2010 Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel In MAID OF MURDER, India Hayes, a college librarian and reluctant bridesmaid, is thrown into the role of amateur sleuth as she hunts down the person who murdered her childhood friend and framed her brother for the crime. When bride-to-be Olivia turns up dead in the Martin College fountain and the evidence points to India's brother Mark, India must unmask the real culprit while juggling a furious Mother of the Bride, an annoying Maid of Honor, a set of hippie-generation parents, a police detective who is showing a marked liking for her, and a provost itching to fire someone, anyone—maybe even a smart-mouthed librarian.

After basker weaver Tess Ross is found murdered, college librarian India Hayes must parter with her landlady, Ina Carroll, to find the murderer, all while caring for Tess' chocolate-colored labradoodle, which has a $2 million trust in his name. By the author of Maid of Murder.