Dixie Hemingway discovers the dead body of the gatekeeper of a mansion. She's had her fill of homicide investigations, so she leaves the corpse to be found by somebody else. But that somebody else sees Dixie leaving the scene of the crime, and the bullet that killed the man could have come from a gun she owns. To make matters worse, the owner of the mansion is a new client - a pain-wracked scientist who is either quite insane or a genious whose clandestine...

Despite the efforts of Lieutenant Guidry--Dixie Hemingway's on-again, off-again boyfriend--to find a missing girl who may be a witness to a murder, Dixie finds that she must go it alone to confront criminals who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Dixie Hemingway takes a job taking care of famous linebacker Cupcake Trillin's cats, Elvis and Lucky, while he's away. But what seems like an easy job turns scary when Dixie finds a woman in the house claiming to be the wife of Cupcake and a closet full of counterfeit high fashion.

"Dixie Hemingway is back in this ninth installment of Blaize Clement's beloved cozy mystery series, now written by her son John using Blaize's extensive notes and outlines for future books. This book starts off with a bang -- literally. Dixie is driving alongside the beachside road that runs through the center of her hometown when she's witness to a terrible head-on collision. Ever the hero, she springs into action and pulls one of the drivers from...

"This time out, Dixie's got a furry partner-in-crime, an irascible Lhasa Apso named Charlie. They've just arrived at the home of one of Dixie's regular clients to check in on Franklin, a mackerel tabby with avocado-green eyes and a luxuriant coat the color of dried beach grass. Despite a couple of bumps in the road (Franklin seems to be hiding in one of his favorite cubby holes, and Charlie scratches up the parlor door trying to get to the other side),...