What begins as a quiet dinner for two ends in terror when Seth is kidnapped by the vengeful son of a mafia lord.

Jessica is drawn into an appropriately melodramatic situation when a renowned opera singer is accused of murder in San Francisco.

While taking part in a Russian writers conference, Jessica feels more than the usual chill in the air when government officials discover microfilm in her purse and suspect her of espionage.

When Jessica's niece receives a silver leprochaun from someone who has been presumed dead for years, Jessica decides to hunt down the mysterious gift giver from beyond the grave.  Her search leads her to the Carmody Family Circus, where unnatural things are happening in and out of the ring.

The justice system is tested when a group of angry Southerners form a lynch party and plan to hang a murder suspect.

Man's best friend gets a bad rap when a fox hunter dies in a riding accident and the authorities try to blame the heir to his estate - his beloved pooch.

Script rewrites on a film adaptation take a back seat when Jessica witnesses the fiery end of a stuntman during what should have been a routine car crash.

The world believes that Jessica's scientist friend died in a plane crash, but she knows that he really faked his death.  When he actually does die at the hands of a killer, she works to set the record straight.