Molly MacRae Books in Order

New museum curator Lewis Wilder just wants a quiet life in Nolichucky, Tennessee. Instead, rumors link him to a string of burglaries, and when a local man is murdered, Lewis becomes the prime suspect.

Bookstore owner Margaret Welch loves her peaceful Stonewall, Tennessee life, until dead pigeons, arson, and a developer's murder upend the town. With her meddling sister Bitsy stirring the pot, Margaret has to sort gossip from motive fast.

Kath Rutledge returns to Blue Plum to settle her grandmother's affairs and inherits a fiber shop, a lively needlework group, and a gloomy ghost. When a murder leaves her grandmother under suspicion, Kath starts sleuthing.

A day trip to learn natural dyeing turns grim when Kath and her friends find two bodies at Cloud Hollow Farm. With Geneva the ghost urging her on, Kath follows the threads toward another killer.

This collection gathers Margaret and Bitsy mysteries first seen in magazines, following the Tennessee sisters through small-town trouble, family friction, and murder. Margaret wants quiet in her bookstore life. Bitsy has other plans.

While teaching at a living history farm, Kath watches an archaeological dig uncover human bones and old secrets. When another death follows, she and Geneva dig into a mystery buried for years.

Blue Plum's historical festival ends in gunfire when a local baker is shot during a reenactment. As whispers of a sniper spread and suspicion falls near her shop, Kath must unravel the truth.

During Blue Plum's arts and crafts fair, a returning bagpiper is found dead in full regalia. Kath, TGIF, and Geneva push past town grudges and old history before the killer strikes again.

Four new owners of a Highland bookshop hope for a smooth start in Inversgail, Scotland. Then vandalism, nasty letters, and a reporter's murder in a garden shed pull Janet Marsh and her friends into the case.

A famous environmental writer comes home to Inversgail and quickly stirs up trouble for the bookshop, library, and school. When a young man dies outside a pub, Janet and the Yon Bonnie Books crew are drawn in.

As Blue Plum prepares to open a new co-op, two embroiderers accuse each other of fakes, theft, and sabotage. When one woman is murdered with scissors from Kath's shop, even Geneva becomes a key witness.

A true crime writer arrives in Inversgail claiming she's researching a murder, but her questions point elsewhere. After Janet first finds a fake corpse and then a real one, Yon Bonnie Books is tangled in a dangerous puzzle.

Janet Marsh finds a retired doctor dead beside his bicycle in the hills above Inversgail. A mysterious box of first editions and a second killing turn the case into a knot of books, secrets, and old grudges.

A decluttering party at a Scottish baronial manor should be harmless fun for Janet and Christine. Then a museum director dies, rat poison goes missing, and the women of Yon Bonnie Books race to clear an innocent suspect.

Widowed folklorist Maureen Nash heads to Ocracoke Island after cryptic letters to her late husband draw her to The Moon Shell. Within hours she finds a body, meets a pirate ghost, and lands in a stormy murder case.

Settling into life on Ocracoke, Maureen discovers antique shell art hidden in her shop's attic. When a visitor's wife may be an impostor and an unidentified corpse surfaces, Maureen and Emrys chase a sly killer.

On Ocracoke, a bloodstained sword turns up at Maureen's shop just before a local man is found dead by the shore. As ghost hunters, island history, and fresh murder collide, Maureen digs for the truth.