Romance mystery

Jesse Clarke’s 10-year school reunion boasted a few shocks – and that didn’t include Jesse running a publicity and private investigator business. Rather, the talk of the reunion was Alex Bryson, the overweight kid who transformed himself thanks to winning a place on the TV reality program, Lose it! But a week after the reunion, Alex is dead. That’s not the only reunion that’s taking up Jesse’s time. At a family reunion and 80th birthday celebration for a family matriarch, a very expensive Titanic relic goes missing – a Titanic Mourning Bear. And now T-Bear, as he is known, is showing up all over the country! With support from boyfriend, Dominic, along with her grumpy business partner Ed, Police Officer Jason, and Jesse’s enthusiastic best friend, Melanie, Jesse is back solving mysteries while juggling publicity clients include Mona and her choir, again.

Since accepting the cursed glasses bequeathed by her Great Aunt Daphne giving her the gift of clairvoyance, Sophie Carrell is being lauded as the hottest clairvoyant in town – in talent and looks! But there’s a complication… Sophie is losing her heart to Detective Murdoch Ashcroft. The encounters she is having with him in her dream world are enough to make her blush in his presence during the daytime. There’s just one small problem, Murdoch is the Raven—the enemy—and she is his prey. But it’s not the return of Murdoch’s former lover or the men vying to be her protector in this new generation that will separate them. That is all Sophie’s own doing.

Miss Phoebe Astin and her brothers, Julius and Ambrose, lead an unconventional life working in the family funeral business – The Economic Undertaker. But Phoebe is not just a talented mortician, she is a medium for the spirit world, and often enjoys the company of her clients before they move on to the next world. When one gentleman begs her to investigate his murder, Phoebe contacts her brother’s friend, Detective Harland Stone, and soon they uncover not only was the deceased a victim of a dastardly villain, but now several missing brides are feared murdered. For the Astin family, being dead is no excuse for letting a crime go unpunished!

Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker found herself charmed by the recently deceased perfume salesman, Mr Edward 'Teddy' Tate, as were many of his former clients. Not unaccustomed to speaking with spirits as they leave this life on their way to the next, the debonair salesman had two requests of Phoebe: to investigate his death, which he believed was not an accident and to send his love to three ladies whom he had been romancing. Phoebe passes the information on to her beau, Detective Harland Stone, and when two of Teddy's love interests are found dead, the detective gets a whiff of a crime afoot. Aided by her brothers, Julius and Ambrose, and her dear friends, the Vexed Vixens, Phoebe is doing her best to grant the dearly departed justice. After all, for the Astin family, being dead is no excuse for letting crime go unpunished (even if he was romancing three ladies, the cad!)