Teen detective Orville Jacques confronts dangerous killers while trying to solve a number of crimes that have stymied investigators in his Cape Cod town for forty years.
A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
Kate's hopes for a summer romance are dashed when her mother announces plans to stay with wealthy friends in Cape Cod as a ploy to make Kate's father jealous, but when Kate is introduced to Adam things begin to look brighter.
Invited to join her aunt Winnie for a "How to Host a Murder" party on New Year's Eve at Winnie's new Cape Cod bed and breakfast, Elizabeth Parker must unearth old secrets and new motives in order to clear her beloved aunt of suspicion when the local wealthy miser ends up the unscripted victim.
Even though he left his job in Baltimore because he felt as if he could no longer work on murder cases, Provincetown sheriff Frank Coffin decides to investigate the killing of a television evangelist who was found dead and dressed as a woman.
Elizabeth Channing comes to teach art at the Chatham School in 1926, bringing with her a world of experiences far different from those of the people in the small Cape Cod village, and setting off a scandal that haunts student Henry Griswald into his old age.
While spending the day alone on an island near his Cape Cod home, a fifteen-year-old suddenly finds himself transported back in time where he is befriended by a boy who will grow up to be his grandfather.
Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa visit the peaceful Cape Cod National Seashore, only to find themselves awash in a mystery filled with troubling tire tracks, shifting sand dunes, a lonely lighthouse, and warnings of an approaching Nor'easter.
The author describes her journey of self-discovery during a year separated from her husband, exploring the issues in her life and marriage that she confronted while living alone at the family cottage on Cape Cod.
A seventeen-year-old, unhappy over his family's move to Cape Cod and irritated by his classmates' attitude towards protecting the environment, becomes convinced that a neighbor has murdered his wife.
