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Meet ALIBI JONES, a mediator for the Solar Alliance. Besides his work as a mediator, Alibi seems find his way into some complicated situations. He tries to thwart a celestial con game. Searches for a kidnapped friend with the help of a cat-like alien Dakhur, Kit, and the man known as Piccolo, and discovers dangers thought long-dead are still very much alive. He searches for stolen alien artifacts. Battles a race of time travelers who want Alibi Jones' time to come to an end... and much more.

In "Arsenic and Alibis," the first of 26 enchanting tales, meet Carrigan Critt—a crochet-loving, cat-obsessed woman who unexpectedly inherits the Critt Family Funeral Home and Gardens. On her 40th birthday, Carrigan's life takes a paranormal twist when she gains the unsettling ability to see, hear, and speak to ghosts. Her newfound gift quickly draws her into the town's most baffling mysteries. When Lydia Grant, a local cosmetics mogul, is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Carrigan's ghostly abilities become her most powerful tool.

Alibi Jones was a Mediator for the Solar Alliance Interplanetary Force in the 2130s - but that's about to change. He's the foster son of the former leader of the Solar Alliance, and the new SA administration makes an example of him after news gets out that Alibi is partly responsible for the destruction of pleasure planet Kismet. Bounced out of his career in the Mediation Corps, Alibi's reassigned to Covert Ops. His cover: running cargo out past the colony world Depot, on the Fringe, from a new remote base - The Hornet's Nest!

Mediator for the Solar Alliance, Alibi Jones searches for a stolen Dakhur artifact, a golden tiara with a blood red gem - the Sunrise of Hur - a cultural treasure, property and pride of the Dakhur race. But Alibi isn't supposed to land on the planet he most wants to investigate - Kismet, home of the crime lord Rene Laveillur, who's claimed Alibi's on-and-off girlfriend Katerina Ramsey as his own property. Alibi's been warned - if he lands on Kismet, he's a dead man!

Alibi Jones' search for a kidnapped friend gets him thrown in an alien prison cell with the mysterious Dakhur named Kit and the man known as Piccolo. As Alibi follows the alien kidnappers' trail, he discovers dangers long thought dead are still very much alive!

A race of time travelers seems to want Alibi Jones' time to come to an end in this connected cycle of short stories. The Alibi Jones and the Time War of the Devrizium short anthology features Alibi Jones' adventures with the xenophobic, time-traveling race known as the Devrizium! Featuring "About Time" (adapted from the comic book short story); "Remember Two Things"; "Memory, Yet Green"; and "The Last Battle".

An interstellar treasure hunt, moral dilemmas, religious conflicts, old familial dysfunction, merciless aliens, and mercenary humans as well...Alibi Jones will have to face them all, and face up to the responsibilities and authority that comes with running a growing colony like The Hornet's Nest in The Star Seeds of Earth!

Welcome to the world of Alibi Jones! Come along for the ride as Humankind expands out into the already populated stars. Alibi is a Mediator for The Solar Alliance in 2135, negotiating treaties and agreements between humankind and alien races. His big heart and inquisitive mind usually get him into trouble along the way.