Pilot
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Aug 31, 2003
Brought up on a steady diet of mystery fiction by her Uncle Bob, Samantha Kinsey inherits his book store. At a book release by a former teacher of hers, Samantha finds him hanging in a locked room.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Aug 31, 2003
Brought up on a steady diet of mystery fiction by her Uncle Bob, Samantha Kinsey inherits his book store. At a book release by a former teacher of hers, Samantha finds him hanging in a locked room.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 7, 2005
When Sam invites 3 best-selling authors for a book-signing weekend party, one of them is the victim of a mysterious shooting and later dies.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2005
Sam's friend Barbara claims to have photographic evidence that her greedy relatives rigged her recently deceased brother's will to make sure they get the bulk of his inheritance. When Barbara is murdered, Sam's own life is in danger as she tries to sort through the complex family relationships to figure out whodunit.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2005
When Sam invites Philby's favorite folk music trio for a charity benefit at the bookshop, someone murders their manager at a local bed-and-breakfast.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jun 5, 2005
When Sam and her friend Cassie visit a health spa for the weekend, one of the guests is murdered and they become suspicious of the psychic who appears to have solved the crime.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Aug 21, 2005
A sleuth sets off to investigate the murder of popular mystery novelist. She discovers that embroiled in his baffling demise are the stolen multi-million dollar rights to a computer game.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2006
Discovering on a visit to her handsome eye doctor that there is a possible hereditary problem with her vision, the adopted Samantha goes in search of her birth mother. But what she stumbles on is a dead body, and she finds that she must prove her new-found mother innocent of murder.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Mar 18, 2006
Being the organizer this year of Walden's annual Wild West Days, Samantha has been able to bring former TV star Clint Taylor to town for the event. But when the actor stages an accident for publicity, his stand-in is shot for real, and Samantha must figure out which cowboy from the cast of his old show pulled the trigger.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Aug 19, 2006
Amateur sleuth and bookshop owner Samantha Kinsey is left holding the baby when a couple implicated in a murder at a country club goes on the run. The mother leaves her infant son in Sam's care. Can she both look after the baby and solve the case?
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2006
While engaged in remodeling the bookstore, Samantha and Philby find clues to the murder of a mysterious visitor.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2007
While searching for a KGB double agent who was about to be exposed by another Russian spy-turned-successful author, mystery bookstore owner Samantha Kinsey and her secretive friend and store manager, Philby are thrust into the murderous world of international espionage.