"An engagingly believable investigator with human strengths and weaknesses." I Love a Mystery "Wonderful characters and clever capers…This foodie can track down the threats and treats with equal aplomb." Mystery Lovers Bookshop "Finally, there’s a private eye we can embrace—she doesn’t jog, she doesn’t know karate, and she doesn’t pass a bakery without a slight detour." Joan Hess

Murder Can Rain on Your Shower
Selma Eichler

Desiree Shapiro’s niece, Ellen, will soon be saying, “I do.” So Manhattan’s pudgiest P.I. teams up with Ellen’s future mother-in-law, eager to give the bride a truly memorable shower. And memorable, it is. After all, when a guest takes a few bites of her salad, then promptly keels over, it’s not something anyone present is likely to forget.

Naturally, being a dedicated foodie, Desiree knows plenty of “to die for” dishes, but a green salad isn’t one of them. And once she begins to look into the victim’s death— and life—Desiree is convinced she’s dealing with a homicide. And that a number of backbiting society ladies had every reason to want to scheming, man-hungry Bobbie Jean dead. Meanwhile, Desiree has a new love interest. But in her book, romance takes a back seat to murder. Especially when the police are perilously close to arresting an innocent woman for the crime.

INCLUDES A TASTY NEW RECIPE FROM DESIREE SHAPIRO!

(A Desiree Shapiro Mystery)
Signet (Mystery), March 2003
ISBN #0451208234
272 pages Paperback
$5.99