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While hiding out at the local library, Daphne Peters stumbles upon the body of a reclusive mystery writer. She has to solve the crime to stay alive, which proves difficult, because no one she meets is telling the truth.

A woman bonds with her new neighbours, only for one of them to die.

A mystery woman leaves a painting with an antiques dealer who has a fluid relationship with legality. A forgery is made before the mystery woman returns to collect the painting.

Five thieves, a treacherous sea captain, a blind noblewoman, and a man-at-arms all encounter the Holy Skull of St. Thomas... Or do they?

While playing by a river gorge, a young boy uncovers a scandal that implicates two members of his small community in this humorous mystery story which pays homage to classic film noir.

Often love can grow in the most isolated, barren soil. Sometimes it dies there, too.

A problem solver works to keep an art thief alive.