When a retired detective finds two bodies in his backyard, he is forced to come out of retirement to solve the murders.

Humor and mishaps abound after one retired homicide detective calls another about going to a tree farm to cut down their Christmas trees. While they are out, they find one more dead body than either had hoped for and getting caught up in another murder investigation.

A retired detective thinks that all he will have to do on Halloween is hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. Everything goes well until all the children in costume come and go, and then the phone calls begin. One of them comes from his former Chief of Police, whom he and his former partner have promised that they will come out of retirement whenever there is a murder in their small town. Not only do they have to go out on a dark night in the pouring down rain, but they have to head out to a remote part of the county, where almost no one lives, to a place where someone has texted and reported that someone has been murdered. All they have to go on is the location of the cell phone. Before he solves the case, he is confronted with several suspects, none of whom seem to have motives or alibis. This is another whodunit in the Dekker Cozy Mystery series, full of twists and turns and lots of humor.

In this delightful combination of a whodunit mixed with humor, a woman, who has been celebrating her birthday and Valentine's Day, is rushed to the hospital complaining of stomach pains and nausea. She grabs the doctor and tells him she has been poisoned, but before she can tell him any more, she dies. When Lt. Dekker and Sgt. Murdock investigate, they find out that no one liked her, with the possible exception of her husband.

Cy Dekker is ready to enjoy a nice breakfast at the Blue Moon diner with his good friend Lou Murdock on April Fool’s Day when a dead body gets in the way. When they find out the man was not murdered, they get to enjoy breakfast together anyway, but a subsequent murder finds the two of them traipsing all over the county questioning a little bit of everyone who knew the man they found dead. The problem is that everyone they question seems to have a good alibi or no motive for murdering the man.

Cy has a new friend, he of the four-legged variety. On the morning of the winter's first snowstorm, Cy's new friend finds a body in the woods. When an autopsy reveals that the man was murdered, Cy and Lou, sometimes accompanied by Cy's new friend, go traipsing through the woods, driving through the most sparsely populated part of the county, and occasionally drive into town, to try to figure out who murdered the man. They soon learn that it is easier to deduce why he was murdered than to figure out who killed him. But eventually, Cy and Lou, with a little help from Cy's new friend, are able to bring the case to a conclusion and retreat to the warmth of their homes.

A murder has been committed. Clues found by constructing a jigsaw puzzle and delving through a large number of library books let Cy and Lou know where they can find the body and who the murderer is. Sort of. The victim can be found in one of about seventy houses and they have only the first name of the murderer. Well, it’s one of eight first names. They knock on doors with hilarious results until they finally find one house that smells worse than the others. Once they find and identify the victim, Sam is able to provide eight last names to go with those first names. Once they question those eight people, they find they have six people who were ready to push each other out of the way to be the first to shoot the victim, one who seems to like the person, and one who seems hardly to know the person. It’s time to use everything they know and each clue and message they are given to deduce which of the eight is the murderer.

Cy and Lou head back to the mountains of Sevier County, Tennessee on vacation with no intention of becoming involved in a murder investigation. But they stumble upon a dead body with two envelopes on it, early in their vacation. One envelope is marked Lt. Dekker. The other says Local Police. Each envelope contains a small amount of information about the identity of the victim and the murderer and a clue as to where they are to go next. They are told they will be going to ten places in all, all in Pigeon Forge. They are led from one Pigeon Forge attraction to another, and at each one, they are to find someone with an envelope containing a clue as to where they are to go next. But the clues are not easy to figure out, and they must seek help among the locals and other vacationers, and that doesn't always go the way Cy hopes it will go. All of it adds up to a hilarious romp and an eventual conclusion.

One murder. Eight suspects. Such is the case when an elderly woman returns home from convalescing after a fall. Six of her neighbors provide a meal for her. Her two grandchildren are there to share it with her. One of those eight ended her life. But which one? And how? It is up to Cy and Lou to figure who did it, how, and why. The why seems easy. The who and how not so much.

Three houses on a country road, each separated from the next by a wooded area. A woman lives in each house. Another wooded section begins after the third house. The woman in the first house claims to be a widow. The woman in the second house says she is married. The woman in the third house admits to being divorced. Across the road from the middle house is a vacant house, but men have been seen at that house. The woman in the middle house claims a man forced his way into her house one night. A little over a week after that, a dead body turns up in the woods. The medical examiner says he has been dead for more than five days and he can't identify him. He died from a blow by a blunt instrument to the back of the head. It is up to Cy and Lou to solve the murder. Most of the men they seek cannot be found.

Cy and Lou both bite the bullet and marry the women they have been dating for years, but after each couple returns from a lengthy honeymoon, both detectives have to head out and solve another murder, this time accompanied by their wives. They encounter a body that almost lands on top of them, sisters they cannot tell apart, suspects that seem guilty, suspects that seem innocent, and a murderer that likes to hide dead bodies. Even a dog, a duck, and additional cops are not enough to bring the case to a hasty conclusion.

A body has been found murdered and left in the swimming pool at the house next door to the house Cy owns in town. A second body is found hundreds of miles away and the two murders seem to be connected. Both houses are owned by home-swappers, and Cy and Lou are persuaded to attend a gathering of home-swappers at a resort in upstate New York. After they arrive at the resort, they are able to cut their suspect list from over one hundred people who have attended to six people. Is the murderer one of them or someone else?