Sifting Through Secrets — Elizabeth Hawn

Spry senior Ida Mae Poindexter knows an extra slice of her pound cake will solve most problems. Still, she is understandably shaken when highway workers uncover a skeleton that might be that of her long-lost sister, Vonda. But when Vonda appears at her door, looking like a country-club socialite, Ida Mae has questions. Where has she been these past sixty years? How come she looks so good? And whose skeleton was it on the side of the highway, with a bullet hole through the skull?

Of course, it helps to have a grandson on the police force -- and her best friend, Claudia, living right next door. So when another untimely death occurs, Ida Mae and Claudia can't help but dig into a mystery ripe with corruption, drug dealing and bad politics. Armed with heaping plates of comfort food, the delightful duo hunt a killer who has an appetite for murder.