A Daring Finds Mystery 02 - French Polished Murder
Divorced mom, Candyce "Dyce" Dare is the owner of the furniture refinishing store Daring Finds. When she discovers decades-old letters inside an antique piano she's renovating, she becomes distracted by an investigation that puts her at odds with the letter-writer's very powerful local family.
Meet Della Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in Santa Monica, California, and star of a new cable cooking show. When Della enters a baking competition to promote her show, she soon finds the cakes aren't the only things getting iced... To help boost ratings for her show, humble host Della reluctantly agrees to enter a televised cake competition sponsored by Reggi-Mixx, even though the company's owner, Regina Davis, is an old college nemesis. When Della hears that competitive pastrymaking is a blood sport, she doesn't take it literally--until she finds someone drowned in a mixing bowl full of cake batter.
"Homeless Flea" by Steve Talmy is a story about a hapless flea that gets shaken off by its host and has to find a new dog to carry it around. In the process, it finds itself on the wrong animals and has to guess where it is.
Cat quilter Jillian Hart finds a gorgeous stray cat belonging to the fabulously wealthy Ritaestelle Longworth, who believes she's being drugged. Before Jillian can get to those charges, a body turns up in the lake-and her cat Chablis finds Ritaestelle nearby. Can Jillian's cats aid her in solving a mystery with decades old roots?
Moshui, The Books of Stone and Water 02 - Jade Man's Skin
Building on the brilliantly subtle groundwork laid in 2009's Dragon in Chains, Fox's Chinese fantasy series continues as the now-unchained dragon threatens human civilization. Han, the one-time apprentice scribe who freed the dragon, is still tied to her mind. The young emperor, in exile on the island of Taishu, finds the beast is both protector and jailer, while general-turned-pirate Li Ton discovers the hard way that he has other, more immediate enemies from his past.
