Working out of her button shop in a Chicago brownstone, Josie Giancola has become one of the country's leading experts on buttons. Her reputation draws a Hollywood starlet to the Button Box to shop for one-of-a-kind buttons to adorn her made-to-order wedding gown.But after the Button Box is ransacke[...]
"Button collector Josie Giancola has a sharp eye for detail, and a love for keeping things together. But when a murder interrupts her button business, she's always ready to snap into action... "As chairwoman of an international conference for button collectors, Josie has plenty to worry about. Betwe[...]
"Josie Giancola, owner of the Button Box shop, knows her buttons. But when she comes into contact with a rare charm string, she never imagines it will lead to murder...
"Josie is approached at her shop to appraise a very rare item--a complete charm string. In Victorian times, girls strung button[...]
At a local Chinese restaurant, it's the owner who gets taken out...
Most folks aren't forced by court order to attend a library-book discussion group, but that's just what happens to B and B proprietor and ex-Manhattanite Bea Cartwright, hippy cat lover Chandra Morrisey, and winery owner Kate W[...]
When it comes to solving mysteries, these ladies are in a league of their own...
Summer can be the best of times or the worst of times for the resort town of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. For Bea Cartwright, business is booming as guests storm her B and B for the Bastille Day celebration. In honor o[...]
It takes more than a lurid legend to scare off the League of Literary Ladies...
For Halloween, the Literary Ladies have chosen to read Washington Irving's spooky classic, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," with its infamous headless horseman. But South Bass Island has its own headless legend--of a [...]
FIRST IN A NEW SERIES
Bean there...done that...
Romance is supposed to be the spice of life. But Maxie Pierce is so done with bad relationships--well, almost. She just has to get rid of the latest loser, Roberto. Besides, she has more important things to worry about. Her daddy, Texas Jack [...]
Cold-blooded murder can be hot as hell...
In Las Vegas, the stakes are high--and so is the Scoville scale. Maxie Pierce and the Chili Showdown are in town for a very heated contest devoted to judging the legendary and notorious-for-being-self-combustible Devil's Breath chili. The guest judges a[...]
The author of "Death by Devil s Breath" takes the chili cook-off circuit to southern Texas to prove that revenge is a dish best served hot . . .
Everyone in San Antonio remembers the Alamo, but how many remember the Chili Queens? Back in the early twentieth century, these spicy senoras sold thei[...]
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.