Times are tough in the newspaper business these days. In between staff cuts, furloughs and declining advertising dollars, Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette editor Addison McIntyre hasn't got time to listen when candidate Rick Starrett claims his opponent Virginia Ferguson ran a dirty state senate campaign. Short on staff, time and patience, she can't waste time on sore losers-then Virginia Ferguson is shot. As she dies, she names Rick Starrett as the man who pulled the trigger. That gets Addison's attention. To further complicate things, Kay Henning, the wife of reporter Marcus Henning, has come...

Barns are burning on farms all around Jubilant Falls, Ohio -but that's the least of newspaper editor Addison McIntyre's problems. The daughter of Golgotha College president Dr. Seaford Thorn has come up missing - along with half a million dollars from the college's endowment fund. When Addison's own daughter Isabella, already suspended from school for assaulting a teacher, attempts suicide, Addison must come to terms with the real meaning of family secrets- her own and others. Barn Burner tackles the legacy of mental illness in a small town, the secrets everyone keeps-and the damages that all...

There are blondes - and then there are high maintenance blondes. And Eve Dahlgren was a high maintenance blonde, even forty years ago in high school. When Eve ends up dead, and Journal-Gazette publisher Earlene Whitelaw is arrested for her murder, it looks like an open and shut case. It's up to editor Addison McIntyre to prove her boss didn't kill her. But Eve's got secrets-and so does the newest Journal-Gazette reporter, Charisma Lemarnier. Will Charisma's past stand in her way as she investigates two cold case murders? Or will someone else break through her defenses to help her find...

A fake priest, a tempting FBI agent and a pro bono case could spell disaster for Rust Belt private investigator Niccolo Fitzhugh. The women in the life of private investigator Niccolo Fitzhugh aren't making things easy for him at all. His mother has told Father O'Malley, the priest at St. Rita, he would investigate-for free-the case of Aileen O'Connor, who lost $50,000 to con man Benedict St. Giles and who believes she's part of a rebirth of the Catholic Church. Then Fitz's beloved wife Gracie leaves him for two weeks to fend for himself to take a group of students to Vienna, -and Father...