The Golden Girls meets Remington Steel in Lee Hollis's second mystery
set at a Palm Springs retirement community! For retiree-turned-PI Poppy
Harmon, spending her golden years running the Desert Flowers Detective
Agency is far from the glamorous life she once knew. But becoming
ensnared in two twisted Palm Springs crimes might be her worst look
yet...
If Poppy didn't believe she was in too deep as the only female juror in
a high-profile assault case involving an infamously hot-tempered
crooner, she's sure of it upon meeting blast-from-her-past Rod Harper. A
former TV co-star from her short-lived acting days, Rod is as dashing as
ever, and now he wants to partner again--this time to locate his missing
daughter...
Returning a pampered songstress with a penchant for running away back
home unscathed shouldn't be too challenging. But Rod's charms while on
the job is another story--and so is finding a dead body! When Poppy
discovers a fellow juror face down in a swimming pool, she's unwittingly
thrust into a murder investigation with sinister parallels to the
troubled chanteuse's disappearance.
As Poppy struggles to survive a steamy love triangle while deciphering
the connection between two seemingly unrelated cases, the Desert Flowers
Agency must outsmart a ruthless killer who will do anything to keep
hideous secrets hidden away...including ensuring Poppy becomes the next
forgotten ex-actress to bite the dust...
