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Graves to the left, graves to the right, but there shouldn't be a body in sightWhen Hettie visits her friend Marlee at the Battye Library, she isn't expecting it to lead to a cemetery. And while she knows, of course, that there are bodies in a cemetery, they are normally buried. So, finding one that hasn't been - at least officially - is not to be taken lightly. Finding herself inveigled into another murder investigation, and with trouble brewing over her new croquet courts, Hettie turns to her sidekick for help. But that cat is refusing to have anything to do with this latest death. Can Hettie solve this one on her own? Or will her discoveries make her wish she'd kept out of it too?

Murder, fraud and secrets. A cat-astrophic combination.Hettie Parke is pleased and relieved when her mother's charity auction at the Sunny Vale Community Centre gets off to a great start. Until a body turns up. And tragic as that is, Hettie is just relieved that the death has nothing to do with her or her family. Or at least it hadn't, until the dead man becomes linked to rumours that her grandfather's legacy was acquired by fraud. Hettie's dream of expanding her croquet courts is in tatters, and now her mother is pressuring her to solve the murder and redeem the Parke name. And while the police are only interested in apprehending the killer Hettie's investigation delves greater depths. But is it in the right direction?With the killer hustling to cover their tracks it's up to Ceefer to reveal their identity before they kill again. Will he be in time?

In the space between what you can see, and what you believe.Uncle Roscoe's sudden death is believed to be an accident, so what is Aunt Alice hiding? With holes appearing in her story, and her behaviour going from odd to bizarre, it isn't just the police who are growing suspicious. Is she protecting someone, or does she have a guilty conscience?When the family try to help their favourite aunt, they're accused of covering up for her. Now that detective is closing in. And where is Ceefer? Hettie's at wits' end. To top it off, the Bowls Club is delaying her request for more land for her club, but if she can't uncover the truth behind Uncle Roscoe's death, she'll be visiting Aunt Alice behind bars. And a trillion new croquet courts won't compensate for that.

Young love. A troubled mother. Christmas dinner under threat.The Christmas in July Sundowner is an event looked forward to by members of the Parke Croquet and Bowls Clubs. But this year not everyone is full of Christmas spirit. When someone falls in the lake, and a valuable piece of jewellery goes missing, Hettie finds herself with a plateful of problems instead of plum pudding. Can that cat Ceefer lend a paw, or is he too busy creating mischief with his own guest, because if Hettie can't smooth the troubled waters, this Christmas in July threatens to put a deep wedge between the Croquet and Bowls clubs that might never be repaired.

It's 1884. Emma, now with a young son and no longer travelling with Daniel on the Mary B is finding it difficult to settle into town life. Until she's called on by her friend and neighbour Henrietta Pickles to investigate the death of her father-in-law. Who wanted Old Mr. Pickles dead? Was it his business partner, that arrogant patron of the Ladies Benevolent Society whom Emma recently confronted? Or is this about wills and inheritance? The police seem to think so when they arrest Henrietta's daughter Janet. Her family is distraught. Emma redoubles her efforts, determined to prove her friend's innocence before her children are left without a mother. But Daniel, home for the weekend, isn't thrilled with her involvement. As she rallies family and friends to the cause including Janey, her annoying but indispensible maid-of-all-work, Emma finds herself treading a delicate path when delicacy isn't what is needed.With Janet about to be sent down south to that grim and forbidding edifice, the Melbourne Jail, can Emma prove the coroner and Sergeant Donovan wrong before her friend ends up on death row?

Will what you find be what you were looking for?Emma Berry is back at her family's pastoral property, Wirramilla, recovering from the sinking of the paddle steamer Mary B in the Murray River, in which her husband Sam drowned. Major Barnaby of Honey Hills is demanding the return of a valuable package he claims Sam was carrying for him, and which was apparently lost in the accident. Emmas brother-in-law, Daniel, co-owner with her of the Mary B, is blaming her for everything. Emma needs to resolve Sam's troubled legacy and redeem him, and and save the family's reputation. Her search for the package leads her up and down the river and across country, where not everyone she encounters is welcoming and some pay more attention than she finds comfortable. How will those involved react to what she learns during her search?