It is nearly midnight when the enormous bell in the belfry of All Faith Chapel -- silent for decades -- peals, startling awake the entire town of Eastport. Upon inspection of the steeple, the police uncover the body of local teenager Karen Hansen, who had climbed the belfry's dark, rickety stairs for a midnight rendezvous. But instead of an exciting new life, Karen met her death. Meanwhile, as an epic nor'easter bears down on the idyllic island town,...

Driving into the woods to her husband's cottage with her best friend, Ellie, Jake has a challenging week ahead of her - she bet her husband that she could finish building the cottage porch in only a few days. But as the women work, they realize they're not alone.

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree discovers that the past she thought she'd laid to rest comes calling at her lovingly restored 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. Back in her days as a hotshot financial manager she did business with plenty of shady characters, but she's still baffled as to the identity of her nemesis--until she receives a photo of a murdered man.

Already hobbled by a nasty tumble off a ladder, Jacobia Tiptree finds her life further complicated by the disappearance of a foul-minded curmudgeon, whose corpse turns up sandwiched between the walls of her cellar.

After more than three decades eluding justice, the man who murdered Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree's mother is finally about to stand trial--until he vanishes into thin air. Jake has a terrible foreboding of where Ozzie Campbell will turn up next. And while the local police chief is sure she's overreacting, the truth is far worse than even Jake's worst fears.

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and best friend, Ellie, try to help Faye Anne, an abused wife, after she's accused of butchering her drunkard husband. In spare moments, Jake weather-strips her 1823 fixer-upper.

Agreeing to help refurbish Harlequin House, a one-time hideout for wounded gangsters, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree uncovers the skeleton of a notorious 1920s flapper, a discovery that is complicated by a new corpse sitting next to the old one.

While volunteering at the State B&B booth during Oktoberfest, Judith McMonigle Flynn stumbles on a dead body. Agreeing not to get involved, Judith convinces her cousin Renie to pose as the sleuth while she does the dirty work to solve this crime.

When Ruby Tooms, the world-weary barmaid she met at Oktoberfest, arrives at her bed-and-breakfast with some unexpected baggage, Judith McMonigle Flynn, after much coercing by her husband, agrees to help Ruby solve the 20-year-old mystery of her mother's murder.