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Spring is in the air in Crozet, Virginia, and Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen looks forward to her first season of harvesting grapes. But then Harry falls ill and finds herself in a hospital--where a nurse turns up dead. When another hospital staffer kicks the bucket soon after, it falls to Harry's animal friends to crack the case.

Cork O'Connor loses his job as sheriff in small town Aurora, Minnesota, after being blamed for a tragedy on the local Anishinaabe Indian reservation. But he must set aside his personal demons when a young boy goes missing on the same day a judge commits suicide--and no one but O'Connor suspects foul play.

Three short and sweet murder mysteries by three separate authors are included in this holiday batch.

After two teen bodies are found washed ashore and missing vital organs, Superintendent Roy Grace investigates. Thrust into the ghoulish world of black market organ brokers, Grace and his team confront an Eastern European racket and a mother desperate to save her daughter's life.

After a grisly murder, a missing star, and a stunning theft disrupt a glitzy movie premiere, the glitterati and paparazzi leave Rome for the "safer" confines of San Francisco. There Italian police detective Nic Costa, still charged with securing priceless movie-related artifacts, redoubles his viligance. When two more stylized murder occur, an enigmatic American actress drafts Nic as her personal bodyguard. But can he resist her allure long enough to pursue a possible link to the Italian Mafia and chase down the killer?

Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar Crimes Unit to track down a killer who is stalking London's oldest watering holes.

When a corpse disrupts school renovations in 1195, the institution's founder immediately blames an outlawed knight hiding in Dartmoor's wilds. Though the knight has reason to despise his accuser, the coroner questions the nobleman's guilt.

Dr. Samantha Leeds hosts her own late-night radio talk show on WSLJ. One day she receives a menacing phone call at her home, while miles away, a prostitute is strangled to death. Seemingly unrelated, nobody connects the two events until more murders occur under similar circumstances.

Carli, a teen actress who has gone undercover at a New England boarding school in order to research a role, hooks up with a student graffiti artist to investigate the disappearance of another of the school's pupils.

One morning, Felicia is startled to see police at the house of her long-ago lover, Luther. When she learns that Luther's wife and young son have been murdered in their home, she refuses to accept the police's contention that the man she once loved could have committed the crime.