I've always thought that Matlacha (say Mat-la-SHAY), the funky Pine Island Florida fishing village cum art colony would be a perfect setting for a mystery, when along comes Jessie Murphy, the perfect gal to sort out the riff from the raff of it all. You've got to love this lady, a Goodwill fashion queen, who comes across as a ditzy airhead whose best buddy is a Gargoyle named Gar. Jessie's taken time off from her job, thrilled to be rekindling the flame of romance with her treasure-hunting guy, Will Rolins, who adores her. Will has just made a wonderful archeological discovery, aka buried...

A Tale of Love, Guilt and Redemption + Collection of Flash Fiction Set in Turkey, amidst the backdrop of ongoing civil unrest, this tightly spun novella by jd daniels delivers a cautionary tale about two reunited American women, each bearing painfully inaccurate visions of who she can become in the presence of the other given the burden of a dangerous shared past. Both women attempt to proceed down an emotional trajectory that will force them to come to terms with the wages of thieveries of objects, culture, and the heart. Tania Pryputniewicz, Managing Poetry Editor for The Fertile Source A...

Hold onto your kayak paddles as a one-sided friendship, conflicts of the heart, and madness bring Thrift Store Fashion Queen Jessie Murphy closer to her past than she ever wanted to be. When a Punta Gorda church youth leader is shot in a Matlacha bait shop, Jessie uses her artistic eye and trademark deductive reasoning to solve another crime in this edgy cozy mystery pulsating with turmoil and bedlam.