OVERTURE TO DEATH The Oliver Civic Symphony is just another small town orchestra, a gathering spot for local amateur musicians. It has weekly rehearsals, punch and cookies, and colorful people, and now, it has murder. An oboist suddenly drops dead...
WHERETHERE'SRILL... Joan Spencer, violist and manager of the Oliver, Indiana Civic Symphony, is busy with preparations for the group's performance at the hugely popular annual quilt show. But when the body of show organizer Mary Sue Ellett is foun...
In the small town of Oliver, Indiana, a well-liked judge is murdered onstage during a local performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta Ruddigore. The director of the Senior Citizens Center, Joan Spencer, is playing the viola in the orchestra when i...
KILLER PERFORMANCE The prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis lures musicians the world over, and this year, Joan Spencer's own future son-in-law is competing. More than beautiful music, however, Joan discovers a world of amb...
"Things have finally calmed down enough for cozy heroine Joan Spencer and her new husband, Lt. Fred Lundquist, to take a long-delayed honeymoon to celebrate their three-month-old nuptials. Of course, it won't be a traditional honeymoon, since they'll...
Just before a big concert, Joan Spencer, manager of the Civic Symphony in Oliver, Indiana, learns that she will be minus her first violinist, Sylvia Purcell. The young woman, an environmental activist, has taken up protest against a large constructio...
Joan Spencer, the viola-playing protagonist of Frommer's small-town Indiana mysteries, doesn't look for trouble but it keeps finding her. A few days before her daughter's wedding, the last thing Joan needs is something else to worry about-but here it...