"Rodney Schmuck and his wife, Millie, Hillside Manor's latest guests, seem normal--until Rodney insists that innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn is his long-lost mother. Shocked to meet an alleged son she's sure she never had, Judith can't believe Rodney when he swears he has proof from a hospital birth certificate listing her as his mother. The father's name is Unknown. But Judith's got a bigger problem when one of the B&B guests turns up dead in the...

When her husband Joe is accused of murdering an insurance fraud suspect, bed-and-breakfast owner and amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn must try to prove his innocence while dealing with unbearable guests, parish issues, and her mother.

Judith's worst nightmare comes true when Vivian Flynn--husband Joe's first wife--moves back into the neighborhood, bringing along her newest spouse, Billy Blunder Buss, a former minor-league baseball player who is many years younger than his shop-worn bride. Still, the B&B business is going well and the newlyweds don't seem to be causing problems for the Flynn's--that is, until somebody checks out permanently. That somebody isn't a Buss family member,...

When the garishly grotesque clan of wealthy carpet-sweeper magnate Otto Broadie sweeps down upon Judith McMonigle's Hillside Manor Inn, it looks like there'll be a wild night of drinking, dining, and fortune-telling in the offing. But when their soothsayer-for-hire Madame Gushenka drops dead after someone douses her tea leaves with bug killer, harried hostess Judith and her irrepressible cousin Renie are left to clean up the mess. One of the Brodie

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With the holidays gone and Hillside Manor almost empty, Judith McMonigle Flynn has a bad case of the blues. A house-sitting stint at her aunt and uncle's retirement home on Whoopee Island with cousin Renie seems like the ideal pick-me-up. But it isn't long before a dead body pops up in their vicinity. Not surprising in an area full of older folks--until they learn it wasn't a bad ticker that did in the victim, but a very sharp knife. Judith reluctantly...