Description: Charlie Plato, the 30-something divorced manager of a country-western club, returns. When Estrella, a young Filipina whom Charlie meets at a kung-fu class, is stabbed and tossed off a bridge, Charlie's investigation soon leads her into dangerous territory.
Description: Clever sleuth Charlie Plato, a nineties woman with keen insight into the wily ways of the criminal mind, returns to track down a cold-blooded killer in a barn burner of a story.
Description: When an earthquake unearths a skeleton in the backyard of Chaps, California's hottest country-western bar, lively divorce+a7e Charlie Plato, who lives upstairs, turns sleuth with the help of her business partner, Zack Hunter, to find out which of her Bellamy Park neighbors is hiding a deadly secret. Reprint. PW. LJ. AB. "
Description: Divorce+a7e Charlie Plato, manager of a country-western nightclub, turns detective when Zack Hunter, a handsome ex-TV heartthrob running for City Council, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his political opponent, who turns up dead in the trunk of Zack's new car."