On The Slam

Meet Emma Diamond: novice bridge player, recent widow, and the kind of person who never leaves her grocery cart sitting willy-nilly in the parking lot. And now she has a new identity: amateur detective....

When Emma starts anew in Houston, she figures living next to her best friend of thirty-odd years seems right. Plus, it's a neighborhood gung-ho for bridge--especially the vile homeowners' association president, a petite tyrant with insensitivity to spare. But at her first neighborly outing, Emma finds this scathing belle choking in full sight of the bridge tables. No one grieves... until evidence points to poison.

With everyone a suspect, Emma and her neighborhood gal pals decide to conduct their own investigation, using bridge games to get people gabbing. Now she'll need to know her "finesse" from a "one diamond trick" (without a cheat sheet), because someone's playing palooka and this Texas girl isn't one to be easily trumped ....