Orchids Affairs and Bodies — C.D. Moulton

Three bools: Home is Where the Body Is, Cliff is charged with murder in Nicely. CD investigates to find a national theft ring. - A Local Murder/Don't Push, in the first part, a sexy woman is murdered after attending a new years party at CD's place. It turns out she was a semi-famous artist who painted male nudes. Several people there had been models., and may have had motive. The solution is in the first of the book. I published that in the blurb. Even I didn't see it at the time, and several people who read it, with that fact revealed, didn't see it, either. - Orchids for the Funeral, a collection of shorts originally published to fund a scholarship. All the stories are included in CD's and Alma's love of orchids.