This novel is a gentle mysterypart dreamscape and part history. In this, the third and last of the Firefly stories, Firefly reminisces about Tiny Tims and her days at Captain Barneys Circus, their time spent dealing with the silent film greatsEadweard Muybridge, Thomas Edison, and the Lumire brothersand their adventures in the Cotswolds, in Victorian England. She recalls the delights of the early Hollywood film industry and Tims bravery during World War II, entertaining troops with the USO. And most importantly, Firefly recounts the role played by the two little detectives in defending Atlas and their Circus friends, when they were accused of the Cotswolds Ripper murders. This is a wistful and elegiac novel of a lost world.

In the 17th century, critics of John Milton observed that in Paradise Lost, Lucifer steals the show. The same thing holds true today. We begin with a fanciful tale of God and Satan. What follows is a collection of true stories about Societys roguesthe flimflam artists, whores, painted ladies, voodoo queens, and honky-tonk angels that inhabit the world. We depict the lives of a few favorites among these captivating, infuriating, (sometimes) horrifying, and larger than life frauds.

When Ellie Kent moves to an English village with her new husband Graham, she fears the villagers will always see her as that young American who snared their attractive vicar during his sabbatical in California. But this challenge is nothing compared to what happens when she stumbles across a body in the churchyard. The villagers insist they don't know the murdered man, so suspicion mounts that the killer must be the incomer - the vicar's new wife. As evidence piles up against her, Ellie tries to stay one step ahead of the police to unravel a decades-old literary mystery and love story. Will others die before she can solve it? And what will be left of her new life and marriage, even if she succeeds?

In this trilogy of stories about life in the San Juan Islands, a teacher fantasizes about her favorite author to ease her loneliness, an islander finds love with a precariously sober alcoholic, and a young couple has to make sacrifices to keep their dreams afloat - but all find strength and inspiration in the sea, sky, and islands.

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.