A Meal with Isobel Avery by Chelsea Field

On a quiet afternoon in contemporary Los Angeles. . . I bit into the plump, red cherry and let the tart sweetness of it roll across my tongue. My client’s dark gaze bore into me hungrily. Probably because he couldn’t eat a thing until I let him. He was gorgeous....

A Day in the Life of Afton Tangler by Gerry Schmitt

I’m sitting here in police headquarters shivering like a Chihuahua in a snowstorm. But not because of the brutal cold. It’s because Chief Thacker called me in to help deal with a baby that’s been kidnapped. A three month-old by the name of Elizabeth Ann who was stolen...

A Day in the Life of Liz Talbot, PI, by Susan M. Boyer

ONE The dead are not abundantly sympathetic to their own. My best friend, Colleen, passed through the veil and into the great mystery eighteen years ago next month. She shed no tears over Shelby Scott Poinsett Gerhardt. The photos of Shelby sprawled lifeless as a rag...