A Jenny Cain mystery by award-winning author Nancy Pickard. As director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, Jenny Cain is privy to the charitable intentions of the town's wealthiest citizens. There's eccentric old Arnie Culverson, who's promised millions to the local art museum. Who's found there one bright winter morning, neatly tucked into a priceless antique Chinese bed. With pillow and blanket. Dead. Then another dearly beloved donor dies in the night. And the killer leaves behind a nasty rhyme suggesting rich and beautiful Jenny will be next!
Jennifer Cain, lovely director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, risks her life to investigate a series of murderous "accidents" designed to stop the Liberty Harbor restoration
When Jenny Cain's future husband, policeman Geof Bushfield becomes disillusioned by all the domestic violence occuring in Port Frederick between husbands and wives, it is up to Jenny to help Geof find the answer
Jenny Cain's wish to establish a recreation hall for former mental patients in the basement of a burned-out building is thwarted when a man is killed there and it appears the killer may be mentally ill
When a cattle baron leaves a huge ranch in his will to the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, amateur sleuth Jenny Cain leaves Massachusetts for the wilds of Kansas to investigate the bizarre bequest and finds herself probing the brutal murder of the founda
When an anonymous voice among the crowd of mourners offering her their condolensces at her mother's funeral whispers to Jenny, "Forgive me. It was an accident," the young woman must try to find the truth behind the death she had thought was an accident. Reprint. PW.
After the brutal murder of her friend Carol Margolis, Jenny Cain travels to New York, where she takes charge of Carol's job and the murder investigation. Reprint.
Amazed when a rumpled teenage boy appears on her doorstep and claims to be her husband's son, Jenny Cain learns that young David's adoptive parents have been killed suspiciously and that he holds Jenny's husband responsible for finding the truth. Reprint.
Preparing for the stressful Autumn Festival, Jenny Cain is hired by recent widow Melissa Barney, who lost her husband on a dangerous hiking trail and wants the trail closed, but Jenny uncovers a deadly controversy. Reprint.