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eason, Kathy decided that Jaymie had done
something awful to her. Because they had
quarreled, Jaymie is one of the murder suspects.
She sets out to discover what she did that upset
Kathy. No one seems to know, but she finds lots
of people who had fought with Kathy and had a
motive to kill her.
In A Deadly Cliché by Ellery Adams ($7.99),
Olivia Limoges has enough money to do whatever
she wishes. What she doesn’t wish is to find a
dead body on the beach. She wonders if the dead
man had anything to do with the strange
robberies that are taking place. Weird clues are
being left, butter with a knife through it,
antique dolls with silver spoons in their
mouths, and a deck of cards with one queen
missing. Olivia and Laurel, a member of her
writing group, interview the people who have
been robbed, and realize who is guilty. When the
robbers come to attack Laurel, Olivia is the
only one who can help her.
I chose to read Diane Kelly’s Death, Taxes, and
Peach Sangria ($7.99) because of the title. What
could those things have in common? Tara Holloway
is an IRS special agent going after tax
preparers who do phony tax preparations for
people, promising them high returns. She and her
partner are asked to find out how cash is being
funneled to terrorists, but people are afraid to
talk to them. Meanwhile Tara, her friends, and
her co-workers are having problems finding the
right person for them. Even peach sangria
doesn’t help them feel better. All this comes