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It's wartime New York, 1943. Jessica Minton, an up-and-coming young stage actress, is pondering the mixed blessings of rehearsals for a play that just doesn't seem to be jelling, the attentions of a reliable beau she isn't quite sure she wants to marry, and playing referee for her sister and brother-in-law's tempestuous marriage. Just as she thinks her life couldn't get any crazier, she becomes entangled with deceit, espionage, and murder when an unsettlingly attractive stranger makes her the unwilling custodian of a mysterious package in a Manhattan stalked by fifth columnists.

The psychic detective team of Crystal & Hale, former Atlanta police detective Jack Hale and his bride “Crystal Ball Kate”, is on a two-week transatlantic cruise. They are called in to investigate the threat to a high-profile European Union banking conference aboard ship and to calm the fears of the superstitious crew, who thinks the ship is cursed. Before long, they realize they also need to catch an art thief and find a murderer.

In the sleepy coastal Maine town of Penhallow, a stranger dies on a train, drawing historical society director Rachel Tinker and curmudgeonly retired professor Griffin Tate into a spider’s web of archaeological obsession and greed. It’s up to Rachel to solve a mystery that includes two more murders if she wants to unlock the soft heart that beats under Griffin’s hard crust.

Horace Pickle hates mashed potatoes, but now he has a plan. Windsmith City is home to Baron, one of the world’s greatest heroes, who has decided to take his first vacation after decades of heroic service. But while Baron is enjoying himself in sunny Argentina, a new villain has come onto the scene with plans that reach far beyond the borders of their fair city. The people will have to rely on August, Baron’s sidekick and son of the late hero Neil Munch, to save them from this new threat.