Detective Brad Evans of the Monterey Police Department is faced with one of his most challenging cases when the Mayor is found murdered at his home in the Peters Gate neighborhood of the city. While there are many possible suspects for the crime, there are very few pieces of evidence. Detective Frankie de Colonia is brought in from San Francisco to help solve the murder. Their initial contact is contentious, but relaxes as they grow to know each other....

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"Spirited female sleuth Elizabeth Fairchild is drawn into Chicago's growing jazz scene - and murder - in this compelling 1920s mystery. July, 1926. When Elizabeth Fairchild's beau, Fred Wilkins, suggests going to Chicago's Sunset Club to see Louis Armstrong, the world's best trumpeter, in action, she faces a dilemma. The burgeoning jazz scene in the city is proving to be controversial, associated with gangsters and scandal. Even her dear friend Susannah...

To celebrate her birthday, George is taking Nancy and Bess on a bike tour around Mystic Lake, but when their tour guide disappears and unknown adversaries steal their supplies and slash their tires, Nancy begins looking for clues.

Distrito Federal, 1955. La madrugada se asienta sobre las calles de la capital cuando una patrulla de la Policía Secreta llega hasta el portón de los estudios San Ángel. Lleva las sirenas apagadas, no quieren que nadie, mucho menos la prensa, conozca el motivo que los ha llevado hasta ahí: alguien ha muerto en uno de los foros. La víctima yace debajo de un coche como si fuera parte de la escenografía de taller mecánico que rodea su cadáver....

Embarking on a dream vacation in Nantucket, Nancy, Bess, and George attend the opening of an exhibit at a local museum where a vandal has left a threatening message, prompting the girls to investigate numerous suspects.

Nancy, Bess, and George are on an Alaskan cruise when things start to go awry.

"Quinnelope wakes up one morning to learn that all of the cookies in her town have gone missing...What is a cookie-obsessed queen supposed to do? Solve the mystery of the cookie catastrophe, of course!...Can Quinnelope bring the Cookie King and his cookies back to Pleasant Towne, or will she be doomed to eat crummy cakes forever?"--

"School's out, and Wiki and Leen Ellison are facing a new challenge... their first summer apart! Genius inventor Leen has been accepted to Petey Thunkle's world-famous summer training program for STEM prodigies with their eyes on the stars. Meanwhile, Wiki is looking forward to her first summer on her own, running the family corn stand and outclassing Otto and Sheed Alston. But the night before Leen's departure, the twins find out that Wiki has also...