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Welcome to Normal, Kentucky~ where nothing is normal.

It's Labor Day weekend in Normal, and if you know anything about camping and RVing, you know it's one of the busiest times of the year. Unfortunately, Daniel Boone National Park is in danger of being closed due to a drought and local businesses are scrambling for ideas to survive a possible shutdown.

Happy Trails Campground is at the center of a murder in which campers as well locals are suspects. It looks likely that a local resident is responsible for the dastardly deed since the victim is the one person who had the power to shut down the national park, which would be devastating to Normal’s small businesses.

It is coming up the the Labor Day weekend, the campground is pretty well full, with one group (oddly) not being a family group but a group of young men on a stag/batchelor weekend, everything SHOULD be running smoothly, but there are rumours that a drought will shut the adjacent national park down, which of course means that Happy Trails would close and this would then knock on to the businesses in Normal.  Still everything seems to be running well until the groom to be gets rather drunk and has an argument with one of the local rangers, a ranger that Mae finds dead just of one of the trails the following day!  Oh and just to add to the problems the groom has gone missing (as has a local white collar prison inmate), even this wouldn't be too bad until Mae goes to meet a local reporter and finds her shot through the head!

Now Mae, the Laundry Club ladies and Hank Sharp (the local detective) need to figure out what has happened to who, why and when if Normal is ever going to have normality!

Maggie Crozat is back home in bayou country during the most magical time of the year. In Pelican, Louisiana, Christmastime is a season of giant bonfires on the levee, zydeco carols, and pots of gumbo. Except, this year, the Grinch has come to stay at the family-run Crozat Plantation B&B. When he floods travel websites with vicious reviews, Maggie thinks she’s identified him as rival businessman Donald Baxter. That is, until he’s found stabbed to death at Maggie’s workplace. And Maggie and her loved ones become top suspects.

The Crozats quickly establish alibis, but Maggie’s boyfriend, Detective Bo Durand, remains under suspicion. With Bo sidelined during the investigation, Maggie finds herself forced to work with an unlikely ally: longtime family enemy Rufus Durand. Her sleuthing uncovers more suspects than drummers drumming, and lands her in the crosshairs of the murderer.

The sleigh bells are jingling, and the clock is ticking for Maggie and Rufus, who must catch the killer or it will be the opposite of a Joyeux Noël.

Christmas, a time of goodwill to all men ..... or (sadly) a time for a Troll to try and smear the Crozat Plantation B&B, a time for murder and a time for the Ghost of Christmas Past to arrive in the form of Maggie's ex from New York. 

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When Maggie gets home from the hospital she has one of the guests complaining, she has to head to work at Doucet where that has been a change at the top and a new manager (Tannis) seems determined to ruin everything.  But nothing can ruin things as fast as Maggie taking a tour round (trying not to gag at the badly written script for a Living History Tour that Tannis wrote) and discovering Donald Baxter aka Steve Harmon dead as a doornail in one of the rooms!

Now Maggie has to team up with Rufus Durand (who seems to have had a sea change and no longer hates the Crozats) to find out who killed Harmon (Bo is off the case) and make sure that Crozat Plantation survives to see another Christmas.

She saved Carraigfaire—but can she save her friends?

Gethsemane Brown fought off an attack by a sleazy hotel developer who wanted to turn her Irish cottage into a tourist trap. Now she must face a vengeful ghost determined to exact revenge for her murder centuries ago.

This ghost’s wrath spares no one—not Gethsemane’s students, Inspector Niall O’Reilly, fellow teacher Frankie Grennan, or a group of ghost hunters descended on Dunmullach to capture proof ghosts exist.

Proof Gethsemane has to quash to keep Eamon, her resident ghost and friend, from becoming an internet sensation.

As if a spiteful specter wasn’t bad enough, a crooked music reviewer turns up dead in the opera house orchestra pit, a famous composer is arrested for the crime, and Gethsemane must team up with a notorious true-crime author to clear his name.

If she doesn’t, friends will die, a ghost she cares about will never know peace, and she’ll star in a final act gruesome enough for any opera.

Gethsemene should be able to relax after the stress she has gone through recently, but nothing is ever that straight forward! Her landlord has another money making scheme and this involves a group of TV ghost hunters coming to search for Eamon (if they get proof her and Eamon's life/afterlife will never be the same), one of the team has a fascination with a creepy story from Eastern Europe and she is really happy (in a macabre way) to find out that a local composer has written an opera about it.  Apparently the ghost in this tale has serious vengeance issues and will kill first born sons and anyone who tries to make money out of her death.

This would all be well and good, only Maga isn't just a tale, she is a real, very vengeful spirit and before long boys from her class, Frankie (the maths teacher), Niall (the Garda Inspector) and Hardy (one of the TV team) are laid up with an unexplained, very nasty disease.  Oh and add in the fact that there has been a murder (granted the corpse was an unpleasant so and so but even HE didn't deserve that!) and the composer of the opera Aed is suspect number 1!

Now Gethsemene has a house guest and partner in seeking out the truth of the crime, and she needs Eamon's help to get rid of the spirit, the downside is it may take him down as well.

Daisy Swanson and her Aunt Iris run a delightful shop in Pennsylvania’s Amish country with an emphasis on tasty teas and treats—but murder is not so sweet . . .

As local merchants unite to attract tourists for a much anticipated weekend quilting event, business is sure to spill over into eateries like Daisy’s Tea Garden. Gorgeous craftwork is hanging everywhere—but among the quilts, potholders, and placemats, one gallery owner is wrapped up in some dangerous affairs . . .

Reese Masemer had been dating one of Daisy’s employees, Tessa, an artist, though their last interaction was as strained as a cup of loose leaf tea. Now Reese has been found dead near a covered bridge where Tessa’s been practicing her sketches. She’s the obvious suspect, but Daisy’s learning that there were some major secrets in Reese’s background, and several of his relationships were infused with resentment. To save Tessa, she’ll have to find out who’s tainted this quaint little town with murder . . .

Katherine Hamilton's goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheford, Maryland. Fifteen years later she's got a degree in hospitality management and a great job supervising every aspect of the day-to-day operations of a high-end boutique hotel on the Baltimore waterfront. Then her high school best friend asks her to come talk with the town leaders of Asheford, but she won't say why. Kate can't cut her last link to her past, so she agrees to make the short trip across the state to Asheford.

Once Kate arrives, the town council members reveal that their town is on the verge of going bankrupt, and they've decided that Kate's skills and knowledge make her the perfect person to cure all their ills. The town has used its last available funds to buy the huge Victorian mansion just outside of town, hoping to use it to attract some of the tourists who travel to visit the nearby Civil War battle sites. Kate has less-than-fond memories of the mansion, for personal reasons, but to make matters worse, the only person who has presented a possible alternate plan is Cordelia Walker--Kate's high school nemesis, who had a hand in driving Kate away from Asheford so many years.

But a few days later Kate receives a call from the police--Cordelia has been found dead on the mansion property, and Kate is all-but certain that her name is high on the suspect list. She finds herself juggling the murder investigation and her growing fascination with the magnificent old house that turns out to be full of long-hidden mysteries itself. Kate knows she must clear her name and save her town--before she ends up behind bars.