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When a crime-stopper senior citizen starts to act oddly, a new business sells fake products, and the New Year’s Eve fireworks display disappears, Mayor Cora Mae Bingham and the Spicetown Police Chief Conrad Harris have to get involved.

A vacancy on the Spicetown City Council sends Mayor Cora Mae Bingham scrambling to control the squabbles between two grown men sliding into election day in fisticuffs, one trying to disqualify the other. Amidst the election day antics, Cora Mae helps mitigate merchants’ concerns, soothe homeowner association hostilities, welcome new residents to Spicetown, and solve a murder that could create another City Hall vacancy.

When the owner of a new business digs up buried bones on opening day, the rumor mill in Spicetown comes alive! Figuring out who the bones belong to will open up the cold cases in Spicetown and unearth all the old gossip that was never truly buried. Cora Mae and Chief Harris learn a few things about their fellow citizens along the way.

Nolan Ramsey thinks he wants to be alone. He leaves his life in the city, leaves his job as a news reporter, and buys a house in the middle of nowhere. He plans a life of complete isolation with just his dog, Scuba, for company. Calinda Willow returns home to help her aging father at the end of his life. She copes with the loss by throwing herself into her work, rejects social invitations from her friend, Jackie, and thinks she is content with her solitary life. They are both wrong.

Mayor Cora Mae Bingham has a new friend that has come to town to straighten up the coal mine’s failed finances and keep the paychecks flowing faithfully through the holiday, but his financial fixes may cause some unanticipated fallout. Canine Officer Briscoe helps find a missing photographer, but the developments turn dark when the police probe into her marriage. Only the dark room offers some light on the situation. Despite these concerns, the citizens of Spicetown have a full heart at Christmastime and are busy preparing for the community play and choral presentation.

Although Mayor Cora Mae Bingham planned a peaceful summer of self-improvement while ensuring all the sidewalks in Spicetown were in tip top shape, the new Farmers Market presented special challenges that required her attention.

It's springtime in Spicetown, and Mayor Cora Mae Bingham discovers there may be trouble blooming along with the rhododendrons! With construction in full throttle in the new subdivisions and the income tax-filing deadline looming over her head, Mayor Cora Mae Bingham is revamping the Annual Easter Eggs Travaganza and trying to figure out who is in the Easter bunny suit this year, when a dead body has to be added to her to-do list.

Mary Alayna Dalton leads a secret double life. By day, she is a successful Chicago professional, but by night, she shares her home with six young men and performs with them in their band. The only thing missing is a loving relationship with someone accepting of both sides of her life. When a business encounter thrusts Clark Dulanty into her day, he accidentally stumbles into her nights and uncovers both sides of Mary Alayna Dalton.

Saucy makes his stage debut in the local community play while teenagers are running amok at the high school. Mayor Cora Mae Bingham is trying to decorate every tree in town, and a new spice has hit the streets of Spicetown! Can the "city's finest" save Christmas?

When a construction accident spawns a slew of suspicions at the work site of the old popcorn factory, Mayor Cora Mae Bingham begins to regret her decision to renovate the abandoned building. Her vision of creating a beautiful community center for the citizens has turned into chaos. With Police Chief Conrad Harris out of town, Cora Mae has to take matters into her own hands to investigate the situation. Will Officer "Wink" Hobson be able to keep up?

When shady entrepreneurs slink into Spicetown to splurge on the Fourth of July holiday, their enemies are bound to follow. Mayor Cora Mae Bingham wants her statue dedication to take center stage at the celebration, but a murder in Spicetown steals the front-page news. Can she help the Police Chief Conrad Harris solve the crime and still be Grand Marshall of the parade?