FIRST COMES DIVORCE, THEN COMES MURDER… Or at least sweet thoughts of murder. Maggie Longstreet has plenty of them after slimy, ambitious Richard trades her in for a more recent model. She’s so depressed she can barely get out of bed when Larry Hawkins, a seemingly not-at-all depressed acquaintance, commits suicide out of the blue. Suddenly Maggie goes on high alert, remembering something her evil ex said about Larry—something highly suspicious. So she starts asking questions… And from there, it's just a short segué to bracing new developments… involving danger and law-breaking. Fortunately, Maggie isn’t alone in her adventure—a very attractive, much younger man proves a lot more fun than Richard ever was. Set in the’70s, this cozy mystery has a bit of that Mad Men feel of women on the brink of something… big. And completely unexpected.

Anthology containing: Magic Mirror A Temporary Ghost Venetian Mask Fault Tree

When Isabel Anders ran away to New York as a teenager, she thought she had seen the last of the strict, demanding aunt who raised her in the Florida Panhandle. But fifteen years later she finds herself heading for Cape Elmo in response to a cryptic note from the old woman's lawyer. Aunt Merriam has had an accident.Unfortunately, it seems that the whole town remembers the bad blood between Isabel and Merriam, and the welcome wagon consists of threatening notes slid under the door and deadly snakes slithering under her bed. But her one new friend in town, little Kimmie Dee, lets Isabel know that Merriam's fall may not have been an accident at all. As Isabel sorts through the conflicts of her childhood and her aunt's mysterious behavior, she finds herself caught in dangerous crosscurrents of greed and murder.

Georgia Lee Maxwell, society editor of a small Florida newspaper, moves to Paris on a whim. Barely managing to keep afloat while contributing a column, "Paris Patter," to an American fashion magazine, she struggles with living in a new country and trying to speak a language she doesn't know as well as she thought she did. Working on a story at a small Paris museum, Georgia Lee suddenly finds herself a witness when thieves kill a guard and steal one of the museum's least valuable but most mysterious treasures -- a polished stone mirror said to have been used by Nostradamus to divine the future. Crime has never been Georgia Lee's beat, but the story of Nostradamus's mirror, and the people who want it, engulfs her in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. It's the scoop of a lifetime -- if she lives to write it.

Northern Florida in the Eisenhower era, complete with Johnny Ray on the jukebox and a Womanless Wedding—interrupted by an explosion at a moonshine still.Lily Trulock, owner of Trulock’s Grocery & Marine Supply, leads a pretty quiet life until a stranger comes to town. The new guy’s not what he appears, but then, some of St. Elmo’s residents aren’t either. Before she can say, “down the hatch,” Lily’s at the center of a vicious murder and a no-holds-barred bootlegging war—with a nasty storm on the way.

A cop on the verge of retiring reopens a cold case, using 40-year-old DNA. His findings shatter the killer’s widow, a painter and art gallery owner who cannot reconcile herself to the characterization of her husband as a murderer. The findings also poke a felonious hornets’ nest in the sleepy town of St. Elmo, stirring up long-dormant secrets and triggering a swarm of new crimes.