Orem Library

Bakerhaven, Connecticut, the home of Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, seems like the ideal place to host a charity crossword-puzzle tournament. A slew of celebrity contestants are on the way, and the locals have been invited to challenge the veteran puzzlers head-on. But soon the town's attention is fixated on something far more controversial than crosswords when the body of the town tart is discovered lying dead on her kitchen floor. Before anyone can...

It looks like wedding bells again for the much-married Cora Felton when distinguished widower Raymond Harstein III moves into town and makes a play for the Puzzle Lady. That is, until the mail brings puzzling cryptograms, which, when deciphered, warn Cora off the match. As the puzzles keep coming, a killer's game must be played in earnest, and it's up to the Puzzle Lady to solve the riddle if anyone is going to live to make it to the altar!

When nerdy cruciverbalist Harvey Beerbaum throws a birthday bash for Cora Felton at the Bakerhaven Library, it's no surprise that the centerpiece, a huge cake decorated like a crossword puzzle, is a complete bust--until a corpse thrown from the second floor stacks hits it dead center and fills in 14 down. Cora may hate birthdays almost as much as she hates crossword puzzles--but when it comes to solving crimes, no one can hold a candle to the Puzzle...

"The Puzzle Lady couldn't be happier. Matt Greystone, the rookie sensation who just signed a huge contract with the Yankees after coming to the team as the player to be named later in a trade with the Diamondbacks, winning 17 games as a starting pitcher, was coming to town to rehab from an arm injury. A diehard Yankee fan, Cora was delighted when Matt invited her to a weekend pool party. On the plus side, she got to meet Derek Jeter. On the minus...

Cora Felton's ex-husband's sensational tell-all memoir, Confessions of a Trophy Husband: My Life with the Puzzle Lady, has been optioned for the movies-- and the Puzzle Lady herself is signed on as an associate producer. Cora hopes to have some control over the project, but the truth is that she needs the money. Filming in New York City, Cora finds she doesn't like the script, she doesn't like the director, and she absolutely hates the actress who...