TOURIST SEASON MAY BE OVER ... BUT THE KILLING SEASON HAS JUSR BEGUN. J.W. Jackson loves these crisp Vineyard autumn days after the season has ended. Now that the "off-islanders" are finally off the island, the ex-Boston cop is free to relax, fish and make future plans with his lady love Zee. But this fall, the natives are getting seriously restless. Animal rights activists are squaring off against the deer slayers; environmentalists are at odds...

When a visitor to Vineyard Haven survives a murder attempt, sometime private investigator J.W. Jackson looks into the deeds of a real estate developer who is buying deeds and evicting home owners.

When the body of a radical environmentalist is discovered in a golf course sandtrap, J. W. Jackson finds himself named a prime suspect and sets about identifying the killer from among a horde of developers, golfers, and other potential culprits.

With his wife, Zee, and the children gone to "America"--What those who live full-time on Martha's Vineyard call the mainland--J.W. Jackson is enough at loose ends to take a job that seems easy. A Vietnam vet named Roland, now in his 60s, living in a cabin he built himself on family land, is being harassed, and his sister believes that land lust is behind it. In effort to find out who might be putting poison in Roland's cat's food and a skunk in his...

It's spring on Martha's Vineyard and at the suggestion of her beekeeper, Victoria Trumbull takes in a new boarder. Orion Nanopoulos is leading a project to lay a fiber-optic cable across the island. When a body is found in the trench where they are laying the cable, Orion recognizes the dead man as a potential investor. Victoria, renowned for her crime solving skills and for her knowledge of the island's residents, is hired by the victim's sons to...

"On her first day as adjunct professor at Ivy Green College, Victoria Trumbull recognizes the stench emanating from her classroom as more than just dead mice. Brownie, the groundskeeper's mangy mutt, soon discovers a second body hiding beneath a cluster of poison ivy. The stakes have never been higher for Ivy Green, which is on the brink of losing already-lukewarm support from its accredited partner, Cape Cod University. Thackery Wilson, the founder...

"When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himselfof his troublesome girlfriend, Samantha. But the mushrooms he's given Samantha end up on her daddy's dinner table, and Zack, one of the invited guests, is sure he's doomed the diners to an untimely...