For a group of eight close-knit widows living in Palm Beach, life is for celebrating. Spending their time on lavish shopping trips, playing bridge, and exchanging witty barbs over glasses of wine about who might be looking for a new husband, these friends enjoy the good life. That is, until one of them takes the celebration a bit too far. It all started innocently enough: picking up someone else’s credit card by mistake, making a few charges, and hoping Bunny Boardman wouldn’t notice. And then doing it again the next week, reasoning away any lingering moral concerns. But when Bunny does notice, things turn grave fast. The police chalk up the ensuing deaths to natural causes, but the inimitable Flossy Kane suspects it’s not that simple—and that they’re all in danger. Oxygen tank in tow and with the help of her home health aide, Frances, Flossy is determined to prove the police wrong (and save her own life) in this lighthearted whodunit.

Jane Grossman divides her time between homes in Boston and Aspen. Before moving to Massachusetts, she and her husband lived in New York City, where she worked here at The Corner Bookstore from 1979-1982 before co-founding the famous Traveller’s Bookstore in Rockefeller Center. She has a B.A. from Barnard College and is the coauthor of Boston Foot Notes: A Walking Guide.