Marian Babson

When recent acquanitance and computer billionaire Arthur Arbuthnot mistakes her for an interior decorator and begs her help in enlivening his dreary London flat, gossip maven Annabel Hinchby-Smythe is lured by the promise of scandalous tales and the chance to earn a little money.

The Harpers have traded their New England home for a cottage in the original England-just for the summer. Their cozy new house even comes complete with Esmond, a timid marmalade cat. But the peaceful village starts to feel less welcoming when an attempt is made on Mr. Harper's life. Now, amid secrets and suspicions, they must sniff out the truth-with a little help from Esmond.

British public relations firm Perkins & Tate are used to dealing with show business-but this time, the celebrities are cats. The company's been hired to publicize a major event for cat fanciers, but even if the felines in attendance are dignified, elegant, and well trained, the same doesn't always hold true for the humans... After a valuable cat statue disappears-and the exhibit's much-disliked organizer is found dead in a cage with two Sumatran...

London public relations firm Perkins & Tate has a potentially lucrative new client: the American country singer known as Black Bart. Unfortunately, the Nashville sensation comes with a reputation for chasing underage groupies-and an entourage that includes both his comedienne wife and her driven, controlling stage mother... who soon dies under highly suspicious circumstances. Now Douglas Perkins and his partner, Gerry Tate, need to put the best...

Agatha Award–Winning Author: When a book critic dies in an English village, a mystery-writing sleuth smells a rat. A number of mystery authors, including Lorinda Lucas, call the village of Brimful Coffers home. Occasionally, there is a violent death . . . for example, the demise of a hapless rat, done in by Lorinda's two kitties. But when the victims are book critic Plantagenet Sutton and a visiting writer, Lorinda finds the case much more difficult...