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Life is getting strange in Twombly, Illinois. Jairus Twombly's familial gift of intuition is faltering and his new personal assistant seems to be trying to replace his wife, Amy. On the Twombly College campus, someone is breaking into the dorm rooms of female students to leave red colored objects including a red golf ball, a red ribbon and a tiny red stuffed dog. When a recipient of some of the red objects goes missing and is released after being told, "You're not her", and the personal assistant turns up dead with Amy Twombly's elegant crochet hook in her eye, things heat up for Emory Crawford and her chemistry professor and forensic scientist husband, Dr. Jebbin Crawford. When Amy Twombly is arrested for the murder, the police seem sure of her guilt. Emory vows to find the real killer before Amy goes to prison for a crime Emory is sure she did not commit. And who is the strange stalker who loves red? What will happen when he finds the 'right' victim?Emory, along with the Twombly's Nancy Drew-like daughter, Madison, once more turns to her amateur Miss Marple style detective skills and intuition to solve the mysteries.

Twombly and Golden County's past and present collide when an archeological team uncovers a buried house that vanished without a trace during a record flood in 1844. When two mummified bodies are found inside, and it's clear that a murder was committed, the archeological team sponsored by Twombly College to discover the Sutton House is replaced by the police. Who killed whom and why? At first the old murder is merely interesting, but then moonshine is added to the cocktail as the old illegal liquor trade has also reappeared and is seeping into Golden County. Teens are the ones drinking it -- and murder is the result.Will 'Miss Marple' Emory and her 'Nancy Drew' sidekick Madison be able to sort myths and rumors from facts to solve both cases before someone else dies?

When acclaimed ethnomusicologist, Dr. Archibald Finley Dawson arrives at Twombly College for the Midwest Anthropological Studies Society conference, he's swaggering over his recent bestseller; "The Devil's Music: Murder and Mayhem in Western Folk Music". He is the star of the conference, but jealousy taints the air.Emory Crawford and her husband, chemistry professor and forensic scientist Dr. Jebbin Crawford, join their friend Archibald to entertain the attendees with bluegrass murder ballads following the opening banquet. But their good mood changes when Emory and Jebbin are strolling home and come across Dawson's body.He has been strangled with his own fiddle strings.Jebbin, with his colleague Dr. Nibodh "Chatty" Chatterjee, work night and day on the forensics while Emory wonders about graduate student Naomi's relationship to the murdered man and what caused the friction between Dr. Dawson and Dr. Timothy Law? When Timothy is found murdered, the pressure rises, and Emory's 'Miss Marple' like ways are put to the test to figure out what is going on before the killer strikes again.