Rona Shively is back and she's in rare form. Her latest case puts her smack in the middle of a blackmail scheme gone awry.
Rona Shively is a private detective. She’s smart, she’s sassy, she’s seriously confused. She’s also got to pay the rent, so she takes on yet another crazy case. Her new client, Ted McCafferty has asked for her assistance in finding out what happened to his sister. All reports say that she was killed in a boating accident, but McCafferty thinks that her husband may be hiding something. At first blush, her new client has a boyish charm and she feels very comfortable around him. But things are never as they seem. Before it’s over, Rona’s trapped in a basement with a dead body and an ex-boyfriend and things get ugly. All of this plus an impromptu visit from her sister, an argument with her current boyfriend, Norm, and being questioned in connection with a local murder adds up to one stressed-out private detective who’s ready to crack. Come along for the ride, Rona’s driving.
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"He was one of those guys who still thought a woman needed to stay home and take care of the house all day and have dinner on the table for their husband every night. He disapproved of the fact that I carried a gun and he thought I was contributing to the ruin of society. Screw him, that's my thought. He's a big jerk, but if Jane wants to wear a little pink apron while she keeps a permanent pucker for kissing his ass, that's her problem. I’m not cut out for that kind of persecution."
When Goldie Silver receives the wrong shipment of antique Russian samovars at her shop in Juneau, Alaska they sell quickly but people begin to die. What makes those tea dispensers worth killing for?
Pastor Preston Woods who has been hurt so much in the past is seeking a fresh start in the small town of Pinecrest. But when he arrives, he finds himself in the middle of a town struggling with deep-rooted corruption, and a community divided by secre
