Sherri is a bartender and loves what she does, meeting new people and making friends. A hurricane has Florida in its sights when the book first begins. A customer, Gina is obsessed with finding her sisters murderer and she believes the Sunset, where Sheri works holds a possible clue to the ident...
“It can’t be any worse than the Sunset.” “Oh yeah? It’s a lot worse.” “How so?” “Well, like tonight when I was closing, I witnessed a touching little scene between two of Jacaranda’s most upright citizens; although neither wa...
I asked. Boxes were everywhere and although the furniture was sitting where Marley thought it belonged it was looking bedraggled and haphazard. Marley had declared it all needed vacuuming and polishing. The kitchen counters were still covered with silver to polish. “Of cou...
In Dutch’s, where I mix martinis and pull drafts, some nights a madness swirls through the air like a virus, infecting everyone. The drinking quickens, the laughter grows louder and the feeling in the bar swirls into one huge out of control mood of insanity. That’s how it was the night Dr. Yates ...
He was wearing a black tie with an orchid, hand-painted in white and mauve, on the silk. The outrageous necktie seemed at odds with the rest of him. In his early sixties, he was still fit and held himself with a confidence that said he was on top of life. Deeply tanned, like a man who’d spent his...
Ian neither noticed nor took offense. He sat back in his father’s recliner, legs crossed at the ankles and fingers entwined across his midriff, totally at ease. Wilmot said, “I’m surprised that Glenphiddie Island would hold much attraction for you.” ...
We knew who’d taken it. Once again, Aunt Kay and I went looking for my brother Scott. We found him in the backyard of my parents’ house. They were paying him to put down new patio stones around the pool while they were on vacation but Scott hadn’t made much progress. It was pretty much the same a...
Just walking from my car to the Pig and Whistle set sweat popping out all over my body, so the cool air inside the grocery store was a blessing. I stood by the shopping carts, holding out the bottom of my cotton blouse and gently fanning the cloth to dry my damp skin. “She...
Dan was quick to anger, always had been; could that anger get out of control if his family was threatened? Holly and a baby could definitely stick a pin in his happy family bubble. There were more questions bumping into each other in my brain. Had he known Holly was dead b...
I said, as I pulled up in front of Dr. Zampa’s residence. It was my dream house, the one Jimmy and I chose out of all the others as we’d driven around Jacaranda playing “What will we buy when Jimmy wins the Masters?” Built of cream stucco, it had a red-tiled roof and arched windows. A cream stucc...