Samantha and Philby attend an Espionage Writers Convention where they meet a former KGB agent-turned-novelist, Alexsandr Tseitsev. Philby and Tseitsev - former adversaries - discover that they deeply respect each other. But later that night, a KGB double agent about to be exposed by Tseitsev murders him. Samantha is seriously injured while trying to catch the fleeing murderer, leaving Philby to follow a trail of cryptic clues to find the killer. While Samantha recovers, Philby plunges into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse and Cold War-era espionage!

While engaged in remodeling the bookstore, Samantha and Philby find clues to the murder of a mysterious visitor.

Amateur sleuth and bookshop owner Samantha Kinsey is left holding the baby when a couple implicated in a murder at a country club goes on the run. The mother leaves her infant son in Sam's care. Can she both look after the baby and solve the case?

Being the organizer this year of Walden's annual Wild West Days, Samantha has been able to bring former TV star Clint Taylor to town for the event. But when the actor stages an accident for publicity, his stand-in is shot for real, and Samantha must figure out which cowboy from the cast of his old show pulled the trigger.

Discovering on a visit to her handsome eye doctor that there is a possible hereditary problem with her vision, the adopted Samantha goes in search of her birth mother. But what she stumbles on is a dead body, and she finds that she must prove her new-found mother innocent of murder.