Showing results for "La Florida" in Women Sleuths

Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon, a socialite sitting at her table suddenly falls face-first into the chicken salad, never to nibble again.

The Keys is a great place to hide a seashell bucket full of secrets. Creole . . . shot . . . dead. Three words Madison Westin never thought she’d hear in the same sentence. Creole promised. He pinky swore on it. But even through a blur of tears fed by prescription-strength margaritas, Madison...

As intricate as a fisherman's net, Riptide fairly writhes with sinister delights - family secrets, family feuds, lost family fortunes, betrayals, puzzles, sunken treasure...and murder, of course. With a bit of illicit romance and treachery thrown in for seasoning, this rife atmosphere swirls around New York artist Isabel Anders, who's summoned home to tiny St. Elmo, Florida to deal with an emergency: the aunt who raised her has been brutally - and mysteriously - injured. Isabel arrives to find the family mansion in ruins, her aunt living in a trailer, and more.

The Keys Bed and Breakfast is hosting a reclusive author and a famous actress who are working together on a new memoir. But it soon becomes apparent that not everything is as it seems. And then the dead bodies start showing up. Can Eva and the Murder Mystery Book Club sort fact from fiction and solve another deadly mystery?

Eva Stewart has taken up a new hobby: photography. What better place to take pictures than the Great White Heron Refuge? While capturing the local wildlife on film, she stumbles across a dead body. Of course, the murder-mystery book club jumps on the case. Can Eva and the book club find another killer, or have they finally gotten in over their heads?

Lacy Stoltz ermittelt wieder. Lacy Stoltz hat als Anwältin bei der Rechtsaufsichtsbehörde in Florida schon viele Fälle von Korruption erlebt. Seit sie einen Richter, der Millionen abkassiert hat, zu Fall brachte, ist sie sogar zu gewisser Berühmtheit gelangt. Doch nun wird sie mit einem Fall konfrontiert, der jenseits des Vorstellbaren liegt: Denn der Richter, gegen den sie ermittelt, nimmt anscheinend keine Bestechungsgelder von Leuten. Er nimmt ihnen das Leben.

Lacy Stoltz ermittelt wieder. Lacy Stoltz hat als Anwältin bei der Rechtsaufsichtsbehörde in Florida schon viele Fälle von Korruption erlebt. Seit sie einen Richter, der Millionen abkassiert hat, zu Fall brachte, ist sie sogar zu gewisser Berühmtheit gelangt. Doch nun wird sie mit einem Fall konfrontiert, der jenseits des Vorstellbaren liegt: Denn der Richter, gegen den sie ermittelt, nimmt anscheinend keine Bestechungsgelder von Leuten. Er nimmt ihnen das Leben.

When my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn’t realize she was being tragic. On the surface, Annie Powers’s life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter...