Claudia Bishop

Meg Quilliam would rather eat a rat than judge a deep-fat frying contest. But when celebrity chef Banion O'Haggerty offers to do it--for a pretty penny--and decides to stay at Quill and Meg's inn, it's the start of even more turmoil. Before the new franchise even opens, Mr. Holcomb has competition: Captain Cluck is setting up shop here too. Then, a butcher knife is missing and so is Banion It's anyone's guess who will ruffle this killer's feathers next ...

Sarah Quilliam ("Quill") and her sister Meg are in deep financial trouble. Unable to pay bills and overhead on their beloved Inn at Hemlock Falls, they're relieved when five women who call themselves the Crafty Ladies book several days at the Inn. The local crafts fair and wineries, Quill and Meg hope, will bring in more tourists.When a guest at the Inn is murdered, and then a second body is found, both corpses with a triangle nearby, Quill sets out to unravel the motives and find the killer, while trying to deal with the Inn's day-to-day business, demands of the Crafts Fair, and a rather strange couple who run a local winery.

Hosting the wedding rehearsal dinner of ex-senator Alphonse Santini, who seeks reelection and has transformed the quiet inn at Hemlock Falls into a political battleground, sisters Sarah and Meg become involved in a recipe for murder.

There's trouble in paradise; the serenity of Hemlock Falls has been shattered by the arrival of the infamous Bernard LeVasque, who--too bitter for someone's taste--has been taken off the menu for good. The grouchiest chef in the world of haute cuisine, Bernard LeVasque, has opened a multimillion-dollar cooking school and made quite a splash in the quiet village of Hemlock Falls--even stealing customers from the Inn. Sisters Quill and Meg wished he would leave, but they never wished him dead--which is exactly what has happened, thanks to the knife in his neck. A mysterious scrap of a long-lost recipe found in his hands may hold clues to his killer, or maybe not--Bernie had a habit of sending even the most mild-mannered foodies into a homicidal rage. Could the killer be one of his bitter students or even his own wife, who may have taken her propensity for whacking him with kitchen tools too far? Or could it be Meg Quilliam, who wanted to keep him from their kitchen's profits? With her sister a suspect, it's up to Quill to find the killer cook that spoiled the consomme.

Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah "Quill" Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls while her sister, Meg, keeps the patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sisters have to rely on other skills--spotting clues, solving crimes, and catching culprits. The fate of livestock everywhere hangs in the balance. It's a golden autumn at the Inn at Hemlock Falls, and the conventioneers from the International Association of Pet Food Providers are fighting like cats and dogs over a campaign to switch to vegan pet food. Guest relations are not going smoothly for Quill and Meg. And matters don't improve when Quill discovers the body of the luscious Lila Longstreet while on a tour of Heavenly Hogg's Pig Farm. When pet psychic Olivia Oberlie correctly predicts a second murder, Meg and Quill investigate--and find most of the suspects are also on the weekend guest list, bringing business to a grinding halt.

Two Hemlock Falls mysteries-together for the first time In A Pinch of Poison, newspaperman Hedrick Conway is making news in Hemlock Falls, but he's making enemies even faster. His current expos an in-depth look at plans for the local mini-mall, in which several prominent people have invested a great deal of money. Hedrick thinks something funny is going on, but nobody's laughing when two of his relatives turn up murdered... In Murder Well-Done, The Inn at Hemlock Falls has the misfortune of hosting the wedding rehearsal dinner of Alphonse Santini. The ex- senator, looking to get reelected, has brought big-time politics to the little town. And while politics make strange bedfellows, the dead fellows being made are even stranger.

The first two Hemlock Falls mysteries?a winning recipe for mystery lovers. A Taste for Murder takes readers to the festival at Hemlock Falls, featuring a reenactment of the 17th-century witch trials. But this year the mock execution becomes all too real when a guest at the Inn is crushed under a pile of stones. The killer has not been identified?yet. In A Dash of Death, Helena Houndswood is the epitome of class when the cameras are rolling. Behind the scenes, this expert on style is a snob with a heart of stone. She's furious to hear that the decidedly d class women of Hemlock Falls have won her TV show's design contest. When one winner goes missing and the other is found dead, Helena falls under suspicion. Murder can be so tacky.