Central Kansas Library System

Anne and Wendy are preparing for a new adult literacy class when Ben races inside the library to tell his mother that their dog, Hershey, has found a package on the porch. Anne chases Hershey around the yard until she is finally able to retrieve it and discovers and envelope with several thousand dollars of cash inside! Wendy is convinced the money is an answer to prayer -- the library's elevator is in severe need of repair -- but Anne doesn't feel...

Sweet Susan's Bakery has been seriously damaged by fire, and the verdict is that the fire was started on purpose. While Susan struggles to reopen her business, bookseller Mary Fisher investigates, but the more she discovers, the less she likes it.

When Mary tries to refinance the mortgage on the bookshop, her application is denied because of the large balance on her new credit card. But she hasn't opened a new account and certainly hasn't been on any spending spree. Mary is the victim of identity theft!

While investigating the ransacking of her dream bookstore, which is just about to open in her Cape Cod hometown, Ivy Bay, Mary Fisher discovers family secrets as well as clues that lead her closer to the truth about the break-in at Mary's Mystery Bookshop.

Invited to her late husband's ancestral home in the Louisiana bayous for a family reunion, Claire Malloy finds a gathering of ill-tempered relatives obsessed with the latest will of the family matriarch.

Nightingale Books, nestled on the main street in an idyllic little village, is a dream come true for book lovers-- a cozy haven and welcoming getaway for the literary-minded locals. But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open after her beloved father's death, and the temptation to sell is getting stronger. The property developers are circling, yet Emilia's loyal customers have become like family, and she can't imagine breaking...

To vindicate an innocent woman after a trio of deaths is linked to a local youth center, Max and Annie Darling scramble to unravel three puzzles: the mystery of three guns, the pulled-out pants pockets of one victim, and the disappearance of a teenager.

Pleased with the success of her murder-mystery cruise, Annie Darling and her husband, Max, are suddenly on the hunt for a killer when one of the cruise participants falls overboard, the first in a series of suspicious deaths. .

Several months after her husband's sudden death, and troubled by one night's indiscretion, Caroline Waverly seeks refuge in the house she's inherited in East Hope, Maine. There she finds the courage to face the consequences of her choices - her precarious finances, her alienated college-age son, and the man she left behind. Will Harmon also puts his old life behind him, arriving in East Hope to run the local used bookshop. As he questions his desires...

Mary's Mystery Bookshop is hosting a very special guest: beloved mystery author Addison Hartley. As Hartley gives an intimate reading to the fans gathered in the store, Mary's eyes are drawn to a face in the crowd. Could it be Claire Wilkes, her best friend from childhood? Before Mary can greet her, the woman disappears. When Mary reads Hartley's new novel, she finds eerie parallels to her own history. And then rumors surface linking Claire and Mary's...