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Maggie never imagined she would be the prime suspect in a murder case. When a lavish party hosted by her landlady, Mrs. Peacock, ends with a dead body in front of Maggie's cottage, the quiet life she cherished is shattered. The body belongs to Matthew Spencersmith, Fair Haven’s youngest city councilman. Whispers spread quickly, suggesting Maggie was his secret mistress who snapped upon learning of his engagement to a high-society woman.

Summer tourist season is winding down, but the Cape Bay police find a dead body in the alley beside Mary Ellen's Souvenirs and Gifts. Police rule it a suicide, but Francesca Amaro knows it's murder. Who would buy a bag of souvenirs, including a box of delicious marzipan, only to commit suicide moments later? Even though the police tell her to stay out of the case, Fran is too curious not to investigate, even though she's running a busy and popular cafe.

Maggie Bell loves working at a bookshop in the charming town of Fair Haven, Connecticut. After her beloved boss passes away, his son, Joshua Whitfield, comes into town and turns Maggie’s world upside down. He wants to turn part of the store into a cafe and sell books about vampires and silly romances. Maggie is horrified. But when an electrician is killed in the middle of the bookshop renovations, Joshua is the prime suspect.

It's almost Christmastime in Cape Bay, and another murder has everyone in town talking. A despised new drama teacher at the local high school is killed in the school's parking lot. The police arrest a beloved teacher, Mrs. Crowsdale, but everyone else thinks she is too nice to murder anyone. Mike, however, says they have solid evidence that proves she did it. Sammy is particularly devastated. Mrs. Crowsdale was her favorite teacher and still her hero. Sammy begs Fran to find the real culprit.

It's almost Thanksgiving, and Fran is baking her family's famous apple pies for the cafe. While pie fever spreads through Cape Bay, a world-famous artist holds a special art show in the town's modest museum in honor of his late mother, who grew up there....

Fran is anticipating her trip to Italy with Matty...until a precious diamond ring is stolen from the town's jewelry store and an employee is murdered. Fran suspects the store owner of insurance fraud, but what if she's wrong? Would her life be at stake again if she butts in on another police investigation?

When Matt whisks Fran away on a romantic spa weekend at the Alford Inn, she's excited to try French macarons from Jacques de Gaulle, the inn's famous in-house baker. But when an off-duty employee is murdered in the spa - during a mud wrap treatment no less - Fran must use the time she could've been relaxing to solve another murder case. A friend's crumbling marriage depends on it! 

Fran throws Matt a birthday party at the cafe and invites all of Cape Bay to attend. Halfway into the party, many of the guests become sick, and some end up in the ER. Fran fears the cause was food poisoning, but Detective Mike Stanton informs her that it was actual poison - someone at the party intentionally poisoned the pastries or punch.

Inmitten der geschäftigen Weihnachtszeit steht Clémence Damour vor einer doppelten Herausforderung: Sie muss nicht nur ihre Hochzeit planen, sondern auch das perfekte Brautkleid finden. Als sie in der charmanten Boutique La Belle im 6. Arrondissement nach ihrem Traumkleid sucht, wird die Designerin tot aufgefunden. Inspektor Cyril St. Clair ist überzeugt, dass es der Ex-Freund der Designerin war – doch wie so oft liegt er falsch.

On New Year's Day, Fran takes her dog Latte on a walk. Luck of all luck, she finds a dead blonde on the sidewalk—right outside Ryan's house. Sammy, Fran's best friend, has been staying with Ryan, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. Fran can't just sit back and watch her best friend—and the cafe's best latte-maker—go to jail.

Clémence ist voller Vorfreude, als sie zur Pariser Modewoche aufbricht, um ihren Freund Marcus, einen aufstrebenden Modedesigner, zu unterstützen. Doch als die Leiche von Marcus' Assistentin hinter den Kulissen entdeckt wird, verwandelt sich das glamouröse Event in einen Schauplatz des Verbrechens. Plötzlich ist jeder verdächtig: das atemberaubende Supermodel Gabrielle, eine berühmte Makeup-Artistin, der frustrierte Friseur und eine neugierige Modebloggerin, die immer auf der Suche nach dem nächsten großen Skandal ist.

