Nora Barker: 5 books

In Nora Barker's fifth cozy mystery, Dr. Christmas Connery is blamed when a major benefactor postpones support for a sports venue in deference to locating a state-of-the-art performing arts theater on the Midstate University campus. The jocks and alumni are none too pleased and murder is in the air.

Normally the most violent thing that happens on the campus of Midstate University is a football game, but that all suddenly changes. Dr. Christmas Connery and her basset hound find Elizabeth Page, the director of the Midstate Museum of Art, dead on the gallery floor in the middle of a kinetic sculpture...

When Dr. Christmas Connery finds a small watercolor in a thrift store in Florida she can't believe her good fortune. Could it really by a Constable? When murder and mayhem follow her back to Midstate University, she's sure $10 for that watercolor was too much to pay.

Would someone really commit murder over a rare daylily? Unfortunately, they would. But Midstate University’s Dr. Christmas Eve Connery, FBI Special Agent Dan Blackwell, Detective Hjelmer Ryquist and others work the mystery through to its conclusion. Dr. Connery’s octogenarian neighbor is killed...

When ceramics professor Michael Windwalker opens a kiln Monday morning he finds charred bones in with the students' pots. Very unsavory information about the victim, Drama professor William Werther, is discovered. His widow can't seem to decide if she's in mourning or celebrating her freedom. Chris...