Murder With Strings Attached
Sometimes even the most carefully conceived burglary can take unexpected twists and turns. When lady burglar Florence Palmer planned to relieve concert violinist Aaron Levy of his priceless violin, she could never have imagined that she would end up not only with the wrong violin, but as the prime suspect in a case of murder. Nor could she have expected that her chief accomplice in her quest for that elusive violin would be the virtuoso himself.
Sister-in-law
Suzanne Dahlstrom, sexually abused as a child, matures into a strikingly beautiful young woman, determined to get her own back against men. Ultimately becoming an accomplished call girl, she takes advantage of men’s inherent weakness—their sex drive. When one of her clients, who represents a shadowy group of conspirators determined to undermine the president, offers her a huge sum of money to seduce and marry the president’s younger brother, she accepts. As the president’s sister-in-law, she’ll be in a perfect position to seduce the president himself, and the scandal—an affair with his own brother’s wife—will neutralize him politically. The seemingly bizarre scheme appears to be working…until an unexpected turn of events puts both the plan and Suzanne’s life in jeopardy.
M.R. Morgan is a pen name for Mark Reutlinger.
Mrs. Kaplan and the Matzoh Ball of Death
Everyone knows that Rose Kaplan makes the best matzoh ball soup around—she’s a regular matzoh ball maven—so it’s no surprise at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors when, once again, Mrs. K wins the honor of preparing the beloved dish for the Home’s seder on the first night of Passover.
But when Bertha Finkelstein is discovered facedown in her bowl of soup, her death puts a bit of a pall on the rest of the seder. And things go really meshugge when it comes out that Bertha choked on a diamond earring earlier stolen from resident Daisy Goldfarb. Suddenly Mrs. K is the prime suspect in the police investigation of both theft and murder. Oy vey—it’s a recipe for disaster, unless Rose and her dear friend Ida can summon up the chutzpah to face down the police and solve the mystery themselves.
Oy Vey, Maria!
Rose Kaplan and her sidekick Ida are at it again. It’s the holiday of Purim, and almost everyone at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors is in costume for the Purim play. All except one, who will instead have to be fitted for a shroud. Once again, “Mrs. K” and Ida are called upon to solve the puzzle of a mysterious death at the Home. Described by Chanticleer Book Reviews as “at times more Lucy and Ethel than Holmes and Watson, with a soupcon of Miss Jane Marple,” these geriatric amateur sleuths will keep you laughing, guessing, and maybe even learning a bissel Yiddush!
A Pain in the Tuchis
Mrs. Kaplan returns as a notorious crank meets an untimely fate. Yom Kippur is a day of reflection and soul searching. But at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors, Vera Gold misses this opportunity to atone for her many sins when she up and dies. Indeed, Vera was such a pain in the tuchis to all those around her that when her sister claims Vera was deliberately poisoned, the tough question isn’t who would want to kill her, but who wouldn’t? Having already solved one murder with her dear friend Ida, Rose Kaplan has a sleuthing reputation that precedes her. It’s only natural that Vera’s sister turns to Mrs. K for help. So do the police, but when her conclusions conflict with theirs, they tell her to butt out! This case has more twists than a loaf of challah . And with a homicidal scoundrel on the loose, Mrs. K has to act fast or she might be the guest of honor at the Home’s next memorial service.