Secrets and Lies

Five short crime stories by Lauryn Christopher.  Lemonade and LarcenyWhen a silly law forbids Effie Birmingham from practicing her trade as a psychic, she feels obliged to break it! A Little Casual BlackmailA housewife's eavesdropping on the neighbors escalates from entertainment to entrepreneurship... The Goddess KillerTommy has to choose which of the women in his life - his mother, his wife, or his daughter - he loves the best.
The Man in the Gabardine SuitWho was the "man in the gabardine suit" from the Simon & Garfunkel song? Why was he on that bus in the first place? Mistletoe and MurderWhen the members of a highly dysfunctional family are snowed-in for the holidays, tempers flare, secrets are revealed, and someone's bound to die...