Secrets and Lies

Five short crime stories by Lauryn Christopher. Lemonade and LarcenyWhen a silly law forbids Effie Birmingham from practicing her trade as a psychic, she feels obliged to break it!A Little Casual BlackmailA housewife's eavesdropping on the neighbors escalates from entertainment to entrepreneurship...The Goddess KillerTommy has to choose which of the women in his life – his mother, his wife, or his daughter – he loves the best.The Man in the Gabardine SuitWho was the man in the gabardine suit from the Simon & Garfunkel song? Why was he on that bus in the first place?Mistletoe and MurderWhen the members of a highly dysfunctional family are snowed-in for the holidays, tempers flare, secrets are revealed, and someone's bound to die...