Biscuit McKee Mysteries Series

Meet Marmalade and Biscuit. This saucy cat and her human find a body in the library, and the fun begins. No one in Martinsville, a small town in northeastern Georgia, admits to knowing why Harlan Schneider was in the library. Clues seem to point to someone local, but nobody asks Marmalade.   Then, when Biscuit's accident-prone sister visits, pursued by a creepy former boyfriend, Marmalade sees what's happening, but her humans just won't listen to her. So she decides to take matters into her own paws.   Marmalade is not the detective. She is a cat. She just happens to make comments her people don't ever understand.   Grab a cup of tea, sit back, and enjoy this snappy debut novel, with its chatty cat and charming characters.

Was it suicide or murder?   Bob investigates Diane Marie's death, but Biscuit and Marmalade (the orange and white cat who adopted Biscuit in the first book in this series, Orange as Marmalade) become entangled in the hunt.   The diary of the dead woman gives hints of her haunted life, hints that may not be read in time to save the lives of Biscuit and Marmalade.

Meet Marmalade and Biscuit. This saucy cat and her human find a body in the library, and the fun begins. No one in Martinsville, a small town in northeastern Georgia, admits to knowing why Harlan Schneider was in the library. Clues seem to point to someone local, but nobody asks Marmalade.   Then, when Biscuit's accident-prone sister visits, pursued by a creepy former boyfriend, Marmalade sees what's happening, but her humans just won't listen to her. So she decides to take matters into her own paws.   Marmalade is not the detective. She is a cat. She just happens to make comments her people don't ever understand.   Grab a cup of tea, sit back, and enjoy this snappy debut novel, with its chatty cat and charming characters.

Sam returns to Martinsville after an absence of several decades, just in time for the annual Halloween celebration at the town library. Biscuit, the town librarian, is the only one who's not in on the joke as long-time residents recall some of Sam's antics as a kid—antics apparently shared with Biscuit's relatively new husband Bob.   When a grisly murder is discovered the next day, with a body tangled in the storm wreckage of the town dock, Bob and Biscuit—and of course Biscuit's cat Marmalade—are caught up in the repercussions of long ago events that came to call that stormy Halloween night.   Review: It is with pleasure that we can welcome the fourth installment of Fran Stewart's "rainbow" mystery series featuring the wholly feline Marmalade and her human companion, Biscuit McKee.   Unlike so many cat stories that turn cats into cutesy sleuths, the Biscuit McKee Mystery Series allows Marmalade to be a cat. Anyone who truly knows cats will appreciate Marmalade—McKee's wholly independent, sincerely loving, completely feline, empathic partner in life and crime.   If you are new to the series, do please enjoy your trip to Martinsville in Blue as Blue Jeans, but don't stop here. Go back and see what happened in Orange as Marmalade, Yellow as Legal Pads, and Green as a Garden Hose. Then, with the rest of us, wait in anticipation for the rest of the rainbow to reveal its colors. --Brian J. Corrigan Award-Winning author of The Poet of Loch Ness and Professor of Renaissance Literature, North Georgia College and State University

How do you save the ties that bind your family together?   In Fran Stewart's most emotionally charged novel so far, small-town librarian Biscuit McKee confronts Glaze, her bipolar sister on the verge of deep depression. How do you reach the deep resources needed to contend with unforeseen tragedy?   Complications result in mistaken identities, dire misunderstandings, and a kidnapping gone horribly awry. Who would have thought that a few coincidences could have added up to such tragic consequences? Who would have thought that a word or two, here or there, would lead so many people astray? Complications result in mistaken identities, dire misunderstandings, and a kidnapping gone horribly awry.

There isn't a clue as to the one who pushed town librarian Biscuit McKee off the town dock into the raging Metoochie River or whether he will strike again.   There isn't a clue to the whereabouts of Charles Zapota, and his mother is getting frantic.   There isn't a clue about why Melissa Tarkington's fiancé went to Atlanta for a mysterious meeting or why a lost dog suddenly latches onto Biscuit's sister, Glaze.   VIOLET AS AN AMETHYST continues the saga of small town Martinsville, as Biscuit's life is threatened by the deadly intent of one particular man.

Martinsville, Georgia has always been a sleepy little town, where nothing much ever happens, except a few murders... There's a firebug in Martinsville. Town librarian Biscuit McKee isn't too worried when a garbage bin at the grocery store is set on fire. But when it's her beloved garden shed that goes up in flames, the fur begins to fly. Biscuit's feline companion Marmalade comments frequently, ... Yes, I do. ... (even though her humans think she's only purring ... Mouse droppings! ... or sneezing). She's as baffled by all this as her humans. We could have some tuna. That would solve a lot. Distracted by a visit from Peachie, an old college friend, Biscuit pays only scant attention to a third fire, but it's hard to ignore the dead body found in the charred remains of Connie Cartwright's studio, where glass-blowing may have turned into homicide.

In this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated conclusion of the Biscuit McKee Mystery Series, Fran Stewart has reached the pinnacle of her writing career. As we say goodbye to Biscuit and Marmalade, the mysteries surrounding the town of Martinsville, Georgia are finally revealed.   The women who've sheltered from the ice storm at Biscuit and Bob's house have spent three days rummaging through the attic, and on this fourth day they continue to find treasures that help to reveal the hidden history of Martinsville.   Between dealing with the woes of Mary Frances Martin and Hubbard Brandt, as evidenced in their 250-year-old journals, and dealing with a murder next door, all the inhabitants of Beechnut House are caught up in a maelstrom of deception, despair, delight, and danger.

No-one has ever known why the original Martins settled in a dead-end valley that is so difficult to find. When a set of two-hundred-year-old diaries are found in the bottom of a trunk, the mysterious history of Martinsville - all of it based on a lie - begins to come to life!   When the biggest ice storm of the century hits Martinsville, Georgia and knocks out all the power, Biscuit and Bob's huge old house with its wood-burning stove becomes a shelter where many of their friends take refuge. While the men play poker and chess downstairs, Biscuit and the other women head up to the cavernous attic and begin to sort through generations of discards.   A penny whistle, a pocket watch, a hobby horse, and numerous hats reveal the checkered past of Beechnut House. Even an old circus poster has a story to tell. And, of course, those old diaries that hold shocking truths never before revealed.

Continuing the saga that began in Red as a Rooster, Biscuit and her friends (and me too!) and the cat Marmalade uncover more ways the 200-year-old story of the founding of Martinsville is woven through their own lives. They find, too, that not all treachery is ancient. Not all murders are history.   Why does Sadie always wear yellow? Where is the hidden room? And why are the star-crossed lovers kept apart? Stewart's masterful weaving of this multi-generational story both fascinates and delights.

The stakes keep getting higher for Mary Frances and Hubbard, who were separated soon after their secret marriage.   The dangers of the trail seem insurmountable at times, not only lost goats, broken axles, and fires, but disease, accidents, the threat of starvation, and an occasional murder.   Glaze and Tom's wedding provides a welcome respite, but as the women delve deeper into Biscuit's attic, they find a great deal more than they were bargaining for. In this third volume of the "White as Ice" quadrilogy, experience the sweep of history and see just how much people haven't changed in 250 years.