To enable Michael to direct a production of Macbeth, the actors are encamped all over the Langslow-Waterston farm with a revolving group of medieval re-enactors camping nearby. It’s that documentary filmmaker, however, who makes everything worse.
A wonderfully merry and LYAO Christmas mystery during a meeting of scientific minds in an ornithology conference that Meg’s grandfather has planned — and that Meg Langslow keeps organized, especially when there’s murder.
Ellery Page, Pirate’s Cove’s mystery bookstore owner, discovers a vintage diving bag full of antique gold coins in a closet at the Crow’s Nest. A discovery that sets off dangerous events, including murder.
Meg’s expecting twins — any minute! — and doesn’t hesitate to agree to yet another houseguest. After all the drama department is already camping out, rehearsing Soto’s play.
Then two prunes from the English department decide to cancel the play! It’ll be murder and even less peace in the house unless Meg helps solve it.
The annual music festival brings the past into the present with a slew of “friends” coming together in a mix of resentment and hope that leads to murder in Pirate’s Cove.
It’s Caerphilly’s first rose show and fraught with more than whose rose will win. It’s that need that prompts sabotage, theft, and murder which Meg Langslow investigates.
Bookshop owner Ellery Page and Police Chief Jack Carson are diving for the legendary sunken pirate galleon Blood Red Rose when they discover an old fashioned diver’s suit, water-damaged and encrusted with barnacles — with a 21st century body.
What Meg Langslow thinks is a couple of hours of babysitting, turns into days while his mom has disappeared and the toddler could be at risk. Not only the boy’s mom, but Rob is disappearing and Dad and Dr Blake need bailing out . . . again.
A body in the basement pond? Unexpected “guests” in the pasture? People digging up the yard?
Croquet is a genteel game; eXtreme croquet is a whole other story. Still, no one was expecting homicide until Meg slides into the body of a dead woman.