and cat gingerbread houses to enter in the contest that will be held in the new convention center. Wagtail resident Orly Biffle bequeathed the land to the town in his will, provided that they not cut down the grand old oak tree on the property. Orly’s children are mighty miffed that they didn’t inherit the prime...

When Colonel George Custard, the hotel tycoon who had selected her hometown of Hernia, Pennsylvania, as the site for his new five-star hotel, turns up dead, innkeeper and amateur sleuth Magdalena Yoder searces for a killer.

"During ball season, anything can happen- even love. It's ball season in Vienna, and Maria Wallner only wants one thing: to restore her family's hotel, the Hotel Wallner, to its former glory. She's not going to let anything get in her way - not her parents' three-decade-long affair; not seemingly-random attacks by masked assassins; and especially not the broad-shouldered American foreign agent who's saved her life two times already. No matter how...