Dead in the Water — Connie Feddersen

She's got Las Vegas legs, but she's had it with life in the fast lane. She's Amanda Hazard--savvy CPA and amateur sleuth--and she's about to stir up a tornado of trouble in the Oklahoma boondocks!

"If you like it country-style, then Vamoose," read the sign at the city limits...and Amanda Hazard had done just that. Vamoose was laid back, all right. All she had to do was stroll into the Last Chance Cafe or Velma's "beehive" Beauty Boutique to find cozy company only miles from the killing pace of Oklahoma City.

Content as a bee in clover, Amanda drove out to Bill Farley's. His tax papers were in as much of a mess as his farmyard, but she didn't expect to find him face down in his cattle trough. Though no one believed his death was anything but an accident--including Vamoose's infuriating and irresistible police detective Nick Thorn--Amanda knew murder when she meandered across it.

But even as she added Farley's surly son and shop-aholic daughter-in-law to her growing list of suspects, Amanda knew she'd have to act fast to stop a country-bred killer form making one citified sleuth his next victim!