On the Slam - Paperback

by Honor Hartman (Author)

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Cat in the Stacks mystery series, a novel about murder, rivalries and laying all your cards on the table...

A Bridge Club Mystery (#1)

Bridge tips included!

Meet Emma Diamond: greenhorn bridge player, recent widow, and the kind of person who always returns her library books on time.

Emma's just returned home to Houston to live next-door to Sophie, her best friend of 30 years. Sophie is delighted to share the joys of a good bridge game with Emma and her new neighbors; but their very first game doesn't go as planned...with one of the players found murdered.

The victim, a notorious spoil-sport, was reviled by the entire neighborhood, which leaves a stacked deck of suspects for the police to investigate. But Emma and Sophie have their own suspicions, suspicions that the police aren't prioritizing...

If Emma and Sophie don't find the real killer, they might be playing their last hand!!!

Author Biography

Dean James, a seventh-generation Mississippian, is a librarian and Edgar-nominated author of over twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. His nonfiction has won both the Agatha Award and the prestigious Macavity Award. Writing as Miranda James, he is the New York Times bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks series, featuring librarian Charlie Harris and his trusty rescue cat Diesel. He is also the author of The Trailer Park Mysteries, writing as Jimmie Ruth Evans and the Bridge Club Mysteries, writing as Honor Hartman. As Dean James, he's authored The Deep South Mystery Series and The Simon Kirby-Jones Mysteries. He lives in Houston, Texas, with two cats and thousands of books. See www.catinthestacks.com to discover even more!