Margaret Strom
1) Last Supper
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Who knew bingo could be deadly?
When abrasive trophy-wife Stacy Mellomaker winds up dead on the floor of a bingo fundraiser few of the townsfolk are shedding tears. The doctors believe she died from an accidental overdose of painkillers, but Stacy's ghost, as well as her sister, insist it was foul play.
Kay is hired to investigate, but it's hard to determine whodunit when the whole town is chock-full of people who all have motive for murder.
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April showers bring murder!
Donations are pouring in for the charity yard sale, but as Kay and her friends sort through the glassware and gently used appliances, they discover a real skull in a box of old Halloween decorations.
The find re-opens a years-old missing person case, giving a local family closure but opening up a trunk-load of questions.
Kay is on the job, digging into a cold case that someone never wanted brought to light.
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Kay acquired a beautiful antique sideboard at an estate auction, but a ghost has unfortunately conveyed with the furniture. Her stately Victorian isn't big enough for this additional spirit, but Kay isn't sure who is haunting the sideboard or why. And finding out the identity and motivations of the ghost might not be enough to convince the spirit to move on. A murder, a cover-up, and a bushel full of secrets come to light, along with a guilt that...
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Kay's newest case is a heartbreaker!
When Lawrence Lincoln wants to gift his life savings to help the sick granddaughter of Tricia Wellmore, a woman he met on a dating site, his friend and neighbor, Eloise, hires Kay to do a background check. Everything initially appears legitimate, but as Kay digs deeper, it's clear this internet match is far from perfect.
Kay needs to use all her resources to find who the scammer is and bring them to justice before...
5) Junkyard Man
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Kay Carrera sees ghosts. And when the dead turn to her for help, she just can't say no. Mr. Peter has lived across the street long before Kay moved into her house, and over the decades the collection of old washing machines, lawn mowers, and refrigerators in his front and back yard has reached the point where it's nearly impossible to find the front door. The man is an eccentric recluse, but how can anyone dislike a kindly person who loves old pottery...
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The stroke of midnight brings murder.
What could be more magical than a black tie Christmas party where those attending will socialize and rub elbows with the most prominent lawyers and judges in the state? Kay is enjoying the food, the wine, the conversation-and a dance with Judge Beck to the music of an elegant string quartet.
But when she finds a dead body in an upstairs bathroom, Kay's fairytale evening hits a sour note. Is the murderer a jilted...
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Valentine's Day in Locust Point brings love, puppies...and murder!
Everyone is enchanted by Olive's new puppy - even an initially wary Taco. Thinking she might want to add a furry friend to her own home, Daisy convinces Kay to go with her on a whirlwind tour of shelters, rescues, and breeders. But puppy loves comes to an abrupt end when the two women find well-known animal advocate Prucilla Downing dead in a pile of broken trophies and slashed fur...
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Marriage can be murder.
Kay's first real case as a licensed investigator is to track down a suspected mistress and the possible hidden assets of an estranged husband. It all seems pretty routine, but when the financial trail leads Kay down a rabbit hole of laundered money and bank fraud, a boring divorce case gets interesting.
Just as Kay closes in on what seems to be the white collar crime of the century, the husband drops dead in his morning coffee-coffee...
9) Cold Waters
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A narrowly escaped tragedy has Suzette thinking about filling in the old pond at the rear of her property-or even selling off that section of land entirely. Kay's friend and neighbor has tried to keep the remaining portion of the family farm as unchanged as possible, but pond restoration is an undertaking too expensive for her budget.
But not everyone in town approves. Before she can even file the paperwork, Suzette is besieged by land developers,...
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David Driver isn't the only one buried in his grave. Kay's friend Olive has a family feud on her hands over who should have inherited the only remaining plot in their family section of the cemetery. When a cousin finally gives in and agrees to relocate her son's casket, the cemetery staff discover there's an extra body in the plot.
Was the mysterious woman murdered by an ex-boyfriend? A family member seeking revenge? Was David's grave just a convenient...
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When the red on the page isn't spilled ink...
Best-selling author Luanne Trainor has come to Locust Point to speak. The writer's arrival has the small town abuzz with excitement, but Ms. Trainor isn't what the bio on her book's dust jacket proclaims.
What should have been an elegant affair turns ugly with accusations and threats, and there is no lack of suspects when the author is found dead following the meet-and-greet. Could the murderer be another...
12) Fire and Ice
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Snow, arson, and murder!
On a wintery vacation with the kids, Kay and the judge stumble across a barn fire. What appeared to be an accidental blaze turns out to be arson, with the charred timbers hiding a dead body.
Adding sleuthing to her holiday itinerary, Kay finds herself investigating and ghost-hunting the murder with two new kindred spirits. Surrounded by mountains and snow, she'll juggle solving the crime as well as facing her fears on the...
13) The Tell All
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Life at sixty isn't quite what Kay Carrera expected. She's working as a skip-tracer for a PI who is desperate to land his own reality TV show. She has a new roommate who arrived with more than the usual amount of baggage. And her attempts at knitting are less than stellar-way less than stellar. Worse, the cataract surgery that restored her sight has also delivered an unexpected and disturbing side-effect. Kay sees ghosts. And when the dead turn to...