Farming With Cameron Flaherty by Edith Maxwell

Forty customers are about to descend on my organic farm to pick up their weekly share. And I’m panicking. Do I have enough stuff growing to even harvest this early in the season? My favorite volunteer, Lucinda, suggests cutting irises from the flower garden. I send...

A Night in the Life of Margery Flax by Elaine Viets

Margery Flax here, Marlboro-smoking landlady of the Coronado Tropic Apartments in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In most Dead-End Job mysteries by Elaine Viets, you see me by the pool drinking wine in a sunset salute, or puttering around the property. But ever since Helen...

Dishing It Up with Eve Angelotta by Shelley Costa

I’d like to be able to tell you I wake up and roll out of bed, but if that’s how I started my day, I’d have no more days to start, considering I spend my non-waking hours in a sleeping loft. I’m Eve Angelotta, the head chef at our family-owned Italian Restaurant in...

A Conversation With Casey Tucker by Larissa Reinhart

Y’all seriously don’t want a day in my life. I’m Casey Tucker. I live on my Grandpa’s farm in Halo, Georgia, with my brother Cody and a bunch of goats. I wait tables at Red’s County Line Tap. Sounds real exciting, doesn’t it? Not that she knows it, but I’m thinking of...

A Day in the Life of Skeet Bannion by Linda Rodriguez

Morning always comes too early for me when I’ve spent the night before trying to keep a murderer from killing my best friend. Hi, Skeet Bannion here. I left a job as the highest ranking woman officer on the Kansas City Police Department and moved to little Brewster,...