A beautiful day at the beach, a women's volleyball tournament ends with the death of the tournament favorite. Fortunately, I have a list of suspects: o JoAnne Greene, Barbara Dahl's coach, a media personality. Her houseguests don't like me. o Erica Mueller, Barbara's opponent. Erica has exquisite taste, a breath that smells of peaches. She may not care for me now, but tomorrow who knows? o Diana Purdy, the umpire, very attractive, very married and a crack shot. o Sara Newcombe, Erica's partner in the tournament, very attractive and, hopefully, very available. Was that Sara I saw nude in Erica...

Phyllis Ludwigsihn's latest task was simple enough: just call on each of the 16 tenants in the 209 building and let them know they can either buy their apartment or move out in 30 days. Only when one of the tenants is found lying on her kitchen floor with her head bashed in, Phyllis had to call on the tenants a second time for a different reason.

Phyllis Ludwigsohn takes a mini-vacation to attend the Ocean Beach Volleyball tournament only to find herself tied to a surfboard and left to die 100 yards from shore. Competitor after competitor has already disappeared or been murdered. Phyllis can stop the serial killer or killers if, that is, she lives long enough.

16 countries, 32 teams, thousands of spectators, a dead American, and Phyllis Ludwigsohn is once again in pursuit of a killer. Some old frienda are back: Eric Mueller, considerably heavier, but her breath still smells like peaches, her six-year old daughter, now a head-strong 16, and Captain Chara deCastro of the Havana policia, her gay impulses held tightly under control (in public). Plus a whole new generation of suspects including Holly McPeak, EY, and Xi Zhang in this novella.

Can someone be overcome with joy and cry at the same time? Private detective Phyllis Ludwigsohn could. Havana's Captain of Police Chara Castro was to visit the United States after an absence of more than a decade. They would spend the visit and the rest of their lives lying side by side in bed each night, arms around each other. Only as Phyllis accompanied Chara on the mission that had brought her to America, from San Diego, to Phoenix, to Gallop N.M, to Chicago, New Orleans, Miami, and then Washington D.C., bodies kept popping up. The various factions of emigrant Cubans were at war. When the...

One of the soccer moms was a murderer and two of the soccer moms were already dead. Private detective Phyllis Ludwigsohn not only has a team of sixteen ten-year olds to coach, but two cases to solve plus a full time job. A friend with Asperger' syndrome may or may not prove the ideal helper.

Net supports that collapse, lockers that fall just grazing a player's leg, motor oil on the court, and balls covered with glass slivers: someone was very angry. Meet the squad of the Marina Valkyries individually and as a team. Help Phyllis solve a mystery set on a college campus before someone is hurt permanently.

A worried coach consults Phyllis concerning the tragic death of a young lacrosse player. Though the university has done its best to hush the killing up, every one of the girl's teammates has come under suspicion, To say nothing of a few professors, a rejected suitor, two resident drug dealers, a campus cop, and a man in a trench coat known only as the "weirdo." To solve the murder, Phyllis goes undercover again, this time as one of the club team's attack wings.

To stay with the woman she loves in Cuba, Phyllis first must leave her if only for a short while. But her assignment to track down, sedate, and return a child molester for trial grows increasingly complicated as the wealthy target stays one step ahead of her with stops in Montreal, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston (where Phyllis falls asleep on the train and ends up in San Antonio), Bangkok, Pattaya, the River Kwai, and Ayutthaya.