Maggie is not thrilled she and her sister have a rather dysfunctional relationship. Maggie’s younger sister, an online “Beauty Influencer” (yes, apparently this is a Thing, although I have trouble wrapping my brain around it), has landed her first movie role-as the female lead. Then an American movie company arrives on the island. Business is slow: her main case involves searching for a wandering Maine Coon cat. Some Like It Shot is the latest installment in Zara Keane’s Movie Club Mysteries, featuring Maggie Doyle, a one-time San Francisco cop now working as a private investigator on the small Irish island where her father grew up and where Maggie spent summers as a child. Between the two of them they’ll surely uncover the secrets of Songbird Circle. Whitney can’t resist a bit of sleuthing between tearing out appliances and re-tiling floors (and she makes that all sound so simple!), and Detective Collin Flynn is pretty hard to resist, too. There doesn’t seem to be anything else worth looking for-until Sawdust finds a secret hiding place. But what was she doing in the house? Searching for something? The previous owner’s family has taken everything they might want, and their late mother, Lillian, didn’t have much to leave behind, unless you count her recipes for prize-winning pies. No one on the cul-de-sac liked Nelda Dolan very much, but that hardly seems like a reason to push her down the stairs of an empty house. Whitney Whitaker and her cousin and business partner Buck have bought a house on Songbird Circle to restore and sell, but their plan hits a snag when Whitney and her cat, Sawdust, find the body of one of the neighbors at the foot of a staircase. Can she solve two crimes before St.Dead in the Doorway is the second installment in Diane Kelly’s House Flipper cozy mystery series, set in Nashville. Meanwhile, Maggie is hired to investigate ghostly goings on at the Whisper Island Hotel. Too bad because the instant Maggie and her UFO-enthusiast friend Lenny discover the dead body of Whisper Island's postman, Maggie's plans to chill for the next two months are put on ice. Then Police Sergeant Reynolds, Maggie's handsome neighbor, arrests Lenny's brother for the murder, and her friend begs her to find the real killer.

'And you're not dead.' When former San Francisco cop Maggie Doyle extends her stay in Ireland, dealing with more murder and mayhem isn't on her to-do list.

Breathing hard, I gave a yelp and let the now-empty canister drop to the ground. 'That wasn't pepper spray.' I stared into the sparkly, green face of the corpse I'd discovered mere hours before.

Deadline with Death by Zara Keane