Sheila Connolly

Pub owner Maura Donovan hasn't seen her mother for over 20 years, so when she suddenly shows up in Maura's pub, Maura's not sure what to expect....

Looking to take a break from busy home renovations, Abby and boyfriend Ned Newhall jump at the chance to vacation on Cape Cod....

Abby Kimball has slowly accepted her recently discovered ability to see the dead, but none of the harmless sightings she's experienced could have prepared her....

Snow is a rarity in Maura Donovan's small village in County Cork, Ireland, so she wasn't sure what to expect when a major snowstorm rolled in around Sullivan's pub....

Katherine Hamilton's goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheboro, Maryland. Fifteen years later she's got a degree in hospitality management and a great job at a high-end boutique hotel in Baltimore. Until the hotel is acquired by a chain, and she's laid off....

Abby Kimball has just moved to New England with her boyfriend and is trying to settle in, but the experience is proving to be quite unsettling, to say the least....

Still looking for answers to explain her uncanny ability to see her dead ancestors, Abby shifts her focus to spiritualists, seers, and psychics of all kinds....

The usually quiet town of Granford, Massachusetts is even drowsier during the colder months. But this year it's in for a jolt when Monica Whitman moves into town....

With the bushels of time they spent organizing their wedding, Meg and Seth didn't have a chance to plan a honeymoon. But now that winter has arrived, there's not much to do at the orchard....

Now that Meg Corey's apples have been harvested and sold, she's enjoying some free time. But when the small but annoying mishaps plaguing her start turning sinister, Meg begins to worry....

Still undecided about a return to her teaching career, Abby Kimball has thrown herself into restoring the grand Victorian she shares with her boyfriend, Ned. She's happy to put thoughts of her strange ability to see the dead on the back burner, but she realizes that won't be so easy....

After an English professor - and old friend of her mother - is found dead in a cider house, orchard owner Meg Corey starts to wonder....

Honoring the wish of her late grandmother, Maura Donovan visits the small Irish village where her Gran was born - though she never expected to get bogged down in a murder mystery....

The new exhibit at the Philadelphia children's museum, Let's Play, isn't meant to be shocking....

Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society president Nell Pratt gets some unexpected news: her society owns an abandoned row house in a rundown area of Philadelphia....

Spring has come to Meg Corey's apple orchard—and it's quickly becoming a killer season....

Boston expat Maura Donovan has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan’s. Cork University students are knocking on Maura’s door, asking about a mystical fairy fort that happens to be located on Maura’s land....

When the entire collection of the Fireman's Museum ironically goes up in flames, Nell Pratt discovers one of the charred pictures isn't the one that was originally exhibited....

Bostonian Maura is beginning to feel settled in her new Irish home, just in time for summer tourist season to bring fresh business to her pub....

In this latest Orchard mystery, amateur sleuth Meg Corey takes a bite out of crime....