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Teddy Stanley is a 60-something retired waitress. Three times married, twice widowed, once divorced, she lives beach side on the Oregon coast. The purchase of a bargain lid for her septic tank occasions the discovery of the body of a local real estate developer/good old boy. The local sheriff, a poker playing buddy of the deceased, could be the killer. The sheriff likes her friend Rob for the deed.

Teddy can't seem to convince Sheriff Sonny Hubbard that Evelyn was murdered. She is also having trouble convincing him that the dead redhead in Rob's hot tub was killed by someone other than Rob. Rob plays hide and seek with Sonny while Teddy and Billy, the breakfast cook at Petal's, do some digging into the local wild bunch, 1960 vintage.

The actor finally got the death scene right, now he was dead, Taylor was sitting right there watching. A locked room mystery where the locked room is a Hollywood soundstage containing one hundred and eleven possible suspects. Nia is visiting ancient Mayan ruins and digging up old secrets. It is either a horrible coincidence or a replay of an old crime. Dill is working on completing three degrees and worried about the conversation he overheard on the bus. Three stories unfolding in three countries.

Taylor and Chris are going on a North Sea cruise with the Thornes. Chris is presenting a seminar to eight elite members of an International drug task force who need his help in hunting out the mole in thier midst. Considering the season it is not surprising when one of the other passengers looks like Santa Claus. Considering the story Taylor hears about the deaths of two elderly women it is eerie when one of the passengers looks like Douglas Fairbanks Jr..

Sheriff Sonny Hubbard has had a series of strokes. Stuck in the hospital, he is having a hard time making anyone understand the peril of Death's Doorbell.

Marrianne finds a body at the bottom of Teddy's garden and a second body appears in the same spot. The sheriff says murder by kite and blames Connie the kite flyer. Teddy isn't buying it. The media gets pushy, the public gets intrigued, and the bears come calling.

Teddy is going to help her friend Rob remodel a Prohibition-era inn/post-WWII road house/'90s restaurant into a vacation rental. First, they have to deal with an awful smell in a corner of the laundry room. After digging up a bunch of bones, they are going to have to find out how those bodies got there. There is no statute of limitations on murder, and someone is not too happy with all the questions Teddy and Rob are asking.

Snakes are wearing necklaces. A man nobody missed until he was found comes in on the tide—sort of. He may not be the first unmissed man according to Sheriff Sonny Hubbard.

Alex might remember the 80's as a golden era in the brokerage business when even a small client had value. Might even remember the leading edge of the tsunami of greed driven change that would eventually overtake the entire industry. What she most certainly did remember was her high producing pal Harry, her friend Anne who kept her numbers up while tilting at glass ceilings, her then significant other Larry who didn't keep his numbers up or his temper down, and the murders. The murders and the police men who investigated them.

Being of Sound Mind is an anecdotal exploration of dementia for caregivers and patients. Taking the car keys. Dealing with denial. Accepting the changes in personality and the futility of reasoning or argument. Finding humor and humanity in a long, frightening intellectual and physical decline.

Nineth in the Taylor series. Death is a natural process - most of the time. But sometimes it seems like there is entirely too much of it going round. Taylor is off to Chicago for her annual visit to her heart doctor. Chris is off to do what Chris does. They are due to meet up in Chicago for Christmas with Taylor's mother, her children, and her grandchildren. Taylor has a problem on the plane but trouble doesn't begin to describe what happens when she is put off the plane in Boise.

Taylor Books - number 8 Taylor is in Mexico with a sprained ankle, Nia is in Guatemala falling in love with La Antigua, Dill is in Canada having a teens worst summer. A little boy is missing and the body count is rising fast.

On a visit to Chiche'n Itza Chris goes up the great pyramid - but never comes down. Taylor goes looking for him when she can't get anyone else to and learns more than she ever really wanted to know about ancient Mayan construction. The police find a body. Taylor gets "found" by a Chris look alike with some very determined and down right menacing followers and it gets difficult to tell the good guys from the bad.

When Taylor agreed to keep her friend Val's children for a couple weeks she didn't expect a dead body to arrive with the children, a persistent and messy housebreaker, or a duel with a tropical storm named Alma. And where was her significant other, Chris, during all this? That's what she'd like to know.

Taylor had a heart problem and a high stress job. Dead in a year without some changes the doctors said. So Taylor went to Mexico to effect changes, or to die. She didn't mean to find an ex-lover dead at her feet. The nice police Captain thought she was a prime suspect. The chariming beach bum couldn't keep his eyes off her, or his hands. The bird watcher fell out of the sky ... And then things got really exciting.

She woke up in a drainage ditch between a dirt road and a zucchini field. Taylor can't remember who she is, or if that charming man is really her husband. Her memory returns in unrelated bits and pieces. What she remembers alarms her. Why are they in Switzerland? Who is the man in the black car? Who is the man who looks like Santa Clause and where is Laszlo? More urgently, why is someone trying to kill her?

In Florida on honeymoon Taylor finds a body that isn't there and Chris finds "employment". The body count rises, Taylor gets tripped up in Butterfly World, kidnapped, and very nearly put int long term storage. And then there's the game of sea going hide and seek.

A Taylor Book - number 7 Florida again. Taylor, Dill and Alice find a body that isn't there and something really strange is going on across the canal. Something even stranger can be seen from the kitchen window.

Growing up in an off the grid, isolationist, conservationist minded family has its drawbacks - and its pluses. Bridging the gap between her devoted family and the pull of a career in the outside world is a challenge and an adventure. Ama's family is on her side, no matter what she wants to do. They just wish she wouldn't do it so close to where the forest ends and the ever-growing urban community begins. A happy story with a bit of a twist.

Taylor Books 10 Chris is undercover in Guatemala. Taylor is visiting her friends Nia and Ben and doing the tourist thing until she and Nia find a dead man in the street, a dead man Nia knows all to well.