"What does a Dunwoody matron wear to a funeral?"--BOOK JACKET. "Her black tennis dress."--BOOK JACKET. "It's no joke, however, when the funeral is given for your high school buddy's wife, and she has been brutally murdered."--BOOK JACKET. "Sheila Travis, successful corporate executive and attractive fortyish widow, has met Yvonne Delacourt once, at a party. Yvonne is stunning, ambitious - and intensely disliked. Under the local residents' gracious...

Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough has never believed her husband's threat to shackle her to her desk to keep her from "meddling in murder." But when Starr Knight, the taxidermist's daughter, is found dead, that's just what Joe Riddley does, despite Mac's protest that she has no intention of getting involved. She just has one question: why did the flamboyant young mother dress so sedately on the day she died? Then a second young woman is murdered,...

Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough has never believed her husband's threat to shackle her to her desk to keep her from "meddling in murder." But when Starr Knight, the taxidermist's daughter, is found dead, that's just what Joe Riddley does, despite Mac's protest that she has no intention of getting involved. She just has one question: why did the flamboyant young mother dress so sedately on the day she died? Then a second young woman is murdered,...

When she ends up vacationing in Scotland instead of the Caribbean, Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough, while visiting Auchnagar, the small village where her ancestors lived, stumbles upon two coffins bearing American tourists, a grisly discovery that places her own life in danger.