Pearls and Poison is the 3rd book in the Consignment Store Series featuring Reagan as the female lead. This series makes me laugh!! It is a fun book to read. The characters are ‘over the top’, but great fun. The story line was good. Reagan’s mother is a judge running for alderman. She is suspect...
Mother gushed as Angelo and Sutter drew up beside us. “That’s just wonderful. Evie and I were so worried, weren’t we, dear? We heard he was missing and we’ve been searching all over for him, the sweet little darling.” Angelo looked from Mother to me. “And did you hear that...
Vanderpool?” I asked, keeping my voice low. KiKi spun around, hand to heart. “Walker Boone, you scallywag, you scared the beejeebers out of me,” she stage-whispered. “I’d do a proper swoon right here to fit the occasion if I wasn’t so pressed for time. What brings you to t...
I said as I entered Hollis’s real-estate office on East Wayne. The white clapboard bungalow sported green shutters, neat gables, a brick sidewalk, and window boxes filled with wilted pansies. IdaMae had never married, and she’d been with Hollis since the day he opened the agency, twenty years ago...
I wailed to Chantilly, with both of us standing over the spilled tray of pulled pork in the trunk of Boone’s car, now parked at the Old Harbor Inn. “There’s barbecue sauce and meat everywhere. It’s a big sloppy mess. Boone really is going to kill me.” I cut my eyes to Chantilly. “And I’m not goin...
Sutter ordered. “Where’s the seat belt?” In answer, Sutter took off, and I grabbed for the only thing available . . . him! I flung my arms around his middle, my boobs rubbing up and down against his back, my butt smacking against horse butt, jarring...
Chantilly took a step back and smashed right into me; we both made the sign of the cross. “You were right about someone being in here.” “Not exactly what I had in mind.” I used two hands to hold the light steady. “Who is it?” ...
