Tour operator Alex Trotter has had misgivings about taking a group of tourists to the old Grover Inn on remote Bedford island. When one of them is found murdered, everyone becomes a suspect as their motives and shady pasts start to emerge. Although a suspect herself, Alex feels responsible to help out low-keyed Detective Arlie Tate to unravel the mystery, but finds herself in peril of losing her life as she confronts the murderer.

In August of 1946 the Minnesota State Fair was canceled for only the fourth time in its nearly one hundred-year history. The previous times had been due to war: the Civil War and World War II. In 1946, the Fair failed to open as there was a different kind of war being waged against an unseen, but deadly enemy: poliomyelitis. Polio had become an epidemic across the United States, with disproportionately more cases in the Midwest. Four years earlier, a British nurse known as "Sister" Kenny came from Australia to open a clinic in Minneapolis to help treat the burgeoning number of cases there....

Dana Knowles is the only female nuclear weapons courier at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee: the "Secret City" of WWII where uranium was enriched to create the first atomic bomb. She has become frustrated that her training and skills will never be put to the test, but she is unaware that she has become a target of a madman and his gang of misfits. When they attack a nuclear convoy and steal a nuclear weapon, she and the other surviving couriers must locate the weapon before six minutes to midnight. Only Dana can unravel the identity of the madman, find him and bring him to justice.

This is the second book in the vacation murder series featuring tour operator turned amateur detective Alex Trotter. Alex has been hired by a former schoolmate to arrange for her wedding/honeymoon cruise on the Bermuda Queen. Alex predicts a sea of trouble ahead when she learns that the guest list includes those who have grudges against the bride and groom. Alex invites her boyfriend, Detective Arlie Tate, to come along. When one of the wedding party is found murdered, Alex and Arlie must go to work to unearth secrets and lies to expose the killer on board who has his own itinerary.

This is the fourth book in the vacation murder series featuring tour operator and amateur sleuth Alex Trotter. Alex and her groom, homicide Detective Arlie Tate, are about to leave on their honeymoon in France when Alex learns that her father has been arrested in Paris for murdering his boss, the notorious editor of Mode de Vie Francais magazine. Arlie and Alex team up to investigate. Alex decides to go behind the scenes in the back-stabbing world of couture fashion. But can she carry off a daring disguise as a runway model and uncover the killer?