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Helping Aidan move into his new apartment, Eve discovers his landlord murdered in the antique store below. An attempted break-in that night raises the stakes, and she works with her dogs to identify the killer and protect Aidan.

Evelyn Foster settles into Granite with her two German Shepherds, expecting a quiet life. When cadaver dog Atlas locates a buried man thought to have abandoned his wife, Eve finds herself drawn into the town's murder investigation.

Working beside her ex-husband in their steakhouse, Lydia survives a poisoning during her meal. Realizing that someone among her former partner and employees targeted her, she investigates before a second attempt can finish the job.

Lydia takes sole control of her restaurant just as her half-sister’s new employer is murdered. Although Marcy has an alibi, she may still be in danger, forcing Lydia to balance protecting her family with keeping the business running.

A terrified stranger calls Lydia in the night, but the conversation ends before she can identify the woman. When a body is discovered the following morning, the restaurateur investigates, fearing she missed a chance to save the victim.

Lydia is adjusting to life after divorce when her friend Joel discovers a nearby murder. Investigating the death exposes uncomfortable questions about him, leaving her to determine whether he has hidden secrets or someone is deliberately framing him.

Nola rents a holiday cabin with family and her boyfriend, but the resort owner’s murder destroys their plans. An approaching snowstorm blocks police access and traps the guests together, leaving her to identify the killer before another attack.

A new tea house's employee disappears, and Atlas discovers a body near a competing coffee shop owner's home. Eve investigates whether her friends are responsible or being framed, trying to uncover the motive before anyone else is endangered.

A camping trip on Lake Superior turns grim when Atlas finds a body on the beach. Rescuing people from a nearby shipwreck reveals links to the victim, leaving Eve questioning their stories and searching for the killer.

A murder unsettles Lydia’s increasingly happy life as a restaurateur and amateur sleuth. Her sister’s strange behavior raises fears that she is either in danger or concealing something, compelling Lydia to investigate despite the personal cost of finding answers.

A fatal fire at Eve's dental clinic brings a painful personal loss, but she doubts the official finding of an accident. Following her instincts, she investigates the death while grieving and trying to ensure the killer faces justice.

Helping prepare Tiana's wedding, Eve searches for a guest missing from the surrounding woods and discovers another guest murdered. With the missing person's trail gone cold, she must determine whether they are a suspect or another victim.

An RV breakdown leaves Tulia Blake accepting a stranger's hospitality on a Vermont farm. When a farmhand's body is discovered, she must determine whether her helpful host is dangerous or someone outside the farm is targeting its residents.

Lydia witnesses a longstanding enemy of her friends die during brunch, apparently from an allergic reaction. Evidence points to murder, and scrutiny falls on the group, forcing her to examine whether someone she trusts is responsible.

Eve agrees to reassure an elderly woman by taking cadaver dog Atlas through her house. His unexpected alert suggests the woman's fears have substance, and Eve investigates a dangerous mystery before a killer can claim another victim.

Journalist April asks Eve to locate her grandmother's missing friend after a nursing home offers conflicting explanations. Willow finds no trail, and a subsequent tragedy leads the women to investigate what the facility may be concealing.

Bakery owner Claudia’s hoped-for winter respite ends when victims appear deliberately posed around her island town. Investigating the murders forces her into longstanding feuds and secrets while a killer threatens the community she is rebuilding her life in.

Claudia inherits her estranged father’s Maine bakery on condition she run it for a year. Suspecting his death was not natural, she investigates potential enemies while confronting the demands of returning home and managing his business.

Eve stops at her former rental home after noticing an open door and discovers her old landlord murdered. Disturbing events afterward suggest the killer mistakenly targeted the wrong resident and now intends to come after Eve herself.

A neighbor’s death interrupts Egret Isle’s Fourth of July celebrations, leaving Claudia and her brother to investigate. Rumors, rivalries, and hidden motives complicate their search as the island’s friendly appearance gives way to a dangerous mystery.

Claudia’s birthday celebration is overshadowed by her brother’s disappearance and a murder at his guesthouse. With local gossip naming him the prime suspect, she searches for both the truth and her missing sibling before danger closes in.

An elderly guest disappears from Sadie’s motel just as a storm interrupts the search. Finding a different person’s body reveals a deeper mystery, forcing the innkeeper and her team to investigate hidden connections before further tragedy threatens the business.

A bakery coworker’s murder charge leaves Claudia torn between her instincts and the evidence. A frightening incident convinces her he is innocent, but reveals that everyone at the bakery may be targeted unless she finds the killer.

