At Farberville High, it’s reading, writing…and murder.Who knows what evil lurks in the halls of Farbervilles’ high school-or what blackmail is hidden in Miss Demeanor’s Falcon Crier advice column? Certainly not bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy-until her daughter Caron persuades her to substitute for disgraced column editor and journalism teacher Emily Parchester. Surely Miss Parchester cannot be guilty of embezzlement. But the petty charges graduate to murder when Principal Weiss gets his last licks from Miss Parchester’s peach compote. Miss Parchester herself, last seen at a local sanitarium, is suddenly missing. And now it’s up to Claire to find someone who’s been schooled in the fine art of murder…(Amazon.com)

A pair of delightful and witty sisters, both in their sixties, captivate the natives and nearly everyone
else when they go sleuthing in Florida. Wealthy “big” sister Mary Alice (6′, 250 lbs.) invites “little” sister (5′1″, 105 lbs.) and two others to share her condo and enjoy the beach, but their discovery of a mangled body interrupts the fun. (From Library Journal)

Salt Lick, Texas’ ace detectives Debbie Sue and Edwina are at it again, defying their husbands’ wishes by leaving their beauty parlor behind and hotfooting it out the door in pursuit of the latest criminal–or cheating husband, which, in their minds, is the same thing–in the guise of their alter egos, the Domestic Equalizers. But this time the cheating takes the form of credit-card theft, and the victim is none other than Debbie Sue’s ex-main squeeze, rodeo heartthrob Quint Matthews. (Booklist)

Renegade rich girl Andy Kendricks isn’t the belle of any Dallas ball — and that’s just the way the
debutante dropout likes it! She’s got a good life and a great man: her defense attorney boyfriend, Brian Malone. Brian’s such a straight arrow that he had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a close friend’s bachelor party at a sleazy local “gentleman’s club.” So why is the groom-to-be saying that Brian left the bacchanal arm-in-arm with “the hottest body in the Lone Star State?” And what was that hot body doing stone-cold dead in the trunk of Brian’s car? (Amazon.com)