Checked Out
a Ricki Rydell mystery

When bored and burnt-out romance writer, Ricki Rydell, discovers a body in the bathroom of the Unionville Public Library, she jumps at the chance to solve the crime. No one in Unionville had nice things to say about the victim when she was alive, but now that she's dead everyone is tight-lipped. Are they hiding something? While the living may have stopped talking, the deceased certainly hasn't. The victim left behind a trail of cryptic clues leading Ricki to a seedier side of her community. Ricki is in over her head and longs for her boring old life as a reclusive writer. Too late. She finds a death threat on her porch, demanding she back off or else. Now Ricki has to find a killer before she's the next victim.