Hemlock Falls Mysteries Books in Order

When the Hemlock Falls Ladies' Auxiliary loses its formidable Spring Fete chairwoman, a professional organizer swoops in to save the day, then turns up dead in a used-car trunk. Innkeepers Quill and Meg Quilliam must calm a feuding town and catch a killer before the fete is ruined entirely.

Television rivalries come to Hemlock Falls when a pompous antiques-show host arrives to film an episode and marry a local shop owner. During a live cook-off he drinks poisoned wine and collapses, leaving Quill Quilliam to sift through egos, ratings wars and old grudges to find a murderer.

A notoriously temperamental chef opens an expensive cooking school in Hemlock Falls and starts poaching guests from the Quilliam sisters' inn. When he is found with a knife in his neck and a scrap of a lost recipe in his hand, Quill must clear Meg’s name and uncover who finally had enough of him.

This omnibus volume collects the first two Hemlock Falls mysteries, *A Taste for Murder* and *A Dash of Death*. Readers join innkeepers Quill and Meg as a witch-trial reenactment turns lethal and a home-decorating TV contest leads to disappearance and death in their quiet village.

An inn full of quarrelsome guests would be bad enough, but when one of them is murdered at a nearby pig farm, Hemlock Falls gossip explodes. A visiting psychic predicts another death, bookings vanish and Quill and Meg must restore calm by exposing a very human killer.

Christmas in Hemlock Falls should bring full rooms and good cheer to the inn, yet someone is shooting down inflatable Santas and money is tight. When a magazine editor’s husband dies on the ski slopes during a feature shoot, Quill and Meg must prove it was murder before a lawsuit ruins them.

As Meg Quilliam scrambles to finalize her wedding, Hemlock Falls reels from a barn fire that leaves a body in the ashes and rumors about a proposed nudie bar. When connections between the blaze and the new club surface, the Quilliam sisters hunt a killer before scandal engulfs the town.

March roars into Hemlock Falls when a high-profile jury is sequestered at the inn and protestors fighting the relocation of a Civil War cemetery flood the village. After the protest leader is found dead, Quill and Meg must navigate politics, history and fear to stop another burial.

Meg dreads judging a deep-fried food contest, so the Quilliams hire flamboyant celebrity chef Banion O'Haggerty instead. When a butcher knife vanishes and Banion disappears amid a feud between rival chicken franchises, the sisters have to uncover who is turning up the heat to murder.

Preparing for the 133rd anniversary of the Battle of Hemlock Falls, the Quilliam sisters host Civil War buffs and reenactors at their inn. When guests begin dying and buried truths about the town’s past surface, Quill and Meg must connect old grudges to a very modern poisoner.

A convention of meteorologists promises full rooms and steady meals for the Inn at Hemlock Falls. But when the town’s new computer expert is murdered, forecasts darken. Quill and Meg dig through local rivalries and technological secrets to keep the killer from striking again.

Desperate to buy back the Inn at Hemlock Falls, the Quilliam sisters see their plans derailed when a television producer filming on the property is killed. With money, pride and their beloved inn on the line, they must solve the crime before the bank says no.

Having reluctantly sold the Inn at Hemlock Falls, Quill and Meg watch the new owner thrive until a visiting Texas cattleman is murdered on the premises. Drawn back into the business, they set out to clear the inn’s name and reclaim their place without becoming the next victims.

Tourism has dried up in Hemlock Falls, leaving the Quilliam sisters reliant on a single group of guests, the Crafty Ladies, who turn recyclables into art. When a fire at the inn kills one artist and another soon after, Quill and Meg must uncover who is turning creativity into a motive.

Invited to Palm Beach for a week of sun in exchange for helping with a charity for phobic women, the Quilliam sisters think they have scored a working vacation. They soon learn the "charity" is a petty revenge scheme, and when tempers flare into murder, they are caught in the crossfire.

Hosting the rehearsal dinner for an ambitious ex-senator seeking reelection turns the Inn at Hemlock Falls into a political battlefield. When a member of the party winds up dead, Quill and Meg must stir through campaign secrets and long-standing grudges to find the culprit.

A nosy newspaper reporter sniffing around a proposed mini-mall project in Hemlock Falls uncovers more than zoning issues and ends up dead. Quill and Meg follow a trail of small-town politics, development money and bruised egos to expose who decided to silence him.

Facing a slump at the inn, the Quilliam sisters land a stylish television host to film a decorating show in Hemlock Falls. But when one contest winner disappears and another is found dead, the glamorous production hides a very ugly reason for murder.

During the town's popular History Days festival, a mock witch-trial execution is supposed to be pure theater. When a guest at the inn is actually crushed under a pile of stones, innkeeper Sarah Quilliam and her chef sister Meg must find out who turned reenactment into murder.