The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella  Copyright 2005 ISBN 978-0-440-24238-3

The Undomestic Goddess is a genuinely funny sweet book. Kinsella is a comic whiz who consistently delivers what her readers crave.

Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of partnership.

Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as a housekeeper.

Her employers have no idea they’ve hired a lawyer – and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. she can’t sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the #ing ironing board to open. How she takes a deep breath and begins to cope – and finds love – is a story as delicious as the bread she learns to bake.

But will her old life ever catch up with her? and if it does, does she want it back?

Hunting Season by Nevada Barr Copyright 2002 ISBN 0-425-18878-7

Park Ranger Anna Pigeon returns to face her most duplicitous for – human nature- in the latest entry in Nevada Barr’s series….

The quiet beauty of t autumn on Mississippi’s Natchez Trace is swiftly shattered when Anna answers a call to Mt. Locust, once a working plantation and inn, now a tourist spot. But the man Anna finds in an old bedroom is no tourist in distress.  He’s nearly naked and very dead – his body bearing marks consistent with sex games gone awry. On a writing table nearby is an open Bible with ominous passages circled in red.

There are secrets that prominent men in this God-fearing country wish to keep under wraps – and Anna has stumbled into a nest of them.

Dare to Die by Carolyn Hart copyright 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-145305-2
She came in the rain. Alone. On a bicycle. After more than a decade Iris Tilford is back in Broward’s Rock – and her return has nasty and unexpected repercussions that are rocking Annie and Max Darling’s sea island hometown. Years ago Iris disappeared after a fatal high school tragedy. Now that she’s home again, Annie’s extending the hand of friendship by inviting the sad, beautiful, and mysterious stranger to the Darling’s party at the pavilion.

But Death, as it turns out, is an uninvited guest at their gala. Suddenly Max and Annie are in the middle of a devastating storm of rage, secrets, and murder that they don’t understand. All they do know is that now someone is trying to kill them- an it’s someone they call their friend.