Als die Leiche einer berühmten Schauspielerin in der Seine entdeckt wird, beginnt Clémence am Set eines Hollywood-Films, der gerade in Paris gedreht wird, zu ermitteln. Doch die Lage spitzt sich dramatisch zu: Als kurz darauf auch die persönliche Assistentin des Stars tot aufgefunden wird, wird der Fall immer rätselhafter. Clémence bleibt nur ein geheimnisvolles rotes Notizbuch, dessen Seiten in einem rätselhaften Code geschrieben sind. Welche dunklen Geheimnisse verbergen sich darin? Und welche Schatten lauern hinter der glamourösen Fassade des Filmsets?

Als Clémence Damour ihren Geburtstag in der Patisserie ihrer Familie im 16. Arrondissement feiert, ist die Stimmung ausgelassen. Doch die Feier endet jäh: Einer ihrer Gäste wird am Ende des Abends tot aufgefunden. War es wirklich Selbstmord, oder hat einer der anderen Partygäste etwas damit zu tun? Während Clémence versucht, den Schock zu verarbeiten, kommen immer mehr Geheimnisse ans Licht, und jeder Anwesende scheint ein Motiv zu haben.

Joshua hires staff for the bustling bookshop café in charming Fair Haven. A reluctant and shy Maggie soon warms up to the new barista Babs and stock boy Casper. When Maggie notices some older boys taunting Casper after work, she helps him escape. But the next day, one of the bullies is found dead in the park with his throat slashed. Can quiet, secretive Casper really be a killer? Maggie butts into policeman Gary’s investigation to find out.

Octavian takes Barbara on a seniors’ cruise for her 71st birthday, but the vacation is not all piña coladas and shuffleboard. Barbara makes a frenemy in Georgina Branch, queen bee to a group of equally conniving girlfriends. Barbara is sure one or all of them killed the passenger, who accidentally fell overboard early in the trip. Barbara and Octavian are stuck on a ship with a murderer, but at least, the cruise has plenty of booze.

When Barbara attends a fancy charity dinner with Octavian at the Cheerville Country Club, the evening ends with a man getting stabbed to death in the men’s restroom. Barbara is the first to assess the scene, making her a prime suspect until she makes a call to the CIA. With an unlikely ally, she must rub shoulders with more of Cheerville’s finest to uncover which of these privileged old folks had the motivation to kill the new guy in town.

When a big Hollywood film production comes to Cheerville, the town goes into a tizzy over action star Cliff Armstrong. But when his stunt double is killed on set, Barbara quickly deduces it was no accident and Cliff was meant to be the target. To hunt the killer, Barbara infiltrates the movie set as an extra, but she quickly lands a speaking role against the handsome Cliff Armstrong himself. Can she protect Cliff from a dangerous murderer lurking on set, prevent the town from going up in smoke, and star in Hollywood’s next blockbuster without blowing her cover?

Ex-CIA agent Barbara Gold witnesses a woman being struck down by a car in broad daylight. It was no hit-and-run but plain, cold-blooded murder. After some sleuthing, Barbara discovers the strangest fact yet about sleepy Cheerville, New England: There’s a nudist colony on the edge of town, and the victim was an active member. Barbara must go on the hardest mission of her career - bare her 70-year-old body for all to see - in order to solve another bizarre murder mystery.

Retired CIA agent Barbara Gold is getting ready for her dinner date with new love, Octavian, when a stealthy intruder breaks into her home and tries to kill her with a serrated knife. Even at 70 years old, Barbara is able to fight him off and still have enough energy for a romantic evening. The expertly trained hit man will come back for her soon, and Barbara only has a few days before her family returns from vacation to find out who he is, how he knows her, and why he wants her killed.

Retired CIA agent Barbara Gold decides to take up gardening to pass the time in Cheerville. Before she can pay for her peat moss and a copy of Gardening for Numbskulls at the garden shop, she overhears two ladies gossiping about the death of Cheerville's best gardener....