Suspects abound when real estate magnet James Bonner is murdered in his office after his New Year’s Eve Party. The widow has a long-standing grudge. The son has gambling debts, and a couple of low life thugs are hanging around. Why? Is it the kid’s gambling debt or something more sinister? One-time cop turned private eye Milo Rathkey just had his life turned upside down. That’s why he was invited to the party. That’s why he talked with the soon to be corpse. And that’s why the cops want him in on the investigation. Mary Alice it was a great party…sorry about the murder.

The Woman of Thrana Hall are holding an all school reunion. Classmate Jessica Vogel is hated by most of the attendees, but when she's pushed down the steps of an old spooky tower, private detective Milo Rathkey is pulled into the investigation. Is the murder tied to a fatal accident twelve years earlier, an old school grudge, or did the victim's penchant for blackmail get her killed. Milo's brain keeps telling him something is not right, but he has to wait until the back of his brain talks to the front of his brain.

Former District Attorney Patsy Rand was poisoned at a book club meeting. The last thing she said was "yellow." With that meager clue Police Consultant Milo Rathkey begins to unravel the mystery. The victim wrote a book years ago accusing a software guru of murder. Now someone is collecting those books. Is the collector and the murderer the same person?

When two bodies are found on the back lawn of the Hawthorne estate, the police find private investigator Milo Rathkey already on the scene, dragged into the investigation by Mary Alice Bonner who had hoped to use Hawthorne for her annual New Year’s Eve party. The dead are identified as a young couple who were touring their wedding venue the night before. The police think the bride-to-be was the target. Milo suspects the killer was after the groom. All Mary Alice Bonner knows, is that it’s hard to plan a party with bodies on the lawn. Murder Again! Happy New Year!

Milo Rathkey is spending a quiet January in his Duluth mansion, Lakesong—too quiet. Then Charlie Dawson is murdered while riding an exercise bike. The police want to know who rigged the bike to electrocute Charlie. Milo wonders why Charlie died on a Tuesday.

Why would someone buy seven ugly, winter hats in May? Police Consultant Milo Rathkey wanted to know but the buyer told him to mind his own business. Milo would have forgotten all about it if the Hat Man hadn't been found floating face down in a nearby river. Who murdered Hat Man? The clues center around a radio station contest that has treasure hunters pouring into Duluth in search of a quick payday. All Milo really wanted was four double-A batteries.

The body of a young woman is found in a spooky old farmhouse on the outskirts of Duluth. She came back to town to claim her inheritance, but that took a wrong turn. Who killed her? And whose body is buried in the barn? Police Consultant Milo Rathkey keeps saying it’s not what you see, it’s what you don’t see.