Margaret Dumas Books in Order

Theater director Charley Van Leeuwen returns to San Francisco with a husband whose past remains uncertain. Discovering a dead woman in their hotel suite interrupts the honeymoon and makes Jack's unusual skills increasingly relevant.

Newlywed theatrical producer Charley Fairfax goes undercover at a San Francisco software company after her husband investigates suspicious deaths. Her unfamiliarity with office life complicates a plan to expose a killer among high-tech executives.

After losing another marketing job, Becks Mansfield tries to balance career ambitions with friendship and romance. Work involving an animated vampire and an impending destination wedding complicate her search for the right professional and personal life.

Nora Paige leaves Hollywood after her actor husband's betrayal and takes refuge at a San Francisco movie theater. Financial irregularities, a murdered stranger and the ghost of a former usherette disrupt her new beginning.

Palace theater manager Nora Paige juggles a threatening developer, her unfaithful husband's overtures and a secret friendship with a ghost. A murder connected to the theater gives her a more urgent problem to solve.

Nora Paige hosts an online game's launch at the Palace theater, only for the event to end in murder. When an owner is accused, she and ghostly usherette Trixie investigate to protect the theater.

In 1930, young Trixie watches her sister Betty begin work as a seamstress at the Palace theater. When a visiting vaudeville troupe’s backstage tensions lead to murder, the sisters must find the culprit while keeping the performance afloat.