A timely inheritance has enabled spunky, self-sufficient Tess Darcy to transform her late Aunt Iris' estate into a charming bed-and-breakfast inn. Aptly enough, among her first guests is a gaggle of gardening enthusiasts gathered together for the regional Iris Growers Convention—a thorny bunch more interested in digging up dirt than in weeding and watering. And when one of them turns up dead in Tess' magnificent garden—a cake knife planted firmly in her chest—it falls to the harried hostess to unearth the killer...before any more corpses spring up.

Iris House is filled with Tess Darcy's old classmates for a high school reunion when the novelist writing a tell-all book is murdered and Tess must figure out which of the author's "friends" would kill to prevent publication. Original.

Preparing for the Victoria Springs Quilt Show and Sale, Tess Darcy and her guests at Iris House become involved in a murder investigation when a suspicious accident eliminates a strong contender for the annual blue ribbon. Original.

No one is happy when an out-of-town drama professor is hired to direct the annual church Christmas pageant, but they had never expected that his arrival would trigger a murder, and now it is up to Tess to expose a sinful killer. Original.

Planning her upcoming wedding while volunteering at the senior center, Tess Darcy, a bed & breakfast proprietress, witnesses the death of an elderly tyrant and discovers some startling secrets about the seniors for whom she cares. Original.

As Tess Darcy plans her wedding, her quaint bed-and-breakfast fills up with a wild cast of characters in town to take advantage of aerobics diva Lida Darnell's wisdom, but when disaster strikes, Tess finds herself investigating a murder as well. Original.

Bed-and-breakfast proprietor Tess Darcy is delighted to finally be marrying her longtime love, Luke Fredrik, but the nuptials are in jeopardy when dictatorial superchef Julian Walker is found stabbed to death during her bridal shower and Iris House cook Gertie Bogart is the prime suspect in the crime. Original.