English teacher Sarah Deane and her boyfriend, Dr. Alex McKenzie, leave snowy Maine to join Sarah's feisty Aunt Julia for Christmas at the exclusive Rancho del Gato Blanco resort in Arizona.
The first book takes Sarah, still a grad student at this point, out of her natural New England habitat and into the wilds of Texas, where her maybe-boyfriend is keen on a spot of birdwatching.
Coastal Maine provides an atmospheric setting for Sarah Deane and Dr. Alex McKenzie, who plan to be married at last, although they have to solve a classic puzzler first
Professor Sarah Deane and her boyfriend Alex try to entertain Sarah's aunt at a posh Arizona dude resort, but things go haywire when suspicious acts of vandalism occur and the trio finds a mysterious oasis in the middle of the desert
The author's latest Maine adventure finds Sarah Deane and Dr. Alex McKenzie trying to solve the murders of the local good samaritan, Dolly Beaugard, and two local thugs whose bodies all washed up on shore together.