She pictured a slow-paced life nestled in the foothills of the Swiss Alps. Instead, she found a curious bookstore and murder. Moving with her husband to Switzerland, Anne is looking forward to a stress-free life in one of Europe's most picturesque countries. But now all that tranquility, not to mention having to learn a new language, is getting to her. So when an opportunity to work as an English-speaking assistant at an old bookstore appears, Anne jumps at the chance to feel a bit more useful. Anne would be the first to admit that the store is a bit peculiar, but that's no reason why its customers should start turning up dead at an art colony on a nearby island, rumored to be cursed. And why were all victims interested in the same old diaries recently sold by the bookstore? Can Anne, with a little help from the store’s even-more-peculiar black cat, solve this mystery before someone puts her permanently out of print?

In this small Alpine town, reading can be hazardous to your health. As the English-speaking assistant at an old bookstore in picturesque Ascona, a resort town at the southern tip of Switzerland, famous for its Mediterranean climate, palm trees, and Italianate villas, Anne expects work to be quiet and relaxing. But when Southern Switzerland's only pagan festival arrives in town, its costumed attendees disrupt the peaceful repose of the luxurious lakeside resort. And when one, and then a second woman dressed as a witch turns up dead at the festival, the historic town is set abuzz by rumors of a modern-day witch hunt. When Anne discovers, with a little help from the store’s peculiar black cat, that the first victim was a cosmetic industry executive with a taste for books on witch lore, the irony of a beauty boss interested in magic potions is not lost on her. But murder is no laughing matter, and Anne’s meddling might just lead to a third death. So she needs to get her nose out of the spell books and put her feet back on solid Alpine ground to stop a killer.

Life in Switzerland is picture-perfect until someone gets murdered. In the town of Bellinzona, a sleepy backwater in Southern Switzerland, three medieval castles stand overlooking the small provincial town. Their function as sentinels of the valley–long obsolete. But they guard a secret that someone is willing to kill for. Bellinzona is frothing with excitement over rumors of long-forgotten treasure. And when the old bookstore where Anne works, in nearby Ascona, a town famous in Switzerland for its Mediterranean flair, supplies a crucial piece to the treasure puzzle, even the store’s peculiar black cat struts about with its head held high. But when a world-famous archaeologist, specializing in Roman history, arrives from England, heads begin to roll, literally. Is this a simple case of treasure hunting greed, or is something more sinister going on? With the bookstore implicated, Anne once again gets caught up in the mystery. But the excavated treasure brings buried private issues to the surface, and if Anne is not careful, she might just end up as a small print footnote in the book of life.

This is one weekend getaway Anne can’t wait to get away from. It’s July in exotic Southern Switzerland and life is sweet. When her husband surprises Anne with a romantic getaway to a hilltop castle, she couldn't be happier. What could be better than a refreshing escape to a fairytale chateau in the folds of the Swiss Alps, away from the old bookstore and its never-ending mysteries? But all is not as it seems at the castle. Situated in a region steeped in legends about knights and dragons, the castle’s grounds are teeming with unexplained phenomena. The apparitions are enough to make Anne wish she was back at work. When a castle guest dies in puzzling circumstances, and the police show up at the old bookstore looking for a book on dragons, Anne can’t help but be intrigued. Now buried in research about dragon bones, assisted by the store’s peculiar black cat, Anne is on the trail of a fire-breathing legend that seems to be very much alive. Can she find the chink in the armor of this murderous mystery or will she end up being a damsel in distress?

An ancient Italian card came with devilishly tricky rules is about to turn deadly. Long before divination laid claim on the tarot deck, the cards were used in a popular trick-taking game called Tarocchi. It’s August in Southern Switzerland, and the denizens of the charming town of Ascona are taking refuge behind the thick stone walls of the old bookstore where Anne works, playing Tarocchi. With game rules so complicated that even the store’s peculiar black cat is refusing to watch, Anne forgoes the endless tournaments in favor of a good book. But when Tarocchi players start dying with tarot cards on their chests–the traitor, the devil, the magician–Anne is worried the bookstore’s owner, Marco, could be next. Does the answer to this mystery lie where the rules of Tarocchi and divination intersect? Now Anne has to delve deep in centuries-old manuscripts of tarot games and try to conjure up a solution before Marco’s permanently branded with the card named ‘death’.

Nothing is more charming than a Swiss village at Christmas…until a celebrity dies at the Christmas market. Immerse yourself in a magical winter setting and experience the joy of a European Christmas while solving a snow-bound cozy mystery. It’s Christmas time in Ascona, a pretty hamlet in Southern Switzerland, and the town is bustling with festivities. Even the broody old bookstore where Anne works has a cheery look. But it’s the annual holiday window display competition, and this year’s celebrity judge, that has the locals enthralled. When an unexpected Christmas Eve snowstorm blankets the entire region in spellbinding whiteness, the town wakes up to a winter wonderland. And murder. The town’s VIP guest lies dead at the Christmas market. But when a second body turns up in a store window, Anne begins to suspect clues to the murders are hidden in the festive decorations. With a killer lurking at the Christmas market and slipping unnoticed through winding snow covered alleyways, can local gossip help Anne and her friends catch the perpetrator before the trail melts away?

Ancient vineyards stripe the hills above a small Swiss village. As the vine roots dig deeper, the new vintage brings up long-forgotten family secrets and murder. Join Anne on her next adventure through Southern Switzerland. With clues from an old blueprint of the winery and some old letters, she is on the trail of a murderer. As always, she's aided by her curiosity about hidden Swiss history and a peculiar black cat named Maggie.