A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.

A small Oregon town is rocked by a wheels-within-wheels case of art, fraud, and murder.

"TJ is taking classes at The League, an open-enrollment art school in Manhattan to become an artist. But when a deadly crime strikes The League's figure drawing class, and famous artist Thomas Benton's corpse is discovered on the floor. But Benton has a long history of angering the art world and his involvement at the school hasn't always led to happy students and faculty... It's soon up to TJ, son of Detective Juanita Diaz and Captain Brian Fitzgerald...

"When an elderly local artist plunges 100 feet to her death at an overstretched Hampstead hospital, the police immediately sense foul play. The hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugee, is arrested for her murder after stolen jewelery is found at his home. He protests his innocence, but why has he given her the story of Aladdin to read, and why does he shake uncontrollably in times of stress? Judith Burton and Constance Lamb are reunited to defend a man...

The small Minnesota town of Mayville Heights is faced with a flood, while the librarian Kathleen Paulson, her two cats, and detective Marcus Gordon try to solve the mystery of the drowning death of local artist and mask-maker Jaeger Merrill.

"When Maud McIntyre and her lady's maid Daisy travel into the Scottish Highlands, the last thing they expect to find is a body on the train... Will these keen amateur sleuths stop a murderer in his tracks? Edinburgh, 1911: When Maud McIntyre receives a letter from a maid called Rose, sharing her suspicions that something strange is happening in the house where she works, she and her assistant Daisy immediately travel to the Highlands to investigate....

Laura Magee is spending the summer in an art gallery in the southern New Jersey shore town of Safe Harbor. When a dispute over a painting by a man named Rafferty leads to the murder of one of her customers and puts Laura herself in danger, she must discover the identity of the killers and find out what makes a painting valuable enough to kill for. Then the FBI becomes involved, and Laura realizes that this crime has more layers than she ever imagined....