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During a meeting of the Winter Warmth Book Chat, a valuable, signed copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie is stolen! The book was to be sold with the intention of helping Isabella receive a kidney transplant; with the book now missing, everyone in the book club is a suspect. With Ivy Bay being host to its own Agatha Christie mystery, will Mary be able to uncover the thief in time to help Isabella? Find out in another adventure in Ivy Bay, where faith and friendship go hand-in-hand!

A mysterious figure has left a set of beautiful books outside of Mary’s Mystery Bookshop! Each book contains an ancient letter addressed to a man named Edward from… Mary’s mother? As Mary looks into the story behind the letters, she discovers a shocking revelation that could change everything she and Betty knew about their mother. Do they really want to know the story that history has to tell, or are some mysteries better left unsolved?

Something is amiss in Ivy Bay! Mary’s neighbor, Cathy, is excited to go on a sunset whale-watching excursion with her new boyfriend. However, when Mary finds evidence to suggest that Cathy never came home from her date, she begins to look into the matter. Mary’s investigation reveals that not only is Cathy missing, but there was no whale-watching excursion hosted on the night that she had said she planned it! Could this be a case of a romance gone wrong, or is Cathy hosting some secrets of her own?

Mary is contributing to Ivy Bay’s baseball spirit by creating an exhibit full of baseball memorabilia, including her late husband’s prized game ball signed by the entire 1970 Red Sox organization. But before the exhibit is set to open, someone replaces the ball with a counterfeit one! To make matters worse, it appears as though other features in the exhibit have been stolen and replaced with fakes as well! Can Mary track down the thief and use her husband’s baseball as a means of helping a children’s charity like he intended? Find out in Disappearing Acts, an exciting mystery that tells a story of compassion like nothing else before!

Grace Church is putting on a living Nativity to celebrate the Christmas season, and everyone in the congregation is lending a hand in the production. But when costumes are stolen, flyers are removed, and the sheep escape, it appears as though someone is trying to sabotage the living Nativity! Can Mary and her friends from Ivy Bay track down the saboteur, or will faith and teamwork prove to be insufficient to save Christmas cheer at Grace Church?