An unexpected Christmas visit from Eve's adoptive mother disrupts anniversary plans with Aidan. When her mother is accused of killing a former school rival, Eve believes her denial and investigates with Willow to uncover the real murderer.

A dog escapes during Sadie’s Halloween costume contest, drawing its owner into the woods and out of sight. Finding the pet but later discovering a body suggests a deliberate lure, sending Sadie searching for the person who arranged the deadly distraction.

Eve doubts a friend’s warning about a serial killer until evidence reveals young visitors lured to Granite through a fake dating profile. With no bodies found, the dog trainer and her friends must uncover the truth before more people disappear.

A veterinarian’s flirtation unsettles Claudia’s growing feelings for her baking assistant, then his murder interrupts an ordinary pet appointment. Investigating his death forces her to balance clues, complicated attraction, and the demands of her bakery.

The murder of Granite’s garden-club leader disrupts Eve’s happy preparations for marriage and casts suspicion on her friends Tiana and Levi. Investigating rivalries within the club, the dog trainer searches for evidence that will clear them and expose the killer.

Eve’s visit to a nursing home with newly qualified therapy dog Willow is interrupted by the director’s murder. With help from her boss, she examines the victim’s enemies and hidden connections, hoping to narrow the suspects and discover the truth.

Valentine’s preparations leave Sadie busy with her motel and dog boarders, while a neighbor and friend behave strangely. When two guests disappear, she investigates the secrets behind the romantic weekend before the missing visitors’ trail grows cold.

Claudia’s busy holiday baking season becomes complicated when an estranged friend returns and another baker is found dead. Suspicion spreads through the island’s baking community, drawing Claudia into secrets that threaten both her business and relationships.

Sadie and Penny buy furniture at an estate sale to improve their motel’s lobby. The organizer’s murder and repeated break-in attempts suggest the purchases conceal something valuable or dangerous, forcing Sadie to investigate before another person dies.

Sadie takes a private dog-training assignment at a quiet farm, then returns to find its owner missing. A body discovered with her canine pupil’s help turns the job into a murder investigation that exposes unsettling secrets in the community.

Claudia balances holiday bakery orders, a developing romance, and an unwelcome old friend until two deaths reveal a possible vendetta. To protect her island neighbors, she investigates old feuds and grudges beneath the seasonal celebrations.

A dog-training demonstration at Granite’s festival leads Eve to notice suspicious activity around a jerky stall. When Atlas finds a body and evidence points to sabotage, she investigates to clear the stallholder before the real killer escapes.

Sadie plans to expand her motel and dog-boarding business, but a contractor is found dead before providing an estimate. Another withdraws after receiving threats, revealing a dangerous campaign to stop the project that she must investigate.

A groomer’s proposal seems ideal for Sadie’s growing motel and boarding business until an attempted murder kills someone else. With the intended victim still threatened, Sadie and Penny must decide how to protect her without exposing themselves to the killer.

Eve and cadaver dog Atlas search a historical burial site and discover recent remains mixed with old bones. Someone has used the location to conceal modern killings, forcing her to investigate a murderer who knows the surrounding area intimately.

Planning her wedding, Eve arranges to tell her landlord she will not renew her lease. His failure to attend their meeting ends in the discovery of his murder, drawing her into an investigation uncomfortably close to her own home.

Forced to move sooner than expected, Eve and Aidan hurry to find a house. Discovering their murdered estate agent at a property viewing turns the search into a dangerous investigation that threatens both their housing plans and future together.

Tulia Blake hopes an Iowa music festival will offer a relaxing break from city travel. Escaped shelter animals instead lead her to a caretaker's suspicious death, which she investigates despite the organizers' insistence that it was accidental.

Sadie and Penny reopen an abandoned motel alongside their dog-boarding business, but a body found during the open house echoes its earlier murders. They investigate whether a wrongful conviction or a copycat threatens their guests and new venture.

Returning to run her inherited bakery, Claudia questions her decision when she witnesses a diner cook’s murder. Investigating with a friend draws her across the island, where tensions between residents and a resort conceal dangerous motives.

Movers carrying Tiana’s belongings vanish before reaching her new house, and Eve finds their abandoned truck. One worker is dead, another missing, and nothing appears stolen, raising fears that her friend may be the killer’s real target.

Sadie and Penny accidentally host their feuding families during the same week, complicating their busy motel. An elderly man’s body discovered in the river turns another challenge into a murder investigation where relatives’ theories and tensions hinder the search for answers.

