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When Fran moves back to her idyllic beach town to take over the family cafe, she also develops a knack for solving bizarre murders.... In the middle of Fran's date night with Matt, at Cape Bay's best Mexican restaurant, Fran's favorite waiter drops dead. Everyone else thinks Pablo had a stroke, but Fran believes he was murdered because he had been getting strange, threatening notes in his apron at work. As Fran digs deeper into another murder case she shouldn't be involved in, she learns her beloved waiter had some secrets stewing in his personal life.

Maggie Bell loves working at a bookshop in the charming town of Fair Haven, Connecticut. After her beloved boss passes away, his son, Joshua Whitfield, comes into town and turns Maggie’s world upside down. He wants to turn part of the store into a cafe and sell books about vampires and silly romances. Maggie is horrified. But when an electrician is killed in the middle of the bookshop renovations, Joshua is the prime suspect.

Cath Greenstone, her cousin, Bea, and her hippie aunt, Astrid, live in Wonder Falls, a small town near the mystical Niagara Falls. They run the Brew-Ha-Ha café, and naturally, they're witches hiding in plain sight along with their three magical cats, Treacle, Peanut Butter, and Marshmallow. When Brew-Ha-Ha's baker is burnt to a crisp, along with their beloved café, Aunt Astrid lets out a big family secret: A powerful spell book, a Greenstone heirloom from the Salem days, has been stolen from its secret hiding spot in the café.

When a big Hollywood film production comes to Cheerville, the town goes into a tizzy over action star Cliff Armstrong. But when his stunt double is killed on set, Barbara quickly deduces it was no accident and Cliff was meant to be the target. To hunt the killer, Barbara infiltrates the movie set as an extra, but she quickly lands a speaking role against the handsome Cliff Armstrong himself. Can she protect Cliff from a dangerous murderer lurking on set, prevent the town from going up in smoke, and star in Hollywood’s next blockbuster without blowing her cover?

Ex-CIA agent Barbara Gold witnesses a woman being struck down by a car in broad daylight. It was no hit-and-run but plain, cold-blooded murder. After some sleuthing, Barbara discovers the strangest fact yet about sleepy Cheerville, New England: There’s a nudist colony on the edge of town, and the victim was an active member. Barbara must go on the hardest mission of her career - bare her 70-year-old body for all to see - in order to solve another bizarre murder mystery.

Octavian takes Barbara on a seniors’ cruise for her 71st birthday, but the vacation is not all piña coladas and shuffleboard. Barbara makes a frenemy in Georgina Branch, queen bee to a group of equally conniving girlfriends. Barbara is sure one or all of them killed the passenger, who accidentally fell overboard early in the trip. Barbara and Octavian are stuck on a ship with a murderer, but at least, the cruise has plenty of booze.

Kurz vor Weihnachten feiert Fair Haven sein jährliches Eisfischer-Fest. Doch die Stimmung wird jäh unterbrochen, als ein recht unbeliebter Anwalt erfroren in seiner Fischerhütte aufgefunden wird. Bald stellt die Polizei fest, dass er in Wirklichkeit erschossen wurde. Der Hauptverdächtige ist die örtliche Eisfischerlegende Jim Campbell. Doch Maggie ist von seiner Unschuld überzeugt und beginnt mit Joshua an ihrer Seite, eigene Nachforschungen anzustellen. Obwohl Joshua ihr Chef ist, scheint er möglicherweise mehr als nur berufliches Interesse an ihr zu haben.

Maggies entfremdete Halbschwester Angel taucht in der Stadt auf, nachdem sie jahrelang in einer merkwürdigen Hippie-Kommune gelebt hat, aus der sie nun entflohen ist. Bald darauf kommt auch ihr Freund Echo nach Fair Haven, um nach ihr zu suchen. Kurze Zeit später wird seine Leiche am Fuße einer Brücke entdeckt. Echo wurde zuletzt in Angels Gesellschaft gesehen, und Maggie weiß, dass Angel in jener Nacht mit zahlreichen Kratzern und Schrammen nach Hause kam.

Joshua hat neues Personal für das belebte Bücher-Café im charmanten Fair Haven eingestellt und die schüchterne Maggie freundet sich schnell mit der Barista Babs und dem Regalauffüller Casper an. Als Maggie bemerkt, dass einige ältere Typen Casper nach der Arbeit schikanieren, hilft sie ihm, zu entkommen. Am nächsten Tag wird einer der Rowdys mit aufgeschlitzter Kehle tot im Park gefunden. Ist der stille und zurückhaltende Casper wirklich ein Mörder? Um die Wahrheit herauszufinden mischt sich Maggie in die Ermittlungen des Polizisten Gary ein.

When Barbara attends a fancy charity dinner with Octavian at the Cheerville Country Club, the evening ends with a man getting stabbed to death in the men’s restroom. Barbara is the first to assess the scene, making her a prime suspect until she makes a call to the CIA. With an unlikely ally, she must rub shoulders with more of Cheerville’s finest to uncover which of these privileged old folks had the motivation to kill the new guy in town.

Maggie’s estranged half-sister suddenly arrives in town. Angel has lived in a hippie commune for years. Now she’s escaped for mysterious reasons. Echo, Angel’s boyfriend, comes to Fair Haven looking for her. But shortly after, his dead body is found at the base of a bridge.

Joshua hires staff for the bustling bookshop café in charming Fair Haven. A reluctant and shy Maggie soon warms up to the new barista Babs and stock boy Casper. When Maggie notices some older boys taunting Casper after work, she helps him escape. But the next day, one of the bullies is found dead in the park with his throat slashed. Can quiet, secretive Casper really be a killer? Maggie butts into policeman Gary’s investigation to find out.