Suzann's short story, How To Murder Your Mother-In-Law, is one of many top-notch stories in the anthology Deadly Housewives.

Or so she thinks ... until her daughter goes missing.

After the brutal murder of her husband, police officer Liz Rivas entered the Witness Protection Program to save her young son. Now a stranger arrives in Pfister, Missouri -- is he a connection to her former life or a threat to the new one she sacrificed everything to build?

For now Joby has to get the goods on a no-good abusive husband so a wealthy wife can get out with her fortune and her features intact. Then, a high-class jewel thief goes from larceny to murder as a woman is found strangled with her pearl necklace. Against Jack's wishes, Joby takes a crack at the case with the help of her mentor, Won Li. Determined to prove she's as good an investigator as any man, Joby must use both her brains and her beauty to catch a thief—before he kills again.

A going-away party for Eulilly and Chet Tomlinson at a restaurant is interrupted by a workplace shooting. Former Secret Service agent Chet shoots the gunman and the case is chalked up to a disgruntled restaurant employee. But David Hendrickson, Hannah Garvey, and the senior sleuths of the Valhalla Springs retirement community think the incident it too cut-and-dry.

Circus folk stick by their own, and no one's talking. And with David and Hannah in the middle of their own three-ring circus of romance, secrets and homicide, it's up to the gang of senior sleuths to get to the bottom of things under the big top.

Boredom isn't an occupational hazard for Hannah Garvey, the resident manager for Valhalla Springs, an exclusive retirement community in the Missouri Ozarks. In less than twenty-four hours she's survived an assault with a deadly weapon, been caught in a compromising position with Sheriff David Hendrickson and consoled her boss's sixty-seven-year-old mother--who's just been busted for growing marijuana for the members of her bi-weekly bridge club.

Somewhere just east of Peculiar . . . Hannah Garvey is about to run smack into her new life.

The Wild West in the 1880s during gold rush fever is a time when fortunes are made overnight and hopeful immigrants flock to America. From the heart of Ireland comes the irrepressible Megan O'Malley, whose own spirit mirrors that of the untamed frontier.

Beautiful and brave Megan O'Malley had come of age in the brawling, booming gold fields of the West. Now she can't resist the lure of finding the greatest mother lode of all in the vast north country. But she didn't count on a man from her past reappearing in her life--to join her in the ultimate adventure on the final frontier.

Halley Brandt's two brothers were dead, gunned down in cold blood. Now she's left with their Texas ranch, a burning hatred, and a fierce determination to search the whole Lone Star state to find their killer.

Dianna Redieu is a legend of the West--a beautiful spitfire who is more than a match for any man in games of chance, where a flip of the pasteboards can spell fortune or ruin, and good hands at the table must be backed by fast hands with a gun.

Jenna French is still young and beautiful. But she is saddled with the debts of a husband who lied until he died--and faced with a desperate gamble to free herself of them.

From her con-man father, Abigail Fiske inherits a stake in a Colorado gold mine. The mine promises great riches if it pans out, but the trail west is treacherous, and when Abigail arrives, she must convince a band of surly prospectors they need a woman in their ranks.

While the 19th century's rules of ladylike demeanor were as strait-laced as whalebone corsets, Nellie Cashman didn't depart her beloved Ireland and adopt America as her homeland to be shackled by Victorian conventions. Incurably stricken with gold fever, Cashman became a prospector and thrived on adventure. She saved Grand Central Mining company magnate E.B. Gage from an Old West-style "necktie party," prevented five men conviced in the Brisbee Massacre from the degradation of a circus-style execution, was the first white woman to trek British Columbia's rugged Cassiar Mountain region and--a half-century later--was the first woman to fly there in an airplane.