A dentist’s murder unsettles the clinic where Eve’s friend Tiana works while she is on maternity leave. A newcomer’s convenient offer to replace him raises suspicion, prompting Eve to investigate while balancing friendship, dog training and married life.

A guest entrusts Sadie and Penny with a mysterious package, then a suspicious death casts scrutiny on their new motel. Sadie investigates the object’s connection to the crime while Penny tries to reassure frightened guests and keep their business alive.

A travel vlogger’s visit promises valuable publicity for Sadie’s motel, but disturbing incidents disrupt the stay. When an apparent prank ends in death, she investigates whether someone deliberately sabotaged the visit and concealed a murder behind the strange events.

While photographing Egret Isle for a community website, Claudia accidentally captures a body she never noticed. Returning to the scene reveals nothing, leaving her to identify the possible victim and prove a murder occurred without physical evidence.

Eve agrees to help Lucas train his new puppy, then learns the dog may have belonged to a recently murdered man. Lucas’s connection to the victim casts suspicion on him, forcing her to investigate before he loses his companion and freedom.

Claudia and Hugo visit a resort to renegotiate their bakery’s largest contract, expecting a pleasant business trip. Witnessing a fatal incident that staff attempt to conceal sends them searching behind the resort’s polished facade for a killer.

Sadie’s first dog-training class is overshadowed when an absent client is found murdered and his pet disappears. Searching for the missing hound draws her into the circumstances of his death and closer to the person responsible.

Sadie boards two trained German Shepherds and discovers Atlas is a cadaver dog when he locates a buried skeleton. Fearful that another mystery will ruin her motel’s reputation, she uses the dogs’ skills to investigate the remains and identify a killer.

Eve and Atlas recover a body from the Lake Superior coast before winter storms can wash it away. The victim’s connection to a local tea-shop employee prompts further investigation, but uncovering the truth brings threats and dangerous secrets.

Searching for a missing skier, Eve and Willow witness a masked attacker murder him and flee through a snowstorm. Shelter traps them with the victim’s companions, leaving Eve to identify a possible killer while the roads remain impassable.

A Halloween-party guest is murdered and Alice’s new boyfriend is found holding the weapon. Despite her doubts, Eve agrees to use Willow’s tracking skills to follow a costume fragment, hoping to determine whether his claim of innocence is true.

Eve takes Willow to a trainer for final therapy-dog preparations and discovers the woman has been murdered. Unexpected personal connections to the victim make the investigation increasingly urgent as Eve tries to uncover what happened and why.

Penny rejects a suitor, then a later date ends with the discovery of a body. Sadie suspects a link to her friend’s troubled romantic life and investigates a possible stalker before the threat moves closer to Penny.

Eve prepares her first dog-training course while puzzling over friends’ unusual behavior. When Atlas finds a body during an obedience demonstration, her connections to the victim raise disturbing questions about whether those seemingly minor mysteries hide something sinister.

Sadie agrees to help an elderly guest capture an elusive dog believed to haunt her property. Human remains found near the trap turn a simple favor into a dangerous investigation, raising questions about what else is hidden in the surrounding woods.

A suspicious visitor leaves an Afghan hound at Sadie’s boarding business, prompting her to suspect the dog was stolen. Searching for its true owner uncovers a deadly mystery that threatens her life while she struggles to finish renovating the motel.

Summer tourists fill Sadie’s motel, but vandalism, an abandoned dog and suspected arson unsettle the town. A subsequent death brings scrutiny to her business, forcing her to connect the incidents before the killer destroys her reputation or claims another victim.

A motel upgrade reveals an old treasure map behind the drywall, drawing hopeful visitors to Sadie’s business. A fatal attempt to steal it turns the excitement into a murder investigation, forcing her and Penny to examine the rumored riches and their pursuers.

Helping her brother find an island rental leads Claudia to the bodies of the previous tenants. Someone has been impersonating the dead couple through text messages, drawing her into secrets concealed beneath the busy tourist season.

Eve enjoys a cabin weekend with friends before her wedding until Aidan’s group discovers a murder scene. Learning the killer saw him there turns the celebration into a race to solve the crime and protect the groom.

Bridget’s Labor Day barbecue takes a frightening turn when Miranda fails to arrive after visiting a client. A search uncovers a murder scene but no sign of her, forcing Bridget and her friends to investigate before the missing woman is harmed.

During a birthday outing, Bridget discovers the body of a local philanthropist who seems to have died months earlier. Recent messages from him and the absence of a missing-person report suggest someone has carefully concealed what happened.

