The Pearly Girls return to solve a high school reunion murder in this sequel to Murder Strikes a Chord.Event planner Cassidy Jamison and her not-so-helpful sexagenarian staff of Roxie, Kate, Aileen, and Ruthanne are up to their elbows with a high school reunion committee's constantly changing requirements for an event that must be the most elaborate and memorable at all costs.When well-known reporter, Darcy Branch, and former cheerleader, Brittany Mahoney, are found dead on her property, Cassidy and the gang have to find the killer before the party's over. And the more Cassidy and her Chihuahua mix, Elvis, dig for clues, the more deadly secrets they uncover—including one that changes everything she knows about her family's history.The Pearly Girls need to solve the case before the Class of 2009 goes down in Ivy Springs history as the deadliest reunion.

I didn't order a case of wine from the local vineyard, but the second I see the woman delivering it, I know I'm never letting her leave. WestonThe highest peak in Timber Peak Valley is mine for a reason. Solitude and zero complications are how I thrive. Then Romy knocks on my door, holding a case of wine I never ordered. I immediately send her away, but the moment she's gone, I realize I've made a mistake. By sunrise, I'm at her vineyard with only one goal: showing her what happens when a mountain man like me finds his obsession. RomyA delivery mistake leads me to a grumpy mountain man who looks like he could snap a tree trunk with his bare hands and who makes it crystal clear he wants nothing to do with me. Fine. I don't have time for a recluse with an attitude problem anyway. But then he shows up at my vineyard the next morning....

A darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell. And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?...I would say I was Dan Moran, a Korean adoptee, single, approaching forty, once plain-in-appearance as a woman, now ugly as a man, that's who or what I thought I was. Most importantly, I was no longer useless, I was a writer.Five years after the death of his youngest brother, Dan Moran is now the published trans author of the autofictional novel Sorry to Disrupt the Peace. He is teaching fiction in Brooklyn and working on his next book–a psychological thriller–when a mysterious envelope arrives for him in the mail. Addressed to the wrong name, it includes a childhood photo of his deceased brother. But who would send such a thing, and why?Against his better judgment, Dan returns to his childhood home on the eve of his brother's memorial dinner. His...