How to Host a Killer Party — Penny Warner

Mixing fun and fund-raising seems like the perfect job for Presley Parker, which is why she starts her event-planning business to raise money for charities. But the good times end when she finds herself hosting a killer party.

Pres is happy to get her business off the ground -- even if she is beginning with small-time kids' parties. Then she gets the gig of the year: planning Mayor Davin Green's sumptuous "surprise" wedding for his socialite fiancée, to be held at Alcatraz.

The gig goes off without a hitch -- until the bride bolts faster than any of the prison's past escapees, and is later found dead, floating in the bay. Then the original party planner for the wedding -- Presley's competitor -- is found murdered. When Presley becomes a prime suspect, she looks to attractive crime-scene cleaner Brad Matthews to help tidy up her reputation. If she doesn't, she'll be exchanging her formal wear for prison stripes.