A murder near Mill Creek’s nursing home interrupts the Valentine’s rush at Bridget’s novelty shop. Flowers left beside the victim appear to carry a message, drawing her into an investigation where apparently romantic gestures conceal a deadly threat.

A frightening appearance by Michigan’s legendary Dogman disrupts a youth camping trip Bridget helps supervise. When a man wearing the creature’s costume is found dead days later, she investigates whether a prank concealed a carefully planned murder.

A mysterious parcel from Aunt Agnes arrives alongside several suspicious newcomers to Mill Creek. Break-ins, a cloaked pursuer and a murder convince Bridget that someone wants the shipment, forcing her to uncover its secret before she becomes a victim.

Eve hopes to secure training land for a search and rescue team, but a hike reveals a dying man seeking his missing family. Rescuing the pair exposes conflicting identities and a mystery behind an apparent accident.

An unsolicited coffin-shaped delivery unsettles Bridget’s April Fool’s Day trade until she discovers it contains a body. Recognizing the victim as one of her aunt’s former husbands draws her into an investigation of old grudges and dangerous secrets.

A journal among supposedly haunted merchandise describes a murder and hints at a burial site in Mill Creek. The discovery of human remains confirms its claims, leaving Bridget to decipher the confession before the unidentified killer learns what she has found.

An unexpected visit from a college friend draws Bridget into investigating an apparent fatal mugging. Questions about the victim reveal a more personal motive, forcing her to untangle old loyalties and secrets behind a crime that initially seemed random.

Aunt Agnes is kidnapped, and the death of another abducted person raises Bridget’s fears for her safety. Searching for answers while keeping the novelty shop afloat exposes family secrets that may change her future in Mill Creek.

A body discovered in the neighboring deli’s freezer threatens Bridget’s new start in Mill Creek. Rumors and scrutiny place her novelty shop at risk, forcing her to investigate the death before suspicion destroys the life she is rebuilding.

Bridget helps Kaycee investigate the man secretly dating her grandmother Janet and discovers a disturbing pattern of women’s deaths. Janet refuses to doubt her new romance, leaving the amateur sleuths to pursue a possible serial killer themselves.

Bridget accepts a temporary job rescuing her aunt’s failing novelty shop, hoping to escape problems in Grand Rapids. Finding the former manager’s body in the basement and losing contact with her aunt turn the fresh start into a dangerous investigation.

Eve moves to Wyoming with plans to train dogs, then finds a missing hiker dead. With her search and rescue dogs guiding the investigation, she confronts a hiking party whose members all have secrets to protect.

Bridget’s neighbor Janet narrowly escapes an attempted kidnapping just as Bridget prepares to move. When another woman disappears, the two friends investigate a threat spreading through Mill Creek, hoping to prevent further attacks before Bridget’s aunt returns.

When her longtime enemy Denise fears a loan shark wants her dead, Bridget Rowan initially dismisses the claim. A murdered lookalike changes her mind, forcing Bridget to protect Denise while investigating Halloween secrets and an unexpected family complication.

A desperate woman wants to reclaim a music box Bridget’s shop sold weeks earlier. A subsequent tragedy, a ransacked store and missing sales records reveal that the object holds a dangerous secret, sending Bridget searching for its new owner.

Switched online orders send a valuable item to a customer who refuses to return it and is then murdered. With the object missing and its intended buyer anonymous, Bridget follows the digital trail to uncover the killer’s identity.

A customer’s death appears connected to merchandise purchased from Nightsmith Novelties, threatening the shop’s reputation. Bridget investigates the suspicious link to protect her business, but someone determined to conceal the truth may make her the next victim.

Aunt Agnes returns with a suspicious new husband, complicating Bridget’s efforts to move on from the novelty shop. Discovering a death during an estate-sale visit pulls her into another murder investigation while family secrets continue to trouble her.

Bridget discovers the murdered body of a man who had blamed her for his wife’s death. When police suspect Lachlan, the man she is growing close to, she searches through local grudges to clear him and identify the killer.

Eve and her dog Atlas are testing for a search-and-rescue team when their evaluator disappears. A murder investigation reveals someone targeting the rescuers, forcing the pair to pursue a killer before more members become victims.

A missing safe containing Aunt Agnes’s legal documents leaves Bridget searching for answers about her family. A fatal thrift-store break-in and the owner’s plea for help draw her into an investigation where someone will kill to keep secrets hidden.

The murder of Mountain Cat Lodge’s former owner threatens Eve’s husband’s new job. Investigating with her rescue dogs, Eve clashes with a local team leader whose insistence on procedure may conceal a more troubling motive.