Lee Strauss is writing many series, one, the Rosa Reed Mystery series, with her hubby. The setting is Santa Bonita in California where Rosa has set up her private investigation business. She is hired to locate a missing family member, which she does. Only he is dead. And it's not the accident it looks to be. Murder at the Bomb Shelter, by Lee Strauss and Norm Strauss is the tale of the investigation that ensues, now involving the local police. The family is well known, dysfunctional, and known for not helping with, well, anyone who questions them about pretty much anything. How will they figure this one out?

Resort to Murder is the second in the Miss Dimont Mystery series by TP Fielden. Every bit as fun as the first, it too, has a body found on the beach. With no identification. Lots of possibilities here, it's summer, there's a top name band playing at the local theater, and a beauty pageant in progress. The second death ... well, let's just say it happened under unusual circumstances ... but how? Nice development with the characters as we learn more about their pasts.

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